Wertheim - Physics on the fringe smoke rings, circlons, and alternative theories of everything

Pythagoras Trousers

The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace

A Field Guide to Hyperbolic Space

The basic structure of a circlon-shaped subatomic particle in Jims theory of Circlon Synchronicity. (Jim Carter)

The structure of an electron. (Jim Carter)

The nucleus of a helium atom. Circlon-shaped particles link together to form a subatomic mesh. (Jim Carter)

The nucleus of a lithium atom, the element after helium in the periodic table. (Jim Carter)

The nucleus of a nitrogen atom. Each element in the periodic table builds up from the addition of more circlon-shaped particles. (Jim Carter)

Schematic diagram of the carbon nucleus. (Jim Carter)

Schematic diagram of the uranium nucleus. (Jim Carter)

Schematic diagram showing all the elements of the periodic table and their various isotopes. (Jim Carter)

The periodic table, showing the circlon-based structure of each element. (Jim Carter)

The Green River Gorge with the Carters house in the background (top right of photo). (Linda Carter)

Peter Guthrie Taits smoke ring generatora used packing crate covered with a damp towel. (From Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physics Science, 1876, by P. G. Tait)

Jims smoke ring generatora garbage can covered with rubber sheeting. (Linda Carter)

Smoke rings sail across the Carters front yard. (Linda Carter)

Diagram explaining the astronomical redshift of distant stars. Jims theory proposes an alternative to special relativity. (Jim Carter)

Knot table cataloging all the distinct knots up to seven crossings of a string. (From The Unseen Universe; or, Physical Speculations on a Future State, 1880, by P. G. Tait)

Jim with a fresh catch of abalone at Catalina island. (Carter family archives)

An early version of Jims lift bags. (Carter family archives)

Diagram describing apparent variations in time caused by gravity. Jims theory proposes an alternative to general relativity. (Jim Carter)

Jims Creation Spiral, showing the number of particles in the universe as they split off from two original circlon-shaped particles. (Jim Carter)

Jims original plywood models of the circlon-based structures of atomic nuclei. (Linda Carter)

Jim Carter, May 2011. (Linda Carter)

This book is published in November 2011.

In 2012, Jim Carter will have been working on his theory of physics for fifty years.

Copyright 2011 by Margaret Wertheim

All diagrams and images from James Carters work and books copyright James Carter. Used by kind permission of the author.

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First published in the U.S. by Bloomsbury Publishing Company in 2011

Electronic edition published in 2011

E-book ISBN: 978-0-8027-7873-4

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For my sister Christine Wertheim, who showed me how to think for myself.

I dream of a new age of curiosity. We have the technical means for it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite; the people who can employ themselves at this task exist. Why do we suffer? From too little, from channels that are too narrow, skimpy, quasi-monopolistic, insufficient. There is no point in adopting a protectionist attitude, to prevent bad information from invading and suffocating the good. Rather, we must multiply the paths and the possibility of comings and goings.

MICHEL FOUCAULT
THE MASKED PHILOSOPHER

Contents

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