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	* 2004 - "[[The Ten Assumptions of Science: Toward a New Scientific Worldview]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=The%20Ten%20Assumptions%20of%20Science&tag=httpscientifi-20&link_code=wql&camp=212361&creative=380601&_encoding=UTF-8 Read in full])		* 2004 - "[[The Ten Assumptions of Science: Toward a New Scientific Worldview]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=The%20Ten%20Assumptions%20of%20Science&tag=httpscientifi-20&link_code=wql&camp=212361&creative=380601&_encoding=UTF-8 Read in full])


			==CNPS talks==

			He has presented in the CNPS online seminar and livestream series:

			* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7p0uhzgoE "Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Glenn Borchardt"] (25 February 2023) — award session honouring Borchardt, with his own remarks
			* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM3vNgE0V4I "Webb Telescope Images VS Big Bang - Expert Panel Discussion with Dr. Borchardt & George Coyne"] (13 August 2022) — panellist alongside [[George Coyne]], hosted by [[David de Hilster]]
			* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUg4umeSwhA "Infinite Universe Theory - with Dr. Glenn Borchardt"] (19 December 2020)
			* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMiBLn3e2dQ "Big Bang or Big Bust with Dr. Glenn Borchardt"] (21 November 2020)
			* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yQuStyurhc "Infinity with Science Philosopher Dr. Glenn Borchardt"] (7 November 2020)

	==Media==		==Media==

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 | known_for = [[Relativity]], [[Ether]], [[Aether]], [[Gravity]], [[Neomechanics]], [[Cosmology]], [[Infinity]], [[Infinite Universe Theory]], [[Scientific Philosophy]], [[Univironmental determinism]], [[Scientific Worldview]], [[Universal Cycle Theory]]
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 Glenn Borchardt has over fifty years of practical and theoretical experience in earth science. He has produced over 480 scientific reports, including consulting reports, journal articles, book chapters, books, and computer programs. Borchardt is the Director of the Progressive Science Institute in Berkeley, California.

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	==Publications==		==Publications==

	In 2007 Borchardt published the culmination of his work as "The Scientific Worldview: Beyond Newton and Einstein (Understanding the Universal Mechanism of Evolution)" (iUniverse, 2007) as a logical outgrowth of his 2004 book, "The Ten Assumptions of Science." Borchardt's "univironmental theory" claims that the proper way to look at a thing is to see its activities as a result of the interaction between the thing (the microcosm) and its surroundings (the macrocosm). He showed that univironmental determinism was the universal mechanism of evolution and encouraged the dismissal of neo-Darwinism as being a severely limited special case. First, in being applicable only to the biological domain, and second, in reducing the microcosm to genetics. Borchardt predicts that univironmental theory will have a great impact in many fields, particularly modern physics, cosmology, and philosophy. The advent of univironmental theory presages the beginning of the end for the Big Bang and many of its associated theories. The proposed scientific revolution will be the last step in the pre-Copernican stage of human evolution. Although the reluctance is manifest, the acceptance of the universe as infinite and eternal will be an essential part of the great global social transformation brought about by the Industrial Revolution. In addition, Borchardt maintains that all philosophies are subject to microcosmic and macrocosmic errors. Solipsism is overly microcosmic; fatalism is overly macrocosmic. The correct philosophy, according to Borchardt, is univironmental determinism, which is the simplest and greatest generalization of all: what happens to a portion of the universe is equally dependent on the infinite matter in motion inside it and the infinite matter in motion outside of it.		In 2007 Borchardt published the culmination of his work as "The Scientific Worldview: Beyond Newton and Einstein (Understanding the Universal Mechanism of Evolution)" (iUniverse, 2007) as a logical outgrowth of his 2004 book, "The Ten Assumptions of Science." Borchardt's "[[Univironmental determinism\|univironmental theory]]" claims that the proper way to look at a thing is to see its activities as a result of the interaction between the thing (the microcosm) and its surroundings (the macrocosm). He showed that [[Univironmental determinism\|univironmental determinism]] was the universal mechanism of evolution and encouraged the dismissal of neo-Darwinism as being a severely limited special case. First, in being applicable only to the biological domain, and second, in reducing the microcosm to genetics. Borchardt predicts that univironmental theory will have a great impact in many fields, particularly modern physics, cosmology, and philosophy. The advent of univironmental theory presages the beginning of the end for the Big Bang and many of its associated theories. The proposed scientific revolution will be the last step in the pre-Copernican stage of human evolution. Although the reluctance is manifest, the acceptance of the universe as infinite and eternal will be an essential part of the great global social transformation brought about by the Industrial Revolution. In addition, Borchardt maintains that all philosophies are subject to microcosmic and macrocosmic errors. Solipsism is overly microcosmic; fatalism is overly macrocosmic. The correct philosophy, according to Borchardt, is [[Univironmental determinism\|univironmental determinism]], which is the simplest and greatest generalization of all: what happens to a portion of the universe is equally dependent on the infinite matter in motion inside it and the infinite matter in motion outside of it.

	In 2011 Stephen J. Puetz and Borchardt published "Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe," which is the first book to provide a detailed interpretation of current physical and cosmological data based on Borchardt's Ten Assumptions of Science. In addition to an alternative to the Big Bang Theory, the book presents a new theory that explains the physical cause of gravitation as the result of gravitational pressure gradients that develop initially due to vortex motion in the aether. Statistically verified universal cycles first discovered by Puetz in 2009 are hypothesized to be the result of variations in aether density produced by compression waves.		In 2011 Stephen J. Puetz and Borchardt published "Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe," which is the first book to provide a detailed interpretation of current physical and cosmological data based on Borchardt's Ten Assumptions of Science. In addition to an alternative to the Big Bang Theory, the book presents a new theory that explains the physical cause of gravitation as the result of gravitational pressure gradients that develop initially due to vortex motion in the aether. Statistically verified universal cycles first discovered by Puetz in 2009 are hypothesized to be the result of variations in aether density produced by compression waves.
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	==See also==		==See also==
			* [[Univironmental determinism]]
	* [[Neomechanics]]		* [[Neomechanics]]
	* [[Infinite Universe Theory]]		* [[Infinite Universe Theory]]

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 In 2017 Borchardt published "Infinite Universe Theory," which summarizes a few of the contradictions of the Big Bang Theory (e.g., elderly galaxies at the "edge of the universe," colliding galaxies, etc.), going on to reiterate the Ten Assumptions of Science and the principles of neomechanics. The book provides satisfying, non contradictory answers to commonly asked questions from the simple (e.g., "Who created god?" to the complex "What causes the cosmological redshift?"). Borchardt predicts that the switch from the unprovable assumption of finity to the unprovable assumption of infinity will produce the Last Cosmological Revolution.
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-* 2012 - [http://youtu.be/jxzLf8TdvWE ] (Video Lecture)
+* 2012 - [http://youtu.be/jxzLf8TdvWE Video lecture] (Video Lecture)
 * 2010 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_346_dimdim.flv Ten Assumptions of Science - Part 3] (Video Lecture)
 * 2010 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_261_dimdim.flv The Ten Assumptions of Science, Part 2] (Video Lecture)
 * 2009 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_243_dimdim.flv The Ten Assumptions of Science: First Steps in the Overthrow of the Big Bang Theory (Part 1)] (Video Lecture)
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	==Professional Work==		==Professional Work==

	Turning down a professorship in nuclear science in Brazil, Borchardt accepted a position as a geochemist with what is now the California Geological Survey. Here he spent five years studying the clay mineralogy of landslides by using x-ray diffraction, x-ray fluorescence, atomic absorption, and other methods. A proposal to build a 600'-high dam across numerous earthquake faults along the American River above the state capital brought Borchardt's expertise in soils into the field of seismology. Along with others, Borchardt showed that faults thought to have been 60 million years old actually had small amounts of movement during the last 10,000 years, bringing dam construction to a halt. This work helped to initiate a new field, "soil tectonics", in which the ages of soils are estimated for use in assessing seismic hazard due to ground rupture. Most buildings in California no longer can be constructed across active faults (one showing tectonic displacement at the surface during the last 10,000 years). In addition to dating soils, Borchardt has been part of a team of scientists who produced numerous earthquake planning scenarios. These books contain maps of the damage expected after hypothetical earthquakes along major urban faults in California. As a spokesman for the team, he has presented papers on this approach in the Soviet Union, Russia, and Spain. One especially interesting project involved the evaluation of historic earthquakes that occurred before 1849 when California's population was sparse and newspapers nonexistent. One primary result: the supposed 1836 earthquake along the Hayward fault actually occurred on the San Andreas fault at San Juan Bautista, over 100 km away. This information helped to designate the northern Hayward fault through Berkeley as most likely to produce the next major urban earthquake in the US. In 1990 Borchardt taught soil mineralogy at the University of California in Berkeley as a visiting professor. He retired from the California Geological Survey in 2004, continuing to provide soil age estimates as the principal of Soil Tectonics (http://soiltectonics.com/). Since 1966, he has authored or co-authored over 320 scientific reports and publications, ~~include~~ several books and computer programs, as well as chapters on soil smectites and soil tectonics in major textbooks. As an avocation, he has studied scientific philosophy since 1976, stimulated by what he thought to be the outrageous claims of cosmologists that the universe exploded out of nothing. His systematic examination of the presuppositions underlying this so-called "Big Bang Theory" showed them to be anything but scientific.		Turning down a professorship in nuclear science in Brazil, Borchardt accepted a position as a geochemist with what is now the California Geological Survey. Here he spent five years studying the clay mineralogy of landslides by using x-ray diffraction, x-ray fluorescence, atomic absorption, and other methods. A proposal to build a 600'-high dam across numerous earthquake faults along the American River above the state capital brought Borchardt's expertise in soils into the field of seismology. Along with others, Borchardt showed that faults thought to have been 60 million years old actually had small amounts of movement during the last 10,000 years, bringing dam construction to a halt. This work helped to initiate a new field, "soil tectonics", in which the ages of soils are estimated for use in assessing seismic hazard due to ground rupture. Most buildings in California no longer can be constructed across active faults (one showing tectonic displacement at the surface during the last 10,000 years). In addition to dating soils, Borchardt has been part of a team of scientists who produced numerous earthquake planning scenarios. These books contain maps of the damage expected after hypothetical earthquakes along major urban faults in California. As a spokesman for the team, he has presented papers on this approach in the Soviet Union, Russia, and Spain. One especially interesting project involved the evaluation of historic earthquakes that occurred before 1849 when California's population was sparse and newspapers nonexistent. One primary result: the supposed 1836 earthquake along the Hayward fault actually occurred on the San Andreas fault at San Juan Bautista, over 100 km away. This information helped to designate the northern Hayward fault through Berkeley as most likely to produce the next major urban earthquake in the US. In 1990 Borchardt taught soil mineralogy at the University of California in Berkeley as a visiting professor. He retired from the California Geological Survey in 2004, continuing to provide soil age estimates as the principal of Soil Tectonics (http://soiltectonics.com/). Since 1966, he has authored or co-authored over 320 scientific reports and publications, including several books and computer programs, as well as chapters on soil smectites and soil tectonics in major textbooks. As an avocation, he has studied scientific philosophy since 1976, stimulated by what he thought to be the outrageous claims of cosmologists that the universe exploded out of nothing. His systematic examination of the presuppositions underlying this so-called "Big Bang Theory" showed them to be anything but scientific.

	==Current Work==		==Current Work==

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	Glenn Borchardt has over fifty years of practical and theoretical experience in earth science. He has produced over ~~300~~ scientific reports, including consulting reports, journal articles, book chapters, books, and computer programs. Borchardt is the Director of the Progressive Science Institute in Berkeley, California.		Glenn Borchardt has over fifty years of practical and theoretical experience in earth science. He has produced over 480 scientific reports, including consulting reports, journal articles, book chapters, books, and computer programs. Borchardt is the Director of the Progressive Science Institute in Berkeley, California.

	==History==		==History==
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	In 2011 Stephen J. Puetz and Borchardt published "Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe," which is the first book to provide a detailed interpretation of current physical and cosmological data based on Borchardt's Ten Assumptions of Science. In addition to an alternative to the Big Bang Theory, the book presents a new theory that explains the physical cause of gravitation as the result of gravitational pressure gradients that develop initially due to vortex motion in the aether. Statistically verified universal cycles first discovered by Puetz in 2009 are hypothesized to be the result of variations in aether density produced by compression waves.		In 2011 Stephen J. Puetz and Borchardt published "Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe," which is the first book to provide a detailed interpretation of current physical and cosmological data based on Borchardt's Ten Assumptions of Science. In addition to an alternative to the Big Bang Theory, the book presents a new theory that explains the physical cause of gravitation as the result of gravitational pressure gradients that develop initially due to vortex motion in the aether. Statistically verified universal cycles first discovered by Puetz in 2009 are hypothesized to be the result of variations in aether density produced by compression waves.

			In 2017 Borchardt published "Infinite Universe Theory," which summarizes a few of the contradictions of the Big Bang Theory (e.g., elderly galaxies at the "edge of the universe," colliding galaxies, etc.), going on to reiterate the Ten Assumptions of Science and the principles of neomechanics. The book provides satisfying, non contradictory answers to commonly asked questions from the simple (e.g., "Who created god?" to the complex "What causes the cosmological redshift?"). Borchardt predicts that the switch from the unprovable assumption of finity to the unprovable assumption of infinity will produce the Last Cosmological Revolution.


	==Education==		==Education==
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	* 1964 B.S., Soil Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison		* 1964 B.S., Soil Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

	'''Glenn has authored hundreds of papers and ~~three~~ notable books on scientific philosophy:'''		'''Glenn has authored hundreds of papers and four notable books on scientific philosophy:'''

	* 2004 The Ten Assumptions of Science		* 2004 The Ten Assumptions of Science
	* 2007 The Scientific Worldview		* 2007 The Scientific Worldview
	* 2011 Universal Cycle Theory (with Stephen J. Puetz)		* 2011 Universal Cycle Theory (with Stephen J. Puetz)
			* 2017 Infinite Universe Theory

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	==Books==		==Books==

			* 2017 - "[[Infinite Universe Theory]]" ([http://go.glennborchardt.com/IUTebook Read in full])
	* 2011 - "[[Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Cycle-Theory-Neomechanics-Hierarchically/dp/1432781332/ref=as_li_tf_mfw?&linkCode=wey&tag=httpscientifi-20 Read in full])		* 2011 - "[[Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Cycle-Theory-Neomechanics-Hierarchically/dp/1432781332/ref=as_li_tf_mfw?&linkCode=wey&tag=httpscientifi-20 Read in full])
	* 2007 - "[[The Scientific Worldview: Beyond Newton and Einstein]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=The%20Scientific%20Worldview%3A%20Beyond%20Newton%20and%20Einstein&tag=httpscientifi-20&link_code=wql&camp=212361&creative=380601&_encoding Read in full])		* 2007 - "[[The Scientific Worldview: Beyond Newton and Einstein]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=The%20Scientific%20Worldview%3A%20Beyond%20Newton%20and%20Einstein&tag=httpscientifi-20&link_code=wql&camp=212361&creative=380601&_encoding Read in full])
	* 2004 - "[[The Ten Assumptions of Science: Toward a New Scientific Worldview]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=The%20Ten%20Assumptions%20of%20Science&tag=httpscientifi-20&link_code=wql&camp=212361&creative=380601&_encoding=UTF-8 Read in full])		* 2004 - "[[The Ten Assumptions of Science: Toward a New Scientific Worldview]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=The%20Ten%20Assumptions%20of%20Science&tag=httpscientifi-20&link_code=wql&camp=212361&creative=380601&_encoding=UTF-8 Read in full])


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