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Raymond H Gallucci

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Raymond H. Gallucci
Raymond H. Gallucci
Born (1953-12-15) December 15, 1953 (age 72)
Albany, New York, United States
ResidenceFrederick, MD, United States
NationalityUSA
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Known forCosmology, Natural History, Relativity
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear engineering, Physics, Cosmology
InstitutionsU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Raymond H. V. Gallucci (born December 15, 1953) is an American nuclear engineer and a dissident-science author who has written extensively for the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society (CNPS/JCNPS), critiquing mainstream relativity and cosmology. He holds a PhD in nuclear engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE). Much of his independent work applies elementary mathematical analysis to test whether the theories advanced by other dissident scientists are at least plausible – an unusual role within the dissident community, where most authors advance a theory of their own rather than auditing those of their colleagues.

Biography

Gallucci was born in Albany, New York, and resides in Frederick, Maryland. He earned a PhD in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1980, with a dissertation on a methodology for evaluating the probability of fire-induced loss of nuclear power plant safety functions. His formal training required extensive study of physics, particularly atomic and nuclear physics, and during his university years he developed an additional interest in relativity, quantum physics, and astronomy.

He is a licensed Professional Engineer and completed a roughly 40-year career in nuclear power, in both the commercial and governmental sectors, including work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the area of probabilistic safety assessment. Within his professional field he has authored more than 200 technical papers and journal articles, including work on the statistical characterization of heat release rates from electrical enclosure fires and on the risk-informed fire regulation standard NFPA 805.

Gallucci is also known within CNPS for a lighter contribution to its annual meetings: he composes poems during the conference, one each day, which have become a fixture of the event. At the 2018 conference his poem was titled "Aether Pressure," and he took the role of Newton opposite Robert de Hilster as Einstein in a mock conference trial.

Scientific contributions

Gallucci's interest in dissident science was reignited around 2010 after he encountered the website of the late Paul Marmet and the work of Stephen J. Crothers, whose refutation of the mathematical basis for the existence of black holes he credits as the decisive moment that drew him into the field. He is a charter member of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society and contributed papers to its annual conferences from 2015 through 2019, as well as to the CNPS Proceedings.

Gallucci regards black holes, the big bang, and many currently popular theories in cosmology as incorrect. Rather than advancing a comprehensive theory of his own, his stated approach is to take the theories of other dissident scientists and apply straightforward mathematics and order-of-magnitude reasoning to determine whether they hold together quantitatively. Because that method cuts both ways – sometimes supporting, sometimes undermining a colleague's proposal – he is often described as a scientist whom fellow dissidents "either love or fear." He has published several dozen papers through the viXra e-print archive, most of them short, self-contained numerical examinations of a single claim.

Relativity and time dilation

A recurring theme is that the relativistic time dilation attributed to velocity and acceleration is either misinterpreted or explicable without Einstein's postulates. In "Time Dilation in Relativity" and "Accelerating Clocks Run Faster and Slower" he examines the arithmetic of clock comparisons directly, and in "Alleged Extended Lifetimes of Atmospheric Muons – Does This Really Confirm Relativity?" he questions whether the cosmic-ray muon flux at sea level actually requires a relativistic explanation. He has also re-analyzed the 1887 Michelson–Morley interferometer experiment on more than one occasion, in "Michelson-Morley Interferometer Experiment of 1887: 'Null' Result" and later in "Michelson-Morley Revisited with Occam's Razor," arguing that the classic "null" result admits simpler readings than the one that founded special relativity.

The speed of light and its source

Gallucci has repeatedly returned to the question of whether light acquires the velocity of its source – the emission (ballistic) alternative to the second postulate of special relativity. "The Speed of Light: Constant and Non-Constant," "Does Light Travel with the Velocity of a Moving Source?" and "Experiments to Test Whether or Not Light Acquires the Velocity of Its Source Using Current Technology" develop the idea and, characteristically, propose concrete laboratory tests that present-day equipment could perform. Related papers examine whether variable light speed can account for photon–particle interactions and whether light is better described as a matter wave, including an assessment of Bill Gaede's "rope hypothesis" of light against a standing-wave aether.

Aether and gravity

Several papers treat the aether as a live physical hypothesis rather than a discarded one: "The 'Ponderable' Aether," "Rado's Aether as a Rotating Spring," "An Aether Perspective on Stellar Aberration," and "LIGO – Gravity Waves or Disturbed Aether?", the last proposing that the LIGO signals might be read as disturbances in an aether rather than as ripples in spacetime. On gravitation he has examined the pushing-gravity tradition descending from Fatio and Le Sage – in "Gravity – When Push Comes to Shove?" and "Newtonian vs. 'LeSagian' Gravitation in Our Solar System" – testing whether a shadowing mechanism using omnidirectional gravity particles reproduces solar-system dynamics, and has assessed Shaw's aether concept of gravity.

Cosmology, dark matter and the redshift

Gallucci has questioned the Doppler interpretation of the cosmological redshift ("Questioning the Cosmological Doppler Red-Shift"), offered a gravitational redshift with variable light speed as an alternative, and flagged what he considers an anomaly in the claim that galactic recessional speed increases with distance. On the galactic rotation problem he has published a series of papers under the heading "Who Needs Dark Matter?", proposing in turn an alternative kinematic explanation, the possibility that ordinary molecular hydrogen (H2) supplies the missing mass, and the possibility that the anomaly is an optical illusion. He has also written on the fate of matter in a black hole, asking in "The Black Hole – Can the 'Irresistible Force' Overcome the 'Immovable Object?'" whether unlimited collapse is physically coherent.

Electric Universe and planetary history

Gallucci has given close quantitative attention to the Electric Universe program, in particular to the proposal that gravity is fundamentally an electrical force. His paper "Electromagnetic Gravity? Examination of the Electric Universe Theory" and his 2021 CNPS presentation both address the viability of that identification, and "Plausibility of Electrical Birth of Asteroid Belt" applies the same treatment to an electrically driven origin for the asteroid belt. In natural history he has re-examined the catastrophist chronology of Immanuel Velikovsky, evaluated James Maxlow's expanding-Earth (expansion tectonics) model from an astronomical standpoint in "Examination of Maxlow's Model for Expansion Tectonics" and "Expansion Tectonics – Is It All Wet?", and considered whether a thicker early atmosphere or different early gravity could account for the size of the dinosaurs.

Books

In 2021 he published The Renegade Physicist, a collected volume of his dissident-science writings organized by subject, with the papers presented chronologically within each section and each accompanied by its references.

Gallucci's areas of interest include cosmology, natural history, relativity, gravity, galactic phenomena, aether, variable light speed, the plasma universe, and the early Earth. Outside physics he has also published a three-part series proposing a "Situational Underlying Value" statistic for measuring clutch performance in professional baseball, football, and basketball.

CNPS talks

He has presented in the CNPS online seminar series:

Honors

  • 2019 – JCNPS Science Achievement Award, John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society

Abstracts

Works

  • The Renegade Physicist (2021), ISBN 979-8598075265
  • "Michelson-Morley Revisited with Occam's Razor" (2020), viXra
  • "An Aether Perspective on Stellar Aberration" (2020), viXra
  • "Expansion Tectonics – Is It All Wet?" (2018), viXra
  • "LIGO – Gravity Waves or Disturbed Aether?" (2018), viXra
  • "Does Gaede's 'Rope Hypothesis' of Light Align with a Standing-Wave Aether?" (2018), viXra
  • "Risk-Deformed Regulation: What Went Wrong with NFPA 805" (2018), viXra
  • "Light as a Matter Wave? A Simple Mathematical Examination of Two Proposed Concepts" (2017), viXra
  • "Who Needs Dark Matter? Is the Galactic Rotation Anomaly an Optical Illusion?" (2017), viXra
  • "Examination of Maxlow's Model for Expansion Tectonics – an Astronomical Perspective" (2017), viXra
  • "The Black Hole – Can the 'Irresistible Force' Overcome the 'Immovable Object?'" (2017), viXra
  • "Is Molecular Hydrogen (H2) the 'Dark Matter' that Explains the Galactic Rotation Anomaly?" (2016), viXra
  • "Newtonian vs. 'LeSagian' Gravitation in Our Solar System" (2016), viXra
  • "Rado's Aether as a Rotating Spring" (2016), viXra
  • "The 'Ponderable' Aether" (2016), viXra
  • "Statistical Characterization of Heat Release Rates from Electrical Enclosure Fires for Nuclear Power Plant Applications" (2016), viXra

External links

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