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Distinti Robert: central claims

Source gap

All ten PDFs have a readable text layer (about 90,000 words; no duplicates, no junk files), so there is no text gap. What remains unexamined or absent: - Deep reads now exist for the three long documents and the catalogue: nm.pdf (pp.19-42 and 53-73), neThesis.pdf (pp.36-79), nia1.pdf (pp.42-91) and anomolies.pdf (pp.4-16). The nia1.pdf antenna chapter (pp.28-41) has also been deep-read (QE round 2). Still digest-only: nm.pdf pp.5-18, 43-52 and 74-92; neThesis.pdf pp.1-35 and 80-85; anomolies.pdf sections 7-20 beyond the Step 1 reading. The longitudinal-wave conclusion now rests on a checked derivation: the -6 dB follows exactly from the author's integral, which is the classical vector potential with the scalar-potential term omitted [calc]. - Equations were read from text layers; page images were checked only where the deep reads say so. - Papers the corpus cites but which are not in the folder: ni.pdf (the numerical search that produced New Induction, and the source of the 26/22 AWG loop data), ni_newman.pdf, ind_jackson.pdf, homopolar.pdf, displacement_dilemma.pdf, Maxwells_dilemma.pdf, ron.pdf, classfluxan.pdf, answer.pdf, newindarg.pdf, coax_bar_mag.pdf, the V1/V2 papers, the NIA2/NIA3/NMA2 books and the promised "Ethereal Mechanics" series. Obtain them from www.distinti.com/docs (the site may be gone; try the Internet Archive). - Not in the folder: Paradox 2 raw data (scope captures, MPEG videos), the 12.5 MHz inductance-template data (said to be on a web page), the NIA1 spreadsheet, raw LCR readings and per-inductor correction factors for the thesis, and any independent replication. - Any statement about independent testing, or about the standing of these claims with mainstream physics, rests on [memory] or later [web] checks, not on these documents.

Central claims

  1. New Induction. The force on a charge due to a source charge's acceleration is F = -K_M Q_S Q_T a_S / r, a "spherical" force that also acts along the line joining the charges, not the classical transverse form (K_M = mu0/4pi). (Deep reads: this term equals the -dA/dt part of the textbook Lorentz force for a point source, so it is not extra physics by itself.)
  2. New Magnetism. The magnetic force between moving charges is a spherical force, F = K_M Q_S Q_T / r^2 [(v_T.r)v_S - (v_S.r)v_S - (v_S.v_T)r], which replaces Biot-Savart and the Lorentz force and makes the B field, flux lines and flux cutting/linking obsolete; force can exist without relative motion between charge and field. The third term is postulated to make BMP time dilation direction independent and to match the known emf from moving a source wire, not uniquely derived (nm ch. 4). The velocities are explicitly absolute, measured relative to an ether (nm pp.35-37), and Gaussian currents are said to allow ether velocity, density and acceleration to be measured. A symbolic check shows NM + NI equals the textbook quasi-static Lorentz force, so the distinct content is the absolute frame and the "B is obsolete" interpretation.
  3. Classical electromagnetism is anomalous. Classical theory is said to give undefined or wrong answers for self-inductance, intrinsic inductance (the 26 vs 22 AWG loop table), reciprocity, permeable-core transformers, Maxwell vs Kirchhoff, rectangular-loop corner emfs (a transformer never built), antenna patterns, the homopolar generator, and curl H = J plus displacement current (said to give 2J); the Paradox 2 disk generator makes DC power with no net flux linked or cut (about 180 microvolts, one author, unreplicated). The deep read of anomolies.pdf pp.4-16 finds data only in the AWG table, and the classical log dependence on wire radius already gives the same sign and about 57% of the size.
  4. Mass and energy from charge. Two massless like charges orbiting at speed c balance the three forces; the inertia from New Induction is M = K_M Q^2/r_P, which gives the electron mass for r_P = classical electron radius (an identity, since r_e is defined that way) and total energy M c^2; the same method gives a proton radius of 1.5e-18 m and 1.0034 g/mol for hydrogen (the paper's own appendix cites a source with the radii reversed).
  5. Gravity is induction in a flowing ether. Gravity and inertia are the same induction effect caused by an ether that accelerates toward matter; this yields time dilation, the Schwarzschild radius, collapse of matter beyond c and a faster-than-light work-around.
  6. Longitudinal EM waves and engineering payoff. Radiation has longitudinal as well as transverse parts, which gives better dipole antenna patterns (end-on: -6 dB predicted against a classical null and a -9 dB ARRL figure, probably an elevated-angle over-ground pattern; deep-read pp.28-41), and New Induction predicts PCB/IC trace inductance and ground-plane effects to about 2-5% (no plane, one plane; 4 points with two planes) with no singularities, faster than partial inductance. Deep reads (thesis pp.36-79, nia1 pp.42-91): the computed values are classical Neumann integrals plus a 97% image coefficient that is not derived and that the data do not fit with one value; the one-plane thesis data use a per-inductor correction; the thesis's NI comparison with PI is on speed only (about 70x on the largest bar, text says nearly an order of magnitude), with no accuracy comparison; and nia1's two-plane "agreement" (27.5 vs 27 nH) depends on a table entry error (correct value 23.9 nH). The measurements therefore support ordinary inductance theory, not New Induction specifically.