History Of Science | Harry Ricker III

Ivor Catt and The Myth Of The Rolling Wave

Nov 4, 2020Harry Hamlin RickerElectricity, History Of Science3 Comments

The myth of the rolling wave is a term used by this writer to describe a problem in electromagnetic theory first raised by the English scientist Ivor Catt, in articles published in the English magazine Wireless World. The problem is referred to as a myth, since it has its source not in physics textbooks, but […]

Galileo Was Wrong, A Scientific Documentary On Geocentrism

Jun 18, 2015Harry Hamlin RickerCosmology Astronomy, Film, History Of Science, Natural Philosophy, Relativity, Review, Special Relativity4 Comments

Galileo Was Wrong, A Scientific Documentary On Geocentrism produced by CAI Publishing INC., is a science documentary that is different from the usual science that we are supposed to believe in. It is an astonishingly good science documentary film for many different reasons. This film is so good and has such a high positive educational […]

What Happened To The Principle Of Relativity?

Jun 9, 2015Harry Hamlin RickerGeneral Relativity, History Of Science, Special Relativity1 Comment

In his book Science and Hypothesis, first published in French in 1902, Poincare gives to the principle of relativity the status of a unifying principle in both mathematics and physics. It is an important theme of the book, which unifies this collection of essays. At the end of the book, Poincare discusses how this principle […]

The Principle: Challenging The Intellectual Integrity Of Cosmology

Jun 8, 2015Harry Hamlin RickerFilm, History Of Science11 Comments

This is the best science documentary film that I have ever seen. It puts physical science into its correct and proper place behind philosophy, logic, and religion, instead of superior to them, in terms of the definition of what is truth. It is a film that I wish that I had made, because it makes […]

Johannes Kepler and The Magnetic Unification of Terrestrial and Cosmic Physics

Jun 4, 2015Harry Hamlin RickerHistory Of Science, Natural Philosophy0 Comment

Introduction The unification of physics as a fundamental goal is older than modern science. Thales argued that water was the universal substance; the earliest attempt at a unified natural philosophy. The hypothesis of unification is that diverse, complex, and apparently unrelated phenomena, can be unified under a single principle that unifies the phenomena under the […]