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Dr. Howard C. Hayden
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Tel: (860) 429-1635

Univ. of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3046
United States

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Hayden, Dr. Howard C.     (Easy Link: http://www.worldsci.org/people/Howard_Hayden)
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Editor of Galilean Electrodynamics

Topics: New_Energy
Interests: Electrodynamics, New Energy, Global Warming
Nationality: USA

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Edited Journals:
Galilean Electrodynamics

Books:
2007; 2nd ed. 2008A Primer on CO2 and Climate
2002; 2nd ed. 2005The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World

Abstracts Online:
1997Problems in Physics Which Need Further Investigation
1994Analysis of Trouton-Noble Experiment
1994Global Positioning Satellites
1993Einsteinian and Quantum-Mechanical Observers
1993Stellar Aberration
1992Distinctions Between Galilean and Einsteinian Physics
1992Was Edwards Contradicted Experimentally?
1992Rotating Mossbauer Experiments and the Speed of Light
1991On a Recent Mininterpretation of Sagnac's Experiment
1991Yes, Moving Clocks Run Slowly, but is Time Dilated?
1990Experimentum Crucis
1990Light Speed as a Function of Gravitational Potential
1990Possible Explanation for the Edwards Effect
1990If Sagnac and Michelson-Gale, Why Not Michelson-Morley?

Event Attendence:
1997-06-094th (B) Natural Philosophy Alliance ConferenceConference
1994-06-201st Natural Philosophy Alliance ConferenceConference

Biography

Howard Hayden is a Professor Emeritus of Physics from the University of Connecticut. A Colorado native, he entered the University of Denver as an engineering major, but soon discovered that he wasn t temperamentally suited to all that reality. He switched to physics and went on to earn his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at DU.

On receiving his Ph.D., he went to the University of Connecticut where he spent 32 years clasting icons and corrupting young minds. He did accelerator-based atomic physics, including measurements of cross-sections for various processes, measurements of energy loss in atomic collisions and of lifetimes of excited states, beam-foil spectroscopy, and ion implantation.

Hayden has a long-standing interest in energy, stemming from before the OPEC oil embargoes of the 70s. Presently, he publishes a monthly newsletter, The Energy Advocate, which in August 2007 began its 12th year of publication. He wrote The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won t Run the World. Reviews of the book have varied from praise to venomous hatred.

Hayden is not employed by any petroleum, coal, natural gas, nuclear-fuel, or any other energy company, or any utility, nor does he receive any compensation from any such facility, either as direct payment or as research support or any other kind of grant. His association with such scurrilous outfits is that he has to pay them for fuels and electricity, quite as if he were a normal human being.

In the interest of full disclosure, he reveals that his closest friends exhale CO2. Nary a one has paid for carbon credits for doing so. - Amazon

Articles:

  • "High Sensitivity Trouton-Noble Experiment," Review of Scientific Instruments, V65, N4, pp. 788-792 (Apr 1994).
Journals Edited by Dr. Howard C. Hayden



Name: Galilean Electrodynamics
Editors: Dr. Cynthia Kolb Whitney (Editor), Prof. Jaroslav G. Klyushin (East Editor), Dr. Howard C. Hayden (Associate Editor), Dr. Petr Beckmann (Founder), Prof. Thomas G. Barnes (Founding Editor)
ISSN: 1047-4811
Status: Active
Founded: Monday, January 1, 1990
Website: home.comcast.net/~adring
Contact Name: Dr. Cynthia Kolb Whitney
Email: galilean_electrodynamics@comcast.net
Address:141 Rhinecliff Street
Arlington, MA 02476-7331
United States
Telephone: (781) 643-3155
Description:

It is difficult to find critical work about Einstein's Theory of Relativity in most standard physics journals. Galilean Electrodynamics, founded by the late Dr. Petr Beckmann in 1989, is a notable exception. Since Einstein's 1905 paper, Relativity has had many critics and although it is widely accepted today, there is still a minority who question the central tenets of Relativity Theory. Galilean Electrodynamics is devoted to publishing high quality scientific papers, refereed by professional scientists, that are critical of Special Relativity, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Big Bang theory and other establishment doctrines.

Books by Dr. Howard C. Hayden



View count: 655 		A Primer on CO2 and Climate

by Dr. Howard C. Hayden

Pages: 87
Publisher: Vales Lake Publishing, LLC
Year: 2007; 2nd ed. 2008
ISBN: 0971484562
ISBN: 978-0971484566
ISBN: 0971484554
ISBN: 978-0971484559

Websites: www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
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Description

Much of the world is poised to take very drastic steps to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the hope that doing so will keep the world from becoming overheated. Indeed, some alarmists call for an 80% reduction in burning of fossil fuels (from which the world gets 85% of its energy) by 2050. But does CO2 really control climate? Perhaps we should look at the facts before committing to CO2 reduction policies that would surely be devastating.

Hayden's Primer is based on the notion that the first step in understanding the relationship between CO2 and climate is to gather the facts. Outputs from computer programs are not data. - Amazon



View count: 662 		The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World

by Dr. Howard C. Hayden

KeyWords: new energy

Pages: 281
Publisher: Vales Lake Publishing, LLC
Year: 2002; 2nd ed. 2005
ISBN: 0971484546
ISBN: 978-0971484542
ISBN: 0971484503
ISBN: 978-0971484504

Websites: www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
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Description

For decades, solar proponents have predicted that we would soon get 20% to 100% of our energy from solar sources — biomass, hydro, wind, solar-thermal, photovoltaics and others.

The dreamy-eyed predictions all failed because they were based on emotional urges and political agendas rather than honest assessments. The gurus were numerous, but solar energy is a topic of science, where votes don’t count, even when they come from high-profile lawyers, political appointees, and leaders of environmental organizations.

The Solar Fraud explains the realities of solar energy, especially how much one can expect from solar sources

From the Publisher
In 1978, Ralph Nader told us that “everything will be solar in 30 years”, while Dennis Hayes, director of President Carter’s Solar Energy Research Institute, predicted “ …50% solar by the end of the century.” As late as 1990, the Union of Concerned Scientists predicted that the solar contribution would be 15.8% in 2000. The actual present-day contribution of renewable energy to the total energy picture is only 7%. Biomass and hydropower, which both owe their energy to sunlight, are the two sources that are responsible for the 7% contribution. Solar heat, solar electricity, and wind combined provide just a little over one one-thousandth of our energy.

In 1980, Howard C. Hayden, a physics professor, contradicted the official Carter Administration prophesies and predicted that solar energy would account for 2.5-10% our energy in the year 2000. His estimate was based on sound physics, and was far better than the politically based ones.

Why was Hayden right? The reasons lie in the laws of nature, not the laws of man, according to Hayden’s new book, The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World.

According to The Solar Fraud, sunlight is dilute, so that vast areas of land are required to provide useful amounts of solar energy. It is unlikely that society will tolerate the use of tens of thousands of square miles for the production of energy, even if sunlight is the source, says Hayden. Wind power is limited by the laws of physics. “The likes of Worldwatch Institute and Greenpeace won’t like this book,” he adds.

The Solar Fraud is written for the intelligent layman and includes extensive energy information for teachers, engineers, people wanting to generate power for their homes, and others interested in energy. - Amazon

Papers by Dr. Howard C. Hayden



Problems in Physics Which Need Further Investigation

(1997)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden

1997, 4th (B) Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference, Storrs, CT, United States

Abstract:

Potential problems areas in modern physics are reviewed from a vantage point of extensive experience with the relevant literature. Areas which are well-substantiated by experimental data are discussed first and suggested to be unlikely fields for further research. About an equal number of fields are then discussed which are not well substantiated or even contradicted by research data. These latter fields are deemed to be the most likely ones for future research and technical papers questioning current scientific beliefs.



Analysis of Trouton-Noble Experiment

(1994)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 5, No. 4, pp. 83-85
Keywords: rotational velocity, capacitor, torque

Lookup: capacitor (9), torque (8), velocity (91), rotational (5)

Abstract:

Recently, I repeated the famous Trouton-Noble experiment with more-than-adequate sensitivity to detect the torque due to the rotational velocity at the surface of the earth, even with account taken of the dielectric constant of the capacitor, should such a torque exist. The result was null. The present paper shows why there never was any cogent reason to expect a torque, even in classical theory.



Global Positioning Satellites

(1994)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 5, No. 4, pp. 92-82
Keywords: GPS, satellites, signals

Lookup: gps (18), signals (6)

Abstract:

The global positioning satellite (GPS) system is a marvelous invention for enabling an observer anywhere on earth to measure his location with great precision. Timing by extremely precise atomic clocks on the satellites, and exact knowledge of the orbits are the keys to the precision. The presence of at least four satellites well above the horizon at any given time and location enables the ground-based observers to use clocks of considerably lower precision than those on the satellites. A pseudo-random code used in the communication system allows the observer to use portable equipment, even though the signals are extremely weak.



Einsteinian and Quantum-Mechanical Observers

(1993)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 4, No. 2, pp. 29-31
Keywords: Einstein's special relativity theory, Maxwell's Equations, Quantum Electrodynamics

Lookup: einstein special relativity theory (2), quantum electrodynamics (11), maxwell equations (12), einstein (135), quantum (226), relativity (607), special (276), theory (243), maxwell (85)

Abstract:

One of the highly touted successes of modern physics is Einstein's special telativity theory (SRT), of which the Lorentz transformations are an essential ingredient. Another is Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), in which Maxwell's Equations are obviously important. It happens that Maxwell's equations automatically are consistent with the Lorentz transformation equations, yet there is, as yet, no successful theory incorporating the features of both SRT and QED. The present paper is not an attempt to bridge the gap, but rather to point out the inherent inconsistency between the two theories.



Stellar Aberration

(1993)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 4, No. 5, pp. 89-92
Keywords: stellar aberration, relative velocity of Earth and star, Earth's orbital velocity

Lookup: stellar aberration (12), earth (76), aberration (27), velocity (91), relative (22), orbital (12), star (46), stellar (27)

Abstract:

Stellar aberration, discovered three centuries ago, was immediately recognized as a phenomenon due to the velocity of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun. Einstein explained aberration by using the Lorentz transformations to convert from stellar coordinates to earth coordinates unequivocally using the relative velocity of Earth and star, and his explanation remains essentially the same in most textbooks. We show herein, by analyzing data from binary stars, that aberration is not due to relative velocity of Earth with respect to star, but rather Earth's orbital velocity.



Distinctions Between Galilean and Einsteinian Physics

(1992)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 3, No. 2, pp. 23-27
Keywords: Einstein theory, four-dimensional

Lookup: four dimensional (2), einstein (135), theory (243), dimensional (13)

Abstract:

It is quite uncontroversial that there exists a vast array of experiments which support Einstein theory; references can be found in any textbook and numerous review articles. However, an important question that is rarely addressed, and then inadequately, is whether the cited experiment uniquely supports Einstein theory. For example, the equation E = mc2 for which Einstein is known even to the man in the street, can be derived -- as was done by Einstein himself -- from purely classical physics, without any reference to four-dimensional "spacetime" coordinates or to a purely classical physics, without any reference to four-dimensional "spacetime" coordinates or to a constant light velocity.  It follows that an experiment -- or a million experiments -- which confirm E = mc2 thus support classical physics just as well as Einstein theory.  This paper addresses the question of what experiments are required to support uniquely Einsteinian relativity theory.



Was Edwards Contradicted Experimentally?

(1992)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 3, No. 4, pp. 76-82
Keywords: Edwards effect, variant, model-dependent, crucial conditions

Lookup: edwards effect (2), model (78), effect (138)

Abstract:

A previous paper analyzed the Edwards effect and found that it was predictable from Beckmann's theory. In another "variant" of the experiment, no such effect was detected. It is shown that the experiment failed to satisfy some crucial conditions, and that the conclusions drawn from it are inavlid unless they are made model-dependent.



Rotating Mossbauer Experiments and the Speed of Light

(1992)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 3, No. 6, pp. 114-119
Keywords: ether velocity, rotating Mossbauer experiments, speed of light, Lorentz time dilation

Lookup: speed of light (44), aether (279), light (261), time (239), velocity (91), dilation (31), lorentz (149), speed (86), rotating (9)

Abstract:

Champeney's 1963 Mossbauer experiment was performed as a first-order test of "ether" velocity, in spite of an earlier paper that proved that there was exact cancellation between two first-order effects, one due to "ether" velocity, and the other due to Lorentz "time" dilation. But experiments show that clock rates are determined by their velocity with respect to non-rating geocentric coordinates. The first-order term "time dilation" term thus reappears, which must be balanced by another, if agreement with the experiment is to be achieved.



On a Recent Mininterpretation of Sagnac's Experiment

(1991)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 2, No. 3, pp. 57-62
Keywords: Sagnac's experiment, Dieks and Nienhuis, STR, speed of light, satellites, time difference

Lookup: speed of light (44), sagnac experiment (3), light (261), time (239), sagnac (32), experiment (170), speed (86)

Abstract:

A recent paper by Dieks and Nienhuis implies that Sagnac's famous experiment in 1913 cannot be explained by classical physics and needs the Special Theory of Relativity to come to the rescue. It is shown that the conclusions in that paper are both physically and historically erroneous, and that the experiment proves, as do contemporary measurements using satellites, that the speed of light is not constant in the sense used by Einstein in his 1905 paper. The latter measurements also refute the GRT explanation of Sagnac's experiment, since a time difference remains when no area is enclosed.



Yes, Moving Clocks Run Slowly, but is Time Dilated?

(1991)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 2, No. 4, pp. 63-66
Keywords: moving clocks, twin paradox, time dilated, gravitational field

Lookup: moving clocks (2), gravity field (15), twin paradox (18), field (236), gravity (474), time (239), moving (23), paradox (55), twin (20)

Abstract:

If anything in modern physics can be said to have attracted the most attention, it is surely the topic of time dilation, along with the associated "twin paradox." Many experiments with varying degrees of precision demonstrate conclusively the phenomenon that moving clocks run slowly. These experiments are here elucidated in enough detail to remove any doubt about the existence of the phenomenon. That said, the question arises whether this means that time is "dilated," or whether "clocks" run slowly simply because they move through the gravitational (or other) field. There is, in fact, a rational basis upon which to decide the question.



Light Speed as a Function of Gravitational Potential

(1990)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 1, No. 2, pp. 15-17
Keywords: light speed, gravitational potential, (GRT), mass, distance, point of interest, atarlight

Lookup: distance (29), gravity potential (8), light speed (7), mass (180), gravity (474), light (261), potential (54), speed (86), point (71)

Abstract:

Summary: Beckmann makes the case that light speed is constant with respect to the gravitational field. His model, however, does not specify how the speed varies with such things as the mass of the locally dominant body and its distance from the point of interest. In the present paper, we derive the result from the conservation of energy, and use it to predict the reflection of starlight. The results agree with those of General Relativity Theory, and more importantly with measurement.



Possible Explanation for the Edwards Effect

(1990)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 1, No. 3, pp. 33-42
Keywords: Edwards effect, negative potential, superconducting wire, electromagnetic theory, motion

Lookup: motion (109), edwards effect (2), electromagnetic theory (6), theory (243), electromagnetic (86), potential (54), wire (3), effect (138), negative (8)

Abstract:

An experiment performed by Edwards et. al. demonstrates the existence of a negative potential on the surface of a superconducting wire which was proportional to the square of the slowly diminishing current in the wire. Conventional electromagnetic theory predicts that this potential should not exist. It is proposed here that the potential results from a force on a charge at rest caused by a magnetic field in motion.




If Sagnac and Michelson-Gale, Why Not Michelson-Morley?

(1990)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Dr. Cynthia Kolb Whitney
141 Rhinecliff Street, Arlington, MA 02476-7331, United States; galilean_electrodynamics@comcast.net, (781) 643-3155, mywebpages.comcast.net/adring
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 1, No. 6, pp. 71-75
Keywords: Sagnac, Michelson-Gale, Michelson-Morley, special relativity, light speed

Lookup: special relativity (214), michelson morley (39), sagnac (32), light speed (7), light (261), relativity (607), special (276), michelson (45), speed (86)

Abstract:

Anisotropy in the speed of light due to coordinate frame rotation has been amply demonstrated throughout the present century. The original experiment by Sagnac used a rotating table in a laboratory setting. The first of several subsequent experiments using instead the diurnal rotation of the earth was performed by Michelson and Gale. Predating both of these early rotation-sending experiments was the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, whose null result is often cited as experimental proof for the constancy of light speed otherwise assumed in special relativity theory. But since it was conducted on the surface of the earth, the Michelson-Morley experiment was also conducted in a rotating frame. Although not sensitive enough to pick up diurnal rotation, the experiment should have seen the orbital motion of the earth rotating around the sun. How exactly did the null result then come about?



Experimentum Crucis

(1990)

Dr. Howard C. Hayden
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, United States; corkhayden@comcast.net, (860) 429-1635, www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/emeriti/hayden
Galilean Electrodynamics, Volume 1, No. 1, pp. 10-11

Abstract:

The following letter by Prof. Howard C. Hayden was sent to a number of physicists and scientists, both orthodox and dissident. It was received by this editor via Usenet on 28 August 1989, at a time when it was still quite unknown what the outcome of the experiment would be.