Wheeler-Ken · Source catalogue

A 236-page, heavily illustrated self-published book (compressed PDF copy of the third edition) in which Ken Wheeler argues that mainstream accounts of magnetism are wrong. His central thesis is that 'magnetic attraction absolutely does not exist whatsoever' [read: p.3, p.96]: what is called attraction is 'dielectric voidance' and what is called repulsion is 'dielectric counter-voidance'; a 'magnet' is 'an electrified dielectric object' in which magnetism is only the radiative discharge (an 'Ether modality') of a stored dielectric inertia. Magnetism and dielectricity are 'conjugate' (centrifugal/centripetal, spatial/counterspatial, circular/radial). The field of a magnet is described as a 'magneto-dielectric hyperboloid' (a double vortex, 'dumbbell' or hourglass, following the Poincare disk model) with a 'dielectric inertial plane' at its equator, which he identifies with the Bloch (domain) wall. He states a 'Wheeler Principle' of 'point non-specific self-similarity' / 'field incommensurability (F.I.)' [read: p.4, p.13, p.66]. Field lines are 'Ether pressure gradients'; space is 'only a posterior attribute of magnetic divergences' [read: p.116]. Method: 'retroduction' working backwards from the desired conclusion, which he attributes to Pythagoras, Plato and Plotinus [read: p.10]. He cites no degree, institution or lab (none stated in pp.1-42 [read]). The quantitative content is golden-ratio geometry. Deep reads found that every number is constructed from phi (1.618034) and none is measured: the 'gyromagnetic ratio' 42.4923 equals 180 deg/phi^3, the 'maximum precession' 68.7539 equals 180/phi^2, 137.5077 deg is the golden angle 360/phi^2, '85 deg' is 360/phi^3 = 84.98 rounded, and the dielectric:magnetic ratio 3.23606 equals 2 phi [read: pp.43-51]. He says the published proton value (42.5781 as he writes it; the CODATA value is 42.5775 MHz/T [memory: high]) is 'incorrectly published' and that his 42.4923 is the 'perfect equilibrium' [read: p.46]. A 'Magnetic & Dielectric Field Formula' (dated 7-28-2014) gives four circle radii as fixed fractions of the magnet radius: C4 = 0.23606 (centripetal boundary), C1 = 0.381966 (dielectric boundary), C3 = 1 (the magnet), C2 = 1.23606 (centrifugal/'spatial divergent' boundary) [read: page image pp.149, 152]. The deep readers found internal slips (for example 'C2+C3 = Phi cubed' fails; 'c squared' as a speed; the p.125 Poincare metric lacks a factor 4; 'omega = gamma e H' counts e twice), and that the standard Poincare-disk, golden-angle and phi-identity algebra he reproduces is correct. The book also states that Newton's first law is wrong (pp.113, 117), that the speed limit is 'C squared' and does not apply to 'longitudinal' fields (pp.115-118), and reinterprets Heaviside's 'cogravitational field' and an 1893 Heaviside quote (pp.116, 122). Evidence offered is mostly photographs and demonstrations by Wheeler and by others whom he credits: ferrocell images (by Timm Vanderelli, ferrocell.us, and Michael Snyder, revolution-labs.com), his own 'special' ferrofluid suspension (pp.22-25), an 'RGB LED discovery' dated 18 June 2014 in which a ferrocell splits LED light by colour along the magnet's 'dielectric inertial plane' (pp.133-136, 168-176), with a 'third party confirmation' photograph by Kris Lang of Kirkland Lake, Ontario (p.136: one photo captioned by Wheeler as confirmation; Lang's own statement is not in the book, and Vanderelli's reported confirmation, p.133, is Wheeler's report of it [read]), a 'programmed' bismuth disk photographed beside a 'standard' disk with a 3 mm N45 cube hovering over each (p.99 caption: lifted by a 1 inch N50 cube magnet '5 inches above'; the lifter magnet, not the bismuth, sets the height, and the bismuth stabilises the small cube [read: p.99, page image p.99]), steel/magnet resting positions at the 'angle of gyromagnetic precession' (pp.136-142 [read: text and page images]), copper-ring and superconducting-ring drop frames (p.191: six rendered field-line pictures with no source, apparatus or timing, not lab photographs [read: page image p.191]), moire-pattern analogies (pp.52-53), a hydrogen-bubble vortex over a neodymium pole and Tinmanpower videos (pp.226-227), and three hand-drawn 'Plates' dated 5-2014 (pp.231-233). None of the deep-read ranges gives a measurement, instrument, units, repeat count or control; he says the root quantity 'cannot be measured' (pp.116, 117, 123 [read]). The later chapters (pp.177-219, now deep-read) extend the same vocabulary to electricity, gravity (p.181-183), atomic structure ('double conjugated pair model', no electrons, 'sponge inside a balloon', pp.185-201), galactic jets (pp.201-207), light (a 'Z-axis radial dielectric component', 'D.E.M.', pp.207-219) and the photoelectric effect 'lie' corrected (pp.216-219). Heavy quotation of Eric Dollard, Tesla, Maxwell, Steinmetz, Heaviside and Walter Russell is used as support (pp.8-35). The tone toward Einstein, Feynman and mainstream physicists is abusive throughout [read: e.g. p.116, p.118, p.121]. Wheeler promotes the work (a 4th edition 'due out very soon', p.235; claims of 'vortex technology' arriving) and is the seller of the book (price $10.00 on p.2); that is his stake. Ferrocell material is supplied by Vanderelli, who also sells it (stake noted in the deep read, p.4). QE additions (deep reads of 2026-10-08, pp.54-111, 128-148, 157-219 [read]). (1) Core magnet chapter pp.54-96: the only apparatus is ferrocell, viewing film, iron filings, a CRT, magnetic putty, bismuth, pyrolytic graphite, a copper square, a steel disk, thin disk magnets, hard-drive magnets, a ring magnet, sphere magnets and a 2x2x1 inch block. No measuring instrument is used: no gaussmeter reading, force, distance, time, angle or voltage; repeats are stated in words only and no control is described. The demonstrations go in the direction standard magnetostatics and Lenz's law predict: a copper square waved at the magnet's equatorial plane meets drag horizontally and not vertically (p.76); a thin disk magnet rests parallel and a steel disk perpendicular to the equator of a block magnet (pp.76-78); a few-gram disk magnet twisted on a brick magnet shakes a '500 pound' refrigerator (p.77); magnetic putty engulfs a 1 cm cube (p.63); broken hard-drive magnets 'self-fold' and a broken ring rejoins flipped (pp.78-81); a ring of small sphere magnets weakens the pull on iron (p.91). Wheeler reads each as proof that dielectricity acts. Wheeler's statement that 'higher gauss' magnets have a shallower field (pp.66-68) is a rule about grade that conflicts with the linear scaling of B with remanence; as a statement about cones and stacked apex magnets it is ordinary flux concentration. The one report that ordinary B-squared forces do not cover is the pole-linked sense of spin of pyrolytic graphite and of a magnet on bismuth (pp.68, 72, 73, 90); no controls are given. (2) First-hand reports kept in the record: in breaking hard-drive magnets 'on several occasions' electrical charges 3 to 5 inches long were 'shot out like lightning' (p.78; single source, no numbers; candidates include sparks from freshly exposed NdFeB fragments [memory: medium]); 20 bits of data written to a 'magnetized subject' 'by means I will not explain here' (p.61) and a 7/15/2014 discovery 'using a testing medium as yet undisclosed' (p.79): methods withheld by the author. (3) Formulas: 'Psi x Phi = Q' (p.64) is coulomb x weber = joule-second, the unit of action, matching the book's 'Electrification, in Plancks' (p.57); it states a unit and no law. The p.76 'pressure is one half the product of dielectric and magnetic density' echoes Maxwell stress (1/2 B.H or 1/2 D.E) but read as 1/2 D.B has units of J s/m^4, not pressure. Also p.18: Dollard's oil-cube demonstration (a cube of '10-C oil' charged between plates and carried to an uncharged pair, which becomes charged), quoted from Dollard. (4) pp.97-111 bismuth: the p.99 photo pair is not shown to be an identical set-up (different backgrounds, camera and resolution, probably different disk size and curvature; lifter not visible in the left photo; both cubes hover under about 1 mm above the dome by cube-scaled estimate, so 'much lower levitation' is not readable from the photos). No procedure for 'programming' (applied charge and field in casting) is given anywhere. The p.105 overlay labelled 137.5077, 137.5077 and 85 degrees is two views of one cast with a drawn three-armed figure; the drawn lines measure about 103/130/130 degrees on an obliquely photographed disk, and the labels are the golden-angle construction (360-2x137.5077 = 84.985), not measurements. p.97 atomic radii (Bi 143, Ti 176, Po 190, Pb 154, Fe 156) carry no unit; they match the calculated-radius column in pm [memory: medium]. p.103 'bismuth exhibits overunity' is an energy-accounting statement: a nucleus above its decay products' energy decays (Bi-209 alpha, Q about 3.14 MeV), which does not violate conservation. (5) pp.128-148: no measured reading (gauss, angle, wavelength, exposure, distance) appears. The p.145 sentence 'As any gauss meter will register to you, the highest pressure points on a magnet are its divergent centrifugal edge, and secondly its convergent centripetal point at the center of every polarized side' is a qualitative instrument statement with no meter, probe, magnet or value; the edge-strongest half agrees in kind with measured surface-field maps of rectangular magnets near the face [memory: high]. 'Every dipolar magnet is in reality a quadrapole' (p.146) rests on borrowed meteorological diagrams (a 'Dennis Tasa' watermark on p.146). The 'angle of gyromagnetic precession' (pp.138-139) is never given in degrees; 'phi^-2 contact' (p.138) is undefined; the claimed golden-ratio bismuth-disk offset (pp.141-142) has no measurement behind it. RGB LED: no exposure, polariser, LED current, magnet distance or no-magnet control is recorded (pp.133-136). (6) CRT section pp.157-162: a large CRT shows a camcorder feed of printed test patterns (spirals, a square grid); a hand-held neodymium magnet (2x1 inch, 1 inch cube, others) is held against the screen. Wheeler reads one pole twisting a clockwise spiral into a torus (CCW centrifugal magnetism) and the other leaving it clockwise (pp.158-160), a centre region twisting opposite to the outer ring, and 'four loops' with the magnet vertical as edge displacement (not 'four poles', p.161). Not given: tube make, voltage, camera, distance, which pole faces the screen, any measured angle; on p.159 the 'inverse pole' pair shows two different magnets (round and rectangular). Standard electron optics predicts image rotation proportional to the integral of B along the beam, reversing sign with field direction, transverse-field distortion lobes, and red/green/blue purity patches on a colour tube (the reason for degaussing coils) [memory: high; illustrative order of magnitude about 27 degrees for 25 kV and 5e-4 T m, [calc] by the deep reader]. The effect is real; no control (monochrome tube, LCD, marked poles) separates Wheeler's account from the ordinary one. (7) Ferrocell gallery pp.163-176: photos on pp.170-176 are credited to Michael Snyder (revolution-labs.com); those on pp.163-169 name no owner; no scale, cell gap (only 'a mere micron', p.164), light source, polariser or exposure is given; colours differ by photographer. Vanderelli's own account (p.162-163, an interested party's characterisation) has nanoparticle chains aligned with the field scattering and rotating light, 'in agreement with Maxwell's Equations', and says a large area and strong fields are needed. Two ferrocell patents are cited (p.163): US8246356 and US20070241745. Internal slips on p.168: discovery copyright dates 7-12-2014 (caption) against 8-8-2014 (image stamp), and '1/phi^-2 .381966' (1/phi^-2 would be 2.618; 0.381966 = phi^-2). (8) pp.177-206: gravity: no test of Wheeler's own is described. p.181 quotes Eric Laithwaite ('how a 50 pound spinning wheel loses weight'; retirement year given as 1981, which the deep reader recalls as 1986 [memory: medium, unchecked]); p.190 states 'Gravitational polarization is the principle behind gyroscopic weight loss' and that gravitational mass equal to inertial mass is incorrect, without data. The p.60 'dead gyroscope spins up' passage is a thought experiment. p.183 formula table: five one-line formulas, standard in form (Hopkinson's law, Faraday's law, flux-per-time relations), no numbers. Atom model: no electrons; radii H 53 pm, He 31 pm, O 'diameter of 48pm' (p.196) match the calculated-radius column [memory: medium-high]; beta decay called an absurdity and only alpha and neutron radiation said to exist (pp.195-196); 'magneto-isotopes' (p.195). Galactic jets (pp.201-206): matter created at an accretion disk, black holes 'completely refuted by Stephen J Crothers' (p.202), jet shape ratio Phi^-3 = 0.236 (p.203), SN 1987A read as 'magnetic bells' (p.206); no data, and 'many trillions of miles' is 3-5 orders of magnitude short of jet lengths of thousands of light years. (9) pp.207-219: the pages hold no typeset new equation: p.210 has only verbal 'Psi in Coulombs / e in Volts / Phi' statements, p.212 the standard 'Mu x Epsilon = 1/C squared', and p.217 a textbook E_threshold = hf figure. The photoelectric chapter affirms the experimental results and E = hf (relabelling E 'energy of the dielectric') while denying emitted electrons; refraction and dispersion are qualitative (shorter wavelengths refract more, the same direction as standard normal dispersion). One prediction not in standard theory, 'if there is 0 capacitance there is, of course, infinite speed' (p.212), is given without a number. Internal tensions: p.209 says light does not bend around the Sun while p.212 says the D.E.M picture explains deflection by strong gravitational fields; p.217 says nothing is emitted from the plate yet describes a cathode-anode current. (10) Peripheral statements (one line each): Alaska pipeline magnetised by 'dielectrically charged oil' (p.75); health effects of wireless charging (p.19); 'most lead is depleted uranium' and bismuth 'does not exist natively' (p.102); lightning branching 'in perfect golden ratio patterns' (p.192); Pacioli's De Divina Proportione said to have only two copies and no English translation (p.106, unsupported in the text); tesseract face counts (p.110); Litvinenko attributed to Putin (p.99); 'bismuth crystals will start flying off the shelf' (p.109, no stated financial interest). (11) Dedication (p.2): only D. Anderson is 'the late'; T. Martin and T. Vanderelli receive 'consideration' [read: lines 105-107 of the extracted text]; the digest of p.2 wrongly lists all three as 'late'.

Key claims

• Magnetic attraction does not exist: apparent attraction of iron to a magnet is 'dielectric voidance' and repulsion is 'dielectric counter-voidance', driven by dielectricity rather than magnetism [read: pp.8, 26, 96, 138].
• A 'magnet' is an electrified dielectric object (roughly 80-90% dielectric by his estimate) and magnetism is the radiative discharge of dielectric inertia, an Ether modality [read: pp.3, 54-56, 76].
• The field of a magnet is a magneto-dielectric hyperboloid / double vortex following the Poincare disk model, with a 'dielectric inertial plane' at its equator that is the Bloch wall [read: pp.58, 72, 112, 186].
• The 'ideal' precession angle and frequency is 42.4923 (degrees and MHz/T) = 180/phi^3, the proton's true gyromagnetic ratio is that value and the published 42.5781 is incorrect, and the maximum precession is 68.7539 degrees [read: pp.43-49].
• In a perfect magnet the ratio of dielectric to magnetic is 3.23606 : 1 (2 phi : 1) [read: pp.44, 46, 49].
• Magnetic field reciprocation follows the golden angle 137.5077 degrees (with 85 degrees as the remaining sector) as in sunflower phyllotaxis [read: pp.49-51].
• The mean centrifugal and centripetal field boundaries of a magnet lie at fixed fractions of its radius (0.23606, 0.381966 and 1.23606 times the radius) for magnets with aspect ratio 1 to phi, cubes and spheres [read: page images pp.149, 152].
• Space is not an independent entity but 'only a posterior attribute of magnetic divergences', and motion is the loss of inertia as space [read: pp.114-120].
• Newton's first law is wrong because no body is at rest and no motion is in a straight line; a field is not a force [read: p.113].
• The speed limit of space 'expressed by C squared' does not apply to longitudinal and dielectric field modalities [read: pp.115, 116, 118].
• Light has a radial 'dielectric' Z-axis component in addition to E and B; the photon and the photoelectric-effect explanation are wrong, and shorter wavelengths carry more 'dielectric capacitance' [read: pp.207-219, 228, 233].
• A ferrocell with coloured LEDs shows white light along a magnet's dielectric inertial plane and red/green along the poles, a result Wheeler predicted and calls a discovery (18 June 2014); no exposure, polariser, LED current or no-magnet control is recorded; one photo by Kris Lang is captioned as confirmation [read: pp.133-136, 174; page images pp.133-136].
• A 'programmed' bismuth disk (cast 'with applied charge and field', procedure not described) is photographed beside a standard disk with a 3 mm N45 cube hovering over each; the caption says the lifter is a 1 inch N50 cube '5 inches above' and the programmed disk gives 'much' higher levitation, which the photos do not show [read: p.99, page image p.99].
• Electrons, negative charge, photons, warped space, relativity and the 'mostly empty' atom do not exist; all fields are the Ether [read: pp.16, 20, 29-34, 89, 193].
• A permanent magnet can be a perpetual energy store: 'a permanent battery in two dimensions', and terawatts can vanish without effect through grounding (attributed to Tesla) [read: pp.33, 77].
• The 'dielectric' and 'magnetic' vortex model enables technology: data written between ferromagnetic platters in vacuum (100+ terabyte drive claim), vortex communication, tissue-regenerative magnet arrangements [read: digest pp.61, 72, 226-228].
• A CRT shows a magnet-held test pattern twisting clockwise at one pole face and counterclockwise at the other, and four closed lobes with the magnet vertical, offered as proof of opposite vortex spin at each pole and against a 'four poles' reading [read: pp.157-162, page images]. Standard electron optics predicts a pole-dependent sense of image rotation [memory: high].
• The gauss meter registers the highest 'pressure' at a magnet's divergent edge and second highest at the centre of each polarised side; every dipolar magnet is 'in reality a quadrapole' [read: pp.145-146]. No meter, value or magnet is given.
• Gravitational polarization is the principle behind gyroscopic weight loss, and gravitational mass equal to inertial mass is incorrect [read: p.190]; supported only by a quotation of Eric Laithwaite (p.181), with no test described.
• Breaking powerful hard-drive magnets 'on several occasions' shot out electrical charges 3 to 5 inches long like lightning; broken magnets split into four pieces 'like a pizza' and self-fold [read: pp.78-79]. First-hand, single source, no numbers.
• Wheeler has written 20 bits of data to a magnetized subject and reproduced it, and made a 7/15/2014 discovery with an undisclosed testing medium; methods are withheld [read: pp.61, 79].
• 'Psi x Phi = Q': electrification is the product of dielectric flux (coulomb) and magnetic flux (weber), a unit of action (joule-second) [read: pp.18, 54, 64, 211; [calc] units].
• The casting overlay on a bismuth disk marks angles of 137.5077, 137.5077 and 85 degrees, said to be 'CONFIRMED' golden-ratio imprints of dielectric inertia; the drawn figure measures about 103/130/130 degrees [read: page image p.105].
• Galactic jets are magnetic double hyperbolas fed by a dielectric accretion disk that creates new matter; black holes do not exist (cites Stephen J. Crothers) [read: pp.201-206].
• Higher-gauss magnets have a shorter, shallower field, not a longer reach [read: pp.66-68, 143].

Relevance: The only document in the project; it is the full statement of Wheeler's theory. The central claims come from here, as do the checkable numbers (42.4923, 137.5077, 85, 3.23606, 0.236/0.382/1.236 radius ratios), the demonstrations (ferrocell, ferrofluid, RGB LED, bismuth, steel-resting positions) and the named sources he leans on (Dollard, Tesla, Maxwell, Heaviside, Steinmetz, Russell). It is a third edition; a fourth edition is announced (p.235) but is not in the folder. The ferrocell patents cited are US8246356 and US20070241745 (p.163); the Investigator found only the second.

Mainstream conflict: Strong, on most points. Mainstream: magnetic force is real (dipole-dipole force, domains, Bloch walls, Lorentz force) and is not a form of dielectric voidance; the proton gyromagnetic ratio is a measured constant (42.5775 MHz/T) and a frequency per tesla is not an angle; Larmor precession of nuclear spins is not the mechanism of a bulk magnet (electron spin and orbital moments dominate; Fe-56 has zero nuclear spin); ferrofluid spikes are the normal-field (Rosensweig) instability; iron filings align along the local field; electrons, photons, relativity and quantum mechanics are experimentally well tested and the speed of light c is a speed (c squared has the wrong units); the photoelectric effect (threshold frequency, stopping potential) is explained by quantised photons; Newton's first law defines inertial frames. Points where he agrees with mainstream: div B = 0 so field lines close; poles are not isolated (cut magnets give new magnets); the standard Poincare disk / golden-angle / phi-identity algebra he reproduces is correct. These are mainstream statements recorded for the reviewers; verdicts are theirs [memory: high unless stated in the deep reads]. Added after QE: a pole-dependent twist of a CRT image under a magnet, and the edge-strongest field near a magnet face, are predicted by standard physics (electron optics, magnetostatics) and are not conflicts. The tabletop demonstrations of pp.54-96 (copper square, disk and steel disk at the equator, refrigerator, putty, self-folding, ring of spheres) follow from standard magnetostatics and Lenz's law. Conflicts: 'higher gauss = shallower field' (B scales linearly with remanence at fixed shape); gyroscopic weight loss (Hayasaka and Takeuchi 1989 reported it and 1990 repeats found none [memory: medium; not web-checked in this file]); beta radiation as not particle based (beta particles are electrons by charge-to-mass ratio and deflection); 'bismuth overunity' (a nucleus above its decay products decays, Bi-209 half-life about 2e19 years, with no violation of conservation). Psi x Phi = Q has the units of action, not of charge.

A metaphysical essay on the Sanskrit word kha (cavity, nave of a wheel, zero, void), with the cosmic wheel diagram (axle, hub, spokes, felly), Chinese jade tsung/pi, Dante, and Indian numeral words; 'zero is to number as possibility is to actuality', written 0 = X - X. It contains no physics measurements. Wheeler inserts captions tying it to his model: 'All cubic space is the resultant of magnetic divergence ... Zero does not exist, rather ... unmanifest inertia in counterspace; i.e. the Ether' (p.220), and a wheel photo labelled 'THE MAGNETO-DIELECTRIC ARCHETYPE' with hub = counterspatial, rim = 'inertial plane' (p.222) [read].

Key claims

• Zero is not nothing but unmanifest inertia in counterspace, the Ether (Wheeler's gloss on Coomaraswamy) [read: p.220].
• The wheel (hub counterspace, rim inertial plane) is an archetype of the magneto-dielectric field [read: p.222].

Relevance: Shows the philosophical roots Wheeler uses for 'counterspace', 'zero = infinite inertia' and the 'inertial plane'; the equation of these with magnet physics is by label, not argument.

Mainstream conflict: None as philosophy; no physical prediction. The mapping onto magnet fields is Wheeler's own.

Two clippings headed 'Twisted laser vortex breakthrough could lead to near-infinite bandwidth' and 'How twisted light transmits data faster than ever', with ring-shaped orbital-angular-momentum intensity patterns and helical wave-front renderings, plus a Greek epigraph (Heraclitus; a Thales line). Wheeler's caption (p.228): 'None of this could be possible without the missing component of light I have illuminated to you, that light has a Z-axis radial dielectric component.' The articles report their own research and are not aware of, nor reference, Wheeler's model as far as these pages show [read].

Key claims

• Optical-vortex (twisted light) communication depends on light having a Z-axis radial dielectric component [read: p.228, Wheeler's caption].

Relevance: Wheeler's one stated link between his model and a technology with independent research behind it; the link is asserted in a caption without data.

Mainstream conflict: Optical orbital angular momentum is standard (Laguerre-Gauss beams, Allen et al. 1992 [memory: high]); the 'dielectric Z component' is Wheeler's addition and conflicts with the transverse nature of vacuum plane waves.