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Gardi-Lori: central claims

Scope: 16 PDFs (preprints and conference papers, 2017-2023) by Lori(-Anne) Gardi, alone or with Jeff Yee (and one with Ionel Dinu). All have a text layer. Page numbers below are PDF pages (the === page N === markers); the printed page number is one lower.

Coverage: every document has a digest. Six documents were also deep-read (Geometry of Particles, Geometry of Spacetime v2.3, Particles of the Universe meets Electric Universe, Planck Constant V2 with V3 comparison, CNPS 2018, PaperColour), with equation pages read as page images [read: page image]. The other ten rest on the digests plus the earlier first-pass reading listed in facts.json, and are peripheral to the verdicts.

Source gap: the Yee-Gardi papers keep no equations in the text layer, so their numbered equations were read only from page images in the deep reads. Spacetime v2.1 was compared with v2.3 by text diff only. Not in the folder and not read as part of this project: "The Relationship of the Mole and Charge" and "The Relationship of the Fine Structure Constant and Pi" (refs [4,5] of the Spacetime paper, where the cell spacing a = 2 l_P e was set); J. Yee, "Atomic Orbitals: Explained and Derived with Energy Wave Equations" (viXra 1708.0146; ref [15] of the Spacetime paper, and the likely "separate paper [12]" of the Electric Universe paper; the deep reader read v6 on the web, but the folder holds no copy; Gardi is not an author); Robert Distinti's and Jeff Yee's wave-constant papers (CNPS 2018 defines delta_e, K_e, O_e only in an outside viXra paper); and Gardi's "Calibrating the universe, and why we need to do it" (Physics Essays 29, 2016). No later step should treat anything about those works as read here, and several verdict-bearing physical facts (neutrino mass limits, the PDG muon and tau masses, the solar-neutrino and neutron-lifetime figures) are still [memory] and need a web check.

  1. Light, and all forces, propagate in a physical medium (an aether): in the early papers a lattice of bound electron-positron pairs, and in later papers a lattice or "universal medium" of Planck-scale granules or solitons that is also the source of all particles. The evidence offered for it includes reading GW150914 plus a Fermi gamma-ray transient 0.4 s later as an aether P-wave followed by an S-wave (all future LIGO events should show the same follow-up), and the claim that Michelson-Morley does not exclude an aether.
  2. Charge is not a fundamental dimension: it is the amplitude (a length, in metres) of waves in that medium, mass is standing-wave energy, and Coulomb's law, the electron's mass and gravity follow as different geometries of the same waves. Related side positions: electric charge is obsolete and current is a diffusion wave of a new element "electrigen" (Dinu and Gardi, 2020); the dielectric and magnetic fields are exact duals (Steinmetz, 1914); free space is an LC circuit with impedance Z0/(2 pi).
  3. A dozen or more fundamental constants (Coulomb's constant, mu0, G, the Bohr radius, h, the Rydberg energy and frequency, the Compton wavelength, the Bohr magneton, Avogadro's constant, the electron's mass, the strong force 42,127 N at the proton radius, and alpha as the geometric ratio 1/(4 pi^3 + pi^2 + pi)) are "derived" from five Planck-type inputs, or from an Ohm's-law energy equation, and match measured values, which is offered as proof of the model; the multi-electron atom frequencies "hydrogen to calcium" are said to be validated in a separate paper. (Deep-read finding: eleven of thirteen outputs in the Spacetime paper are algebraic identities of inputs that already contain hbar, G, alpha, m_e and eps0, three of them need a fitted factor of 1/2, 1/2 or r_e/2, and the Electric Universe and CNPS "equivalences" are the definition of r_e. Avogadro's constant matches only to 37 ppm. The geometric alpha is off by 2.2e-6 and propagates into the other outputs. The one non-identity output, a fundamental wavelength 2.7e-17 m with a photon wavelength floor equal to 45.1 GeV, disagrees with its own second derivation by 0.87 % and is contradicted by observed photons. Ref [15] reproduces the Bohr Z^2 formula for one-electron ions and uses per-orbital fitted factors for the rest.)
  4. Planck's constant h is the energy of one cycle of light, the same at every frequency, and photon energy is an arbitrary one-second accumulation; fixing the units ("Modified Unit Analysis", with a base unit "cycle") makes light a simple classical wave and removes quantum uncertainty. The same papers say Maxwell's displacement current is not a separate term (displacement current "is" current density, so curl H = J = dD/dt; Planck V2 and V3 Appendix B, credited to Robert Distinti), that cos(wt - kz) "makes no sense" so the Schroedinger equation is erroneous, and that a proton "force" constant 5.01e-19 N is missing from NIST tables (it is m_p c, a momentum).
  5. Particle masses follow from standing-wave clusters of Planck-scale wave centers with the neutrino as the fundamental unit: E = E_nu K^5 Sum_{n=1..K}[n^3 - (n-1)^3]/n^4 with E_nu = 2.38925 eV (tuned to the electron) and integer K chosen per particle by best fit (neutrino 1, muon neutrino 8, electron 10, tau neutrino 20, muon 28, tau 50, up to the Higgs at 117), reproducing the muon (10.2 % low) and tau (1.2 % low); K = 8, 20, 28, 50 match nuclear magic numbers. (Deep-read finding: the neighbouring-K energy spacing is about 1 + 5/K, so any mass fits some K within a few percent; K = 29 fits the muon better than 28 and the paper's own figure plots the muon with K = 29 arithmetic; the neutrino-scale masses are old upper limits treated as values.) The proton is four electrons plus one positron and the neutron five electrons plus one positron, with their charges "ceasing to be recognized" (naive counting gives -3e and -4e, and the neutron is 6 particles in some figures and 4 in another); particle decay is the collapse of wave centers, and free-neutron beta decay is triggered by solar (anti)neutrinos about every 15 minutes.
  6. The Mandelbrot set (iteration z := z^2 + c) is a geometric model of black holes ("quasi-black hole"), and atoms are quasi-black holes; the photon ring should be oblate or slightly pear shaped, with the singularity at the set's (0,0) point; M87 (22 light-year offset) and quasar 3C 186 are said to sit "exactly" where the model predicts. (Deep-read finding: the prediction is qualitative and hedged; the overlay is a hand-registered fit to a two-iteration rendering of an optical image, with no quantitative test; the S-star and bubble-chamber figures are visual comparisons labelled preliminary; the author calls the evidence "circumstantial and highly speculative".)
  7. Gravity and the other classical force laws are re-expressed as wave effects of the same medium: gravity is a "shading" effect between two particles (Le Sage-type) and equals G m_e^2/r^2 identically; "New Induction" and "New Magnetism" (Distinti) are better than Newton's second law and the standard magnetic force (CNPS 2018; the stated constant mu0/(2 pi) disagrees by a factor 2 with the tabulated numbers, which need mu0/(4 pi)). Also in this set: the electron's anomalous magnetic moment is e^2/Q_p^2 = 0.0011614 (theOMparticle, 2023; this is the lowest-order Schwinger term alpha/(2 pi), not the measured 0.00115965).