Bernd Binder
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| Residence | Salem, BW, Germany |
Bernd Binder is a German independent theoretical physicist based in Salem-Neufrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is known for a series of papers relating the fine-structure constant to geometric (Berry) phases, and for work on nonlinear phase-locked feedback, anholonomy and geometric phase patterns.
Biography
Binder works as an independent researcher in Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, publishing under the research label "Quanics" (quanics.com). From about 2002 onward he deposited a series of preprints in the PhilSci-Archive and other open repositories, and later presented papers at the Space, Propulsion and Energy Sciences International Forum (SPESIF), where his contributions appeared in the conference proceedings of SPESIF-2010 and SPESIF-2011.
Work
Binder's central proposal is that irrational dimensionless constants can arise from iterative geometric processes. He argues that a vector signal transported around a closed loop acquires a geometric phase component, and that precession-induced coupling back to the loop frequency or path length produces a nonlinear feedback loop. Defining a quantum feedback mechanism with generalized fine-structure couplings consistent with the gravitomagnetic spin-orbit relation, he suggests that the deviation of the fine-structure constant from the value 1/137 can be assigned to Berry's phase, and that spacetime curvature effects may be strongly amplified by phase-locked feedback loops constrained to single-valued phase relations in the quantum regime.
Related work extends the same theme to the Aharonov-Bohm deficit angle, Bäcklund transformations and the Josephson effect, to natural units hidden in the Planck action quantum, and to holographic geometric phase patterns. In "Recurrent Anholonomy in Curved Space Navigation Solved by the Riemann Zeta Function" (2011) he maps precession patterns on a sphere onto geometric phase patterns on the Poincaré disc by a Gudermannian mapping, obtaining a fixed-point solution to the resulting strange attractor from the functional equation of the Riemann zeta function.
Publications
- Berry Phase and Fine Structure (2002)
- Spacetime Memory: Phase-Locked Geometric Phases (2002)
- Geometric Phase Locked in Fine Structure (2002)
- Iterative Interplay between Aharonov-Bohm Deficit Angle and Berry Phase (2002)
- Josephson Effect, Bäcklund Transformations, and Fine Structure Coupling (2002)
- A Natural Mass Unit Hidden in the Planck Action Quantum (2003)
- Natural Nonlinear Quantum Units and Human Artificial Linear System of Units (2003)
- Nuclear and Crystal State Aspects of Overlapping Holographic Phase Patterns
- Geometrically Induced Interactions and Bifurcations, AIP Conference Proceedings 1208 (SPESIF-2010)
- Recurrent Anholonomy in Curved Space Navigation Solved by the Riemann Zeta Function (SPESIF-2011)
- (Split-)Quaternion and (Split-)Octonion Dynamics in Discrete-Time Recurrent Frenet Frames (2024)
External links
- Quanics — Binder's research website
- Papers by Bernd Binder at PhilSci-Archive