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NEXT>> A World Without TimeThis website is a tribute to Eric Holmberg's intellectual life and work and is also a celebration of his long life, which lasted from 24th August 1917 to 13th May 2016. The authorERIC HOLMBERG was born in the Isle of Wight of an English mother and a Swedish father. He was educated at the Sandown grammar school, Cambridge (St. John's, MA) and London (Imperial College PhD). After holding various posts in both the Navy and Army Departments of the Ministry of Defence he ended his career as Deputy Chief Scientist to the Army Department with responsibility for Operational and Human resources sciences. Recent historyOver the last six years Holmberg has presented papers about relativity theory to biennial meetings of a branch of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science entitled "Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory" – PIRT. In 1998 at PIRT VI he described a semi-simple matrix algebra underlying transformations of a complete hyperbolic space with particular reference to the Lorentz transformation. This algebra gave tantalising hints of a connection to the Hubble red shift. At PIRT VIII in 2002 Holmberg described a fairly detailed geometry corresponding to his earlier matrix algebra. This geometry used the "parallel angle" formula to define velocity and showed that hyper-cycles represented the familiar dilation of proper time of received theory. However the geometry failed to give a mathematically satisfying explanation of the dual character of the space. In consequence quantities such as an inverse of velocity appeared defying physical explanation. Holmberg submitted a paper to the organisers of PIRT IX for presentation at the conference held in September 2006. In this paper the dual character of space is shown to be due the fact that there are two parallels to a given line and through a point not on it. Two new variables having nothing to do with time but describing a scale factor for space remove the necessity for inverses of velocity. Hopefully the proceedings from that conference are to be published in 2006 – further information on this is available on the PIRT X WEBSITE This website has been set up to make sure that the implications of these papers get into the public domain. In case of difficulty in accessing the PIRT website a brief overview of the PIRT IX paper is given HERE. Since that paper was posted the model has been improved, and a paper describing these changes is available HERE. NEXT>>
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