Vladimir B Ginzburg

Vladimir B. Ginzburg
Born	(1935-06-06)June 6, 1935
Residence	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality	Russian / American
Known for	Spiral Field Theory, 3-Dimensional Spiral String Theory, the toryx and helyx, Universal Spacetime Theory
Scientific career
Fields	Mechanical engineering, Aether and vortex physics, cosmology

This article is about Vladimir B. Ginzburg, the Russian-American engineer and vortex theorist. He should not be confused with Vitaly L. Ginzburg (1916–2009), the Soviet physicist and 2003 Nobel laureate, who is a different person entirely.

Vladimir B. Ginzburg (born 6 June 1935 in Moscow) is a Russian-American mechanical engineer, inventor and independent theorist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In his professional career he became a leading authority on steel rolling technology, the author of standard reference works on flat rolling and the holder of more than sixty U.S. and foreign patents. In parallel he pursued, over some three decades, a revival and reconstruction of the aether and vortex tradition in physics, developing in turn his Spiral Field Theory, the relativistic torus and helix as the "prime elements of nature", the toryx and helyx, the 3-Dimensional Spiral String Theory (3D-SST) and finally the Universal Spacetime Theory (UST). This work, published in a series of books through his own Helicola Press and in papers in Speculations in Science and Technology, the Journal of New Energy and the Proceedings of the NPA, places him outside the mainstream programmes of the Standard Model and conventional string theory, which he regards as having taken a wrong turn away from the geometric, vortical picture of matter.

Biography

Ginzburg was born in Moscow, Russia, on 6 June 1935. He received an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1961 and a Ph.D. in technical sciences in 1968. In 1974 he emigrated with his family to the United States, where his principal occupation became the development of computer models for the simulation of technological processes, in particular in the steel industry. He settled in Pittsburgh, long the centre of American steelmaking, and worked there as a consulting engineer; he is the author of numerous technical articles and the holder of over 60 U.S. and foreign patents.

By his own account the origin of his physical theory can be dated precisely. In December 1992, prompted by a remark of his son Gene about the hidden worlds contained within matter, and while looking at the night sky over Phoenix, Arizona, Ginzburg conceived of a multi-level spiral spacetime to which he gave the name helicola — a nested spiral path which he holds describes the motion of every celestial body. Pursuing the geometry of the helicola led him in 1993 to the spacetime element he calls the toryx, and from there to the whole subsequent development of his theory. He published his theoretical work under the Helicola Press imprint in Pittsburgh, alongside papers presented to the Natural Philosophy Alliance, and remained active as an author into the 2020s. His stated long-term aim has been to apply the theory to what he calls the genetic codes of the universe.

Scientific contributions

Ginzburg's physics is a modern continuation of the vortex tradition: the idea, older than the atom, that matter is not made of little balls but of motion — of circulation, whirl and spiral structure in an underlying medium. He should be read as proposing this picture, not as having established it.

The vortex-theory lineage

Ginzburg presents his own work as the fifth phase of a development running back some 2,600 years. On his account, vortex theory arose in Greek natural philosophy, gathered strength through the Copernican revolution, through the nineteenth-century theories of electromagnetism and the aether, and through the atomic age, and entered its present phase in 1993 with what he describes as the discovery of the toryx. Much of Spiral Grain of the Universe (1996) and the opening part of Prime Elements of Ordinary Matter, Dark Matter & Dark Energy (2006) is given to this history, which serves him as an argument: the vortical conception was not refuted, he contends, but abandoned prematurely when relativity made the medium seem dispensable.

Spiral fields, matter and aether

The Spiral Field Theory, set out in the late 1990s papers and in Unified Spiral Field and Matter (1999), rests on two claims. The first is a set of novel relativistic relationships on which both the gravitational mass and the electric charge of a particle decrease with increasing velocity, falling to zero at the limiting speed of light — the reverse of the usual relativistic mass increase. The second is that the structure of everything in nature is spiral: elementary particles are built from toroidal spiral fields and electromagnetic waves from helical spiral fields, with mass and electric charge determined by the degree and direction of the field's vorticity and by its geometry rather than being primitive properties.

Spiral fields, in this scheme, exist only at discrete energy levels and transform into one another as those levels change. At the lowest, zero energy level the toroidal spiral field degenerates into a spherical field, and the ensemble of these forms a zero-point-energy aether which Ginzburg names the dynosphere. The dynosphere does three jobs at once: excited, it creates both outer toroidal fields (matter) and inner toroidal fields of opposite vorticity (antimatter); it is the medium in which electromagnetic waves propagate; and it supplies a dynamic velocity frame of reference for moving bodies. Ginzburg argues that unifying field, matter and aether in this way removes the infinities that plague point-particle physics, and he offers reinterpretations of the hydrogen spectrum, of the energy required to accelerate electrons, and of the galactic red shift. His 1997 paper on the structure of atoms and fields applies the same relativistic relationships to build an atomic model from muons, positrons and electrons, deriving fractional charges of 1/3 and 2/3 from the velocity dependence and quantisation of charge, and giving a new reading of Maxwell's displacement current.

The torus and helix as prime elements

From 2004 Ginzburg recast the theory in terms of two "prime elements of nature", the relativistic torus and the relativistic helix. Each is a spiral string element containing a single-wave leading double string wound about by a trailing double string that travels its spiral path at the speed of light. In the torus the leading string follows a circle and the trailing string a toroidal path; in the helix both follow helical paths. Because these objects can absorb and release energy, they can sustain themselves, and Ginzburg holds them to be the natural constituents of elementary particles (torus) and photons (helix). This is where his work touches the wider toroidal ring tradition of modelling the electron as a circulating structure rather than a point.

Toryces, helyces and the origin of the universe

The mature version of the prime elements is the toryx and its offspring the helyx — spacetime entities rather than fields in a medium. Ginzburg presents the creation of the universe as the polarization of Nothingness, governed by a conservation law for Nothingness and constrained by the uncertainty principle. Toryces are polarized in two independent ways: by charge, through the ability of their leading and trailing strings to be in opposite inversion states (the toryx can, in effect, be turned inside out), and by energy, since their total kinetic and potential energy may be negative or positive, making them able either to absorb or to release energy. The components of the trailing string's velocity may be subluminal or superluminal, real or imaginary.

Toryces occupy discrete excitation and oscillation quantum states, and matched polarized toryces unify to form elementary matter particles that Ginzburg calls trons: a-trons, the lightest and most rigid, which constitute the aether; e-trons, which form electrons and positrons; and z-trons, the heaviest, which form the cores of nucleons and the singularity. Helyces are produced when a parent toryx drops from a higher to a lower quantum energy state; combining, they yield the radiation particles — photons and neutrinos — that carry energy and, in Ginzburg's phrase, communication between matter particles. Depending on the parent toryx, helyces may propagate at luminal or superluminal velocities, and the interplay of subluminal and superluminal string speeds is what he says keeps both matter and radiation particles in existence.

3-Dimensional Spiral String Theory

The 3-Dimensional Spiral String Theory, presented from 2009, is Ginzburg's unified theory of the universe and is offered explicitly as an alternative to the Standard Model and to conventional string theory. He sets it three goals: to describe the unified structure of the prime elements of the whole universe, including ordinary matter, dark matter and black holes; to demonstrate the possibility of radiation propagating at superluminal velocity; and to uncover the unified nature of the strong, superstrong (colour), gravitational and electric forces. Unification of specially matched polarized toryces produces four prime elementary particles — electrons, positrons, aetherons and higgstrons — which in turn constitute the quantum vacuum, the aether and composite particles including nucleons. Ginzburg emphasises that, unlike string theories requiring ten or more dimensions, his is three-dimensional plus time, and therefore in principle testable by three-dimensional experiment. He also holds that the theory demands a new interpretation of zero, of the number line and of trigonometry.

The unification argument is given its own treatment in The Unification of Strong, Gravitational & Electric Forces (2002) and the 2006 paper on the unification of forces. Ginzburg's claim there is that if the electric charges of the interacting elements are taken to be distributed along circles rather than concentrated at points, then the strong, superstrong (colour) and gravitational forces all follow from Coulomb's law applied to those charge distributions — that is, there is only one force, and the apparent multiplicity of forces is an artefact of the point-charge idealisation.

The Universal Spacetime Theory

In his last formulation, the Universal Spacetime Theory of 2015, Ginzburg makes the ontological claim as strongly as he can: what we perceive as matter, field, gravity, mass, charge and energy are "merely various metamorphoses of polarized spacetime". The toryx, existing in four topologically polarized states, is responsible for all matter; unified toryces form the four kinds of tron that build nucleons and atoms, while the excited toryx produces the helyx and with it all radiation. The spacetime properties of both elements rest on a small number of assumptions, and their physical properties are expressed as functions of those spacetime properties. Ginzburg argues that this solves the century-old problem of unifying the physics of the micro- and macro-worlds.

The same move disposes of dark matter and dark energy, the subject of his 2006 book. Rather than positing an undiscovered exotic substance filling the galaxies, Ginzburg treats dark matter and dark energy as further metamorphoses of polarized spacetime — states of the same prime elements that constitute ordinary matter, differing in polarization and energy state rather than in kind. On this view the dark sector is not missing matter but unrecognised structure in the aether-spacetime the theory already requires, and the aetheron-type prime particles that make up the aether are precisely what the mainstream is looking for under another name. His 2013 book The Spacetime Origin of the Universe With Visible Dark Matter & Energy pursues the same theme.

Steel rolling engineering

Independently of his theoretical work, Ginzburg is a recognised authority on the technology of rolling steel. His Steel-Rolling Technology: Theory and Practice (1989) and High-Quality Steel Rolling: Theory and Practice (1993) became standard references in the field, and he followed them with Flat Rolling Fundamentals (2000), Metallurgical Design of Flat Rolled Steels (2004) and the edited volume Flat-Rolled Steel Processes: Advanced Technologies (2009). Much of this work grew out of his development of computer models for the simulation of rolling and other technological processes, and it is reflected in his portfolio of more than sixty U.S. and foreign patents on rolling mill equipment and process control.

Abstracts

• 2015 - "The Essence of the Universal Spacetime Theory (UST)"
• 2011 - "Basic Concept of 3-Dimensional Spiral String Theory (3D-SST)" (Read in full)
• 2010 - "The Origin of the Universe: Part 1 Toryces" (Read in full)
• 2009 - "Three-Dimensional Spiral String Theory"
• 2006 - "The Unification of Forces"
• 2004 - "The Relativistic Torus and Helix as the Prime Elements of Nature"
• 2000 - "Unified Spiral Field, Matter and Aether: An Introduction to Spiral Field Theory"
• 1999 - "Nuclear Implosion"
• 1998 - "Double Helical and Double Toroidal Spiral Fields" (Read in full)
• 1997 - "Structure of Atoms and Fields" (Read in full)

Books

Physics and cosmology

• 2006 - "Prime Elements of Ordinary Matter, Dark Matter & Dark Energy" (Read in full)
• 2002 - "The Unification of Strong, Gravitational & Electric Forces" (Read in full)
• 2002 - "Unified Spiral Nature of the Quantum & Relativistic Universe" (Read in full)
• 1999 - "Unified Spiral Field and Matter: A Story of a Great Discovery" (Read in full)
• 1996 - "Spiral Grain of the Universe: In Search of the Archimedes File" (Read in full)

Later titles, published after the list above was compiled:

• 2021 - Genetic Codes of the Artificially-Intelligent Multiverse (ISBN 978-1-7331402-2-5)
• 2018 - The 4D Spiral Spacetimes Toryx & Helyx: Prime Elements of the Multiverse (ISBN 978-0-9671432-9-3)
• The Unique Properties of 4D Spiral Spacetime: Toryx (ISBN 978-0-9671432-8-6)
• 2013 - The Spacetime Origin of the Universe With Visible Dark Matter & Energy (Helicola Press, ISBN 978-0-9671432-6-2)

Steel rolling technology

• 2009 - Flat-Rolled Steel Processes: Advanced Technologies (editor)
• 2004 - Metallurgical Design of Flat Rolled Steels
• 2000 - Flat Rolling Fundamentals
• 1993 - High-Quality Steel Rolling: Theory and Practice
• 1989 - Steel-Rolling Technology: Theory and Practice

Media

• 2004 - Relativistic Torus and Helix as Prime Centers of Energy (Video Lecture) — a conference lecture hosted by Tesla Tech, organiser of the ExtraOrdinary Technology conferences.

External links

• "Double helical and double toroidal spiral fields", Speculations in Science and Technology 21(2), 1998
• Vladimir B. Ginzburg at Goodreads