psychoceramics: Cycles in the Universe

[Bruce Ediger <bediger @ csn.net>]

A new Theory about the Nature of the Univers.

This is a usenet article, but I think that it represents the tip of a kooky
iceberg.  A quick glance at <http://www.vive.com/connect/universe/rt-home.htm>
shows that Mr Tomes has put an enormous effort into portraying his
"Harmonics Theory".

I had originally hoped that this would be some more of the "Larsonian
Physics"/"Univers of Motion" stuff that Robert E. McElwaine so fervently
believed in.  It's not, as near as I can tell.

Has anybody heard of the "Foundation for the Study of Cycles", founded in
1940 by Edward R Dewey (1895-1978)?

An excerpt from the web pages:
   The Harmonics theory has been developed over a period of many years. It
   is entirely my own work but there have been many confirmations of its
   essential validity from the work of others. The pages which follow are
   a description of the discoveries in time sequence. By this means I hope
   to show why I reached each conclusion that I did. Gradually a larger
   and larger picture emerges until the Harmonics theory is seen as a
   description of the fundamental workings of the universe.

   That is not to say that it is a complete description. There is still
   much fundamental work to be done in arriving at what I call "The
   Formula for the Universe" by which I mean the field equation that makes
   the whole show tick. It is my opinion that such an equation will
   combine all the existing theories including Maxwell's equations, the
   Harmonics theory, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

He's going to subsume virtually all physics into his theory, that's a
good sign.  I can't find the vicious, profanity-ridden denunciation of
the Scientific Community's Conspiracy of Silence surrounding this work.

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From: rtomes @ kcbbs.gen.nz (Ray Tomes)
Newsgroups: sci.astro
Subject: Re: Evidence and Theories (was Re: Velikovsky on Hot Earth)
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 20:49:22 GMT
Message-ID: <3--@a--.org.nz>

Fred Maxwell <f--@e--.com> wrote:

>Ray Tomes wrote:
>If you are so well-versed in science, why have you not researched your theory 
>about stellar distances and waves and published it in a respected scientific 
>journal (i.e. one with peer review)?

I have researched it and established that the stars do in fact form
structures with distances of particular sizes.  This is similar to
chemical bonds.  I have not published the results in peer review
journals but they are available on my www pages.

>Have you published the writings, graphs, 
>charts, references, illustrations, and equations that normally go along with a 
>new scientific theory about the nature of the universe?

Yes.  See my WWW pages.

>No, you, as a lay 
>person, want to present some off-the-cuff remark as a theory and then the 
>entire scientific community should immediately begin an intensive, in-depth 
>study to prove or disprove it.  And you call that the "scientific method"?

Actually you have not done your homework.  My remark is not off the
cuff.  It is based on many years thorough research on the issues raised
and other related matters.  I am not asking others to disprove a
suggestion.  I am asking them to confirm an established result so that
they can stop making instant dismisals (in a manner similar to what you
are doing) without having checked the facts.  I have checked the facts.

>By the way, Galileo offered evidence.  What you are doing would be more 
>analogous to Galileo saying "I think there are rings around Saturn.  Now, 
>everyone go out, design and construct telescopes, observe Saturn and tell me 
>what you think."

I have made quite a few predictions about periodicities (quantisation)
for distances of galaxies, stars and planets.  The predictions have been
confirmed.  For galaxies the confirmation comes from the published
papers of Tifft and supports my predictions at the p~=10^-18 level.

You are making up a story which has no resemblance to the facts.

-- Ray Tomes -- r--@k--.gen.nz -- Harmonics Theory --
http://www.vive.com/connect/universe/rt-home.htm