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-My background stems from nearing 20 years of independent research into the packing of equally sized spheres. I continue to follow that path since then, trying to see when and where those might apply. I spent two years just figuring out that in a cubic close packing arrangement (ccp), that all distances between sphere centers was in the form or the square root of an integer. This allowed a simple algorithm to manifest a cluster by that sqrt of an integer value, as a point set. This point set then was made into a convex hull. [http://dogfeathers.com/java/ccppoly.html waterman polyhedron applet] made by Mark Newbold. A good write-up about them by Paul Bourke...[http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/waterman/index.html initial convex hulls and clusters] Later, one of these polyhedron was selected to manifest a world map. [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/ first page of my site]   In my attempts to find out more about the ccp, the path led to nuclear structure, and I was eventually confronted by my theories being questioned as they did not account for Relativistic concerns. That brings me towards today and my challenge to the math of the hardly ever heard of, Woldemar Voigt. In 1887, so pre-dating Einstein's 1905 paper by 18 years, Woldemar Voigt wrote a set of equations using x' = x-vt. This is mathematically challenged by this author, in a couple of forms. First, a 2 1/2 minute video. [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/videoforweb101.html math challenge of x' = x-vt] Then, perhaps a couple of short 'thought experiments" upon this same concern. [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/EinsteinsLeftBehind.html Einsteins Left Behind] and [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/WoldemarAppointment.html The Appointment that Woldemar never kept]. I guess I will even include this too as part of introducing myself here at NPA...[http://www.watermanpolyhedron.com/ODE.html my overall perspective ( as a poem )]
+'''Steve Waterman''' (born 1952) is an American-Canadian independent researcher, mathematician and cartographer based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is best known as the originator of the [[Waterman Polyhedra|Waterman polyhedra]] and of the Waterman "Butterfly" world map projection, both of which grew out of his study of the packing of equally sized spheres. He is also a critic of the mathematical foundations of [[Relativity]].
 ==Abstracts==
 * 2002 - "[[Waterman Polyhedra]]"
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Steve Waterman
| image = Steve Waterman 913.jpg
| alt = Steve Waterman
| birth_date = {{birth date|1952|00|00|mf=y}}
| fields = [[Independent Researcher]], [[Cartographer]]
| residence = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| nationality = USA / Canadian
| known_for = [[Relativity]], [[Mathematics]], [[Cartography]], [[Sphere Packing]]
}}

My background stems from nearing 20 years of independent research into the packing of equally sized spheres. I continue to follow that path since then, trying to see when and where those might apply. I spent two years just figuring out that in a cubic close packing arrangement (ccp), that all distances between sphere centers was in the form or the square root of an integer. This allowed a simple algorithm to manifest a cluster by that sqrt of an integer value, as a point set. This point set then was made into a convex hull. [http://dogfeathers.com/java/ccppoly.html waterman polyhedron applet] made by Mark Newbold. A good write-up about them by Paul Bourke...[http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/waterman/index.html initial convex hulls and clusters] Later, one of these polyhedron was selected to manifest a world map. [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/ first page of my site] In my attempts to find out more about the ccp, the path led to nuclear structure, and I was eventually confronted by my theories being questioned as they did not account for Relativistic concerns. That brings me towards today and my challenge to the math of the hardly ever heard of, Woldemar Voigt. In 1887, so pre-dating Einstein's 1905 paper by 18 years, Woldemar Voigt wrote a set of equations using x' = x-vt. This is mathematically challenged by this author, in a couple of forms. First, a 2 1/2 minute video. [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/videoforweb101.html math challenge of x' = x-vt] Then, perhaps a couple of short 'thought experiments" upon this same concern. [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/EinsteinsLeftBehind.html Einsteins Left Behind] and [http://watermanpolyhedron.com/WoldemarAppointment.html The Appointment that Woldemar never kept]. I guess I will even include this too as part of introducing myself here at NPA...[http://www.watermanpolyhedron.com/ODE.html my overall perspective ( as a poem )]

==Abstracts==

* 2002 - "[[Waterman Polyhedra]]"

[[Category:Scientist]]