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Greg Volk
Greg Volk
Born	January 7, 1961
Residence	Eagan, MN, United States
Nationality	USA
Known for	Entropy, Radiation, Entanglement, Unification, Atomic Structure, Toroidal Ring, IAAD, Mach's Principle, Topology, Hertzian Electrodynamics
	Scientific career
Fields	Electrical Engineer, Investments

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Greg Volk (born January 7, 1961) is an American electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and independent researcher in fundamental physics. Working outside the scientific mainstream, he is known for his study of Maxwell's equations, the questioning of foundational assumptions in modern physics, and the exploration of geometric and topological ("toroidal ring") models of atomic structure. He has been strongly influenced by Common Sense Science and Creation Science, and has served as an organizer and officer of the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) and its successor, the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society (CNPS).

Biography

Volk attended Stanford University from 1979 to 1984, studying electrical engineering while also completing the core undergraduate physics curriculum. He began, but did not complete, a master's degree in signal processing, and worked in optical character recognition (OCR) and CAD conversion.

Rather than pursue a career in physics or engineering, Volk became an entrepreneur, working over the years as a stock broker and investor, real estate broker, mortgage broker, landlord, music arranger and composer, business owner, and in the oil industry. He has described his introduction to Creation Science in the late 1980s as transforming his worldview toward a conviction in the existence of absolutes.

Volk lives in Eagan, Minnesota. He is married and has three children and one grandchild.

Scientific contributions

Volk has stated that his decision not to pursue physics professionally stemmed in part from unease with the foundational laws of physics, and a conviction that fundamental theory should exhibit greater elegance and unity rather than ad hoc complexity. He was particularly troubled by the implications of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

In the summer of 2007, Russ McGlenn introduced Volk to the work of David Bergman and Dr. Charles William Lucas of Common Sense Science, which renewed his interest in physics. He subsequently studied Bergman's ring model of the atom and the classical foundations of electrodynamics, drawing on the work of researchers such as Prof. Andre Assis, Dr. Petr Beckmann, Dr. Peter Granea, Dr. Thomas E Phipps Jr., Dr. Paul Wesley, Dr. Parry H. Moon, and Dr. Domina Eberle Spencer, as well as the original writings of Newton, Huygens, Faraday, Boltzmann, Mach, Planck, and Albert Einstein.

Volk supports the Common Sense Science approach as a path toward resolving fundamental problems in physics, and has worked on connecting the concept of entropy with electrodynamics. As an independent researcher, he has argued that the growing body of anomalies in new energy, low-energy nuclear reactions, astrophysics, atomic physics, and entanglement points to a need for major new paradigms in physics rather than incremental fixes. His presentations and papers address topics including the meaning of Maxwell's equations, reference-frame-independent dynamics, questionable assumptions in modern physics, and the topology of toroidal and vortex structures.

Organizational roles

Volk became active in the Natural Philosophy Alliance in 2008, where he met David de Hilster. Together they modernized the organization's digital infrastructure, and Volk contributed the majority of the entries in the Natural Philosophers Database. In 2013 he became president of the NPA, and following the organization's reformation as the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society he served as vice-president of the CNPS.

Abstracts

2013 - "An Optimistic Assessment of "Fringe"? Science"
2012 - "Analysis of Lockyer Cubes" (Read in full)
2012 - "Fourier Closed Loops" (Read in full)
2011 - "The Convergence of New Physics Paradigms: Unity in Diversity" (Read in full)
2011 - "A Matter of Definition" (Read in full)
2010 - "Pseudovectors and Pseudoscalars, or Reflections on Reflection" (Read in full)
2010 - "The Rodin Number Map and Rodin Coil" (Read in full)
2010 - "Toroids, Vortices, Knots, Topology and Quanta" (Read in full)
2009 - "The Meaning of Maxwell's Equations" (Read in full)
2009 - "The Nature of Eynptor (Entropy)"
2009 - "39 Questionable Assumptions in Modern Physics" (Read in full)
2009 - "Reference-Frame Independent Dynamics, Or How to Get Off Einstein's Train" (Read in full)

Books

2012 - "Proceedings of the NPA, Volume 9" (Read in full)
2011 - "Proceedings of the NPA, Volume 8" (Read in full)

Media

2012 - [1] (Video Lecture)
2012 - [2] (Video Lecture)
2011 - A Matter of Definition (Video Lecture)
2010 - The Meaning of Maxwell's Equations, Part 2: Ampere's Law (Video Lecture)
2010 - 17th NPA Conference in Long Beach - June 23 - 26 (Audio Radio)
2010 - The Meaning of Maxwell's Equations, Part 1: Gauss D Law (Video Lecture)
2010 - Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference 2010 (Audio Radio)
2009 - Reference Frame Independent Dynamics, Or How to Get Off Einstein's Train, Part 2 (Video Demonstration)
2009 - Interferometry Group (Video Group Meeting)
2009 - Reference-Frame Independent Dynamics, Or How to Get Off Einstein's Train, Part 1 (Video Lecture)
2009 - 39 Questionable Assumptions in Modern Physics, Part 4 (Video Lecture)
2009 - 39 Questionable Assumptions in Modern Physics, Part 2 (Video Lecture)

External links

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-Greg Volk is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and American scientist who has worked outside the mainstream on scientific theory, specifically in the area of Maxwell's equation and scientific assumptions. He is also heavily involved in structures and geometry and has been greatly influenced by [[Common Sense Science]] and [[Creation Science]].
+'''Greg Volk''' (born January 7, 1961) is an American electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and independent researcher in fundamental physics. Working outside the scientific mainstream, he is known for his study of Maxwell's equations, the questioning of foundational assumptions in modern physics, and the exploration of geometric and topological ("toroidal ring") models of atomic structure. He has been strongly influenced by [[Common Sense Science]] and [[Creation Science]], and has served as an organizer and officer of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] ([[NPA]]) and its successor, the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society ([[CNPS]]).
-==Education==
+==Biography==
-Greg Volk attended Stanford from 1979 to 1984 as an electrical engineer and also took the entire core undergraduate curriculum in physics. Although he didn't finish his masters degree in signal processing, he did work in optical character recognition (OCR) and CAD conversion.
+Volk attended [[Stanford University]] from 1979 to 1984, studying electrical engineering while also completing the core undergraduate physics curriculum. He began, but did not complete, a master's degree in signal processing, and worked in optical character recognition (OCR) and CAD conversion.
-==Professional Career==
+Rather than pursue a career in physics or engineering, Volk became an entrepreneur, working over the years as a stock broker and investor, real estate broker, mortgage broker, landlord, music arranger and composer, business owner, and in the oil industry. He has described his introduction to [[Creation Science]] in the late 1980s as transforming his worldview toward a conviction in the existence of absolutes.
-An entrepreneur at heart, Greg chose not to go into physics or engineering as a career, but have been a stock broker and investor, real estate broker, mortgage broker, landlord, music arranger, composer, business owner, and oil man. Though his formal education ended in 1984, his real education began about that time, with interests ranging from classical literature, money and banking (yes, conspiracy theories, etc.), Bible study, children's books, to, of course, physics. His introduction to [[Creation Science]] in the late 1980s transformed my worldview from one of openness to any and all ideas, religious or otherwise, to one convinced of the existence of absolutes.
-==Science Career==
+Volk lives in Eagan, Minnesota. He is married and has three children and one grandchild.
-My decision not to pursue physics as a career was based in part on the uneasiness I felt regarding the fundamental laws. My gut told me that in coming closer to the core of things, greater and greater elegance, not messiness, ought to prevail. God's laws ought to be based on a few unifying concepts, not on ad hoc formulas. But the reverse seemed to be the case. I was deeply troubled by the implications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty, and felt something must be amiss. Nonetheless for years on my own time I dabbled with some of my own ideas about the foundations of creation.
-In the summer of 2007 [[Russ McGlenn]] directed me to the work of [[David Bergman]] and Dr. [[Charles William Lucas]] of [[Common Sense Science]].  This awakened Greg's passion for physics at a time in my life when I was could devote some attention to serious study. Since then I have read everything I could find relating to Bergman's ring model and the classical foundations of physics (Prof. [[Andre Assis]], Dr. [[Petr Beckmann]], Dr. [[Peter Granea]], Dr. [[Thomas E Phipps]] Jr.], Dr. [[Paul Wesley]], Dr. Parry H. Moon, Dr. [[Domina Eberle Spencer]], etc.), as well as the original works of the masters (Newton, Huygens, Faraday, Boltzmann, Mach, Planck, and of course [[Albert Einstein]]).  Greg firmly supports the [[Common Sense Science]] approach holds the key to solving many fundamental mysteries in physics, but one piece missing from the puzzle is the connection of entropy with electrodynamics, on which he is currently working.
+==Scientific contributions==
+Volk has stated that his decision not to pursue physics professionally stemmed in part from unease with the foundational laws of physics, and a conviction that fundamental theory should exhibit greater elegance and unity rather than ad hoc complexity. He was particularly troubled by the implications of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
-==Recent Work==
+In the summer of 2007, [[Russ McGlenn]] introduced Volk to the work of [[David Bergman]] and Dr. [[Charles William Lucas]] of [[Common Sense Science]], which renewed his interest in physics. He subsequently studied Bergman's ring model of the atom and the classical foundations of electrodynamics, drawing on the work of researchers such as Prof. [[Andre Assis]], Dr. [[Petr Beckmann]], Dr. [[Peter Granea]], Dr. [[Thomas E Phipps]] Jr., Dr. [[Paul Wesley]], Dr. Parry H. Moon, and Dr. [[Domina Eberle Spencer]], as well as the original writings of Newton, Huygens, Faraday, Boltzmann, Mach, Planck, and [[Albert Einstein]].
-In 2013, Greg became president of the [[NPA]] and is currently the vice-president of the [[CNPS]].
+Volk supports the [[Common Sense Science]] approach as a path toward resolving fundamental problems in physics, and has worked on connecting the concept of [[entropy]] with electrodynamics. As an independent researcher, he has argued that the growing body of anomalies in new energy, low-energy nuclear reactions, astrophysics, atomic physics, and [[entanglement]] points to a need for major new paradigms in physics rather than incremental fixes. His presentations and papers address topics including the meaning of Maxwell's equations, reference-frame-independent dynamics, questionable assumptions in modern physics, and the topology of toroidal and vortex structures.
-==Personal Life==
+==Organizational roles==
+Volk became active in the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]] in 2008, where he met [[David de Hilster]]. Together they modernized the organization's digital infrastructure, and Volk contributed the majority of the entries in the Natural Philosophers Database. In 2013 he became president of the [[NPA]], and following the organization's reformation as the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society he served as vice-president of the [[CNPS]].
-Greg currently lives in Minnesota and is married and has three children and one grandchild.
 ==Abstracts==
 * 2013 - "[[An Optimistic Assessment of "Fringe"? Science]]"
 * 2012 - "[[Analysis of Lockyer Cubes]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6435.pdf Read in full])
 * 2012 - "[[Fourier Closed Loops]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6701.pdf Read in full])
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 * 2010 - "[[Toroids, Vortices, Knots, Topology and Quanta]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_5233.pdf Read in full])
 * 2009 - "[[The Meaning of Maxwell's Equations]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_2071.doc Read in full])
 * 2009 - "[[The Nature of Eynptor (Entropy)]]"
 * 2009 - "[[39 Questionable Assumptions in Modern Physics]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_1635.pdf Read in full])
 * 2009 - "[[Reference-Frame Independent Dynamics, Or How to Get Off Einstein's Train]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_2070.pdf Read in full])
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 * 2009 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_138_dimdim.flv 39 Questionable Assumptions in Modern Physics, Part 4] (Video Lecture)
 * 2009 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_105_dimdim.flv 39 Questionable Assumptions in Modern Physics, Part 2] (Video Lecture)
+==External links==
+* [https://independent.academia.edu/VolkG Greg Volk on Academia.edu]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/user/VolkGreg Greg Volk on YouTube]
 [[Category:Scientist|Volk Gregory]]