Dennis P Allen
Dennis P. Allen | |
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| Born | February 7, 1943 |
| Residence | Spring Lake, MI, United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Known for | Toroidal Ring, Neo-Newtonian mechanics |
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| Fields | Mathematician, Physics |
Dennis Patrick Allen, Jr. (also published as Dennis P. Allen and Dennis J. Allen Jr.) is an American mathematician and independent theoretical physicist known for his work on Neo-Newtonian mechanics, a variable-inertial-mass extension of Newtonian mechanics to relativistic velocities that dispenses with Einstein's relativity theories. He has also developed electrostatic ("Neo-Spearsian") theories of gravitation and mathematical foundations for inertial propulsion, and works entirely outside the mainstream physics establishment.
Biography
Dennis Patrick Allen, Jr. was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and received his AB (1964) and PhD (1968) in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as a mathematics professor at Michigan Technological University (1969-1972), but spent most of his career in industry as a computer scientist. He lives in Spring Lake, Michigan.
He has worked with David L Bergman on a spinning, twisting helicon particle, and several of his papers have appeared in Foundations of Science, the journal of Common Sense Science, the group founded by Charles William Lucas and David L Bergman. His two-volume Neo-Newtonian Mechanics was written jointly with the British theoretical physicist Jeremy Dunning-Davies. More recently he has collaborated with David M Bower on particle modelling and on the application of Neo-Newtonian mechanics to electromagnetism.
Scientific contributions
Neo-Newtonian mechanics
Allen's central project is a "Neo-Newtonian" mechanics in which inertial mass is a variable quantity that grows under high and strongly non-linear accelerations. The stated aim is to obtain the effects normally attributed to special relativity — including behaviour at relativistic velocities — using only a minimal modification of Newtonian mechanics and without recourse to Einstein's relativity theories. Allen has described the theory as motivated in part by Eric Laithwaite's celebrated 1974 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture demonstrations with spinning gyroscopes, which he holds cannot be explained by textbook classical mechanics, and by his own claim that mass varies in high rotation even at non-relativistic velocities.
The theory is set out in two volumes written with Jeremy Dunning-Davies: Part 1 treats non-radiative effects, while Part 2 addresses gravitational-inertial radiative and inductive effects and connects the scheme to Heaviside-Jefimenko gravity theory.
Electrostatic (Neo-Spearsian) gravity
In Foundations of Neo-Spearsian Gravitational Theory Allen generalises the electrostatic gravitation model of Morton F. Spears — in which both the electron and the proton are modelled as spherical capacitors — to the ionized-atom case, and applies it to earthquake early-warning systems and to explanations of Biefeld-Brown electrogravitic effects. On this view gravity is a residual electrostatic (capacitance) effect rather than spacetime curvature, and the local permittivity acts as a hidden variable in Newton's law — which Allen offers as the reason Newton's gravitational constant G resists measurement beyond about five significant figures. He also draws on the experiments of the Russian physicist Alexander L. Dmitriev, which reported that rapidly spinning horizontal rotors do not fall with the usual local gravitational acceleration, as evidence against the assumed equality of gravitational and inertial mass.
Inertial propulsion and Gutschian mechanics
Allen argues that inertial propulsion devices — machines that produce net thrust from purely internal machinations — demonstrably exist, and that classical mechanics as usually formulated wrongly forbids them. In Foundations of Gutschian Mechanics he develops a mathematical treatment of the "energy over momentum" mechanics of the German-Canadian electrical engineer Gottfried Gutsche, contrasting its mathematization with that of ordinary classical mechanics. His book on the subject went through several editions, including a substantial revision of his own position prompted by the observations of Professor Walter Noll.
Particle models and beta decay
With David M Bower, Allen has applied Neo-Newtonian mechanics to models of the electron, positron, proton and neutron. Their neutron model entails mutual spin pumping between constituents, which generates a very small amount of extra energy E; in their account it is this energy that is currently — and, they argue, mistakenly — postulated to be a neutral particle (the neutrino) of mass E/c2. The same collaboration has applied Neo-Newtonian mechanics to correcting the analysis of electromagnetic momentum and electron inertia in a current circuit.
CNPS talks
He has presented in the CNPS online seminar series:
- "A Tenable Electron, Positron, Proton, & Neutron Model" with David M Bower (25 April 2026)
- "Neo-Newtonian Mechanics and Electromagnetism" with David M Bower (28 March 2026)
- "Faster-Than-Light Signals with Roger Anderton" (30 June 2024) — presented by Roger J Anderton on information supplied by Allen
- "Electrostatic (Capacitance) Gravity Theory with Dr. Dennis J. Allen Jr." (2 September 2023)
Abstracts
- 2013 - "Neo-Newtonian Theory"
- 2012 - "Electron in the Ground Energy State ? Part 1" (Read in full)
- 2012 - "Electron in the Ground Energy State ? Part 2" (Read in full)
- 2012 - "Mass Varies in High Rotation Even at Non-Relativistic Velocities!" (Read in full)
- 1999 - "A New Approach to the First Digit Phenomena" (Read in full)
- 1990 - "Aspden's Early Law of Electrodynamics" (Read in full)
Books
- Foundations of Gutschian Mechanics, Part 1: Basics
- 2018 - Why Does Classical Mechanics Forbid Inertial Propulsion Devices When They Evidently Do Exist? A Major Revision Of The Author's Point Of View Based Upon Prof. Walter Noll's Observations
- 2016 - Neo-Newtonian Mechanics With Extension To Relativistic Velocities, Part 2: Radiative and Inductive Effects (with Jeremy Dunning-Davies), ISBN 978-1541100916
- 2016 - The Age of Pope Francis
- 2015 - Why Does Newtonian Mechanics Forbid Inertial Propulsion Devices When They Evidently Do Exist?, ISBN 978-1508744665
- 2015 - The Lebesgue Measure, a New Point of View: Harmony versus Dissidence
- 2013 - Neo-Newtonian Mechanics With Extension To Relativistic Velocities, Part 1: Non-Radiative Effects (with Jeremy Dunning-Davies), ISBN 978-1491024898
- 2012 - The Reality Oriented Mathematiian, ISBN 978-1475222111
- 2011 - Foundations of Neo-Spearsian Gravitational Theory with Application to Earthquake Early Warning Systems (Amazon)