Paul LaViolette's alternate physics paradigm
    At the beginning of his physics career, like most physicists, he believed in standard theories such as relativity, the big bang, black holes, energy conservation, etc.  But as he became increasingly aware of the mounting contrary evidence, he radically revised his concepts.  He is interested in understanding the truth about nature as opposed to blindly accepting a theory of questionable validity just because it is currently taught by academia.  He always seeks observational support for his alternate physics beliefs.
• LaViolette counts himself among the growing number of physicists and engineers who feel that the special and general theory of relativity have serious flaws.  Many papers countering the validity of relativity theory are cited in his books.^{[6, 50]}  His website also provides links to papers challenging relativity.  He believes that the velocity of light is not always equal to c.  In particular, he has performed a laboratory experiment with researcher Guy Obolensky which measured the superluminal speed of electric shock fronts exceeding twice the speed of light.  Although the experiment has not yet been written up for journal publication, its data is summarized in his book Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion.^[21]
• Like physicist Phillip Morrison and others, LaViolette does not believe in the existence of black holes.^[6]  He bases his disbelief partly on the results of astronomical observations of dust-free quasar cores and on a computer simulation experiment performed at Cornell University, all of which challenge the black hole concept; summarized in his books.^{[6, 50]}  Also like Albert Einstein, he does not believe in the existence of subatomic particle core field singularities.  This belief is supported by the results of particle scattering experiments.^[5]
• Like a large number of physicist and astronomers, he does not believe in the validity of the big bang theory.  Like Sir James Jeans and William McCrea, he has written in support of a continuous creation cosmology.^{[4, 6, 20, 50]}  His prediction that galaxies in the early universe should have been smaller in size (due to their progressive growth) was later verified through measurements made with the Hubble telescope; see SQK Prediction No. 7.
• He favors the stochastic, deterministic quantum fluid concept of David Bohm and J. P. Vigier over the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum indeterminacy.^[6]
• He is against the positivist philosophical paradigm.  He favors instead the critical insights of Alfred North Whitehead, as expounded in his books Science and the Modern World and Process and Reality.  In fact, one of the areas of specialization for his doctorate was the philosophy of Whitehead.  He has an interest in process philosophy and process metaphysics.
• LaViolette is also convinced that the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics as well as Newton's Third Law are easily violated, as evident in well-researched experiments and existing technologies. He discusses this contrary evidence in his Secrets book and Black Projects lecture video.^{[21, 53]}
• Furthermore LaViolette is aware of the existence of "free energy" technologies, alternate energy technologies that are powered by an unobvious or unknown source of energy, i.e., other than fossil fuel, nuclear, chemical, solar or geothermal.  He discusses some of these in his book Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion and in conference papers.^{[21, 54]}  In 2000 he gave a presentation before a Senate Subcommittee calling for U.S. government support of free energy and unconventional energy technologies.^[55]
• Long before it was accepted by mainstream science, LaViolette was convinced that cold fusion (low temperature nuclear transmutation) was a real physical phenomenon.  Although he and other cold fusion supporters were criticized by conservative elements of the physics community for their views, time showed that these critics were wrong.  In 2008, Japanese scientists at Osaka University repeatedly demonstrated to witnesses that cold fusion could be produced on demand, and in April 2009 the CBS television news program 60 Minutes did a favorable report on cold fusion.
• Contrary to what some questionable media sources have written, LaViolette has never stated that cold fusion is his religion, nor has he stated that he has a religious belief in cold fusion, and has never said that he holds an obsessive belief in the validity of cold fusion.  Such claims have been baseless and uncalled for. LaViolette does not have any obsessive beliefs that he knows of.  His beliefs generally tend to be tentative.  He questions them and revises them in light of sound evidence.
• LaViolette is convinced in the validity of technologies that produce excess thermal energy from water in the presence of an electric current and appropriate catalysts, examples being the process developed by Randall Mills and BlackLight Corp. and that developed by John Eccles and EcoWatt Corporation.  In fact, in 2008, he published a paper that presents an explanation for the origin of the energy produced by these technologies.^[5]