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I received a B.S. in Physics in 1969 from Illinois Institute of Technology.  I worked as an assistant professor of physics at the Universidad Tecnica del Estado in Santiago, Chile in 1972-3.  I owned and operated a family business for the manufacture of industrial filter bags and dialyzer membranes for many years from which I retired 10 years ago. For the last 30 years my family and I have operated a dairy farm in Western New York.  I have found that farm work is an ideal profession for the practice of theoretical physics because it requires long hours of physical labor that do not require a lot of thought.  I use that time to organize the complexity of nature into simpler rational frameworks.  Before the internet I was isolated from the physics community and had only published one fairly simple paper.  When I went online I became familiar with NPA and was impressed by their low key approach to dissidence so I joined.  I was beginning to write about quantum mechanics at the time and had not been exposed to constructive criticism so I couldn't get anything published. It is not the job of referees to educate and I had no other contact with professional physicists.  The late John Chappell was extremely helpful in this respect.  He recognized that I was using wrong terminology and suggested that I talk to Eddie Oshins, a visiting scholar at Stanford University.  Eddie's research topic was quantum psychology and though it was an obscure subject he was well known to a small circle of researchers.  Through correspondence and phone calls Eddie helped to instruct me in the fundamentals of quantum theory, a very difficult subject that I have nowhere near mastered.  Nevertheless it was enough to get me started and from there I could continue the process of self education on my own.
'''Richard Joseph Oldani''' (born 1946) is an American independent theoretical physicist and dairy farmer known for his work on [[Quantum theory|quantum theory]], [[Thermodynamics|thermodynamics]], and [[Natural philosophy|natural philosophy]]. Working largely outside the academic mainstream, he has developed field-based and action-based models of the [[photon]] and atomic radiation, and has written critically about the [[Copenhagen interpretation]] of quantum mechanics. He is a member of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]].


If you want people to understand your ideas you have to learn the correct meaning of the words you are using. You cannot communicate without a good command of the language.   Although quantum physicists may disagree with my ideas now they understand what I'm saying.
==Biography==
 
Oldani received a B.S. in Physics in 1969 from the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]]. In 1972–1973 he worked as an assistant professor of physics at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Santiago, Chile. He subsequently owned and operated a family business manufacturing industrial filter bags and dialyzer membranes for many years before retiring. For roughly three decades he and his family operated a dairy farm in Clymer, in western New York state, and he has described the long hours of physical labor involved in farm work as well suited to reflecting on theoretical physics.
 
Before the rise of the internet, Oldani was largely isolated from the physics community and had published only a single paper. After going online he became familiar with the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] (NPA) and joined the organization. He has credited the late John Chappell, founder of the NPA, and the Stanford visiting scholar Eddie Oshins with helping him learn the standard terminology and fundamentals of quantum theory, which enabled him to communicate his ideas to professional physicists.
 
==Scientific contributions==
 
Oldani's research concentrates on the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and the structure of the [[photon]]. Departing from the standard interpretation, he has proposed a field-based model in which the photon is treated as a discrete entity with particle-like properties at its core surrounded by continuous fields that superpose linearly, an approach he presents as analogous to the electron and as satisfying the requirements of classical, relativistic, and quantum theory simultaneously.
 
Much of his work draws on the action principle and Lagrangian methods. He has argued for a "fully relativistic" or Lagrangian formulation of quantum mechanics and atomic structure, and for a theory of radiation processes that adheres strictly to the conservation laws. Revisiting [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s early reasoning about the nature of light from roughly 1906–1909, Oldani contends that Einstein's intuitions about the photon and his later reservations about quantum mechanics were sound, and he uses them as a starting point for his own field model. These positions place his work outside mainstream quantum electrodynamics, and his conclusions are not generally accepted by the physics community.
 
In addition to the abstracts collected on the Natural Philosophy Wiki, Oldani has published papers and book chapters through outlets including ''Physics Essays'', the ''SCIREA Journal of Physics'', Qeios, and IntechOpen, on topics such as the photon, the Copenhagen interpretation, conservation laws in quantum mechanics, and relativistic formulations of atomic structure.


==Abstracts==
==Abstracts==


* 2012 - "[[Wave Functions of Visual Systems]]"  
* 2012 - "[[Wave Functions of Visual Systems]]"
* 2011 - "[[Exercises in Natural Philosophy: The Physical Origin of Consciousness]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_5842.pdf Read in full])
* 2011 - "[[Exercises in Natural Philosophy: The Physical Origin of Consciousness]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_5842.pdf Read in full])
* 2010 - "[[Energy-Time Uncertainty]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_5413.pdf Read in full])
* 2010 - "[[Energy-Time Uncertainty]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_5413.pdf Read in full])
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* 1997 - "[[Causes of increases in achievement motivation]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6461.pdf Read in full])
* 1997 - "[[Causes of increases in achievement motivation]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6461.pdf Read in full])
* 1980 - "[[The Photon with a Classical Field]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_3231.pdf Read in full])
* 1980 - "[[The Photon with a Classical Field]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_3231.pdf Read in full])
==External links==
* [https://www.intechopen.com/profiles/275032 Richard Oldani at IntechOpen]
* [https://www.scirea.org/journal/PaperInformation?PaperID=7032 "The Photon according to Einstein"] (''SCIREA Journal of Physics'', 2022)


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Latest revision as of 16:29, 20 July 2026

Richard Oldani
Richard Oldani
Born1946 (age 79–80)
ResidenceClymer, NY, United States
NationalityUSA
Known forQuantum theory, Thermodynamics, Natural philosophy
Scientific career
FieldsDairy farmer, theoretical physicist

Richard Joseph Oldani (born 1946) is an American independent theoretical physicist and dairy farmer known for his work on quantum theory, thermodynamics, and natural philosophy. Working largely outside the academic mainstream, he has developed field-based and action-based models of the photon and atomic radiation, and has written critically about the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. He is a member of the Natural Philosophy Alliance.

Biography

Oldani received a B.S. in Physics in 1969 from the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1972–1973 he worked as an assistant professor of physics at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Santiago, Chile. He subsequently owned and operated a family business manufacturing industrial filter bags and dialyzer membranes for many years before retiring. For roughly three decades he and his family operated a dairy farm in Clymer, in western New York state, and he has described the long hours of physical labor involved in farm work as well suited to reflecting on theoretical physics.

Before the rise of the internet, Oldani was largely isolated from the physics community and had published only a single paper. After going online he became familiar with the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) and joined the organization. He has credited the late John Chappell, founder of the NPA, and the Stanford visiting scholar Eddie Oshins with helping him learn the standard terminology and fundamentals of quantum theory, which enabled him to communicate his ideas to professional physicists.

Scientific contributions

Oldani's research concentrates on the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and the structure of the photon. Departing from the standard interpretation, he has proposed a field-based model in which the photon is treated as a discrete entity with particle-like properties at its core surrounded by continuous fields that superpose linearly, an approach he presents as analogous to the electron and as satisfying the requirements of classical, relativistic, and quantum theory simultaneously.

Much of his work draws on the action principle and Lagrangian methods. He has argued for a "fully relativistic" or Lagrangian formulation of quantum mechanics and atomic structure, and for a theory of radiation processes that adheres strictly to the conservation laws. Revisiting Einstein's early reasoning about the nature of light from roughly 1906–1909, Oldani contends that Einstein's intuitions about the photon and his later reservations about quantum mechanics were sound, and he uses them as a starting point for his own field model. These positions place his work outside mainstream quantum electrodynamics, and his conclusions are not generally accepted by the physics community.

In addition to the abstracts collected on the Natural Philosophy Wiki, Oldani has published papers and book chapters through outlets including Physics Essays, the SCIREA Journal of Physics, Qeios, and IntechOpen, on topics such as the photon, the Copenhagen interpretation, conservation laws in quantum mechanics, and relativistic formulations of atomic structure.

Abstracts

External links

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