CNPS Organization Meeting
CNPS Organization Meeting As announced on the CNPS website and by email, CNPS members were invited to a CNPS Fuze organization meeting on 11/12/16. A quick review of some of the items discussed at that meeting are shown below. A link to a recording of the meeting will be available later. Video Conferences To Restart […]
Continue Reading...Critical Thinking And The Scientific Method
In setting forth a vision for the CNPS, David De Hilster called for changing the term “dissidents” to “critical thinkers” and the phrase “dissident views” to “critical thinking”. The new terms are more positive and more accurate and help to define a more positive image for a social media campaign. The CNPS slogan is now […]
Continue Reading...Sweeping Implications For Spacetime Physics And Cosmology
If Special Relativity is flawed, then the foundation for all of spacetime physics and cosmology is built on an erroneous foundation and must soon collapse under its own weight. If one claims that Special Relativity directly describes what’s happening physically (e.g., time dilation describes different proper time accumulation rates), then contradictions such as the Twin […]
Continue Reading...The Twin Paradox: Mainstream Rejection of Critical Thinking
David De Hilster, in his 12/19/15 CNPS videoconference, laid out the opportunity or really the pressing need for the CNPS community to use social media to promote itself. The first step in a social media campaign is to establish a positive image. David recommended that instead of the terms “dissident views” and “dissidents”, we adopt the more […]
Continue Reading...CNPS Strategy For 2016 And Beyond
This is MUST reading for all CNPS members. As a high percentage of the CNPS membership were members of the NPA in the prior decade, most of you are aware that Greg Volk and David De Hilster engineered a great leap forward for the dissident “critical thinking” community in general and for the NPA in […]
Continue Reading...Election Of CNPS Officers
On February 5, 2016, the eight newly elected directors of the CNPS had their first meeting. (See the January 14, 2016 post detailing the election of the 8 CNPS directors.) Abiding by the member approved CNPS Operating Agreement, they unanimously elected the following officers: Chief Scientist: Prof. Cynthia Whitney President: David De Hilster Vice President: […]
Continue Reading...Martin Kokus Resigns from NPA
(Reported by Nick Percival, from Martin Kokus) Dear members, It is with deepest regrets that I am resigning the Presidency of the Natural Philosophy Alliance. I am also resigning from the Board of Directors of the NPA and I am resigning from the NPA. I am withdrawing my papers from the proceedings for the last […]
Continue Reading...Letter to NPA Members
Dear NPA Members Dr. Cynthia Whitney, the NPA President, has recently written to the NPA Board urging member elections for the good of the NPA and specifically to avoid fracturing the NPA. The board’s decision and, hopefully, subsequent member vote is most important. Below I give the legal and ethical arguments for such a vote […]
Continue Reading...Election Request from NPA President Dr Cynthia Whitney
Here is a link to the original letter and email: http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/CWLetterToBoard.pdf GALILEAN ELECTRODYNAMICS Experience, Reason, and Simplicity Above Authority Published by Space Time Analyses, Ltd. 141 Rhinecliff Street, Arlington, MA 02476-7331, USA phone answering machine (781) 643-3155, e-mail Galilean_Electrodynamics@comcast.net 23 October 2014 Bill Lucas Barry Springer Jim Newburn James Newburn Sam Falaki David Harrison Martin […]
Continue Reading...Letter from NPA Membership for Resignations
Dear Members of the Natural Philosophy Alliance Board of Directors including Cynthia Whitney Bill Lucas Barry Springer James Newburn David Harrison Martin Kokus Sam Falaki It is clear that the active membership of the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) has no confidence in Barry Springer and James Newburn, as leaders of the NPA, and is calling […]
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