
Library Status
Submitted by B Peret on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 20:22I am in the process of converting the old HTML files into the "book" format on the site. Once the books are entered here, they are fully searchable in the "Search this site" box. I have at least the Prefix for each book on the site now, and am working to convert the text and images for the remaining books.
Completed:
- Beyond Newton
- Nothing But Motion
- The Neglected Facts of Science
- The Case Against the Nuclear Atom
- New Light on Space and Time
- Universe of Motion
- Road to Full Employment
- Basic Properties of Matter
- Structure of the Physical Universe
- Quasars and Pulsars (Needs proofreading, better figures and formatting)
In Progress:
- Beyond Space and Time (Need to OCR... completed Preface through Chapter 3 of 28)
- Road to Permanent Prosperity (Completed through Chapter 10 of 26)

Site audio fixed
Submitted by B Peret on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 16:38I have applied all the latest Drupal and module updates, and the audio files are all "playable" again (Larson's conference lectures, and a few other things). Click on ISUS on the top right to get the audio options. Quite a bit of work... I had to reprocess ALL the audio files to be compatible with Flash player, which is picky and won't play a file unless the audio rate is 11025, 22050 or 44100 b/s! But, they are all working again now.
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Science Without Apologies
Submitted by DB Larson on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 11:17Principal Address to the Fourth Annual NSA Conference
University of Wisconsin, Superior, MN, July 20, 1979
In a well-known Gilbert and Sullivan opera a member of the constabulary undergoes some rather trying experiences in the course of carrying out his duties, and finally breaks into song, telling us that “a policeman‘s lot is not a happy one.” In many respects the lot of those who undertake to correct existing errors in any field of thought is similar to that of the policeman. There is no problem in the case of someone who simply makes a discovery in a new area. Both the scientific community and the world at large are ready to welcome a genuine addition to knowledge with some degree of enthusiasm, and they are willing to look tolerantly on any speculation that is not specifically in conflict with established thought, even if it involves something that strains credulity to the utmost, a black hole, for example.

The New Science of the Twenty-First Century
Submitted by DB Larson on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:36Published in: FRONTIERS of SCIENCE, Vol III, No. 5, July-August, 1981
Principal Address to the Third Annual NSA Conference
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, August 18, 1978
Video: As you’ve noticed, it took quite a little while for the CBS crew to set up this evening, and on that account we’re running at least a half an hour late. So I’m going to omit the first half hour of what I was going to say… It’s unfortunate, because that will include some of my most shady jokes. But I’ll try to take up from that half hour period. Frank took you back into history quite a little way, but just to do him one better, I’m going to go still farther back.

Twenty Years' Progress
Submitted by DB Larson on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:29Principal Address to Second Annual NSA Conference
Oxford, MS, August 19, 1977
The Reciprocal System of physical theory was first brought to the attention of the scientific community about twenty years ago in a book entitled The Structure of the Physical Universe, That book is now out of print, and for the last six or eight months I have been working on the first volume of a revised and greatly enlarged edition which, if all goes well, will be ready for publication in the not too distant future. One of the tasks that necessarily had to be undertaken in preparing for the revision was to make a detailed review of the entire subject matter of the original work, including the portions that were omitted for the published text in order to limit the size of the book. This review now offers a good opportunity to assess the amount of progress that has been made in the development of the theory during the twenty-year interval.

The Interaction of Alpha Particles and Gold Atoms: A New Explanation of Rutherford Scattering
Submitted by transpower on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:27Introduction
Nearly all present-day physicists are convinced of the truth of the assertion in the following quotation from Weidner and Sells’ Elementary Modern Physics(1):
It was by the alpha particle scattering experiments, suggested by Rutherford, that the existence of atomic nuclei was established.

CLOCK SPACE, COORDINATE SPACE; CLOCK TIME, COORDINATE TIME: What is the difference?
Submitted by transpower on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:23At last year’s ISUS convention, a number of individuals expressed difficulty in comprehending the difference between clock space and coordinate space and the difference between clock time and coordinate time. This note will review these concepts to aid the understanding of these individuals.

A Note on Scalar Motion
Submitted by transpower on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:16Beginning students of the Reciprocal System often have difficulty understanding scalar motion, confusing it with vectorial motion. I will attempt here to clarify matters.

The Mechanism of the Universe
Submitted by DB Larson on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:11Principal Address to the First Annual NSA Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 20, 1976
The human race, in its modern form, has been observing the universe from the surface of this planet for something like 50,000 years, perhaps as much as 100,000. But only within the last three or four thousand years has it had the capacity to analyze these observations and arrive at conclusions as to their significance. Yet on the basis of this extremely limited experience we somehow feel that we are competent to investigate events which, if they happened at all, happened ten or twenty billion years ago, and other events which, if they are ever going to happen, will not happen for an equally long time into the future.

Dialogue with Dewey B. Larson, Part II
Submitted by k_nehru on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:02Below are reproduced further comments on D. B. Larson’s Nothing But Motion (NBM) and on Quasars & Pulsars (QP), interspersed with responses by the author. The correspondence from which this dialogue is excerpted took place c. 1980.
