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The insights of Anthony Barnard Harris
BSc MSc PhD into
fundamental physics constitue a remarkable body of work. Harris read chemistry at
King's London, biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin and received his
doctorate from the Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford. For some
years he was a research academic, and has published over thirty academic
(cited) papers in the scientific literature, including Nature, The Lancet.
Anthony
Harris is a physicist and writer, and has been published in most leading UK
newspapers; he has published many books relating science to society, including
two textbooks, several of which have appeared in America and have been
translated into Italian, German and Spanish.
Recently,
Harris has devoted his work to the resolution of the substantial theoretical
problems encountered by physicists in the quantum world. The basis of his work is give in A
Sceptical Chemist and his interesting book on the environment is
Entropy.
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MONOGRAPHS
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PHYSICAL
AND MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCE
MALTHUS & ENTROPY
vs
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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It is sometimes thought that profit is
synonymous with wealth. It is not, as Dr Harris points out. The difference is
crucial to the economic future of any country.
Dr Harris shows how the wealth of a nation lies
in its people, their education and health; in its agriculture and manufacturing
capabilities.
As well as war and pestilence, Dr Harris
discusses other factors affecting wealth, from crime to global warming.
Finally, he points us to the Second Law of
Thermodynamics – matter can neither be created nor destroyed. It is his
conclusion, therefore, that it will be our ever-increasing population that will
destroy wealth. We will eat the crops to bare earth and drink the water to barren
deserts.
ISBN:
1900737485 £45.00
Pages:
23 plus Notes
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MONOGRAPHS
OF
PHYSICAL
AND MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCE
THE INEVITABILITY OF LIFE
ON EARTH
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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Paley believed that life on Earth was a matter of design; Darwin was convinced by his theory of evolution. This monograph
compares and contrasts these views, and examines the scientific knowledge which shaped their understanding.
Dr Harris then develops these arguments based on 21st
century science and shows how the emergence of life on Earth was inevitable, given the chemical
composition of this particular planet.
ISBN:
1900737477 £45.00
Pages:
35
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MONOGRAPHS
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PHYSICAL
AND MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCE
NEWTON'S
DEMURRAL & DIRAC'S LAMENT
A
Plea for Pragmatism
in
Physics
Heuristic
Essays
by
Anthony
Barnard Harris
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As
Dr Harris points out, “The
problem with greater and greater abstraction is that the ability to think physically decreases.
Group theory, for example, is so abstract that
the French physicist Poincairé discounted it. In group theory, visualisation is not an option,
but physics is the study of things and events perceived as real.”
Dr Harris suggests that the degree of
abstraction rather than physical insight is leading physics astray. That which
cannot be demonstrated can be of no real value for the advancement of
science or society.
ISBN:
1900737469 £45.00
Pages:
27 plus Notes
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MONOGRAPHS
OF
PHYSICAL
AND MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCE
DIRAC’S CONJECTURE & THREE-
DIMENSIONAL SPACE
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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When the symmetry of three- dimensional space is
described in terms of lattices, numbers emerge from the geometry. Dirac’s
conjecture was that there are few coincidences in the relationships of
fundamental physical constants, and that numerical relationships are also
unlikely to be coincidental.
Dr Harris puts forward a model of photonic
interference in EM and gravitation leading to mass loss (gravitation) and
positive – negative charge interaction, and repulsion when charges are of the
same sign.
Dr Harris concludes that the model is explicit in saying that the
mechanism of gravity and EM interaction is physically the same, but differs in
magnitude.
ISBN:
1900737450 £65.00
Pages:
43 plus Notes
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PHYSICS: TIME FOR A CHANGE - pages 16 plus notes
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MONOGRAPHS
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PHYSICAL
AND MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCE
PHYSICS:
TIME FOR A
CHANGE
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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In this work,
Dr Harris suggests solutions to conflicts between classical and quantum
physics. The clarity of his arguments in favour of simplicity over complexity
is compelling.
At present, orthodox physics, that which
careers depend on, appears to be interested in quarks, and renormalisation,
and strings in variously specified dimensions. The mathematics of string theory
are extremely time consuming, and, apparently, not very productive over even a
decade or more, although the idea of a vibrating string is older than
Pythagoras, whose mathematics were at least do-able.
Whether Higgs Boson is found or not, won’t
alter the embarrassments of the standard model.
So, it is time for a change.
This present monograph is simply a
collection of notes on physics treated as a worthwhile intellectual subject,
accessible to all, and can be entertaining in Wheeler’s sense: “Start her up,
and see if she goes.”
ISBN:
1900737434
£55.00
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HEISENBERG
vs DIRAC - pages 21
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HEISENBERG vs DIRAC:
Pragmatism and Beauty as Criteria
in Theoretical Physics
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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In this monograph, Dr Harris takes a wry
look at 20th Century physics and discusses the readiness of
theorists and experimenters to make use of mathematical devices in physical
enquiry - even though aware of their questionable status.
“If now we view physics in the beginning of
the 21st Century, we see particle theory with dozens of arbitrary
assumptions, with the number growing, along with theories the equations of
which cannot be solved. It is pertinent to observe that when physics keeps
introducing new assumption, and cannot solve resultant equations, physical
insight is clearly lacking.”
Dr
Anthony Barnard Harris
ISBN: 1900737426 £24.00
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QUANTUM GAMMA FUNCTION MECHANICS
- pages 81
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QUANTUM GAMMA FUNCTION MECHANICS
AN HEURISTIC ESSAY
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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Euclidean Space and Photonic
Quanta, with ab initio calculations
of the Planck Constant, Structure and masses of
Fundamental Particles, with essays on the nature of Photons, Muons and
Neutrinos
Dr Harris’s studies rest
upon the work of Newton: Principia and Opticks;
Faraday: the concurrence of electric current with magnetic field; Maxwell:
presence of electric and magnetic fields in light; Boltzmann: his use of the
gamma function in energy distribution; Planck: his coupling constant h in + –
oscillators; Einstein: his generalisation that for em radiation E = hf, and his
insistence on the photon’s existence; de Broglie: his postulate that all moving
particles have an associated wavelength; Heisenberg: that there is
indeterminacy in momentum times position; Pauli: his exclusion principle; Born:
his interpretation in probabilistic terms of Schrödinger’s wave treatment of
particles; Compton: his work on attenuation of photons; Wheeler: vacuum fluctuations.
ISBN: 1900737388 £165.00
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THE FIBONACCI SERIES AND REST MASSES OF FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES - pages
27
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THE FIBONACCI SERIES AND
REST MASSES OF FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES
and
FURTHER ESSAYS ON QUANTUM GAMMA FUNCTION MECHANICS
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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This monograph builds on Dr
Harris’s work previously published in this series entitled
QUANTUM GAMMA FUNCTION MECHANICS:
Euclidean Space and Photonic
Quanta, with ab initio calculations
of the Planck Constant, Structure and Masses of Fundamental Particles, with
Essays on the Nature of Photons, Muons and Neutrinos
Dr Harris’s extraordinary
work is essential reading for those who endeavour to understand and to overcome
the conflicts between classical physics and quantum physics.
ISBN: 1900737396 £65.00
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A
SCEPTICAL CHEMIST - IN THIS IMPORTANT BOOK, DR HARRIS POINTS A WAY to break out of the
paradigms which now straightjacket scientific thought.
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MONOGRAPHS
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A
SCEPTICAL
CHEMIST
by
Anthony
Barnard
Harris
Madeleine
Shaw Publishers
London
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Comments by Dr Peter Melrose, King’s College, London
“In 1661 Robert Boyle
published his Skeptical Chymist, in which
he advocated a fresh start for chemistry (or Alchemy, as it was then) from the
standpoint of mechanical philosophy. Now Anthony Harris, who trained initially
as a chemist, uses the same title to collect some critical observations on the
current state of theoretical physics.”
“This book will encourage
the growing number of chemists who feel that physics has given them some
unwieldy or even intractable methods of calculation without a comprehensible
model.”
“This fascinating book does
contain a very important concrete achievement. Dr Harris’ theory of Mister
Cubes, a combination of the mister
particles and the symmetry properties of a cube, leads to the prediction of
the relative abundance of the elements. This startling result can also be
reached from quantum mechanics, although, as Dr Harris wryly remarks, it takes
a lot longer.”
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