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	\| birth_place = [[Crisfield, Maryland]], United States		\| birth_place = [[Crisfield, Maryland]], United States
	\| fields = [[Structure Theorist]], [[Design Scientist]], [[Sculptor]], [[Artist]]		\| fields = [[Structure Theorist]], [[Design Scientist]], [[Sculptor]], [[Artist]]

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	Briddell worked in South Africa in the early 1970s developing portable architecture, and in 1972 received an industrial design award from the Industrial Designers Association of South Africa. He returned to the United States in 1973 and settled permanently in Mt. Airy, Maryland. Since 1975 he has made his living principally in the arts, property, and finance, while pursuing physics privately as a citizen scientist. His wildfowl sculptures are held in collections including the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], and he is also the author of the novel ''The Republic of Crisfield'' (2010).		Briddell worked in South Africa in the early 1970s developing portable architecture, and in 1972 received an industrial design award from the Industrial Designers Association of South Africa. He returned to the United States in 1973 and settled permanently in Mt. Airy, Maryland. Since 1975 he has made his living principally in the arts, property, and finance, while pursuing physics privately as a citizen scientist. His wildfowl sculptures are held in collections including the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], and he is also the author of the novel ''The Republic of Crisfield'' (2010).

	Beginning in 2004, Briddell presented his structural ideas publicly, first to followers of Buckminster Fuller at a meeting of the Synergetics ~~group~~ in Washington, D.C. From 2005 onward he presented roughly twenty papers at conferences of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] (NPA) and the Alternative Natural Philosophy Alliance (ANPA), among other venues, and published in their proceedings.		Beginning in 2004, Briddell presented his structural ideas publicly, first to followers of Buckminster Fuller at a meeting of the '''Synergetics Collaborative''' in Washington, D.C. From 2005 onward he presented roughly twenty papers at conferences of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] (NPA) and the Alternative Natural Philosophy Alliance (ANPA), among other venues, and published in their proceedings. In 2008 he gave a talk on the structure of particles according to Structural Skew Topology at an '''American Mathematical Society sectional meeting''' (abstract 1036-70-114).

	==Field Structure Theory==		==Field Structure Theory==

	Field Structure Theory grew out of Briddell's college study of form and structure. He describes discovering a way to give three-dimensional forms (polyhedra) structural integrity through '''pure torsion''', using elements he calls '''Structors''', and a related family of three-dimensional knotted forms he calls '''fieldstructures'''. From these he developed a geometric system he named '''Structural Skew Topology''' (SST), governed by a set of axioms intended to restrict allowable forms to those he considers found in nature.		Field Structure Theory grew out of Briddell's college study of form and structure. He describes discovering a way to give three-dimensional forms (polyhedra) structural integrity through '''pure torsion''', using elements he calls '''Structors''', and a related family of three-dimensional knotted forms he calls '''fieldstructures''' (earlier "torsion structures"). From these he developed a geometric system he named '''Structural Skew Topology''' (SST), governed by a set of axioms intended to restrict allowable forms to those he considers found in nature.

	===The loop as sole building element===		===The loop as sole building element===

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 Beginning in 2004, Briddell presented his structural ideas publicly, first to followers of Buckminster Fuller at a meeting of the Synergetics group in Washington, D.C. From 2005 onward he presented roughly twenty papers at conferences of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] (NPA) and the Alternative Natural Philosophy Alliance (ANPA), among other venues, and published in their proceedings.
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-Applying this framework to physics, Briddell proposes that particles, waves, mass, energy, and charge can be modeled as loops and twists, and that the mass and energy values of particles can be generated by counting loops and twists arranged according to a Sierpinski-triangle fractal hierarchy. Related ideas in his writing include a "Particle Hierarchy Chart," a background aether he calls the "Plenum," a principle he terms "Multiple Certainties" offered as a deterministic alternative to the [[uncertainty principle]], and an analytic method he calls "Tometry." He presents these as an alternative to the [[Standard Model]] and [[quantum mechanics]]. These proposals are outside mainstream physics and have been developed and published largely within the dissident-science community rather than in peer-reviewed physics journals.
+Field Structure Theory grew out of Briddell's college study of form and structure. He describes discovering a way to give three-dimensional forms (polyhedra) structural integrity through '''pure torsion''', using elements he calls '''Structors''', and a related family of three-dimensional knotted forms he calls '''fieldstructures'''. From these he developed a geometric system he named '''Structural Skew Topology''' (SST), governed by a set of axioms intended to restrict allowable forms to those he considers found in nature.
 ==Books==
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 ==Media==
-* 2012 - [http://youtu.be/BARn3y5QhjI ] (Video Lecture)
+* 2012 - [http://youtu.be/BARn3y5QhjI Multiple Certainties] (Video Lecture)
-* 2010 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_281_dimdim.flv Structures Group Meeting 2] (Video Demonstration)
+* 2010 - Structures Group Meeting 2 (Video Demonstration) — ''formerly hosted at worldsci.org; no longer available''
-* 2009 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_268_dimdim.flv Structures Group Meeting I] (Video Group Meeting)
+* 2009 - Structures Group Meeting I (Video Group Meeting) — ''formerly hosted at worldsci.org; no longer available''
 ==External links==
 * [https://www.amazon.com/Don-Briddell/e/B0043KYVBW Don Briddell author page at Amazon]
 * [https://americanart.si.edu/artist/c-don-briddell-571 C. Don Briddell at the Smithsonian American Art Museum]
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