Credits
Only a few of the inspirational people who we should look to to build our new ideas.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla pursued electrical and electromagnetic phenomena as physical processes in a medium, not abstract field exchanges. His work on impulse power, non-Hertzian waves, and longitudinal effects remains largely unexplained by modern field theory and continues to challenge purely transverse, radiative models of electromagnetism.
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell did not invent abstract fields — he constructed a mechanical theory of stress, rotation, and flow in a continuous medium. Modern treatments often preserve his equations while discarding the physical ontology that originally gave them meaning.
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin proposed that matter itself could be nothing more than stable vortices in a continuous medium. While dismissed as obsolete, this idea re-emerges naturally in modern treatments of solitons, topological defects, and hydrodynamic analogues of particles.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz established the mathematical foundations of vortex dynamics and circulation invariants. These results quietly underpin much of modern physics, despite being rarely acknowledged as a viable model for particle structure.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein derived the correct gravitational and relativistic predictions, but offered no physical mechanism for spacetime curvature itself. His equations remain indispensable benchmarks, even as the geometric interpretation continues to obscure deeper constitutive possibilities.
Walter Russell
Walter Russell proposed that matter organizes through harmonic octaves and nodal standing waves rather than discrete particles alone. Though qualitative and nonstandard, his periodic tables anticipated structural and harmonic regularities that continue to resist purely electronic explanations.
Robert Close
Robert Close demonstrated that many predictions of General Relativity arise naturally from refractive index gradients in a medium. His work shows that curvature may be a description, not a cause — a result that remains underexplored in mainstream gravity research.
https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/APTA/article/view/21195
Miles Mathis
Miles Mathis has persistently argued that charge, magnetism, and particle properties must have geometric and mechanical origins. While controversial, his insistence on physical circulation over probabilistic abstraction has influenced renewed interest in vortex-based models.
http://milesmathis.com/
Pierre-Marie Robitaille
Pierre-Marie Robitaille has challenged the assumption that the vacuum is non-material, particularly in cosmology and thermal radiation. His work highlights how many “cosmic” anomalies may arise from misapplied thermodynamics rather than new physics.
John W. M. Bush
John Bush extended pilot-wave hydrodynamics into a rigorous research program, showing how determinism and wave guidance can coexist without invoking collapse or fundamental randomness. His work restores physical intuition to quantum analogues.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010814-014506
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert Laughlin has argued that many “fundamental” laws of physics are emergent properties of real materials. His perspective directly contradicts reductionist dogma and supports a bottom-up, constitutive understanding of fields and spacetime.
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-b-laughlin/a-different-universe/9780465038295
Chantal Roth
Chantal Roth has explored unconventional interpretations of vacuum structure and field behavior, emphasizing physical mechanism and experimental anomalies over formal consensus. Her work reflects a broader effort to reopen foundational questions prematurely considered closed.