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My B.S. is in Chemistry and my Ph.D. is in Biophysics, both from the University of California, Berkeley. I have
spent the last 45 years in various kinds of laboratories and conducting research and field investigations of many kinds.
Though I have been a laboratory director for several decades, I have always been a "hands-on" type of scientist. (
... "until I examine and test it, I cannot fully accept it.").
My professional career has extended from 1958 to the present and has transcended a number of scientific disciplines
including chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and some aspects of engineering. I have had
a lifelong fascination with cosmology and philosophy. I feel these various pursuits have much in common
and that it would be appropriate to formally bring back the study of total science the way it was approached by such
ingenious thinkers as da Vinci, Galileo, and Newton.
Science is all about the pursuit of accurate and reliable information about the world around us. In its strictest
interpretation, each individual is his own "authority"... HE (or SHE) examines the surrounding world to verify how it
works, how it behaves and what "makes it tick". The old doctrine of "Authoritarianism" has been thrown out in favor
of individual verification. Thus, authorities, such as Aristotle, who proclaimed various "laws of science" without resorting
to experimental data led civilization down incorrect paths of thinking for many centuries until the age of enlightenment and
skepticism reclaimed our views of the real world. We must always require those who proclaim to "have the answers"
to demonstrate those answers in no uncertain terms. The theories must be experimentally verifiable at all
scales and at all points in time and space. Anyone resorting to invisible, non-observable or untestable
foundations has no right to claim that they are practicing the scientific method first put forth by Sir Francis Bacon and
refined by many who followed.
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Some areas that we will draw upon in this essay come from Chemistry (Physical, Quantum, Nuclear, Analytical, Organic, Inorganic
and Biochemistry), Physics (Classical and Relativistic Mechanics and Field Theory, Electromagnetic Field Theory, Magnetohydrodynamics,
Astrophysics, Nuclear, Thermodynamics, Fundamental Particle Theory, Plasma Theory, Bose Einstein Condensates, Black Hole Physics,
and Chaos Theory), Astronomy, Classical and Modern Cosmology and Biology (including the study of the Origin of Life).
I will do my best to minimize the higher level mathematical treatments by supplanting and replacing, where possible, with
the equivalent statement in english. Whenever possible, I will also try to reference each important point back to some
original research publications.
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