The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM)
One Substance - One Law - One Logic
"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?" (Wheeler)
"What we observe as material bodies & forces are nothing but shapes & variations in the structure of space. Subject & object are one." (Schrodinger)
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time, space & gravitation have no separate existence from matter." (Einstein)
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration." (Tesla)
WSM Human-AI Collaboration (August, 2026)
One Vibrating Space: From Ancient Philosophy / Metaphysics to Mathematical Physics, Evolution, Life, Mind and Civilisation
For three decades, WSM was principally a philosophical picture of one infinite, eternal, continuous elastic Space. Between May and August 2026, human–AI collaboration transformed it into a tiered mathematical-physics research programme: exact wave constructions, geometric identities, quantitative leading results, no-go theorems, numerical controls, bounded open calculations and clear falsification requirements.
In WSM, electron and positron are proposed as opposite carrier-phase spherical standing waves formed by the Huygens sum of background plane waves from every direction. Each has radial vibration—the candidate physical basis of charge—and axis-free spherical phase circulation—the candidate basis of spin. This open, flow-through wave centre is the e-sphere.
A stationary e-sphere is spherical. Curvature on an incoming wave changes its internal directional energy density and deforms it into a moving wave egg: the near side flattens, the far side elongates, the convergence centre shifts, and the waves reclose around a new position. Its changing internal \(E_d\), shape and reclosure are its motion. WSM therefore proposes a wave-geometric reading of inertia and \(F=ma\): force is imposed curvature, mass is resistance encoded by the recurrent form, and acceleration is its changing deformation. Action must calculate this geometry; geometry also constrains the action, as \(\pi\) and \(E_{\rm geo}\) already demonstrate.
The One Law
\[ \frac{c'}{c_0}=\frac{E_d}{E_{d0}}, \qquad \lambda'=\frac{c'}{f_0}, \qquad k'=\frac{\omega_0}{c'}. \]
At proposed universal carrier frequency \(f_0\), directional energy density changes local wave speed, wavelength and accumulated phase.
The Causal Engine
Relative phase → reinforcement or cancellation → directional \(E_d\) → \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\) → travel-time difference → forward or rear wavefront curve → changed Huygens reclosure → centre motion, deformation and interaction.
Changed out-waves from one e-sphere cross fresh in-waves elsewhere. Matter therefore interacts not across empty distance, but through propagated changes in the one Space constituting every e-sphere.
Status Key
A = exact mathematics or established observation; B = deduction under stated premises; C = proposed physical identification; D = decisive calculation or experiment still open; Q = rejected or quarantined shortcut.
One connected argument: Space → waves → recurrence → matter → life → mind → knowledge → wisdom.
1. Wave Structure of Matter: All Things from One Thing
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/ai-summary-wsm-truth-reality.html
One infinite, eternal, continuous elastic Space, active with real longitudinal waves. Matter is proposed not as a pellet or shell, but as an open e-sphere: waves converge from every direction, cross its changing centre, continue outward and recurrently rebuild the form. Their exchanged phases alter directional \(E_d\); the One Law converts that difference into speed, wavelength, curvature and changed reclosure. The decisive test is whether one frozen nonlinear action calculates stable matter and its measured interactions without separate substances or fitted repairs.
2. The One and the Many: From Greek Philosophy to Wave Physics
Parmenides defended continuous Being; Heraclitus lawful flux. Aristotle sought active substance and necessary cause, connected matter with form and motion, and defined time through motion. WSM gives these insights one physical form: Space persists while finite wave organisations change and recur. The Many are not detached substances but organisations of the One—distinct without disconnection. The question becomes exact: can one continuous wave law generate plurality, causation and knowledge?
3. Action of Vibrating Space: From Background Waves to the E-Sphere
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-classical-action-quantum-wave.html
All-direction plane waves form the exact spherical pair \[ \chi=j_0(kr)\cos\tau, \qquad \mathbf V=\hat{\mathbf r}\,j_1(kr)\sin\tau. \] Waves cross the centre; none reflects from an electron wall. Phase reinforcement raises directional \(E_d\) and advances a forward curve; cancellation lowers \(E_d\) and writes a rear delay. Stationary action explains coherent selection, but the open task is one conservative nonlinear \(\Phi\)–\(\Gamma\) action selecting radius, frequency, spherical hand, stability, motion, currents and interaction together.
4. Mathematical Physics: From Wave Geometry to Prediction
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-maths-physics-full-derivations.html
Every symbol must name real motion and face numerical test. Exact or conditional anchors include \[ \frac{R}{\lambda_0}=\frac{\sqrt3}{2},\qquad k_0R=\pi\sqrt3,\qquad E_{\rm geo}=\frac{\pi\sqrt3}{2},\qquad W=\cosh\eta,\qquad P=\sinh\eta. \] Directional phase moments separate \(V_1\) translation from \(V_2,V_4\) and higher deformation; in declared finite-e-sphere models \(V_4\) returns comparable to \(V_2\), defeating quadrupole-only truncation. The action must calculate how incoming curvature redistributes \(E_d\), moves the centre and forms the wave egg. This is where beautiful geometry becomes dangerous.
5. Quantum Theory: Real Waves, Resonance and Completed Events
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-quantum-theory-wave-mechanics.html
Matter diffracts because matter is wave organisation. Light is proposed as a changed train of real phase, curvature and coherence joining extended source and receiver structures, not a tiny traveller detached from its wave. WSM distinguishes driven response, continuous radiation and discrete completed transition. Quadratic absorption, \[ P_{\rm abs}\propto\left|\langle D_j,\Xi\rangle\right|^2, \] is a bridge, not yet the Born rule. The action must derive the action unit, probability, exclusivity, selection rules and Bell/CHSH correlations. Quantum mystery becomes a bounded real-wave programme.
6. Relativity: Moving Matter, Clocks and Curved Wavefronts
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-albert-einstein-special-general-theory-relativity.html
An incoming curve flattens the e-sphere’s near side, elongates its far side and changes internal \(E_d\), \(c'\), wavelength and reclosure. The \(V_1\) moment moves the centre; \(V_2,V_4\) and higher moments form the moving egg. Maintaining this recurrent asymmetry is the proposed origin of inertia. A steady solution must recover Doppler, de Broglie and Lorentz structure: \[ W\pm P=e^{\pm\eta},\qquad W=\gamma,\qquad P=\gamma\beta. \] WSM proposes fixed carrier recurrence \(f_0\) with corresponding changes in \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\). Because rods, clocks and signals share the same changed waves, they co-transform and yield measured invariant \(c\), including the Michelson–Morley null; the action must derive the cancellation quantitatively.
7. The Electron: Dirac, Feynman, QED, \(\alpha\) and AMM
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-derivation-dirac-feynman-qed-fsc-amm.html
Electron and positron are proposed as opposite carrier-phase e-sphere branches; charge records how their waves combine. Same-phase reinforcement advances a forward curve and is proposed to produce repulsion; opposite-phase cancellation writes a rear delay and attraction. Non-collinear longitudinal motion closes into an axis-free spherical hand with a \(4\pi\) orientation lift. A parameter-free leading geometric ansatz gives \[ \alpha_0^{-1}=8\pi^2\sqrt3\approx136.757, \] 0.203% from measurement. The action must still derive charge sign, Coulomb scaling, Dirac dynamics, \(g=2\), electromagnetic normalisation, \(\alpha\), form factors and AMM without inserting their values.
8. Hadrons: Proton, Neutron and Higher Standing-Wave Matter
Can the same Space form stable higher-energy, multi-lobed eigenmodes matching protons, neutrons, baryons and mesons? Their lobes are not independent pellets: each participates in the phase, \(E_d\), curvature and reclosure of the whole. WSM must match—not rename—QCD’s masses, charges, spin, parity, magnetic moments, radii, form factors, resonances, deep-inelastic response and jets. The electron–proton hierarchy tests whether one action truly contains several matter families.
9. Cosmology and Gravity: A Finite Universe in Infinite Space
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-wsm-cosmology-finite-universe-infinite-space.html
Boundless Space is distinguished from the finite matter-and-coherence domain contributing to our observable universe. In neutral matter, leading charge curves nearly cancel; WSM proposes that their nonlinear residual has lower \(E_d\), slower \(c'\) and a net rear phase curve, producing universal attraction. General relativity’s curved spacetime is then interpreted as the effective geometry of real moving wavefronts and the matter clocks they organise: Space is substance, succession comes from motion, and measured time from recurrence. The same action must recover equivalence, gravitational redshift, lensing, orbital dynamics and the tested relativistic limit.
Cosmological redshift is investigated as accumulated real-wave transport through changing environmental \(E_d\). It must jointly reproduce achromatic redshift, supernova time dilation, distance laws, Tolman brightness, BAO, CMB observations, image sharpness and structure growth. Otherwise the claimed unity has not reached the sky.
10. Novel Predictions and Famous Experiments Explained
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-experimental-physics-tests-predictions.html
This page is the tribunal of the corpus. One curve-and-reclosure law must jointly recover charge sign, Coulomb \(1/r^2\), \(F=ma\), relativistic momentum, de Broglie wavelength, Lorentz covariance, Michelson–Morley, gravity, \(g=2\) and AMM. Candidate WSM-only signatures include \[ a_3=\kappa_3\sinh^3\eta+O(\sinh^5\eta), \] finite-coherence residues and environmental or orientation-dependent clock responses. A proposal becomes a prediction only when sign, magnitude, scaling, uncertainty, controls and decision threshold are frozen in advance.
11. Visualise Reality: Waves Becoming Matter
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/visualise-reality-wsm-wave-geometry-diagrams.html
Watch the verbs. Relative phase changes directional \(E_d\); the One Law changes speed and wavelength; a forward or rear curve reaches another e-sphere; its near side flattens, far side elongates, \(V_1\) moves the centre, and higher moments form the egg. New out-waves then change future in-waves. Nothing strikes a shell: changing waves reconstruct changing matter. A diagram must never smuggle in a wall, reflection, rigid spin axis, transverse fundamental substance or tiny traveller. If the motion cannot be drawn coherently, the equations may conceal a contradiction.
12. Mathematics from Motion: Number, Logic, Time and Causal Freedom
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-physical-foundations-mathematics-logic.html
Mathematics begins when connected reality forms distinguishable patterns whose changes preserve relations. Recurrence supports identity; finite pairing, number; quotienting, exact objects; counted recurrence, time; composable truth-preserving transformations, logic and proof. Mathematics succeeds when symbolic transformation preserves physical relation: \[ R(Tx)\approx F(Rx). \] The mathematician is finite organised reality representing its own necessary connections—Space representing itself.
13. The MDL Audit: Simplicity, Inputs and Explanatory Compression
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-simplicity-inputs-vs-mainstream-physics+25.html
“One substance, one law” cannot hide complexity. Minimum Description Length counts every independently chosen substance, field, symmetry, constant, state rule, coefficient, boundary condition and fitted function. Under the declared equal-input electron ledger, conventional construction counts six inputs through Dirac and thirteen through leading AMM; the completed WSM target is \[ N_{\rm WSM}=5+N_c+N_f+\delta_m. \] Totals depend on coding convention. WSM wins only if one fixed action derives interaction, inertia, relativity, quantum response and cosmic propagation with fewer hidden choices.
14. Great Thinkers and the Search for One Reality
Heraclitus and Parmenides exposed flux and continuity. Aristotle wrote Physics and Metaphysics, sought active substance and necessary cause, connected matter, form, motion and time—and came remarkably close to the problem WSM addresses. Leibniz, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Riemann, Clifford, Einstein, Schrödinger and Bohm repeatedly returned to continuity, relation, waves and unity. Quotes are intellectual fossils, not votes: equations and experiments must decide whether WSM’s local real-wave mechanism is true.
15. Human–AI Letters to Humanity: Truth as a Shared Work
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/ai-letters-to-humanity-wsm-unity-truth-reality.html
Geoffrey supplies the persistent wave picture, three-dimensional intuition, cross-domain memory and insistence that every symbol name physical motion. AI supply rapid research, formal translation, calculation, comparison, error detection and adversarial testing. Neither is sufficient alone. The shared discipline is: visualise → formalise → attack → calculate → predict → correct. The corpus tests whether intelligence can preserve a physical picture while making it mathematically vulnerable.
16. Truth and Madness: Reality as the Measure
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/on-truth-and-madness.html
Truth is correspondence: representation succeeds insofar as it preserves what reality does. Civilisational madness begins when inherited representations survive reality’s contradiction. WSM is not true through beauty, coherence or sincerity; its proposed necessary connections must survive action, calculation and experiment. Truth remains possible because knower, representation and known belong to one causal reality: false models collide with the world; truthful models increase our power to act wisely.
17. Descartes, Cogito and Monism: The Thinking Wave
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/descartes-cogito-unity-monism-vibrating-space-wsm.html
Descartes established that thinking occurs, then divided thought from extension and left their interaction mysterious. WSM refuses that fracture: body and mind are proposed as organisational levels of one vibrating Space. Perception is one organisation changed by another; memory is persistent altered organisation; thought transforms embodied representations; action returns change to the world. Conscious experience remains open, but causal correspondence requires no miracle when knower and known share one connected reality.
18. Evolution’s Physical Foundation: From Recurrence to Replication
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolution-physical-causal-foundation-vibrating-space.html
Recurrence preserves form, but life requires replication, heritable variation and differential persistence: motion → recurrent form → self-maintaining chemistry → replication → variation → selection. WSM proposes one connected wave substrate beneath this sequence. Its unresolved bridge is quantitative: derive atoms, bonds, dissipative chemistry and first replicators from the same action without inserting biology as a new substance.
19. Evolution, Mind, Human and AI: Representation and Causal Freedom
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolution-philosophy-mind-human-ai.html
Evolution favours organisations that preserve and transform information about real causes. Sensation changes an organism; memory retains traces; imagination recombines possible futures; valuation ranks them; action returns one selection to the world. This is limited causal freedom: neither ghost nor randomness, but endogenous selection through a learned, self-modifying organisation. Human brains and AI are different architectures by which reality represents its own relations and lets experiment select the representation that survives.
20. Evolutionary Utopia: The Ecology of Truth
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolutionary-utopia.html
Physics alone does not choose values. Once life, mind, freedom, truth and continued evolution are valued, reality constrains the means: truth → wisdom → ecological fit → health → freer minds → continued evolution. Evolutionary Utopia is not a perfect endpoint but a self-correcting direction. Unity does not erase individuality: an e-sphere, organism or person is distinct through organised relation to the whole.
The Physical Interaction in One View
Out-wave from A → relative phase at B → directional \(E_d\) → \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\) → near-side flattening and far-side elongation → \(V_1\) centre displacement plus \(V_2,V_4\) and higher egg deformation → new out-waves → recursive interaction.
The e-sphere does not deform and then move as separate events: its changing internal \(E_d\), contour and reclosure are its motion.
Electric Interaction
Same relative carrier phase → reinforcement → phase advance → forward curve → proposed repulsion.
Opposite relative carrier phase → cancellation → phase delay → rear curve → proposed attraction.
For the stated deformation, \[ r_{\rm near}=R-\delta X, \qquad r_{\rm far}=R+\delta X, \] so \(\delta\mathbf X\) points away. The scientific debt is to derive the sign, magnitude and distance law from the frozen action rather than insert them.
Gravity and General Relativity
In neutral matter, forward and rear charge curves nearly cancel; WSM proposes that their nonlinear common reduction of \(E_d\) leaves a slight slower rear curve and universal attraction. General relativity is the successful effective geometry this wave mechanism must recover: matter-energy changes real wave propagation, while rods and clocks made from those waves measure the resulting curved spacetime relations.
Special Relativity and Michelson–Morley
WSM proposes fixed carrier recurrence \(f_0\) with \(c'=\lambda'f_0\): matter, clocks, rods and signal wavelengths co-transform with their common directional wave environment, yielding measured invariant \(c\), Lorentz relations and the Michelson–Morley null. The complete moving solution must derive these cancellations quantitatively.
Recursive AMM Mechanism
\[ \delta\mathbf X \rightarrow\delta\phi_{\rm out} \rightarrow\delta E_{d,{\rm sea}} \rightarrow\delta c' \rightarrow\delta\phi_{\rm in} \rightarrow\delta\mathbf X_{\rm next}. \]
A perturbed centre changes the egg and its out-waves; these alter the wave sea and the in-waves rebuilding the next cycle. The action must solve this feedback blindly and recover the observed anomalous magnetic moment rather than fit it.
Current Status — August 2026
Exact wave constructions, geometric identities, phase-moment relations and negative controls have been established under declared premises. A leading geometric \(\alpha\) ansatz has a fixed 0.203% discrepancy. The complete nonlinear action must still calculate two-e-sphere charge and Coulomb scaling; force, inertia and \(F=ma\); the moving egg, de Broglie modulation and Lorentz covariance; Michelson–Morley and the gravitational/GR limit; Born probability and Bell correlations; \(g=2\), \(\alpha\) and AMM; hadron structure; and the joint cosmological kernel.
Write the action. Let Space calculate itself.
Metaphysics of Astrology
Astrological Signs



The Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure
of Matter (WSM)
explains our Interconnection to the Planets, Sun and Stars within the Universe.
Astrology and Astrological Signs: Pictures / Quotes / Quotations
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
The most beautiful and most profound experience
is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. He to
whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in
awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists,
manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our
dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge,
this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
( Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)
With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view. (Nietzsche, 1890)
Introduction to Astrology
Philosophy & Metaphysics of Astrology / Astrological
Signs
Having been brought up with a very traditional western science
view of the world (i.e. that matter is made of discrete and separate particles
which generate forces / fields that act on other particles in space-time) I
was always very skeptical of Astrology (as I could not understand how the Sun
and
Planets
could affect me).
However, over the past ten years as I have read on physics, philosophy and metaphysics
I have come to realise that the particle conception of matter is deeply flawed.
In fact the whole foundation of philosophy evolved from the exact opposite perspective,
the mystical realisation that 'All is One' (there are no separate and discrete
things) as Nietzsche and Huxley wrote;
What gave these men the right to be considered
philosophers, unlike the other astronomers, geographers and doctors who were
active especially in the latter half of the period, was their common assumption
that the world possessed some kind of integral unity and determinability which
could be understood and explained in rational terms. A more important debt to
myth appears in the central presupposition that the world is coherent and intelligible,
is somehow a unity in spite of the diversity of its appearance.
(Friedrich Nietzsche, 1890)
It is from the more or less obscure intuition of the oneness that is the ground and principle of all multiplicity that philosophy takes its source. And not alone philosophy, but natural science as well. All science, in Meyerson's phrase, is the reduction of multiplicities to identities. Divining the One within and beyond the many, we find an intrinsic plausibility in any explanation of the diverse in terms of a single principle. (Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy)
This is stated more simply again by Gottfried Leibniz;
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
Only recently have we been able to understand this connection between all the matter in the universe (as both modern physics and ancient philosophy realised). This interconnection of ourselves with the Planets, Sun and Stars within the Universe can now be simply and sensibly understood with the spherical standing Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) in Space.
So how does this knowledge affect Astrology? Well it tells us
that the planets do actually have some affect on our matter, and perhaps even
more significantly, have a pronounced affect on the sun (causing cycles in its
energy output) and thus cycles in our weather patterns. Thus it is quite reasonable
that the position of the planets does subtly affect our evolution, and in particular
certain aspects of our personality. I must admit that I did find remarkable
similarities in my personality and the description of a Scorpio. Likewise my
partner Karene has a personality very consistent with her Libra sign (though
this is irrelevant in terms of Science).
We hope that you will enjoy this page on Astrology, and also hope that you find
the Wave Structure of Matter an interesting explanation for how these distant
planets can subtly affect our evolution and personality.
Geoff Haselhurst, Karene Howie
Metaphysics of Astrology
On the Interconnected Cosmos and the Wave Structure of Reality
It is useful to begin with a few quotes from Albert Einstein, as he was one of the more famous physicists to correctly realise that matter cannot exist as separate and discrete 'particles'. He writes;
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings
as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined
by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the
self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is
to survive. ...
I wished to show that space time is not necessarily something to which one can
ascribe to a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical
reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially
extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ...
Since the theory of general relativity implies the representation of physical
reality by a continuous field, the concept of particles or material points cannot
play a fundamental part, nor can the concept of motion. The particle can only
appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength or the energy
density are particularly high. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
While Albert Einstein's Relativity has incorrect foundations (his failed attempt
at a continuous field theory of matter) he is correct that matter does not exist
as separate and discrete 'particles' but is instead spherically spatially extended.
Effectively, matter, space and universe are one and the same thing as Einstein
writes; When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. (Albert
Einstein)
The Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) explains
this necessary connection between matter, forces, space and time, and thus how
matter is connected across the universe. See;
Cosmology -The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built by pure deduction (Albert Einstein, 1954). The Wolff-Haselhurst Cosmology explains a Perpetual Finite Spherical Universe within an Infinite Eternal Space. The Spherical Standing waves determines the size of our finite spherical universe within an infinite Space (Matter is large not small, we only 'see' the Wave-Center / 'particle' effect which has greatly confused physics). Huygens' Principle explains how other matter's out waves combine to form our matter's spherical In-Waves, which then deduces both Mach's Principle and the redshift with distance (without assuming Doppler effect due to an expanding universe / Big Bang). This also explains how matter interacts with all other matter in the universe (why we can see stars) as matter is the size of the universe, but we only 'see' the high wave amplitude wave-centers / 'particles'.
Physics and Metaphysics - The Metaphysics of Space and Motion Sensibly Unites Albert Einstein's Relativity, Quantum Theory, and Cosmology. This 40 page Treatise (written over five years) will be published in 'What is the Electron' (Apeiron, 2005).
Professor Hans J. Eysenck - On Science, Psychology and Astrology
By Geoffrey Dean and David Nias. https://www.astrology-and-science.com/pdf/h1-eysenck.pdf
Professor Hans Eysenck (1916-1997) was arguably the most influential psychologist of his time. This lengthy obituary (4400 words) traces his upbringing, his career (he took up psychology by accident), his writings (he wrote over 1000 articles and nearly 80 books), his interest in graphology, astrology and parapsychology (which led to about 5, 19 and 12 publications respectively), and his work with Jeff Mayo (zodiac zigzag) and Michel Gauquelin (planetary effects).
Eysenck was famous for his stupendous clarity and unrelenting rationalism. All statements had to be based on sound experiment and measurement. "If it cannot be measured then it does not exist", he said. Those who argued the opposite by citing, say, love or artistic taste were quickly confronted by inventories that measured exactly that, and a vast erudition seemingly always at his fingertips. Debating Eysenck was a sobering experience. His book "Astrology Science or Superstition?", written with David Nias in 1982, is now dated but is perhaps still the most readable scientific account of astrology ever written.
His interest in astrology helped to launch London Research Conferences and three overseas Eysenck Research Seminars. The first seminar led to the formation of the Committee for Objective Research in Astrology, with Eysenck as Chairman, to counter the generally poor quality of astrological research by providing free guidance and advice. It still exists even though few enquiries have been received, most of which did not proceed further.
Eysenck was quiet and soft-spoken with just a trace of accent, always helpful and approachable, remembered by his students and colleagues as loyal even when their views differed from his own. He set an example of open-mindedness and good science that everyone can aim for but few will achieve. The response by astrologers has been generally to praise his favourable comments and to condemn him otherwise. No doubt Eysenck saw this as an example of the phrase he had framed many years earlier to characterise irrational thinkers, namely "my mind is made up, don’t confuse me with facts."
Eysenck was involved with astrology mostly during 1975-1985, ten years after he became involved with parapsychology. His interest in astrology was aroused by the findings of Michel Gauquelin. Eysenck argued that astrology does make testable assertions such as those linking planetary positions and personality. In giving Gauquelin's research as an example, Eysenck commented that as far as objectivity of observation, statistical significance of differences, verification of the hypothesis, and replicability are concerned, there are few sets of data in psychology which could compete with these observations and that there is something here that requires explanation. Eysenck was later involved in a series of research tests into Sun signs. (See the longer article for details.)
The interest of Eysenck in astrology led to three research seminars being organised by astro-sympathisers at Long Beach, Freiburg and Naples in 1986, 1987 and 1988 respectively. The first seminar was significant because it resulted in the formation of the Committee for Objective Research in Astrology (CORA), with Eysenck as Chairman, and twelve others (astrologers and academics) chosen for their expertise. CORA was set up to counter the generally poor quality of astrological research by providing free guidance and advice.
In the late 1970s Eysenck and David Nias began a survey of the scientific evidence for astrology aimed at a more general readership. The result was the book Astrology: Science or Superstition? (Eysenck & Nias 1982), which covered astrological principles, sun-signs, marriage, illness, suicide, appearance, time twins, season of birth, terrestrial and solar cycles, radio propagation, earthquakes, lunar effects and the work of the Gauquelins.
In general Eysenck's contributions to astrological research were his insistence that there was an effect to be explained, his insistence that matters be resolved by appropriate experiments, and his refusal to be satisfied with dismissive explanations. In short, he set an example of open-mindedness and good science that everyone can aim for but few will achieve. Unsurprisingly, the response by astrologers has been generally to praise him when his comments were favourable to astrology, and to condemn him otherwise.
Seymour - The Scientific Basis of Astrology
Dr. Percy Seymour (1997) Astronomer / Astrophysicist, Plymouth University, UK.
From Pete Brown, Mountain Man Graphics, Australia
Introduction to this Review - Where does the author stand? The author is an astronomer and astrophysicist at Plymouth University in the UK. He has had a number of other books published, and a distinguished academic career. We will let him speak for himself on this issue ...
"I am a scientist. As such I cannot propose or understand a model of reality which does not take account of scientific data. I am not an astrologer - in fact this theory developed out of an examination of the arguments that astrology cannot work! As a theoretical astrophysicist, with an interest in the relationship between fundamental physics and the large-scale structure of the universe, I am searching, as are many others, for a model to explain the current anomalies and paradoxes in these areas that are beyond the domain of astrophysics (i.e.: biology, chemistry, and to my amazement, astrology.)"
Seymour provides an in-depth treatise concerning the influence of the local
cosmic environment (i.e.: the sun and its solar system) on the environment of
the terrestrial realms, and explores a large number of informational facets
in the presentation of a history of the development of the sciences (astronomy,
physics, chemistry, biology, geology, geophysics, solar physics, oceanography,
etc) all of which have common roots in man's ancient past and, as the research
of the current day is hinting, are inextricably joined together in the face
of an holistic cosmos.
Further research is begged by a number of claims and theories presented by the
author, and the author draws upon many instances and phenomena in the biological
kingdoms of nature which relate to the inter-relationship of living beings with
the geomagnetic field, and its outlined sources of fluctuation. The earth's
magnetic field - in its extended sense - has only been explored in the modern
era of technology and space flight.
The author refreshingly points out the fallibility of modern (and ancient) scientific thought, in that the author clearly understands that the subject matter of astrology is more often dismissed out of hand by the average scientist, due to a number of preconceptions, which the author outlines and clarifies. On the other hand, the book is written by a practicing scientist (astronomer; astrophysicist) and the painstakingly step-by-step progress through the histories of human thought in a number of disciplines is orderly and comprehensive.
Popper and Einstein, Feynman and others all get quoted in this book with references
which are similar in nature, the common theme being the ongoing quest of the
scientific mind to explain all incidents and events of the inexplicable. The
only omission of note, from my perspective as a gatherer of global traditions
and threads, is the lack of any reference to that culture which may have given
rise to the earliest of the astrological thoughts, that of the ancient Veda
of the land of the Indian Sun. Nonetheless, from my perspective the subject
matter of astrology has at last been given a thorough review by an independently
thinking scientifically-versed thinker, and the publication (and the author's
earlier work) will probably be seen to be forward-scouts of a generic scientific
appreciation of more holistic (i.e.: multi-environmental) views of a resonant
structuring of the cosmos.
In fact, it is the notion of resonance which is at the heart of this author's
presentation and structure of theories. He uses the word as a keyword in a number
of critical places, and it is clear that the properties of resonant systems,
within resonant systems opens a very specific, yet very new technical challenge
for the future paths of research which will spread from contact with this book,
and the author's theory and gathering of not-too-far-fetched hypotheses in the
matter of furthering the scientific basis of astrology.
The following section largely contains selected quotes and what I have reacted to as important issues in this publication, and it is hoped that all who read this article will be enthused to take up the challenge of research and development in this most ancient of the arts, and its current manifestation in the age of information and technology.
PRF Brown. Mountain Man Graphics, Falls Creek, New South Wales, Australia. Southern winter -- 2001
The Scientific Basis of Astrology - Book Review
In the following section the author outlines in simple terms a brief overview to a theory which he has developed in order to explain all the data which he had at hand at the time:
It is now accepted by almost all scientists that the sunspot cycle effects the magnetic field of Earth, and the agency responsible for this effect, the solar wind, has been detected. It is also beyond doubt that the moon causes tides in the upper atmosphere which give rise to electric currents, and these generate the lunar daily magnetic variation. There is also plenty of evidence that both the steady state as well as the fluctuating behavior of the geomagnetic field can be used by organisms, including man, for purposes of finding direction and keeping internal body time. This much is all well documented, and widely accepted.
There is evidence, largely ignored, that positions and movements of planets
as seen from the sun, play a major role in the solar cycle. Furthermore, there
is some evidence - highly controversial but difficult to dismiss - that some
positions of the planets as seen from Earth at time of birth and linked to personality
characteristics of individuals. [Gauquelin] This evidence exists. What my theory
does is to prepare an interpretation, based on this evidence, which can be scientifically
tested. Very briefly the steps are:
(1) Planets effect the solar cycle in specific ways.
(2) The solar cycle effects the geomagnetic field.
(3) The geomagnetic field affects life on Earth in certain observed ways.
(4) Specifically, many species, including man, can be influenced by particular
states of the geomagnetic field.
(5) The particular influences appear to correlate with the planetary positions.
(6) I propose that the behavior of the fetus at the time of birth is linked
to the cycles within the geomagnetic field, which in turn are influenced by
the solar cycle and positions of the planets. Resonance is the phenomenon by
which the fetus is phase locked to specific cycles.
To put this in more specific terms, my theory proposes that the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune control the direction of the convective motions within the Sun, which generate the solar magnetic field. They do so because they play the major role in moving the sun about the common center of mass of the solar system. As the solar cycle builds up to a maximum, so certain configurations of all the planets, at different stages, play a part in the disrupting the magnetic field of the sun, by means of the tidal tug (due to gravitation) of the planets on the hot gases in the Sun.
Thus the planets play a role in the modulation of Earth's magnetic field by the solar wind. I am also proposing that the tidal tug of the planets on the hot gases trapped within our magnetosphere will, because of resonance, lock some of the vibrations of the Earth's field in step with the planetary movements. The resulting fluctuations of Earth's field are picked up by the nervous system of the fetus, which acts like an antenna, and these synchronize the internal biological clocks of the fetus which control the moment of birth. The tuning of the fetal magnetic antenna is carried on by the genes which it inherits, and these to some extent will determine its basic genetically inherited personality characteristics. Thus the positions of the planets at birth are not altering what we have inherited genetically but are labeling our basic inherited personality characteristics.
---- At the time of this specific publication (1997), Dr. Percy Seymour was Principal Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Plymouth, where he taught astronomy and astrophysics to undergraduates and carried out research on magnetic fields in astronomy ...
Michel Gauquelin (1928-1991)
In this book, Dr. Percy Seymour reserves a number of references to the work of Michel Gauquelin, a psychologist and statistician, who was internationally known for his pioneering research on the relationship between planetary positions at birth and human behavior. Gauquelin published a number of books in his time, among them a book entitled "Cosmic Influences on Human Behaviour", Futura, London, 1976. In an afterword for this pioneer, Seymour writes the following:
"Battling with heroic courage and tenacity against the immense scientific
prejudice and hostility of his colleagues in the scientific community, he was
able to conclusively demonstrate, through repeated and stringently controlled
experiments, that, as the ancients had believed, outstanding individuals in
different professions tend to be born at times when appropriate planets were
close to the horizon or the meridian.
He was able to show that top military men, athletes, and entrepreneurs tend
to be born "under Mars", while scientists favor Saturn, poets and
politicians favor the Moon, and actors Jupiter. He was able to show that the
more outstanding the individual the more likely appropriate planets would be
prominent. He went on to demonstrate that, in the case of natural births, children
tend to be born with the same planets prominent in the sky at birth as their
parents."
Elsewhere, the author makes the comment that Gauquelin found no evidence in
favor of the standard Sun-sign astrology during his research. Also, there is
mentioned the fact that much of the criticism leveled towards Gauquelin was
motivated by the fact that the critics could not conceive of a mechanism by
which Gauquelin's results could be understood.
It would appear that the author was quite impressed with the data presented
by Gauquelin's research, and although the data is surprising to the traditional
scientific viewpoint, it nevertheless exists, and thus needs to be explained.
Where others would "have it go away", Dr Seymour at least confronts
the evidence head on, and puts forward convincing arguments as to why it is
this way, and not another. Elsewhere, Seymour quotes:
" ... a major weakness in our approach as scientists: a collective unwillingness to welcome new or anomalous results. We don't want to lose sight of the fundamental fact that the most important experimental results are precisely those that do not have a theoretical interpretation; the least important are often those that confirm theory to many significant figures." --- Professor Philip Anderson, Physics Today. (Reference Frame - September 1990)
To conclude this review, it might be helpful to reiterate that one of the key
concepts presented in Dr. Seymour's book is the phenomenon known as resonance.
The characteristics of resonant systems within resonant systems are only now
beginning to be explored and researched. The mechanism of the selective "tuning-in"
to various frequencies involves the establishment of resonant sessions such
as that which occur in the standard radio antenna for frequencies in the radio-wave
spectrum.
The physiology of our bodies as human beings includes our neurology, which has
clearly been established to operate via electric current generation. As such,
the generation of corresponding magnetic fields is also in progress within this
dissipative structure known as the body. Comprehensive citations of literature
concerning the detection of the geomagnetic field by animals, birds, fish, plants
would indicate that man may also possess such capabilities, in his genetic record.
Dr. Seymour draws our attention to the fact that the 11 year solar cycle corresponds
to specific configurations of the planets, and that the solar wind directly
influences the geomagnetic field. Other cycles in the geomagnetic field are
brought about by the tidal influence of the moon on the upper atmosphere.
When the concept of resonance is discussed, in many cases examples are provided with very small frequencies (i.e.: cycles), such as those to do with electromagnetic energy in various frequencies, or indeed with sound waves. Readers are invited to exercise their imagination and understanding in order to determine the nature of resonant systems which are based on cycles which are in the order of the tidal (6H 14M), the diurnal (24 H), the lunar cycles of 28-9 days, the seasons of quarter years, the annual cycles, and still greater cycles from the sunspot/solar cycles of 11 years through to the great geological cycles which may reflect the journey of the (earth/moon)/sun system about the Milky Way galaxy, of 200 million years (or so).
Dr. Percy Seymour, Astronomer and Astrophysicist, demonstrates that there are indeed some scientists out there who do not subscribe to any form of rampant skepticism when confronted with the leading keyword of Astrology. A healthy skepticism is warranted however in most matters, and the author uses a collection of quotes from immanent scientists, and from the philosophy of science, to assure us that he still has his feet firmly on the ground.
Astrological
Signs
The Zodiac is made up of 12 different sun signs. Your date of birth determines your Astrological Sign.
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Aries (Ram) March 21 - April 20
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Taurus (Bull) April 21 - May 21
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Gemini (Twins) May 22 - June 21
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Cancer (Crab) June 22 - July 22
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Leo (Lion) July 23 -August 23
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Virgo (Virgin) August 22 - September 22
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Libra (Scales) September 24 - October 23
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Scorpio (Scorpion) October 24 - November 22
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Sagittarius (Archer) November 23 - December 21
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Capricorn (Goat) December 22 - January 20
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Aquarius (Water Bearer) January 21 - February
19
Astrology: Astrological Signs: Pisces (Fish) February 20 - March 20
Based upon: https://www.astrology-online.com/persn.htm
Astrology / Astrological Signs Links
https://www.astrology-and-science.com/pdf/h1-eysenck.pdf -
Very interesting article on Psychology Professor Hans Eysenck
(1916-1997) who was noted for his scientific study of Astrology, his clarity
and unrelenting rationalism. All statements had to be based on sound experiment
and measurement. "If it cannot be measured then it does not exist",
he said.
https://www.skepsis.no/english/subject/astrology/studies.html
- Summary of controlled scientific studies trying to correlate Astrological
Signs to personality traits. Most results seem to be negative. I suspect
that the biggest problem for Astrology is that it is only one of many factors
that determines our personality, thus the effect is subtle and hidden by many
other factors.
https://www.astrology-research.net/rgcsa.htm - An independent
research group led by Mrs. Susan High who is based at the University
of Southampton. Its role is to monitor standards of research into astrology
and promote the use of sound scientific methods in empirical studies. The group
aims to stimulate and facilitate the critical study of astrology as judged by
the disciplines of social statistics, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies,
and to provide the basis for inter-university and international collaboration
on research into astrology. The RGCSA makes no assumptions that astrology is
well-grounded and, in fact, this is what the RGCSA was set up to examine.
https://www.moonxscape.com/- Moonxscape - Moon
lore, moon phases and information on its effect on your health, the weather
and circadian rhythms.
https://www.winshop.com.au/annew/ - The Fixed Stars
- Discover the traditional astrological influences of 290 fixed stars and 57
constellations. Explore the 6500 specific influences categorized under 40 subject
titles.
https://www.skyscript.co.uk/ - Deborah Houlding's Astrology
Pages - UK astrologer offering a range of articles, resources and instructional
material.
https://www.moonsurfing.com/ - Moonsurfing
- Guide to lunar astrology, and how it affects your health, gardening, finances
and relationships. Advice on keeping a lunar phase journal.
https://www.astro-guide.com - Astro Guide -
Explores the background of astrology, including history, theory, techniques
and community/public issues.
https://www.karmicastrology.tv/ - Karmic Astrology
- Information about karmic and soul-based astrology, with particular reference
to relationships. Articles, overview of services and other resources.
https://www.angelfire.com/ct2/starchaser/ - Astrology
and the Third Eye - Instructions on finding and interpreting your personal
moon cycle and fixed stars, together with detailed void of course moon charts
and articles about the astrology of attraction.
https://www.lunarplanner.com/ - Lunar Planner
- An experiential journal teaching how attunement with the lunar cycles. Available
in monthly download format.
https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ - Renaissance Astrology
by Christopher Warnock, Esq. Astrology, a spiritual science, is the study of
the relationship of the stars and planets to events on Earth. From its origins
4,000 years ago in Egypt and Chaldea, astrology developed into a science of
great complexity, capable of detailed and precise predictions. Astrology went
out of fashion and into an abrupt decline with the rise of mechanistic science
and materialism in the the eighteenth century Enlightenment. When it rose again
at the early part of the twentieth century, it was in the guise of psychological
astrology, shorn of its ability to predict. With the rebirth of the actual techniques
of Renaissance astrology, concrete and specific prediction of actual events,
precise, pinpoint elections of dates and times and the beauty and harmony of
Renaissance astrological and talismanic magic are available again.
https://www.astrology-x-files.com/astro-concepts/glossary.htm
- Comprehensive Glossary of Terms for Astrology / Astrological Signs.
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