Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about hundred scientists who carryon their research in conceptually important areas of physical science (they do "fundamental physics"). Most of them were physicists, but also historians and philosophers of science were well represented. An important fraction of the participants could be considered "heretical" because they disagreed with the validity of one or several fundamental assumptions of modern physics. Common to all participants was an excellent scientific level coupled with a remarkable intellectual honesty: we are proud to present to the readers this certainly unique book. Alternative ways of considering fundamental matters should of course be vitally important for the progress of science, unless one wanted to admit that physics at the end of the XXth century has already obtained the final truth, a very unlikely possibility even if one accepted the doubtful idea of the existence of a "final" truth. The merits of the Olympia conference should therefore not be judged a priori in a positive or in a negative way depending on one's refusal or acceptance, respectively, but considered after reading the actual of basic principles of contemporary science, new proposals and evidences there presented. They seem very important to us.

Empirical Evidence on the Creation of Galaxies and Quasars.- Periodicity in Extragalactic Redshifts.- Quasar Spectra: Black Holes or Nonstandard Models?.- Configurations and Redshifts of Galaxies.- Isominkowskian Representation of Cosmological Redshifts and the Internal Red-Blue-Shifts of Quasars.- The Relativistic Electron Pair Theory of Matter and its Implications for Cosmology.- Are Quasars Manifesting a de Sitter Redshift?.- What, if Anything, Is the Anthropic Cosmological Principle Telling Us?.- Large Anomalous Redshifts and Zero-Point Radiation.- Theoretical Basis for a Non-Expanding and Euclidean Universe.- Light Propagation in an Expanding Universe.- Fornax - The Companion of the Milky Way and the Question of Its Standard Motion.- Cosmological Redshifts and the Law of Corresponding States.- Did the Apple Fall?.- Investigations with Lasers, Atomic Clocks and Computer Calculations of Curved Spacetime and of the Differences between the Gravitation Theories of Yilmaz and of Einstein.- Gravity Is the Simplest Thing!.- Fourdimensional Elasticity: Is It General Relativity?.- Universality of the Lie-Isotopic Symmetries for Deformed Minkowskian Metrics.- Hertz’s Special Relativity and Physical Reality.- From Relativistic Paradoxes to Absolute Space and Time Physics.- Theories Equivalent to Special Relativity.- The Physical Meaning of Albert Einstein’s Relativistic Ether Concept.- The Limiting Nature of Light-Velocity as the Causal Factor Underlying Relativity.- The Ether Revisited.- What Is and What Is Not Essential in Lorentz’s Relativity.- Vacuum Substratum in Electrodynamics and Quantum Mechanics Theory and Experiment.- The Influence of Idealism In 20th Century Science.- Creeds of Physics.- Earth Complexity vs. Plate Tectonic Simplicity.- An Evolutionary EarthExpansion Hypothesis.- Global Models of the Expanding Earth.- An Orogenic Model Consistent with Earth Expansion.- Earth Expansion Requires Increase in Mass.- Principles of Plate Movements on the Expanding Earth.- The Origin of Granite and Continental Masses in an Expanding Earth.- The Primordially Hydridic Character of Our Planet and Proving It by Deep Drilling.- Possible Relation between Earth Expansion and Dark Matter.- Earth Expansion and the Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanicism.- Tension-Gravitational Model of Island Arcs.- Electromagnetic Interactions and Particle Physics.- Isotopic and Genotopic Relativistic Theory.- A Look at Frontiers of High Energy Physics: From the GeV(109eV) to PeV(1015eV) and Beyond.- An Approach to Finite-Size Particles with Spin.- A New High Energy Scale?.- On the Space-Time Structure of the Electron.- Physics without Physical Constants.- The Relation between Information, Time and Space Inferred from Universal Phenomena in Solid-State Physics.- Quantum-Like Behaviour of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field and Observation of Discrete Forbidden States in the Classical Mechanical Domain.- Unipolar Induction and Weber’s Electrodynamics.- Impact of Maxwell’s Equation of Displacement Current on Electromagnetic Laws and Comparison of the Maxwellian Waves with Our Model of Dipolic Particles.- Direct Calculation of H and the Complete Self Energy of the Electron from Fluid Models.- Interbasis “Sphere-Cylinder” Expansions for the Oscillator in the Three Dimensional Space of Constant Positive Curvature.- Pancharatnam’s Topological Phase in Relation to theDynamical Phase in Polarization Optics.- On the Connection between Classical and Quantum Mechanics.- Discrete Time Realizations of Quantum Mechanics and Their Possible ExperimentalTests.- Heraclitus’ Vision - Schrödinger’s Version.- Is It Possible to Believe in both Orthodox Quantum Theory and History?.- A New Logic for Quantum Mechanics?.- Dangerous Effects of the Incomprehensibility in Microphysics.- Classical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- Rabi Oscillations Described by de Broglian Probabilities.- A Test of the Complementarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light.- Experiments with Entangled Two-Photon States from Type-II Parametric Down Conversion: Evidence for Wave-Particle Unity.- Correlation Functions and Einstein Locality.- Optical Tests of Bell’s Inequalities. Closing the Poor Correlation Loophole.- Atomic Cascade Experiments with Two-Channel Polarizers and Quantum Mechanical Nonlocality.- New Tests on Locality and Empty Waves.- Wave-Particle Duality.- Quantum Correlations from a Logical Point of View.- Local Realism and the Crucial Experiment.- The Space of Local Hidden Variables Can Limit Non-Locality And What Next?.- How the Quantum of Action Cannot Be a Metric one.- The Ghostly Solution of the QuantumParadoxes and Its Experimental Verification.