When I contacted Hal Puthoff, he told me that he had read Boscovich’s
theory and was very impressed by it. Hal Puthoff has dealt with ideas such
as Zero Point Energy which is really just essentially extraction of energy
from the Unified Field.
For information on Hal Puthoff see for instance:
www.parapsych.org/members/h_puthoff.html
When I contacted Jack Sarfatti he told me he was quite capable of working
out UFT for himself, and wondered if Boscovich was a time traveller. I
have some information on this issue that I hope to add to this site at a
later date. Sarfatti among other things deals with the Star Trek type
physics of warped field space; this is of course part of UFT see for
instance:
www.stardrive.org/title.shtml
Jon Bjerknes accuses Einstein of plagiarist in his book Albert Einstein
the Incorrigible Plagiarist, because Einstein does not provide any
references in his science papers that revolutionised 20th Century physics.
What Bjerknes seems to fail to realise is that Einstein did not have the
same restrictions in his era that modern science papers make, so he was
allowed not to provide references. He was in a different era and allowed
different freedoms. However the historical record of where the ideas that
Einstein was working on came from Einstein’s co-worker on UFT, namely
Lancelot Law Whyte, and that is mainly Boscovich, whom Bjerknes has
suspected of as being very important.
Bertrand Russell at the time of when Einstein became famous (i.e. 1919)
was one of the few people that at the time was able to understand
Einstein’s Relativity Theories, and Russell was working on the UFT. I
provide now an article by Russell explaining how Newton’s ideas are
connected to Leibniz’s ideas through Boscovich’s theory; hence in other
words Boscovich’s theory extends Newton’s theory (as already stated):
Information from A critical exposition of the philosophy of Leibniz,
Bertrand Russell
My Comments
The points that Bertrand Russell raises are:
1. Leibniz had troubles completing his theory of dynamics.
2. Boscovich’s theory is the completed theory of Leibnizian dynamics.
3. Boscovich’s theory is a continuation of Newton’s theory.
It is better to look at Boscovich than Leibniz because Leibniz had
problems.
The three great types of dynamical theory that Russell gives are:
1. There is the doctrine of hard extended atoms, for which the theory of
impact is the appropriate weapon.
2. The doctrine of the plenum, of an all-pervading fluid.
3. The doctrine of unextended centres of force, with action at a distance,
for which Newton supplied the required Mathematics.
Russell says that Boscovich’s theory is type 3.
Now, I say that Boscovich’s theory is more than just that.
Boscovich’s theory is about regions of influence around particles which
Faraday called field. This field acts like a substance, hence it is the
all-pervading fluid of type 2 theory. Now this field acts in both a
repulsive and attractive thing depending upon conditions, particularly
when two particles become too close together they are repelled by this
field, hence the particles are acting like they are extended and are thus
type 1 theory.
i.e. Boscovich’s theory covers all three types of dynamic theory.
Finally we have from Leibniz: “There is no last little body, and I
conceive that a particle of matter, however small, is like a whole world,
full of infinity of still smaller creatures.” ---- i.e. nature is what we
would now call fractal -- because patterns keep repeating themselves on
smaller and smaller scales.
For a more detailed analysis of what Bertrand Russell says see further
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