Douglass A White - Revision history

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	\| nationality = USA		\| nationality = USA
	\| fields = [[Linguistics]], Egyptology, ~~physics~~ of consciousness		\| fields = Linguistics, Egyptology, Physics of consciousness
	\| workplaces = Maharishi International University		\| workplaces = Maharishi International University
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	==Work==		==Work==
	White is best known for '''Observer Physics''', which he described as a new paradigm intended to unify the Newtonian, relativistic, and quantum descriptions of nature by treating the conscious observer as fundamental. He ~~summarized~~ the approach through what he called Palmer's Principle, "It depends on how you look at it," and argued that the observer participates in constituting the physical universe. Under this heading he wrote a series of essays and technical papers on ~~topics such as~~ Dirac currents, ~~particle~~ masses, neutrino oscillation, and galaxy rotation curves~~, distributing~~ them largely as free downloads for personal and educational use.
			===Observer Physics===
			''Main article: '''[[Observer Physics]]'''''

			White is best known for '''[[Observer Physics]]''', which he described as a new paradigm intended to unify the Newtonian, relativistic and quantum descriptions of nature by treating the conscious observer as fundamental rather than as an inconvenience to be eliminated. He summarised the approach through what he called '''Palmer's Principle''' — "It depends on how you look at it" — taken from the work of Harry Palmer, and argued that the observer participates in constituting the physical universe.

			Two commitments distinguish the framework. The first is that '''the observer is itself a quantum-mechanical device''', human perception operating with what White termed macroscopic perceptual quanta; where the Copenhagen interpretation invokes an observer without saying what one is, Observer Physics makes the observer a subject of physical theory. The second is his '''Great Velocity Equation''', ''V''<sub>m</sub> × ''V''<sub>i</sub> = ''c''², relating ordinary physical velocity to an imaginary phase velocity, the two reciprocal about the speed of light — from which he drew a physical reading of meditation, since stillness of the body corresponds to unbounded phase velocity.

			Under this heading he wrote a series of essays and technical papers on Dirac currents, proton and electron masses, neutrino oscillation, the Planck mass, and galaxy rotation curves — the last offered as an account of the observations usually attributed to dark matter. He distributed them largely as free downloads for personal and educational use rather than through journals.

			His 2003 paper "How to Build a Dirac Current Positron Generator" describes a device intended to extract excess energy from the vacuum, placing that strand of his work within the [[New Energy]] literature documented on this wiki; see also [[Zero Point Energy]].

	Alongside his work in physics, White pursued a lifelong interest in the antiquities of Egypt, China, and India. In Egyptology he produced an English translation of the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts with extensive commentary, and he studied the Egyptian game of Senet, which he connected to the history of the Tarot in a series of books and a hand-designed Ancient Egyptian Tarot deck. His writings also drew on Sanskrit and Chinese sources and on themes of meditation, attention, and numerology.		Alongside his work in physics, White pursued a lifelong interest in the antiquities of Egypt, China, and India. In Egyptology he produced an English translation of the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts with extensive commentary, and he studied the Egyptian game of Senet, which he connected to the history of the Tarot in a series of books and a hand-designed Ancient Egyptian Tarot deck. His writings also drew on Sanskrit and Chinese sources and on themes of meditation, attention, and numerology.

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	\| birth_date = 1941		\| birth_date = 1941
	\| death_date = {{death date\|2021\|3\|21\|~~mf=y~~}}		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|2021\|3\|21\|1941}}
	\| death_place = Taiwan		\| death_place = Taiwan
	\| residence = United States; Taiwan		\| residence = United States; Taiwan

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