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[[Category:Scientist]] | '''John McWhinnie''' (also published as John R. McWhinnie) is an independent theoretical physics researcher whose papers on relativity, quantum physics and the origin of matter were circulated through the viXra.org e-print archive between 2010 and 2013. He is listed in the ''Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists''. | ||
==Biography== | |||
Little biographical information about McWhinnie is publicly available. He worked outside of any stated academic or institutional affiliation, describing his research as "an open minded exploration and discovery" pursued with "no sacred cows and no pre-conceived ideas". | |||
==Work== | |||
McWhinnie's writing centres on the idea that the fundamental forces of nature are mediated by messenger particles acting as information carriers. In ''Messenger Particles and Relativity'' (2010) he examined the four messenger particles of the standard picture — the graviton, the photon, the weak gauge boson and the gluon — and argued that the differing experience of time between systems in relative motion follows from the constancy of the speed of light together with the propagation delay imposed by the distance between those systems. He developed this position further in ''Relativity the Theory of Information'' (2011), in which relativity is recast as a theory about the transfer of information rather than about space and time alone. | |||
A second strand of his work concerns the composition of matter. ''The Origin of Matter'' (2012) proposes a modification of big bang cosmology intended to address the matter–antimatter asymmetry problem, suggesting that the complex-number formalism at the heart of quantum theory points to a further spatial dimension and that the boundary between matter and antimatter corresponds to the zero point of the complex number system. The sequel, ''The Origin of Matter Part II'', treats the photon as the fundamental building block from which matter is assembled. In the final papers of the series McWhinnie presented a calculation method for theoretical particle properties and a computer program intended to reproduce the mass of the proton from his proposed "F particle". | |||
==Publications== | |||
* ''Messenger Particles and Relativity'' (viXra:1003.0104, 2010) | |||
* ''Gravity Waves and the Constancy of the Speed of Light'' (viXra:1008.0056, 2010) | |||
* ''Relativity the Theory of Information'' (viXra:1103.0061, 2011) | |||
* ''The Origin of Matter'' (viXra:1202.0051, 2012) | |||
* ''The Origin of Matter Part II: The Fundamental Building Block the Photon'' (viXra:1205.0116, 2012) | |||
* ''Theoretical Particle Properties: A Calculation Method Article'' (viXra:1302.0034, 2013) | |||
* ''The Origin of Matter Part III: Proton Mass Calculating Paper'' (viXra:1303.0105, 2013) | |||
* ''The Proton Mass Theory'' (viXra:1303.0116, 2013) | |||
==External links== | |||
* [https://vixra.org/author/john_r_mcwhinnie Papers by John R. McWhinnie at viXra.org] | |||
[[Category:Scientist|McWhinnie John]] | |||
[[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]] | |||
Latest revision as of 11:09, 20 July 2026
John McWhinnie | |
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| Known for | Independent research on messenger particles, relativity and the origin of matter |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
John McWhinnie (also published as John R. McWhinnie) is an independent theoretical physics researcher whose papers on relativity, quantum physics and the origin of matter were circulated through the viXra.org e-print archive between 2010 and 2013. He is listed in the Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Biography
Little biographical information about McWhinnie is publicly available. He worked outside of any stated academic or institutional affiliation, describing his research as "an open minded exploration and discovery" pursued with "no sacred cows and no pre-conceived ideas".
Work
McWhinnie's writing centres on the idea that the fundamental forces of nature are mediated by messenger particles acting as information carriers. In Messenger Particles and Relativity (2010) he examined the four messenger particles of the standard picture — the graviton, the photon, the weak gauge boson and the gluon — and argued that the differing experience of time between systems in relative motion follows from the constancy of the speed of light together with the propagation delay imposed by the distance between those systems. He developed this position further in Relativity the Theory of Information (2011), in which relativity is recast as a theory about the transfer of information rather than about space and time alone.
A second strand of his work concerns the composition of matter. The Origin of Matter (2012) proposes a modification of big bang cosmology intended to address the matter–antimatter asymmetry problem, suggesting that the complex-number formalism at the heart of quantum theory points to a further spatial dimension and that the boundary between matter and antimatter corresponds to the zero point of the complex number system. The sequel, The Origin of Matter Part II, treats the photon as the fundamental building block from which matter is assembled. In the final papers of the series McWhinnie presented a calculation method for theoretical particle properties and a computer program intended to reproduce the mass of the proton from his proposed "F particle".
Publications
- Messenger Particles and Relativity (viXra:1003.0104, 2010)
- Gravity Waves and the Constancy of the Speed of Light (viXra:1008.0056, 2010)
- Relativity the Theory of Information (viXra:1103.0061, 2011)
- The Origin of Matter (viXra:1202.0051, 2012)
- The Origin of Matter Part II: The Fundamental Building Block the Photon (viXra:1205.0116, 2012)
- Theoretical Particle Properties: A Calculation Method Article (viXra:1302.0034, 2013)
- The Origin of Matter Part III: Proton Mass Calculating Paper (viXra:1303.0105, 2013)
- The Proton Mass Theory (viXra:1303.0116, 2013)