Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
• In 2000 LaViolette presented a paper at the January 2000 meeting of the American Astronomical Society pointing out evidence indicating that radio pulsars may be artificially engineered communication beacons.^[47]  He suggested that the majority may serve as a Galactic GPS system and that a small subset may be communicating a message meant specifically for Earth.  Further details of his findings are provided in his book Decoding the Message of the Pulsars.^[48]  His findings were mentioned in the 2000 Popular Mechanics article entitled "Science's Greatest Unsolved mysteries."

Stock Market Theory
• In 1974, LaViolette performed a regression analysis of the Dow-Jones Average and showed that the Dow's long-term swings around the time of the 1929 crash conform to predator-prey-type oscillations similar to those seen in population biology.^[49]  The results challenge the Chicago theory that the stock market is always efficiently priced.  The paper also developed a statistical mechanical approach to market theory adapting an approach previously developed for biological specie interaction.  His paper was selected to be reprinted in Systems and Management Annual.

Archaeoastronomy: Transcultural Communication
• Dr. LaViolette is credited for discovering that general systems concepts describing the process of pattern formation in nonequilibrium chemical reaction systems (as well as nonequilibrium ether reaction systems) happen to be metaphorically expressed in certain ancient creation myths (Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian), in the I Ching, as well as in esoteric lore such as the Tarot and astrology.  He made these discoveries between 1975 and 1977 which was several years after he had already developed the basic principles of subquantum kinetics.  In his analysis of ancient myth and lore, he saw that these ancient sources also metaphorically convey basic concepts expressed in subquantum kinetics of how material particles nucleate spontaneously throughout space in a process of continuous creation.  In 1995 he published his book Beyond the Big Bang, later retitled Genesis of the Cosmos,^[50] in which he described how these myths and lores express this continuous creation cosmology.  In his nine-page article in DharmaCafé, renown musician and composer Raymond Lynch presents a review of LaViolette's book and an analysis of his interpretation of ancient myth.^[51]
It is important to note that these ancient lore discoveries followed LaViolette's development of subquantum kinetics. His idea for subquantum kinetics did not come from mythical writings but rather grew out of interdisciplinary research he was carrying out in the area of general system theory and its potential application to physics.  The reason he first enrolled in the Systems Science Ph.D. program at Portland State University was to develop this physics theory, although, three years later he switched his dissertation topic to investigate the superwave phenomenon which had a higher priority for him at the time.
• Between 1975 and 1979, LaViolette discovered and decoded a scientifically advanced time capsule message conveyed through ancient zodiac constellation lore.  The message, which is structured as a cryptogram, utilizes a sophisticated key-and-check mechanism to facilitate cross-cultural transmission of its encoded knowledge.  It describes how the Earth and Sun were adversely affected at the end of the ice age by the arrival of an intense volley of cosmic rays released from the core of our Galaxy.  This discovery inspired him to begin PhD dissertation research to see if there was geological and astronomical evidence of such a cosmic event having taken place.  He did not discuss the message in his dissertation nor did he rely on it as evidence.  But his Ph.D. investigation did have the unmentioned secondary purpose of checking out whether he had correctly interpreted this time capsule message.  He later described this ancient superwave warning message in his book Earth Under Fire.^[3]
• The following clarification should be made. Although this zodiac cipher first inspired him to look into the superwave phenomenon, he took an objective stance, advancing his "Galactic Explosion Hypothesis" on a tentative basis.  He allowed his hypothesis to be judged on how well it was supported by astronomical and geological evidence.  To prevent any confusion, he waited fourteen years before publishing about the zodiac message, by which time his astronomical, climatological, and paleontological findings had already been published.

Other Research Findings
• In 1987 LaViolette published a paper in which he estimated the mass of the 1908 Tunguska comet from elemental concentrations in Antarctic ice.^[52]
• In 1988, he conducted observations with the VLA radio interferometry telescope at Socorro, New Mexico. He observed a radio hot spot at the southwestern tip of CTB 80, an unusual radio-emitting source in Cygnus and determined that it was emitting polarized emission.^[29]