User:Christopher Thomas/Harmonics Theory

''Sane version written by Christopher Thomas, with contributions by Dcfleck, to replace the version written at Harmonics Theory by Ray Tomes. Mr. Tomes consistently contributes POV additions, objects to the use of the term resonance (either unaware or unaccepting of the way the terms standing wave, Q factor, harmonic, and resonance are used in mainstream science), and insists that the KARMEN anomaly papers constitute an announcement of particle discovery, while they in fact are no such thing (they conjecture a particle as one possible explanation of an observed anomaly). This means that no sane version will ever be acceptable to him, and no version he's happy with will be acceptable to me (or to Wikipedia, if POV and factual accuracy rules are taken at face value).'' --Christopher Thomas 05:34, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Harmonics theory is a model proposed by Ray Tomes in 1989 that attempts to explain patterns in many physical phenomena as the result of harmonics derived from resonances within media associated with these phenomena.

Tenets of harmonics theory
The core tenet of harmonics theory is the claim that nonlinear interactions between disturbances in the medium and the medium itself not only produce harmonics, but that these harmonics interact in such a way as to preferentially strengthen harmonics whose wave number has many factors (i.e., harmonics that can be derived from many other harmonics of the fundamental frequency). The degree of this proposed strengthening is related to the number of factorizations of the wave number, and to the Q factor of the resonant system. The resulting spectral power distribution is not consistent with the power distribution derived from applying conventional materials science to the scenarios in question.

Claims of predictions of observed events by harmonics theory are not accepted by most mainstream scientists. As a result, harmonics theory is considered a pseudoscience.

Phenomena harmonics theory claims to predict
Predictions claimed by harmonics theory include:
 * The claim that a very wide variety of physical systems will have a spectral power distribution that emphasises specific frequencies that are rational multiples of the fundamental frequency of the associated resonant system.
 * The claimed prediction of a particle with a mass of approximately 34.8 MeV. This is claimed by Tomes to have been observed after his prediction at the KARMEN neutrino experiment. The paper claimed to support the prediction does not actually announce a discovery, instead proposing a particle as one possible interpretation of a measured anomaly. No announcements of discovery of a particle consistent with Tomes' claims have been made.
 * Claimed prediction of quantized redshift, stated to be made independently of claims by Halton Arp and William Tifft along similar lines. Most astronomers dispute Arp's claim that these redshift quantization levels exist.
 * Claimed description of a mechanism whereby harmonics in the distribution of matter in the universe explain the value of the Hubble constant, and support the LeSage model of gravity. This model of gravity is not considered plausible by most mainstream astrophysicists.

An often-cited complaint about predictions attributed to harmonics theory is that the means by which specific predictions were derived is not adequately explained by Tomes. These are most frequently in response to Usenet announcements of harmonics theory predictions.

Mainstream viewpoints

 * Resonance tutorial at Georgia State University

Harmonics theory viewpoints

 * Harmonics Theory main page
 * Cycles Research Institute

Cited works

 * full text: "Remarks on the KARMEN anomaly", V. Barger, R. J. N. Phillips, S. Sarkar, Phys. Lett. B352 (1995), erratum B365 (1995)