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	\| birth_date = {{birth date and age\|1947\|11\|8}}		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1947\|11\|08\|mf=y}}
	\| residence = United States		\| birth_place = Schenectady, New York, United States
			\| death_date = {{death date and age\|2022\|12\|19\|1947\|11\|8}}
			\| death_place = Greece
			\| fields = Systems science, Physics, Astronomy, Climatology
			\| alma_mater = Johns Hopkins University; University of Chicago; Portland State University
			\| workplaces = The Starburst Foundation
			\| residence = Niskayuna, New York, United States; Athens, Greece
	\| nationality = USA		\| nationality = USA
	\| known_for = [[~~New Energy~~]], ~~[[Metaphysics]]~~, [[~~Experiments~~]], [[~~Antigravity~~]], [[Cosmology]]		\| known_for = [[Subquantum Kinetics]], Galactic superwaves, [[Antigravity]] and electrogravitics, [[New Energy]], [[Cosmology]]
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	Paul Alex LaViolette ~~hails from Schenectady~~, ~~New York~~, and ~~earned his BA from Johns Hopkins (1969)~~, ~~MBA from the University~~ of ~~Chicago (1973)~~ and ~~PhD from Portland State University (1983).  His early interest~~ in ~~solar energy led him to explore other alternative~~ energy ~~sources,~~ in ~~which he he become a leading expert.  As a patent examiner, LaViolette has been exposed to~~ a ~~wide range of innovative ideas~~.		'''Paul Alex LaViolette''' (8 November 1947 – 19 December 2022) was an American systems scientist, physicist and author, and president of the '''Starburst Foundation''', an interdisciplinary research institute. He worked across an unusually wide span of subjects — physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory, psychology and ancient mythology — and is best known for '''[[Subquantum Kinetics]]''', a unified field theory in which matter and energy arise as self-organising patterns in a continuously transmuting ether.

	~~LaViolette~~ is the~~ author of <em>The Talk of the Galaxy</em>,~~ ''~~Earth Under Fire,~~'' ''~~Genesis of the Cosmos (Beyond the Big Bang),'' ''Subquantum Kinetics,''~~ and ~~editor of ''A Systems View of Man.'' He has also published many original papers in physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory~~, and ~~psychology~~. ~~He received~~ his ~~BA in physics from Johns Hopkins~~, his ~~MBA from the University~~ of ~~Chicago~~, and ~~PhD from Portland State University and is currently president~~ of the ~~Starburst Foundation (~~[~~http://home.earthlink.net/~gravitics/Starburst.html http://home.earthlink.net/~gravitics/Starburst.html~~]~~), an interdisciplinary scientific research institute.  He has ongoing interests in metaphysics, mysticism, and music~~.		His work is unified less by a single subject than by a single conviction: that the universe is an '''open system''' in which matter and energy are continuously created, rather than a closed one wound up once at a beginning and running down ever since. From that premise follow his cosmology, his account of stellar energy, and his rejection of the [[Big Bang]].

	~~'''Articles:'''~~		==Education and career==

	* "An ~~Introduction~~ to Subquantum Kinetics...~~" <em>Intl~~. J. ~~Gen~~. ~~Sys~~.~~</em>~~, V11 pp. ~~281-345~~.		LaViolette was from Schenectady, New York. He took his B.A. in physics at Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago in 1973, and worked for a period at the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his Ph.D. in general systems science at Portland State University in 1983; his dissertation, on '''galactic superwaves and their impact on the Earth''', set the direction of much of his later research.

			An early interest in solar energy led him into alternative energy more broadly, and his period as a '''patent examiner''' exposed him to a wide range of unconventional invention — background that informed his later work on electrogravitics and propulsion. He served as president of the Starburst Foundation, under whose auspices he conducted and published most of his research.

			==Subquantum kinetics==
			''Main article: '''[[Subquantum Kinetics]]'''''

			LaViolette's central theoretical contribution treats the vacuum not as emptiness but as a '''transmuting ether''': a nonequilibrium medium of subphysical units he called '''etherons''', engaged in ongoing reaction and diffusion. Subatomic particles are not things in the medium but '''self-organising wave patterns''' within it — Turing patterns of the kind seen in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction — sustained by the underlying flux rather than by being built from smaller pieces.

			Because etherons continually transmute into and out of ether states, the physical universe is an '''open system''', and matter can be created continuously. Among the theory's stated predictions are that photons '''blueshift''' in regions of high gravitational potential, that '''genic energy''' is generated continuously within celestial bodies, and that cosmological redshift is a '''tired-light''' effect in a cosmologically stationary universe. He argued that the last of these fits the angular-size–redshift, Tolman surface-brightness, Hubble-diagram, galaxy-number-count and supernova data better than the expanding-universe model. See [[Redshift]] and [[Tired Light]].

			==Galactic superwaves==

			LaViolette's doctoral work proposed that the core of the Galaxy episodically emits '''galactic superwaves''' — intense bursts of cosmic rays travelling outward at close to light speed. He argued that such an event reached the solar system at the end of the last ice age, and that its effects are recorded both in the geological and ice-core record and in ancient myth and monument. The argument is developed at length in ''[[Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age]]'' (2005), and its mythological dimension in ''[[Beyond the Big Bang: Ancient Myth and the Science of Continuous Creation]]'' (1995), later reissued as ''Genesis of the Cosmos''.

			==Electrogravitics and antigravity==

			A second strand of LaViolette's work concerns '''electrogravitics''' — the claim that electric fields can produce a propulsive or gravity-like effect, associated historically with Thomas Townsend Brown. He wrote both technical and historical treatments, including ''[[A Theory of Electrogravitics]]'', ''[[Electrogravitics: Back to the Future]]'' and ''[[A Homemade Power Supply for Electrogravitics Experiments]]'', and the book ''[[Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology]]'' (2008), which argues that such technology was developed within classified aerospace programmes. This places part of his work within the [[New Energy]] literature documented on this wiki, and connects it to [[Nikola Tesla]].

			==Decoding the message of the pulsars==

			In ''[[Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy]]'' (2006) LaViolette argued that the distribution and timing characteristics of certain pulsars are better explained as '''deliberate signals''' than as natural beacons — proposing that they mark, among other things, a warning about galactic superwaves. It is the most speculative of his positions and the one most often cited against him.

			==Reception==

			LaViolette published largely outside the mainstream journal system, through the Starburst Foundation and trade publishers, and his conclusions are not accepted by academic physics or astronomy. Critics regard subquantum kinetics as unconstrained — a framework flexible enough to accommodate results after the fact — and the pulsar-signal thesis as unfounded.

			His defenders point out that he stated predictions '''in advance''' and in print, notably on brown-dwarf luminosities and on the tired-light fits to supernova and surface-brightness data, and argue that a theory which does so deserves to be assessed on those predictions rather than on the company its author kept.

			==Related work on this wiki==

			LaViolette's continuous-creation cosmology belongs with the wider critique of the standard model documented here — see [[Big Bang]], [[Redshift]], [[Tired Light]] and [[Non-standard cosmology]]. His electrogravitics work belongs with [[New Energy]]. Further material is indexed under [[:Category:Cosmology]] and [[:Category:Antigravity]].

			==Articles==

			* "An Introduction to Subquantum Kinetics", ''International Journal of General Systems'', V11, pp. 281–345.

	==Abstracts==		==Abstracts==

	* 1993 - "[[A Homemade Power Supply for Electrogravitics Experiments]]"		* 1993 - "[[A Homemade Power Supply for Electrogravitics Experiments]]"
	* 1993 - "[[A Theory of Electrogravitics]]"		* 1993 - "[[A Theory of Electrogravitics]]"
	* 1993 - "[[The U.S. Anti-gravity Squadron]]"		* 1993 - "[[The U.S. Anti-gravity Squadron]]"
	* 1992 - "[[Electrogravitics: Back to the Future]]"		* 1992 - "[[Electrogravitics: Back to the Future]]"
	* 1991 - "[[Subquantum Kinetics: Exploring the Crack in the First Law]]"		* 1991 - "[[Subquantum Kinetics: Exploring the Crack in the First Law]]"
	* 1990 - "[[Detecting Galactic Superwaves: An Appeal to Scalar Wave Astronomers]]"		* 1990 - "[[Detecting Galactic Superwaves: An Appeal to Scalar Wave Astronomers]]"
	* 1990 - "[[A Tesla Wave Physics for a Free Energy Universe]]"		* 1990 - "[[A Tesla Wave Physics for a Free Energy Universe]]"

	==Books==		==Books==
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	* 2008 - "[[Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Antigravity-Propulsion-Classified-Technology/dp/159143078X/ref=pd_sim_b_2 Read in full])		* 2008 - "[[Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Antigravity-Propulsion-Classified-Technology/dp/159143078X/ref=pd_sim_b_2 Read in full])
	* 2006 - "[[Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Message-Pulsars-Intelligent-Communication/dp/1591430623/ref=pd_sim_b_3 Read in full])		* 2006 - "[[Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Message-Pulsars-Intelligent-Communication/dp/1591430623/ref=pd_sim_b_3 Read in full])
	* 2005 - "[[Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Under-Fire-Humanitys-Survival/dp/1591430526/ref=pd_cp_b_2~~?pf_rd_p=413864201&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1591430623&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0RMA4XTQ860AW8E31~~ Read in full])		* 2005 - "[[Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Under-Fire-Humanitys-Survival/dp/1591430526/ref=pd_cp_b_2 Read in full])
	* 2003 2nd ed - "[[Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics and Cosmology]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Subquantum-Kinetics-Systems-Approach-Cosmology/dp/0964202557/ref=pd_sim_b_4 Read in full])		* 2003, 2nd ed. - "[[Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics and Cosmology]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Subquantum-Kinetics-Systems-Approach-Cosmology/dp/0964202557/ref=pd_sim_b_4 Read in full])
	* 1995 - "[[Beyond the Big Bang: Ancient Myth and the Science of Continuous Creation]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Big-Bang-Paul-LaViolette/dp/0892814578/ref=pd_sim_b_5 Read in full])		* 1995 - "[[Beyond the Big Bang: Ancient Myth and the Science of Continuous Creation]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Big-Bang-Paul-LaViolette/dp/0892814578/ref=pd_sim_b_5 Read in full])

			==Personal life==

			LaViolette was a lifelong resident of Niskayuna, New York, and latterly divided his time between Niskayuna and Athens, Greece, where he lived with his wife Mariana Cristova. He died in Greece on 19 December 2022.

			==External links==

			* [https://starburstfound.org/ The Starburst Foundation]

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| name = Paul A. LaViolette
| image = Paul A LaViolette 534.jpg
| alt = Paul A. LaViolette
| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|11|08|mf=y}}
| residence = United States
| nationality = USA
| known_for = [[New Energy]], [[Metaphysics]], [[Experiments]], [[Antigravity]], [[Cosmology]]
}}

Paul Alex LaViolette hails from Schenectady, New York, and earned his BA from Johns Hopkins (1969), MBA from the University of Chicago (1973) and PhD from Portland State University (1983).  His early interest in solar energy led him to explore other alternative energy sources, in which he he become a leading expert.  As a patent examiner, LaViolette has been exposed to a wide range of innovative ideas.

LaViolette is the author of <em>The Talk of the Galaxy</em>, ''Earth Under Fire,'' ''Genesis of the Cosmos (Beyond the Big Bang),'' ''Subquantum Kinetics,'' and editor of ''A Systems View of Man.'' He has also published many original papers in physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory, and psychology. He received his BA in physics from Johns Hopkins, his MBA from the University of Chicago, and PhD from Portland State University and is currently president of the Starburst Foundation ([http://home.earthlink.net/~gravitics/Starburst.html http://home.earthlink.net/~gravitics/Starburst.html]), an interdisciplinary scientific research institute.  He has ongoing interests in metaphysics, mysticism, and music.

'''Articles:'''

* "An Introduction to Subquantum Kinetics..." <em>Intl. J. Gen. Sys.</em>, V11 pp. 281-345.

==Abstracts==

* 1993 - "[[A Homemade Power Supply for Electrogravitics Experiments]]"
* 1993 - "[[A Theory of Electrogravitics]]"
* 1993 - "[[The U.S. Anti-gravity Squadron]]"
* 1992 - "[[Electrogravitics: Back to the Future]]"
* 1991 - "[[Subquantum Kinetics: Exploring the Crack in the First Law]]"
* 1990 - "[[Detecting Galactic Superwaves: An Appeal to Scalar Wave Astronomers]]"
* 1990 - "[[A Tesla Wave Physics for a Free Energy Universe]]"

==Books==

* 2008 - "[[Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Antigravity-Propulsion-Classified-Technology/dp/159143078X/ref=pd_sim_b_2 Read in full])
* 2006 - "[[Decoding the Message of the Pulsars: Intelligent Communication from the Galaxy]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Message-Pulsars-Intelligent-Communication/dp/1591430623/ref=pd_sim_b_3 Read in full])
* 2005 - "[[Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Under-Fire-Humanitys-Survival/dp/1591430526/ref=pd_cp_b_2?pf_rd_p=413864201&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1591430623&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0RMA4XTQ860AW8E31 Read in full])
* 2003 2nd ed - "[[Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics and Cosmology]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Subquantum-Kinetics-Systems-Approach-Cosmology/dp/0964202557/ref=pd_sim_b_4 Read in full])
* 1995 - "[[Beyond the Big Bang: Ancient Myth and the Science of Continuous Creation]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Big-Bang-Paul-LaViolette/dp/0892814578/ref=pd_sim_b_5 Read in full])

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