Aspden-Hearld: central claims
Source gap (revised after QE). The earlier note said Physics Unified (Unified-Physics.pdf, 212 pages) could not be read. That is no longer accurate. The book is a scan with no text layer, but all 212 pages were OCR'd with Tesseract and the full text (424,689 characters) is in _text/. Its prose is of good quality (a page image, PDF p.184, matched the OCR word for word). OCR does garble equations and exponents, so any number a verdict depends on must be checked against a page image. Printed page = PDF page minus 7.
What has been read and how: - Essay (2 pages): read in full. - Book, digested: all of pp.1-212. - Book, deep read (OCR plus page images plus recalculation): Chapters 1-2, PDF pp.7-36 (force law, Trouton-Noble, retardation and Mercury's perihelion, Gerber). - Book, NOT deep read (digest and sampled OCR only): Chapter 3 aether experiments (pp.54-80); Chapters 4-6 including Planck, Schroedinger, g-factor and the alpha derivation (pp.80-118); Chapters 6-8, graviton and particle masses (pp.119-162); Chapter 9 cosmic material (pp.163-201); Appendices (pp.207-212). The many numerical matches in these parts (deuteron, neutron decay, pion, muon, proton moment, muon lifetime, planetary mass ratios, Earth's magnetic moment) have not been audited. Conclusions about them rest on the digest and on unaudited recall of modern values, so treat them as provisional. - Still not obtained: the cited external works (Kobel 1930; Graneau 1983 and 1985; Roth 1978; Sethian, Hammer and Wharton 1978 beyond the book's quotation; Aspden 1969, 1977, 1985, 1986), the Correa patents (US 5,416,391; 5,449,989; 5,502,354) and Aspden's 1996 report "Power from Space: The Correa Invention". To close the gap, obtain: Aspden, J. Franklin Inst. 287, 179 (1969); the Graneau papers; Roth 1978; Sethian et al. 1978; the three Correa patents. Later steps must say plainly when a conclusion rests on [memory] alone.
Folder contents: two documents only (no duplicates, no browser junk). The essay is signed 30 October 2005; the PDF is a 2019 printout.
- Modified electrodynamics. The force between two moving point charges is F = (qQ/r^3){(V.r)v - (M/m)(v.r)V - (v.V)r}. The deep read shows this is the ordinary low-speed Lorentz force plus one extra term, -(M/m)(v.r)V, that vanishes for closed circuits but gives an unbalanced force on a heavy ion moving past a light electron. The derivation is under-determined (two force directions are chosen, not derived) and moves the momentum imbalance into the aether. [read, both documents; deep read PDF pp.7-36]
- Plasma energy partition. Because of that term, heavy ions in a plasma gain far more energy than electrons (explaining ion-hot plasmas, the million-degree solar corona and anomalous gains in discharges), and the sun is not fusion powered. The book offers Sethian et al.'s 10^3 electron-ion transfer anomaly as support, though those authors only speculated that it might be the mass ratio. [read, essay and book p.23; evidence by citation only]
- Aether as energy source. A structured vacuum lattice (aether) defines a preferred electromagnetic frame (the E-frame carried with local matter, and the cosmic C-frame), supplies the balancing momentum and energy for the unbalanced force, and is compatible with the classic aether experiments (Michelson-Morley, Michelson-Gale-Pearson, Sagnac, Silvertooth, Trouton-Noble, the 1977 U-2 anisotropy); this underlies the Correa plasma-discharge device as a source of "power from space". [read, both documents; Trouton-Noble part deep-read, the other experiments by digest]
- Gravity from electrodynamics and relativity without relativity. Gravitation is the same electrodynamic action for like charges moving in parallel; retardation of its interaction energy gives the factor 1 + 3(v/c)^2 and the General Relativity orbit equation, so Mercury's perihelion advance needs no general relativity (a completion of Gerber 1898); and vacuum "gravitons" of 2.587 GeV (about 5063 electron masses) fix G at 6.67e-8 cgs. The deep read shows the perihelion coefficient is tuned by unforced choices and justified by agreement with GR; the G calculation is not yet audited beyond QE's recomputation. [read, book; perihelion deep-read, G by OCR and QE recompute]
- Derived constants and particle masses. From vacuum-lattice geometry with an odd integer 1843 and the graviton mass, Aspden gets the fine structure constant (137.035915, revised to 137.035953 in Appendix III), the proton-electron mass ratio (1836.15232), the deuteron binding energy (2.22464 MeV), neutron decay energy, pion and muon masses, the muon g-factor, proton magnetic moment (2.792846 nuclear magnetons), muon lifetime (2.1973 microseconds), the psi resonances, and also the electron g-factor, Planck's law and the Schroedinger equation. The claim is that these follow with no free parameters beyond integers; the digests show several chosen inputs (model choices, the factor k, a form factor 0.8, a 2-alpha factor). [read, book; digest and OCR only, not audited]
- Cosmic background, cosmology and geophysics. The 2.7 K background is a local lattice temperature set by gravitational potential (2.6 K near Earth), not a Big Bang relic. Rotating vacuum domains also give planet/Sun mass ratios (Jupiter 1/764, Moon/Earth 1/83), Earth's magnetic moment (7.86e25 against 8.06e25 cgs), a 700,000-year geomagnetic reversal period and extinctions, and ball lightning and tornadoes. [read, book; digest and sampled OCR, not audited]