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	~~Retired telecom~~ executive~~. At Pacific NW Bell, had responsibilities in transmission engineering, long range planning~~, ~~network planning~~,~~systems analysis~~ and ~~programming~~. ~~At GTE, had responsibilites~~ in ~~regulatory affairs and in marketing~~, ~~including department head for regulation at General Telephone Company of the Southwest and, at GTE Telops Headquarters~~, ~~Assistant VP for product planning and pricing in the marketing department and Assistant VP for regulatory strategy~~ in the ~~regulatory affairs department. After retiring from GTE, served as VP for~~ telephone industry ~~policy development at the United States Telephone Association~~ in ~~Washington DC. After retiring from USTA~~, ~~have been messing about in physics~~, ~~philosophy~~, ~~writing, publishing~~ and ~~water media painting~~. ~~Author~~ of ~~two books: <em>~~Relativity Revisited~~</em> and <em>~~Adages and Aphorisms from Philosophilus~~</em>.Working on a book about the power~~ and ~~magic of the line to communicate to the human mind~~.		'''Richard O. Calkins''' is an American retired telecommunications executive, author, and independent critic of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. Based in Sammamish, Washington, he worked in the telephone industry for more than 40 years before turning in retirement to writing, publishing, painting, and the study of physics and philosophy. He is the author of ''Relativity Revisited'', ''Adages and Aphorisms from Philosophilus'', and ''The Hidden Flaw in Relativity''.

	Am married and ~~have~~ two ~~great~~ daughters of ~~whom I am very proud~~.		==Biography==
			Calkins spent more than four decades in the telephone industry, with a career that spanned engineering, marketing, finance, regulatory affairs, and legislative policy development. He began as a transmission engineer and later served as Engineering Manager for network planning at Pacific Northwest Bell in Seattle, Washington, where his responsibilities included transmission engineering, long-range planning, network planning, and systems analysis and programming.

			At GTE, Calkins held responsibilities in regulatory affairs and marketing. He served as department head for regulation at the General Telephone Company of the Southwest and, at GTE Telops headquarters, as Assistant Vice President for product planning and pricing in the marketing department and as Assistant Vice President for regulatory strategy in the regulatory affairs department. After retiring from GTE, he served as Vice President for telephone industry policy development at the United States Telephone Association in Washington, D.C.

			Following his retirement from the telephone industry, Calkins devoted himself to physics, philosophy, writing, publishing, and water-media painting. He founded Calkins Publishing Company, LLC, through which he has issued his books, several of which he has also illustrated. He is married and has two daughters.

			==Scientific contributions==
			Outside the scientific mainstream, Calkins is a critic of both the special and general theories of relativity. After more than two decades of study, he argues that Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity contains what he describes as an irreparable logical flaw, contending in his abstracts and books that the theory rests on circular reasoning. He also questions the concept of quantized energy and the photon model of light, and has proposed that light acquires the velocity of its source. In related work he argues that the physical mediums for the propagation of light are, in his words, "hiding in plain sight," and he has outlined experiments intended to test whether light acquires the velocity of its source using current technology. These positions place his work in opposition to the standard interpretations of modern physics.

	==Abstracts==		==Abstracts==

	* 2015 - "[[The Special Theory of Relativity is a House of Cards Built on a Parlor Trick and Sustained by Circular Reasoning]]"		* 2015 - "[[The Special Theory of Relativity is a House of Cards Built on a Parlor Trick and Sustained by Circular Reasoning]]"
	* 2015 - "[[The Special Theory of Relativity is a House of Cards Built on a Parlor Trick and Sustained by Circular Reasoning]]"		* 2015 - "[[The Special Theory of Relativity is a House of Cards Built on a Parlor Trick and Sustained by Circular Reasoning]]"
	* 2015 - "[[The Mediums for Light are Hiding in Plain Sight]]"		* 2015 - "[[The Mediums for Light are Hiding in Plain Sight]]"
	* 2015 - "[[Experiments to Test Whether or Not Light Acquires the Velocity of Its Source Using Current Technology]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_paperlink_7333.pdf Read in full])		* 2015 - "[[Experiments to Test Whether or Not Light Acquires the Velocity of Its Source Using Current Technology]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_paperlink_7333.pdf Read in full])

			==Books==
			* ''Relativity Revisited'' (2011)
			* ''Adages and Aphorisms from Philosophilus'' (2013)
			* ''The Hidden Flaw in Relativity'' (2024)

			==External links==
			* [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5872645.Richard_O_Calkins Richard O. Calkins at Goodreads]
			* [https://www.amazon.com/Adages-Aphorisms-Philosophilus-Richard-Calkins/dp/0983677018 ''Adages and Aphorisms from Philosophilus'' at Amazon]

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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Richard O. Calkins
| image = Richard O Calkins 2998.jpg
| alt = Richard O. Calkins
| fields = [[Retired GTE Executive]]
| residence = Sammamish, WA, United States
| nationality = USA
| known_for = [[Physics generally]], [[Cosmology]], [[Electromagnetism]], [[Gravity]]
}}

Retired telecom executive. At Pacific NW Bell, had responsibilities in transmission engineering, long range planning, network planning,systems analysis and programming. At GTE, had responsibilites in regulatory affairs and in marketing, including department head for regulation at General Telephone Company of the Southwest and, at GTE Telops Headquarters, Assistant VP for product planning and pricing in the marketing department and Assistant VP for regulatory strategy in the regulatory affairs department. After retiring from GTE, served as VP for telephone industry policy development at the United States Telephone Association in Washington DC. After retiring from USTA, have been messing about in physics, philosophy, writing, publishing and water media painting. Author of two books: <em>Relativity Revisited</em> and <em>Adages and Aphorisms from Philosophilus</em>.Working on a book about the power and magic of the line to communicate to the human mind.

Am married and have two great daughters of whom I am very proud.

==Abstracts==

* 2015 - "[[The Special Theory of Relativity is a House of Cards Built on a Parlor Trick and Sustained by Circular Reasoning]]"
* 2015 - "[[The Special Theory of Relativity is a House of Cards Built on a Parlor Trick and Sustained by Circular Reasoning]]"
* 2015 - "[[The Mediums for Light are Hiding in Plain Sight]]"
* 2015 - "[[Experiments to Test Whether or Not Light Acquires the Velocity of Its Source Using Current Technology]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_paperlink_7333.pdf Read in full])

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