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Arthur A. Larson
Arthur A. Larson
Born	October 6, 1941
Died	August 4, 2020
Residence	Canby, MN, United States
Nationality	USA
Known for	Gravity
	Scientific career
Fields	Author

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Arthur A. Larson (October 6, 1941 – August 4, 2020) was an American computer engineer and author who, following his retirement, developed an independent hypothesis of Gravity. He proposed that gravity is a self-movement force arising from the exchange of gravitons and argued that this mechanism could serve as the basis for a reactionless interstellar propulsion system.

Biography

Larson was born on October 6, 1941, and grew up on a farm. He joined the United States Navy in 1959, serving as a sonarman aboard the destroyer escort USS Keppler (DDE-765) until 1962. After completing his naval service and attending electronics school, he joined Sperry Univac in 1966 as a computer engineer working overseas, based initially in Germany. Over the following years he advanced to become overseas engineering manager responsible for operations across much of the developing world, the Communist bloc, Europe, and North Africa. During his career he and his wife lived in South Africa, Korea, Hong Kong, and England.

In 1968 he married Vivien, a Scottish-born woman he met while working in Germany; the couple had no children. Larson retired in 1984 and purchased a small cow-calf farming operation in southwestern Minnesota, settling in Canby, Minnesota.

Larson died on August 4, 2020, at the age of 78, in Watertown, South Dakota.

Scientific contributions

Larson began writing on gravity and relativity in 1990. In May 1991 he formulated a hypothesis in which gravity between any two bodies is treated as a self-movement force resulting from the exchange of gravitons, rather than as a mutual attraction. Under this hypothesis he argued that Newton's law of gravitation should be modified from F = m₁m₂/d² to F = 2(m₁m₂)/d², and he contended that Einstein's general relativistic description of gravity as spacetime curvature was incorrect. He proposed a modified Cavendish gravitational-constant experiment as a means of testing the hypothesis.

Larson further suggested that, if correct, this "self-movement" gravity could be artificially redirected to provide a propulsion system requiring no reaction mass, which he termed "twisting gravity." He presented this idea at the 1998 Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in a paper titled "Twisting Gravity: An Interstellar Propulsion System Utilizing a New Theory of Gravity," published in AIP Conference Proceedings (Volume 420, p. 1535). A later paper submitted for the STAIF-04 conference was withdrawn by the organizers before presentation. Larson's proposals lie outside the scientific mainstream and have not been accepted by the physics community.

Books

Larson authored several works, including three novels — The Millennium Coup, Project Deep Probe, and Blowback — and three science books — Twisting Gravity, The Relativity Myth, and Star Portal. The Millennium Coup (ISBN 978-1-933482-04-0) is available commercially.

Abstracts

Media

2012 - [1] (Video Lecture)

External links

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-I Grew up on a farm, joined the US NAVY right after high school, 1959 to 1962. Spent my naval years on a Destroyer Escort, USS Keppler DDE 765. Almost sunk one stormy night in the Atlantic when our ship was broadsided by the USS Johnston who mistook us for a submarine. I was on sonar watch and we, too, thought the Johnston was a submarine. Both ships radars were out due to the storm. A few seconds earlier and the Johnston would have hit us and cut us in two as we were turning at my request to get the target out of the stern baffles. As it was, she lost her bow and skidded down our starboard side and cleaned off all the equipment and metalwork from the quarterdeck, down aft to the stern. The Johnston had to go immediately to port and we followed a couple of days later when the pumps couldn't keep up with the water coming in.
+'''Arthur A. Larson''' (October 6, 1941 – August 4, 2020) was an American computer engineer and author who, following his retirement, developed an independent hypothesis of [[Gravity]]. He proposed that gravity is a self-movement force arising from the exchange of gravitons and argued that this mechanism could serve as the basis for a reactionless interstellar propulsion system.
-After the navy I went to school, then hired with Univac as an overseas computer engineer in 1996 in Germany and then taught for two years in Egan, Minnesota, and for NATO in Rome, Italy. Eventually became overseas engineering manager for all the third world countries, including South East Asia, Austrialia, Commi Con, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa, Japan, China, and the USSR. We lived in South Africa, Korea, Hong Kong and London.
-Married my British solemate in 1968, no children. Lots of puppies and cats. I saw her one day walking across a computer room in Weisbaden, Germany. She was a secretary for the US Airforce. The attraction for me was instantaneous.
-We lived and worked all over the world for twenty years then retired in 1984 and bought a small cow/calf operation in southwest Minnesota. Started writing on gravity and relativity in 1990. One night in May, 1991, I had to write a paragraph on Newtonian gravity as a mutual attraction between any two particles. Before the night was finished, I had come to a new hypothesis of gravity where gravity between any two bodies was a self-movement force due to the exchange of gravitons. There were several times that night where I'd start a sentence and not know how I was going to finish it, but it would come, seemingly on it's own. It was like another intelligence was guiding my hand. I even tried it a couple of times to start a sentence to see what would happen. It worked.
+==Biography==
-When I finished with my new hypothesis of gravity, I found that Newtons law would have to be modified from F = m<sub>1</sub>m<sub>2</sub>/d<sup>2</sup>, to F=2(m<sub>1</sub>m<sub>2</sub>)/d<sup>2</sup>. Einstein's general relativity where gravity was due to mass making geodisics (paths in space), was wrong. This took me a few more months to figure out. I developed a simple test, a modified Cavendish Gravitational Constant experiment, can be done to prove the new hypothesis correct or false. I found the link between inertia and gravity and the link between light and gravity. I also found that if my hypoethesis was correct, the new self-movement gravity could be artifically redirected to be used as a faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion system without reaction mass. It would also give us a supreamly fast interception craft to re-direct any asteroid that is threatening earth. Someday we will need such a capability. So far we've just been lucky.
+Larson was born on October 6, 1941, and grew up on a farm. He joined the United States Navy in 1959, serving as a sonarman aboard the destroyer escort USS ''Keppler'' (DDE-765) until 1962. After completing his naval service and attending electronics school, he joined Sperry Univac in 1966 as a computer engineer working overseas, based initially in Germany. Over the following years he advanced to become overseas engineering manager responsible for operations across much of the developing world, the Communist bloc, Europe, and North Africa. During his career he and his wife lived in South Africa, Korea, Hong Kong, and England.
-This leads to other conclusions that are anathema to science.
+In 1968 he married Vivien, a Scottish-born woman he met while working in Germany; the couple had no children. Larson retired in 1984 and purchased a small cow-calf farming operation in southwestern Minnesota, settling in Canby, Minnesota.
-I have presented this hypothesis to various conferences and sent papers to many science and physics societies and individual scientists. I'd always been careful not to say that Einstein was wrong, as that leads to rejection and censorship. In 2003 I sent a paper in for the STAIF-04 conference, and for the first time I actually said out loud, in print, that Einsein's General Relativity was wrong and it could be proven. A few days before the end of submissions, I received a letter from Doctor Mohammad EL Genk, the Director of the NM Space and Nuclear Studies dept, telling me that my paper was being pulled and I would not be allowed to speak.
+Larson died on August 4, 2020, at the age of 78, in Watertown, South Dakota.
-I was told by the NASA Chair that the reason was because my new theory of gravity did not reduce down to General Relativity. Of course not, and I quite happily admitted it; in fact I insisted on it. But it shows that even in today's so-called open science, censorship still exists, no different from Galileo's time.
+==Scientific contributions==
-I have authored seven books: three novels: The Millennium Coup, Project Deep Probe, and Blowback. The Millennium Coup is published and available on Amazon. I've written three science books, Twisting Gravity, The Relativity Myth, and Star Portal. And I've written one science fiction and a screen play.
+Larson began writing on gravity and relativity in 1990. In May 1991 he formulated a hypothesis in which gravity between any two bodies is treated as a self-movement force resulting from the exchange of gravitons, rather than as a mutual attraction. Under this hypothesis he argued that Newton's law of gravitation should be modified from F&nbsp;=&nbsp;m<sub>1</sub>m<sub>2</sub>/d<sup>2</sup> to F&nbsp;=&nbsp;2(m<sub>1</sub>m<sub>2</sub>)/d<sup>2</sup>, and he contended that Einstein's general relativistic description of gravity as spacetime curvature was incorrect. He proposed a modified Cavendish gravitational-constant experiment as a means of testing the hypothesis.
-My life at the moment revolves around getting my books published. The Millennium Coup is being sold out of my car trunk and in three months I have sold 200 copies. I have a dispute with the man who helped me with my printer setup and cover art and he, unbeknownst to me, unethically copyrighted my cover art. I am now in the process of stripping him out of all my stuff. It is involved and takes a while.
+Larson further suggested that, if correct, this "self-movement" gravity could be artificially redirected to provide a propulsion system requiring no reaction mass, which he termed "twisting gravity." He presented this idea at the 1998 Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in a paper titled "Twisting Gravity: An Interstellar Propulsion System Utilizing a New Theory of Gravity," published in ''AIP Conference Proceedings'' (Volume 420, p. 1535). A later paper submitted for the STAIF-04 conference was withdrawn by the organizers before presentation. Larson's proposals lie outside the scientific mainstream and have not been accepted by the physics community.
-My wife and I are enjoying the Minnesota climate, especially this past winter? We've had almost no snow and are preparing ourselves to being on the Minnesota Rivera.
+==Books==
-In 2007 I had two heart attacks and a quad bypass. After being infected by a massive MRSA infection, I had to be opened up again, and the doctors gave me a fifty-fifty chance of survival. Recently I had a severe bronchitis infection and that developed into a Viral Encephalitis infection which I again survived. I am in good health at the moment, but I am concentrating on getting my books printed.
+Larson authored several works, including three novels — ''The Millennium Coup'', ''Project Deep Probe'', and ''Blowback'' — and three science books — ''Twisting Gravity'', ''The Relativity Myth'', and ''Star Portal''. ''The Millennium Coup'' (ISBN 978-1-933482-04-0) is available commercially.
 ==Abstracts==
 * 2012 - "[[A Discussion on the True Nature of Gravity and Inertia]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6516.pdf Read in full])
 * 2009 - "[[Gravitation as a Self-Movement of Matter Due to the Exchange of Gravitons]]"
 * 1998 - "[[Twisting Gravity: An Interstellar Propulsion System Utilizing a New Theory of Gravity]]"
 ==Media==
 * 2012 - [http://youtu.be/KaFzeER-d9w ] (Video Lecture)
+==External links==
+* [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998AIPC..420.1535L/abstract "Twisting gravity" (1998) on NASA ADS]
+* [https://www.amazon.com/Millennium-Coup-Arthur-Larson/dp/1933482044 ''The Millennium Coup'' on Amazon]
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