The Local Interstellar Cloud

The solar system is currently embedded in the Local Interstellar Cloud, or Local Fluff as it is sometimes called, a gas cloud about 30 light years wide and travelling past us at 29 km per second.  At this speed we should be going through it for the next 300,000 years.  It has been suggested that this cloud may contain cloudlets having gas densities hundreds of times higher than the Local Interstellar Cloud average.  How far away they may lie from the solar system or when they will impact us remains open to speculation.  But, one might ask how likely it is that the solar system’s movement through such a high density region will affect the Sun and Earth, whether it will impact us in a way similar to how a superwave has done in the past?   First, we may surmise that we are not dealing with any kind of immediate threat.  If such a cloudlet were as close as 1 to 2 light years from us, at this speed of passage it would take 10,000 to 20,000 years before it reached us.  We should, then, be more concerned with the impending arrival of a galactic superwave which with a very great likelihood could arrive in the next few centuries.

However, suppose we assume for the moment that there is an impending threat from such a cloudlet incursion.  Would the solar and climatic effects be like that of a superwave?   Well we can do some calculations to find out.  Given that the Local Fluff has a density of ~0.1 hydrogen atoms/cm³.  The hypothesized cloudlet, which could have a density hundreds of times greater, would then have a density of say around 20 to 50 hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter.  This would equal a cloud density of around 3 to 8 X 10^-23grams/cm³.  An interstellar cloud incursion of this sort would have a significant climatic effect and a significant solar effect.  But the most dangerous phase would likely last for several years, rather than for centuries or millennia as is often the case for the effects from a superwave.

More on this is posted on the Starburst Superwave Forum:

http://starburstfound.org/superwaveblog/?p=207

Astronomer Edwin Hubble

A review of the most recent data on galaxy evolution shows that the subquantum kinetics continuous creation theory of galaxy formation is correct.  That galaxies progressively grow in size and mass, proceeding from dwarf elliptical to S0 to mature spiral and finally to giant elliptical.  The data also call for the reinstatement of the galaxy evolution theory which Edwin Hubble and Sir James Jeans proposed in the early 20th century.  It indicates that Hubble’s “tuning fork” diagram of galaxy evolution was largely correct with one exception.  The elliptical galaxies on the left should be considered dwarf spheroidals and dwarf ellipticals while the giant elliptical category should be placed in a new branch to the right of the spirals, with both spiral category branches evolving into the giant elliptical category.

Hubble's turning fork diagram of galaxy evolution

Hubble’s classification scheme is used even today.  Even so, astronomer’s today have largely rejected Hubble’s evolution theory in favor of galaxy merger theories.  In the forthcoming electronic fourth edition of his book Subquantum Kinetics, whose third edition is currently available in paperback, Paul LaViolette discusses recent evidence which supports the subquantum kinetics galaxy evolution model, as well as the Hubble-Jeans evolution model and shows that the current galaxy merger theory is seriously problematic, as is the big bang theory.

The time will inevitably come when mechanistic and atomic thinking will be put out of the minds of all people of wisdom, and instead dynamics and chemistry will come to be seen in all phenomena. When that happens, the divinity of living Nature will unfold before our eyes all the more clearly.

Johann von Goethe, 1812

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The time spoken of has now come.
Discover Subquantum Kinetics!

Starburst conducts research on subquantum kinetics, a new microphysics methodology that has successfully solved many of the problems that presently confront physics and astronomy. Its approach was inspired from general system theory and from concepts that were originally developed to explain the formation of chemical wave patterns in certain nonlinear chemical reaction systems. Subquantum kinetics applies these wave-order generating concepts to give an entirely new approach to understanding physical phenomena. It expands the scope of physics with the awareness that our material universe of subatomic particles, fields, and energy waves is a part of a larger higher dimensional whole that remains inaccessible to direct sensory perception.

Subquantum kinetics is simple and elegant. Using a set of five nonlinear equations having three variables, it presents a rigorous unitary description of the physical world accounting for all force fields and relativistic effects in a unified manner. Its systems approach brings a new common sense understanding of physical concepts and heals the schism that has traditionally separated physics from the life sciences. It changes the limits of what was once thought to be possible and opens up new possibilities for the development of technologies in energy generation and aerospace propulsion that could better our world. Details about this new physics are presented in Dr. LaViolette’s books Subquantum Kinetics (technical) and Genesis of the Cosmos (general readership).

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(a nontechnical summary)

Subquantum kinetics is a novel microphysics paradigm that incorporates concepts developed in the fields of system theory and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. One of its distinctive features is that it begins at the subquantum level for its point of departure. By comparison, conventional physics and most alternative physics theories begin with mathematically quantified observations of physical phenomena at the quantum and macrophysical level and attempt to deduce physical theories based on those observations. Since the conventional approach must take into account numerous experimental observations, the end result is a fragmented and often contradictory set of theories which must later be sewn together with mathematical acrobatics. Such “unified field theories” more closely resemble a patchwork quilt than a contiguous fabric.

Instead of beginning with physical observations, subquantum kinetics begins by postulating a set of well-ordered reaction processes that are proposed to take place at the subquantum level. Collectively, these reaction processes compose what is termed the transmuting ether, an active substrate that is quite different from the passive mechanical ethers considered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It further proposes that the concentrations of the substrates composing this ether are the energy potential fields that form the basis of all matter and energy in our universe. The operation of these ether reactions causes wave-like field gradients (spatial concentration patterns) to emerge and form the observable quantum level structures and physical phenomena (e.g., subatomic particles with mass, charge, spin, and force field effects and electromagnetic waves).

So, subquantum kinetics: a) begins with a mathematical model of subquantum processes; b) it then computer simulates this model to generate quantum level phenomena; and c) it compares the model’s simulated results to actual observations. The model’s mathematical parameters are then “fine-tuned” so that its simulated results accurately reflect experimental observation, thereby making the model a realistic representation of the physical world. Because, it begins with a single reaction system model as its point of departure for describing essentially all observable physical phenomena, subquantum kinetics qualifies as a unified theory. By comparison, conventional physics begins with many theories conceived independently from one another and later attempts to “sew” these together. But the result is far from unified, being instead a self-contradictory aglomeration.

In choosing an adequate model to represent subquantum process, subquantum kinetics turns to the macroscopic natural world, to theories describing how certain reaction systems spontaneously evolve well-ordered wave patterns. This self-organization phenomenon, for example, is seen in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction, a chemical reaction first discovered in 1958. Slowly moving concentration fronts called chemical waves, or “reaction-diffusion waves,” can be discerned when a dye indicator is added to this reacting solution.

The Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction. A dye indicator elucidates wave-like zones of regularly alternating chemical ion concentration that spontaneously arise in the reacting solution. (Photo courtesy of Arthur Winfree)

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A video showing the formation of chemical waves, both
spiral and concentric in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction.

Wave patterns and wave motion may also be produced mechanically, as is commonly experienced in the movement of water waves or in the vibrations of a violin string. Early physical theories, in fact, proposed mechanical ether models in an attempt to describe phenomena such as light wave propagation. However, such models lead to very different assumptions about primary creation. a mechanical universe could not arise spontaneously, instead requiring the miraculous injection of an initiating energy impulse inexplicably arising out of a state of non-existence. Such mechanical models are inadequate for the approach outlined here which postulates an orderly and explicable process of creation.

Subquantum kinetics was partly inspired from work done on a reaction kinetic model known as the Brusselator. This two-variable model holds the distinction in the field of reaction-kinetics of being an archetypal reaction-kinetic oscillator comparable in simplicity to the simple harmonic oscillator of wave mechanics. That is, it is the simplest reaction system known to produce wave patterns that have well-defined wavelength properties. To arrive at a model that produces a physically realistic simulation of quantum structures, the Brusselator must be modified into the three-variable reaction system known as Model G. Hence in proposing Model G as a descriptor of the subquantum processes that generate physical order, subquantum kinetics takes concepts that have been developed in the well-established field of nonlinear chemical kinetics and applies them to the domain of microphysics.

The subquantum kinetics paradigm avoids many of the pitfalls of conventional physics and astronomy theories and interprets physical phenomena in a distinctively different manner. A listing of the numerous problems of the conventional paradigm and how subquantum kinetics resolves them is presented in the following tables.

• Oregon Journal, June 16, 1977

• Schenectady Gazette, July 23, 1977

• Solar Energy Intelligence Report, June 20, 1977

• Ekonomikos (Greek newspaper), October 13, 1977

• Eleftherotypia (Greek newspaper), September 21, 1977

• Eleftheros Kosmos (Greek newspaper), October 2, 1977

• Kathimerini (Greek newspaper), October 25, 1977

• Ta Nea (Greek newspaper), September 27, 1977

• Politika Themata (Greek magazine), September 17, 1977

• Lecture at the Evgenidion Planetarium, Athens, Sept. 14, 1977

P. LaViolette being Interviewed by ERT Television, Athens, Sept., 1977

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• Oregonian, June 8, 1988 (larger view)

• Oregonian, November 3, 1988 (larger view)

Cosmology

• Astronomy magazine, AstroNews section, August 1986

Subquantum Kinetics

• Astronomy magazine, AstroNews section, August 1986

• “Brown dwarf discovery confirms theory of spontaneous energy generation,” New Energy News, February 1996, pp. 17-18.

• “LaViolette prediction of Pioneer anomaly challenges energy conservation law,” Enews Blog of Sepp Hasslberger

• Book review by Prof. Podkletnov in Infinite Energy magazine

MSNBC News Interview speaking about the Fermi bubbles discovery
and Galactic superwaves (November 12, 2010)

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Evidence that the Pleistocene mass extinction
may have had a solar cause

Close to the end of the last ice age there was a sudden disappearance of many mammalian species which some paleontologists say was the most severe since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.  In North America 95 percent of the megafauna became extinct, these being predominantly mammals having body weights greater than 25 to 50 kilograms.  But even small animals were affected, as in the disappearance of 10 genera of birds.  Although North America was most affected, it had a severe impact also in Europe, Siberia, and South America.

The cause of the extinction has long remained a mystery.  Theories that have been put forth have ranged from overkill by North American paleolithic hunters to the impact of a large comet or swarm of meteors.  But all have been shown to have serious flaws.  Now, Starburst Foundation researcher Dr. Paul LaViolette has found evidence that this mysterious die-off may have had a solar flare cause.  In his paper published this week in the journal Radiocarbon,  LaViolette concludes that a super sized solar proton event (SPE) impacted the earth about 12,900 years ago (12,837± 10 calendar years BP).*   He notes that this date roughly coincides with that of the Rancholabrean termination, a time boundary beyond which the numbers of extinct megafaunal remains are found to sharply decline.  Solar proton events, blasts of energetic solar cosmic ray particles that are shot out with the eruption of a solar flare, can arrive with little advance notice, traversing the 93 million mile distance from the Sun to the Earth in a matter of hours. They are usually followed some days later by a slower moving solar wind plasma shock called a coronal mass ejection.  They have been observed to occur from time to time in past decades, but none in modern times have been strong enough to pose a serious ground-level radiation hazard.

* LaViolette, P. A.,  Evidence for a solar flare cause of the Pleistocene mass extinction, Radiocarbon 53(2), pp. 303-323.

Free download of a preprint of this paper:  starburstfound.org/downloads/superwave/SPE.html

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Click to read more]]> The subquantum kinetics physics theory predicts that the inertial mass of a body can be changed by altering either its electric or gravitational potential.  High negative voltage potentials or positive G potentials (gravity hills) are predicted to reduce inertial mass, while high positive voltage potentials or negative G potentials (gravity wells) are predicted to increase inertial mass.  At present, a considerable amount of theoretical work needs to be done to determine how large a voltage potential would be needed to produce the predicted effect.  Nevertheless, even without a specific quantitative prediction, we felt that if an effect was seen, this would provide strong support for the subquantum kinetics paradigm since such mass altering effects are not predicted by standard physics theory.  For some time we have been interested to search for such an effect; for example, see Project No. 16 of the Starburst Projects List.

On Saturday May 21, 2011 Starburst Foundation researcher Paul LaViolette conducted this experiment in the New York laboratory of Alexi Guy Obolensky, with Mr. Obolensky and his assistant John being directly involved in the measurement process.  Two mechanical pocket watches were used to check for any sign of inertial mass variation.  These pocket watches use a torsion pendulum for their timing, that is, a wheel having a mass at its rim and a spring applying torque.  Any change in the mass of the wheel would reflect as a change in the ticking rate of the watch.  Under normal conditions, the two watches were found to deviate in their timing by less than 0.1 seconds over a 15 minute period, hence by less than one part in 10⁴.  One watch was placed within a metallic sphere which was charged to -200 kilovolts for a period of 15 minutes.  The other watch was kept some distance from the sphere and was used as a time reference.  The watches were started simultaneously, the one was placed within its sphere, the sphere energized and after 15 minutes discharged once again, and then the two watches were finally brought together and simultaneously stopped.

The outcome of the experiment was that no time difference was seen between the two watches.  Hence if any inertial mass change was in fact induced during the 15 minute test period, it would have had to be less than one part in 10⁴.  The experiment was run once with the target watch grounded to its metal sphere by a wire inside the sphere and once with the watch electrically isolated from its enclosing sphere.  Also a third trial was performed in which the sphere was repeatedly charged and then completely discharged 15 times per second during the 15 minute test period.  Again, even in this pulsed mode, no evidence of a change of inertial mass.

Erwin Saxl in 1964 claimed to have observed that the period of a torsion pendulum had changed by 0.4 to 0.7% when energized to +5000 V or -5000 V.  Liu et al. (1998) later checked Saxl’s results energizing a torsion pendulum to ±2000 volts.  They saw no period change from  the application of the voltage potential indicating that if there had been any change of inertial mass it would have had to be less than one part per billion.  Our findings are consistent with those of Liu et al.  Although our time measurement resolution was far less, we did extend this measurement to voltages 100 fold greater than used by Liu et al.

Mikhailov (1999) measured the oscillation period of an electron plasma confined within an electrically charged sphere and found evidence that the electron’s inertial mass had varied by ±0.3% when the sphere was charged respectively to ±3000 volts.  LaViolette had reasoned that if this mass change effect was due to an electrogravitic inertial mass change effect of the sort predicted by subquantum kinetics, then a similar inertial mass change should be observed for neutral matter as well.  Hence the incentive to conduct the stop watch experiment.  The null result of this watch experiment suggests that the phenomenon observed by Mikhailov may be due to another effect.  For example, Assis (1993) attributes the electron inertial mass variation observed by Mikhailov to an effect predicted by Weber’s theory of electromagnetism.

E. Saxl Nature 203 (1964):136-139.

Y. Liu, et al. Physics Letters A 244 (1998):1-3.

V. F. Mikhailov Ann. Fonde. Louis de Broglie 24 (1999):161-169.

A. K. T. Assis J. Phys. Soc. Japan 62 (1993):1418-1422.

Will the Hubble Telescope Detect a Limit to Galaxy Redshifts?

May 22, 1990

Paul A. LaViolette, Ph.D.
The Starburst Foundation
2615 S.E. 111th Ave., #10
Portland, Oregon 97266

With the launching of the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers are anxiously waiting to see what will be revealed to lie at the “edge” of the universe.  The big bang theory predicts that few galaxies should be observed with redshifts much greater than 4, simply because there is not enough time for them to form.  This assumes an age for the big bang universe of 9.4 billion years, based on the findings of Reid et al.⁽¹⁾ and Tully⁽²⁾ which suggest H_o = 10⁵ km/sec/Mpc. Galaxy formation models require at least 750 million years to form light-emitting galaxies, and according to the big bang cosmology, galaxies with z > 4 would necessarily be younger than this.  If there is indeed a cut-off at around this value, the Hubble Telescope would be able to see it.  The telescope should be able to detect light emitting objects with redshifts even as high as 30, if such exist.  So observations with the Space Telescope could provide a crucial test of the validity of the big bang theory.

However, I predict that contrary to expectations, galaxies will be found which will have redshifts greater than 4 and, in fact, that they will be found in great numbers.  This prediction arises from a quantum theory that projects a cosmology quite different from that of the big bang theory.  This subquantum kinetics⁽³⁾ cosmology predicts a static universe of unlimited size in which matter arises through a process of continuous creation, creation rates being highest in the vicinity of existing matter.  The cosmology also predicts the existence of a tired-light cosmological redshift for photons travelling through intergalactic space.  As was demonstrated in 1986,⁽⁴⁾ this tired-light prediction fits observational data better than the expanding universe Doppler shift hypothesis, on four different cosmology tests.

Subquantum kinetics suggests that galaxies should be present in space at very high redshifts, much higher than is predicted by the big bang theory.  If this theory is correct, then the expected cutoff in galaxy redshifts should not be observed.  I expect that the highest observable galaxy redshift will possibly be in the vicinity of z = 30 and will be observer limited (determined by the light gathering power of the Hubble Telescope, rather than by cosmological factors).  If such a discovery is made, it will probably be one of the most perplexing findings of the Hubble mission.  Perhaps within the next year we will have an answer as to which cosmology is correct.

References

1. Reid, M. J., et al., Ap.J. 330, 809 (1988).

2. Tully, R. B., Nature 334, 209 (1988).

3. P. A. LaViolette, Intl. J. General Systems, 11, 281, 295, 329 (1985).

4. P. A. LaViolette, Ap.J. 301, 544 (1986).

Cover letter sent with submitted letter:

Cover letter of letter submission received by Physics Today on May 29, 1990

Response received from Physics Today saying they would not publish the letter:

September 1990 letter from Physics Today rejecting publication of the letter

During the 21 years elapsing since this prediction was mailed to Physics Today, many galaxies have bee discovered with redshift greater than z = 4.

Here is a recent example of a z = 10 candidate announced January 27, 2011:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v469/n7331/full/nature09717.html

Hubble Ultra Deep Field 09. Box shows z = 10 candidate.

Bottom line:  Over the years another subquantum kinetics has been vindicated.