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	'''David L. Bergman''' (6 August 1938 – 3 June 2020) was an American electrical engineer and independent physicist, best known for the '''spinning charged ring model of the electron''' and as the founder and president of '''Common Sense Science, Inc.''', the organization and publishing house through which a distinctive classical alternative to quantum mechanics was developed over three decades.		'''David L. Bergman''' (6 August 1938 – 3 June 2020) was an American electrical engineer and independent physicist, best known for the '''spinning charged ring model of the electron''' and as the founder and president of '''[[Common Sense Science\|Common Sense Science, Inc.]]''', the organization and publishing house through which a distinctive classical alternative to quantum mechanics was developed over three decades.

	Bergman's central claim was that the elementary particles are not dimensionless points with unexplained intrinsic properties, but '''real physical objects with real geometry''' — specifically, charge distributed on a thin spinning ring. In a 1990 paper in ''[[Galilean Electrodynamics]]'' with J. Paul Wesley, he showed that such a ring, with only four free parameters, reproduces the electron's mass, charge, spin, and magnetic moment; is stable under electromagnetic forces alone with no ad hoc binding assumption; does not radiate; explains the gyromagnetic ratio of 2 rather than postulating it; and yields the anomalous magnetic moment to higher order in agreement with measurement.		Bergman's central claim was that the elementary particles are not dimensionless points with unexplained intrinsic properties, but '''real physical objects with real geometry''' — specifically, charge distributed on a thin spinning ring. In a 1990 paper in ''[[Galilean Electrodynamics]]'' with J. Paul Wesley, he showed that such a ring, with only four free parameters, reproduces the electron's mass, charge, spin, and magnetic moment; is stable under electromagnetic forces alone with no ad hoc binding assumption; does not radiate; explains the gyromagnetic ratio of 2 rather than postulating it; and yields the anomalous magnetic moment to higher order in agreement with measurement.

	With '''Charles W. Lucas, Jr.''', '''Thomas G. Barnes''' and '''Glen C. Collins''', Bergman built this into a broader program covering the proton, neutron, nuclear structure, inertia, gravitation and molecular structure, published in the quarterly journal ''[[Foundations of Science]]'' which he edited. The program is explicitly and openly grounded in a Christian creationist worldview, which shaped both its philosophical commitments — causality, realism, and the rejection of what its authors regarded as the acausal mysticism of quantum theory — and its reception.		With '''[[Charles William Lucas\|Charles W. Lucas, Jr.]]''', '''[[Thomas G Barnes\|Thomas G. Barnes]]''' and '''[[Glen C Collins\|Glen C. Collins]]''', Bergman built this into a broader program covering the proton, neutron, nuclear structure, inertia, gravitation and molecular structure, published in the quarterly journal ''Foundations of Science'' which he edited (the [[Common Sense Science]] quarterly, not the Springer journal of the same name). The program is explicitly and openly grounded in a Christian creationist worldview, which shaped both its philosophical commitments — causality, realism, and the rejection of what its authors regarded as the acausal mysticism of quantum theory — and its reception.

	==Biography==		==Biography==
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	===Turn to fundamental physics===		===Turn to fundamental physics===

	In 1980 Bergman concluded that natural phenomena are fundamentally electrical in character, and began active research on elementary particles. In 1990 he published his first paper on the electron, in ''[[Galilean Electrodynamics]]'', with the physicist J. Paul Wesley. Around this time he met '''Charles W. Lucas, Jr.''', whose independent research had led to similar conclusions, and the two became long-term collaborators.		In 1980 Bergman concluded that natural phenomena are fundamentally electrical in character, and began active research on elementary particles. In 1990 he published his first paper on the electron, in ''[[Galilean Electrodynamics]]'', with the physicist J. Paul Wesley. Around this time he met '''[[Charles William Lucas\|Charles W. Lucas, Jr.]]''', whose independent research had led to similar conclusions, and the two became long-term collaborators.

	In 1997 Bergman founded '''Common Sense Science, Inc.''', a non-profit corporation providing research and education in fundamental physics. As its president he wrote for and published its quarterly journal, ''[[Foundations of Science]]'', which circulated among scientists and lay readers internationally.		In 1997 Bergman founded '''[[Common Sense Science\|Common Sense Science, Inc.]]''', a non-profit corporation providing research and education in fundamental physics. As its president he wrote for and published its quarterly journal, ''Foundations of Science'', which circulated among scientists and lay readers internationally.

	===Personal life===		===Personal life===
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	===Inertia, force and the physical world===		===Inertia, force and the physical world===

	A parallel strand addresses the origin of the properties usually taken as primitive. "[[Origin of Inertial Mass]]" (1999) and "[[Inertial Mass of Charged Elementary Particles ]]" (1997) argue that inertia is an electromagnetic effect of the particle's own field rather than an irreducible attribute of matter — a position with a long classical pedigree running back to J. J. Thomson. "[[Theory of Forces]]" (1998), "[[Forces on Moving Objects]]" (1997) and "[[The Troubled Theories of Magnetic Induction]]" (2000, 2005) pursue a unified force law, work later carried furthest by Lucas.		A parallel strand addresses the origin of the properties usually taken as primitive. "[[Origin of Inertial Mass]]" (1999) and "[[Inertial Mass of Charged Elementary Particles ]]" (1997) argue that inertia is an electromagnetic effect of the particle's own field rather than an irreducible attribute of matter — a position with a long classical pedigree running back to J. J. Thomson. "[[Theory of Forces]]" (1998), "[[Forces on Moving Objects]]" (1997) and "[[The Troubled Theories of Magnetic Induction]]" (2000, 2005) pursue a unified force law, work later carried furthest by [[Charles William Lucas\|Lucas]].

	"[[The Law of Cause and Effect: Dominant Principle of Classical Physics]]" (2004) is the clearest statement of the methodological commitment underlying all of it: that every physical effect must have an identifiable physical cause, and that a theory which abandons this in favour of intrinsic, uncaused, or merely probabilistic properties has given up the explanatory ambition that made physics worth doing. The two-part "[[Observations of the Properties of Physical Entities		"[[The Law of Cause and Effect: Dominant Principle of Classical Physics]]" (2004) is the clearest statement of the methodological commitment underlying all of it: that every physical effect must have an identifiable physical cause, and that a theory which abandons this in favour of intrinsic, uncaused, or merely probabilistic properties has given up the explanatory ambition that made physics worth doing. The two-part "[[Observations of the Properties of Physical Entities
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	Within the dissident community Bergman was widely respected, and Common Sense Science was among the better-organized alternative-physics efforts of its period: a real journal on a regular schedule, a coherent multi-decade research program, several collaborating researchers, and a body of work that engages the technical literature rather than gesturing at it. He was a frequent presence at [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] conferences and his papers are among the most cited in the classical-electron literature on this wiki, alongside those of [[Winston H Bostick]] and [[Glen C Collins]].		Within the dissident community Bergman was widely respected, and Common Sense Science was among the better-organized alternative-physics efforts of its period: a real journal on a regular schedule, a coherent multi-decade research program, several collaborating researchers, and a body of work that engages the technical literature rather than gesturing at it. He was a frequent presence at [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] conferences and his papers are among the most cited in the classical-electron literature on this wiki, alongside those of [[Winston H Bostick]] and [[Glen C Collins]].

	An episode Bergman himself publicized — recorded in "[[No Government Funds for CSS Research: DARPA sees FORMS as Threat to Theories of Modern Physics]]" (2005) — was the rejection of CSS's molecular-modelling proposal by DARPA, which he reported as having been declined on the ground that the approach conflicted with accepted theory rather than on technical merit. His account is the only one available, and is presented here as his account.		An episode Bergman himself publicized — recorded in "[[No Government Funds for CSS Research: DARPA sees FORMS as Threat to Theories of Modern Physics]]" (2005) — was the rejection of [[Common Sense Science\|CSS]]'s molecular-modelling proposal by DARPA, which he reported as having been declined on the ground that the approach conflicted with accepted theory rather than on technical merit. His account is the only one available, and is presented here as his account.

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	* [[Galilean Electrodynamics]]		* [[Galilean Electrodynamics]]
	* [[~~Foundations of~~ Science]]		* [[Common Sense Science]]
	* [[Winston H Bostick]]		* [[Winston H Bostick]]
	* [[Glen C Collins]]		* [[Glen C Collins]]

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	* 2002 - "[[Science and Rationalism: Correspondence of Scientists and Philosophers Seeking Truth and Searching for Reality in the Ideas of Plato, the Bible, and Advanced Science]]" ([http://www.commonsensescience.org Read in full])		* 2002 - "[[Science and Rationalism: Correspondence of Scientists and Philosophers Seeking Truth and Searching for Reality in the Ideas of Plato, the Bible, and Advanced Science]]" ([http://www.commonsensescience.org Read in full])

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