I've known Kris since 1976. We both were physicists associated to the Physics Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
He has pursued gravity studies independently for many years now. He has a prediction for the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) experiment led by Prof. Francis Everitt. We are all awaiting the final result from this experiment next year to know whether Kris or Einstein is right. Everitt has a real bird to kill, will it be Einstein or Kris?
Kris quotes Feynman in a way that many people of my independent persuasion like:
"...a good theoretical physicist today might find it useful to have a wide range of physical viewpoints and mathematical expressions of the same theory (for example of quantum electrodynamics) available to him . . . If [everyone] follows the same current fashion in expressing and thinking about electrodynamics or field theory, then the variety of hypotheses being generated . . . is limited. Perhaps rightly so, for possibly the chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction -- a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory -- who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view, one he may have to invent for himself. "
Anxiously Expecting GP-B results in Warrenville.
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Hi Eduardo,
Thanks for the mention! If anyone is interested, there are links to my papers here. They explore a quantum-mechanical alternative to general relativity.
Best wishes, Kris
That quote is from Feynman's Noble Prize Lecture. It's wonderful.
Kris,
the Inflation crowd, Guth et al. are using oscillons in their work now. You were ahead of them.
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0712.3034
Guth el.
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