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Relativistic Dimensional Analysis Current Science and Integral Theory

I have an interesting scientific paper dated from 1961 by Professor José Álvarez López PhD that I would like to share for your review. It involves the modification of G (the Gravitational Constant), determining atomic constants through a form of relativistic dimensional analysis and much more.  
 

What is the best procedure to share this information or have other accredited physicists to notice it and review it?
 
I was a friend of a pioneer scientist who -in his day- was one of the few persons knowledgeable in General Relativity in Argentina (and in the world). He briefly worked at Lawrence Livermore and self published several theoretical findings that -in my view- still need to be carefully peer reviewed.  Professor José Álvarez López (JAL) held PhD's in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry from the Universidad de La Plata, Argentina and died in 2007 at the age of 93.
 
I have a brief publication written by JAL which might be of interest to your group. It is titled "Relativistic Dimensional Analysis" and claims that by modifying G dividing it by 1- v2/c2 and placing this modified G in Lagrange equations we arrive to Einstein's equations for planetary motion. JAL also proposes that Eötvöss' experiments focused upon a relation that could qualify as 'masses at rest'. He claims that Eötvöss' experiments say nothing in regard to the relativistic behavior of masses in relative motion. His work may shed some conceptual light on the apparent 'antigravity' results more recently obtained in torsion experiments in which perhaps our understanding of the Equivalence Principle may have to be modified. Since JAL's key ideas date back to 1947, if proven correct or essentially sound, they should be recognized even if post mortem. 
 
JAL's work also delves into a distinction between universal and empirical constants and a relativistic dimensional method for arriving through a method and deduction to a list of values very closely corresponding to the atomic constants. Moreover, by setting either the simultaneity of space or of time when using Lorenzian transformations, two sets of indeterminate or ambivalent relativistic results for time and for length result. In relation to this ambivalence in relativistic formulas and in a personal conversation with count L. de Broglie, JAL was told to distinguish between the "time of waves" and the "time of corpuscles." In my layman's view this seems to connect aspects of General Relativity with Quantum Physics.
 
I think that, since JAL extolled Tolman's 'Principle of Similitude' and his own 'Principle of Variational Homegeneity' and had the courage to delve into some unfavored or forgotten aspects of physics, his work was only privately well-regarded by a few distinsguished scientists. For instance JAL was interested in the role of the adimensional 'constant' alpha and of invariant principles connected to the epistemological possibility of carefully developing an a priori, deductive way of doing science that would complement the empirical approach. 
 

Due to a recognition of the possibility of potentiating an aprioristic, deductive physics based on general principles, some of JAL's work seems adequate to start a discussion about the role of Interiority in Physics which has mostly focused upon Exteriority. This could stimulate a recognition of aspects of Integral Theory and current physicists tempted to move forward and to deal with the fundamental role of consciousness in the physical universe. 

 In my conversations with JAL, I was informed that he had conducted research at the Electrophysical Technical Institute under the direction of professor Köning in Munich, Germany; at the Institute for Advanced Studies, directed by professor James Mc Connell in Dublin, Ireland; and in the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Berkeley, California, where he had been invited by professor Luis W. Alvarez in 1975 to research the “Behavior of Joule’s Law in Electrical Coronas.” There also were favorable personal or letter exchanges with scientists like Alexander Wilkens, Burnington Brown, David Bohm, William R. Corliss, Kiril Stanjukovich, J.L. Synge and Dr. de Puymorin, former director of France’s Space Commission.
 Perhaps, JAL's ideas would be useful to your investigations. I'm only trying to share this possibly useful work and to ask adequate scientists to review it. This publication is 20 pages long, rather easy to read, with a few clear equations and written in English (with some typos). I scanned it with Word. I'm trying not to make it too heavy and can send it in a subsequent e mail. Please take some time to check this out and/or to refer it to other scientists suitable for reviewing it. If you care to take a look at this material I will reply to your reply and send it in a subsequent e mail.
 

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interesting

Hi Giorgio - yes, this is interesting and fun to feel connected to someone who was so curious and creatively bright in his theorizing about such deep matters. I'm guessing that almost all of us here aren't at that level or in that arena.

This fellow Richard Kron who I mentioned recently in the "outer space" thread did speak a little about the ongoing questioning of gravitational theory as a relative constant. Since he did his science study at Berkley, later than JAL, he may have known some of the same people and swum in the same waters.

Cool, stuff.

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