https://elastic-universe.org/ 

...and apparently there is much more.

Drawn from a full read-through of your own 327 unique posts to the WSM Yahoo Group (January–October 2004, with a few follow-ups into 2005). This was a remarkably active and foundational period — the Physics Unification series alone amounts to a compressed statement of the entire harmonics theory research program.

The Physics Unification series (October 2004)

Cross-posted simultaneously to WSM and cyclesi, this was your own attempt to lay out the whole argument as a structured 10-part sequence for critical evaluation, after concluding from other discussions that "there are quite large gaps in the comprehension of my ideas." The plan: (1) Maxwell's equations plus relativity as the starting point, understood as the equations of a tensile medium; (2) their non-linearity once relativity is included; (3) non-linear standing waves necessarily developing harmonics over time — "This aspect has been ignored by everyone but me and is the unique difference in my ideas to all others, including those in WSM group"; (4) the consequence of harmonics generation producing especially strong waves at particular scales, matching the major structural scales of the universe. This series is essentially the compressed, public-facing version of the whole theory, three years before Wobbly Universe and worth treating as a primary source for its early development.

An early draft of the book itself

On 26 February 2004 you posted "Chapter 1 of Ray Tomes book" — by your own count, about the seventh rewrite of the opening chapter, titled "Universal Waves," explicitly slanted toward a WSM audience given your heavy involvement in the group at the time. You note in the post that you'd learned of William Clifford's 1870 matter-as-E/M idea from Milo Wolff and Geoff Haselhurst — useful confirmation of exactly where that thread of the lineage reached you from.

The Michelson-Morley/Miller aether exchange

Covered in the previous message — your fluid-aether-vortex explanation for Dayton Miller's ~8 km/s result, and Caroline Thompson's direct challenge that the direction was wrong for your hypothesis.

Tesla, Schumann resonance, and the "X" and "Y" structural scales

A short but striking post connects Tesla's 180,000 Hz power-transmission experiments to gaps in your own 34560-ratio structural hierarchy (Hubble scale → galaxies → stars → planets → moons → X → Y → cells → atoms → nucleons) — X and Y corresponding to roughly 1.7 km and 5 cm, with no obvious physical referent at the time. You noticed 1.7 km corresponds to about 175 kHz, close to Tesla's figure, and later found an anomalous experimental frequency series that were all sub-harmonics of ~172,800 Hz — with the Schumann resonance (7.5 Hz) × 34560 landing at 259,200 Hz, exactly 1.5× that figure. A genuinely interesting numerical near-miss worth revisiting given everything else this session has turned up about your harmonic-chain methodology.

The Allais effect (eclipse gravity anomaly)

In April 2004 you did your own back-of-envelope analysis of the pendulum-swing anomalies reported during solar eclipses (the "Allais effect," though you don't use that name) — comparing observed period changes (~0.08% at full eclipse) against a naive "Moon blocks the Sun's gravity" prediction (~0.03%), noting the observed effect runs more than double the naive prediction but in the right direction, and that the latitude-dependence of which experiments got positive vs. negative results (Scotland and Finland, both above 50°, got negative results) fits a Sun-elevation-angle explanation.

The Big Bang, quasars, and Arp

Two related threads: "The Top 30 Problems with the Big Bang" (sharing Tom Van Flandern's Apeiron Journal article) ties Halton Arp's quasar-ejection theory directly to harmonics theory, proposing that periodic energy ejection from a galaxy's rotation axis forms matter at progressively higher frequency in quantized steps of ratio 1.23, derivable from the harmonics theory equation (1+z)^h = 2. Later, "Big Bang Bung" (May 2005) is a dedicated webpage you built (ray.tomes.biz/bigbangbung.html) laying out the case in eight numbered steps, concluding "There was no big bang" — built explicitly on Narlikar's Variable Mass Hypothesis as the mechanism linking non-constant redshift to standing-wave particle structure.

A personal thread: Vipassana and the WSM group

A lovely, unexpectedly personal exchange from February 2004. Responding to a member (Karene) who mentioned starting Vipassana meditation, you wrote about your own first course — describing visiting "heaven and hell and a lot of other places in 10 days," being "absolutely determined to get enlightened in 10 days," and then, after coming home and telling your wife it would change your life, stopping almost all scientific work for nearly 5 years and completing 12 Vipassana courses over the following 3 years, before eventually feeling able to return to science "without it taking me over." A genuinely candid personal aside in the middle of an otherwise technical physics discussion.

Two lighter, humanizing moments

• "We are famous in France" (May 2005): you and Caroline Thompson were discussed on a French physics newsgroup, and ran the post through a translator — your name came back as "Ray Volumes," and your own light/EPR interpretation (nicknamed the "water bucket" model) was mistranslated as the "toilets bucket" model. You clearly found this very funny.

• "Censorship of the archives" (May 2005): sharing an old sci.physics.research post of yours (17 March 2004) that survived moderation and was even engaged with respectfully by John Baez — framed as "sometimes it is possible to slip one past the censors."

An earlier forum, before this one

Worth flagging directly: the "Big Bang Bung" post ends with a notice that in March 2005 you were already moving away from Yahoo Groups to a dedicated forum — physics-philosophy-metaphysics.com/forum — "no longer... involved in this Yahoo discussion group (forums offer better environment for discussing ideas)." That's a distinct, earlier forum move than either the old cycles forum with Luke or the new Cycles and Harmonics forum — worth knowing about if it still exists or if any of its content/membership might be relevant to the preservation project or the new forum's founding invite list.

Connective tissue for the WSM personal-history article

Several smaller threads reinforce material already gathered for the pending WSM-personal-connections piece: direct exchanges with Caroline Thompson throughout, references to LaFreniere's site guidelines being distributed to new members, and repeated cross-posting to cyclesi showing how tightly you ran the two communities as one continuous audience for this material.

British mathematician and philosopher, educated at King's College London and Trinity College Cambridge (fellow from 1868), later professor of mathematics at University College London (1871) and Fellow of the Royal Society (1874). Died young, of tuberculosis, at 33.

The key work: On February 21, 1870, at 24 years old, Clifford delivered a short lecture to the Cambridge Philosophical Society titled "On the Space-Theory of Matter." It was never fully published at the time — only an abstract appeared, in the Society's Proceedings (1876). In it he proposed that:

• Space itself might not be flat (Euclidean), building directly on Riemann's 1854 essay on the foundations of geometry, which Clifford had translated into English (published in Nature, 1873).
• Matter is nothing more than small regions of curvature in space — "small hills" of spatial distortion.
• Matter in motion is simply the variation of that curvature over time.
• Even electrical phenomena could be understood the same way — as manifestations of varying spatial curvature.

Why he matters to WSM/relativity history: This is now widely recognized as anticipating Einstein's general relativity by roughly 45 years — the idea that matter is curved space, rather than an object sitting in space, is the same conceptual move Einstein made in 1915–16. Hermann Weyl noted this in 1923, and mathematician Eric Temple Bell wrote about it at length in The Development of Mathematics (1940), calling it bolder than even Riemann's own speculation. At the time, though, it was largely dismissed as unfounded speculation — one contemporary called it an "Icarian flight," and Bell himself later described it as being like hitting "the side of a barn at forty yards with a charge of buckshot" — a swing at the truth without the machinery to land it.

His fuller views appeared posthumously in The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885), completed and edited by Karl Pearson after Clifford's death.

The WSM connection specifically: he's the earliest name in the lineage sketched out — matter as a property of space itself rather than discrete particles sitting in space is the seed idea that Schrödinger later echoed explicitly ("what we observe as material bodies are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space"), and that Wolff, Haselhurst, LaFreniere and the rest built the standing-wave version of. Clifford didn't have waves in the model — that's the later addition — but the core move of "matter is not a thing added to space, it's a state of space" is his.

Dr. Yuri N. Ivanov — Russian researcher who independently developed what he calls "Rhythmodynamics," studying interference/moiré patterns formed by standing waves of the same or similar frequency. He derived an alternative to Galilean/Lorentzian transformations with the same proportions but scaled by an extra factor, and produced animated diagrams of these "spider effect" wave patterns (coiling interference lines) before LaFreniere did similar work. He's still active in the WSM community and posted a tribute when LaFreniere died in 2012, describing a private conversation they'd had shortly before LaFreniere's death about the theory's technological implications.

Dr. Milo Wolff (1927–2019) was an American physicist and computer scientist with an unusually varied career — MIT (including work on the Apollo lunar-navigation system), the Aerospace Corporation, the United Nations, and physics professorships in Singapore, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Kentucky. Starting around 1985, he developed the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM): the idea that an electron is not a point particle at all, but a standing wave formed from two spherical scalar waves — one travelling inward, one outward — meeting at a center. This single structure, he argued, reproduces the electron's known quantum-mechanical, relativistic, and charge/parity/time properties without needing a separate "particle" concept, and does so using only 3 spatial dimensions plus time (no extra dimensions required). Wolff built directly on William Clifford's 1870 "space theory of matter" and de Broglie's and Schrödinger's wave mechanics, and published his fullest account in Schrödinger's Universe (2008). WSM sits outside mainstream physics and has drawn real criticism (notably around the mathematical behavior of the wave center), but it remains an active line of inquiry — Wolff corresponded directly with independent researchers including Ray Tomes, welcoming him as a fellow "standing wave" thinker, and the tradition continues today through researchers like Jeff Yee (Energy Wave Theory). This section is for WSM-specific discussion; general Wave Structure of Matter material has its own forum too.

Ray Tomes — put the idea online  around 1994 that matter is standing waves of electromagnetism, arrived at independently through his own harmonics-ratio work rather than from Wolff's writing. Wolff found his posts and, recognizing the same conclusion, welcomed you to "the club" of people who understood particles as standing waves — joking there were then two members, though a few earlier researchers with similar understanding had already died. Also connected the WSM view to the atomic-particle mass/frequency prime-ratio pattern (primes 17, 19, 23), a link no other WSM researcher has commented on.

Gabriel LaFreniere (Oct 4, 1942 – Apr 11, 2012) — French-Canadian researcher, ran the site "Matter is Made of Waves" (now mirrored at rhythmodynamics.com by Ivanov after LaFreniere's death). His signature contribution was software that generated animated GIFs of standing-wave particle structures — visualizations vivid enough that, by your own account, they showed things imagination alone hadn't captured even though you'd all been sketching similar diagrams by hand. He extended the model to the proton (as a composite of electrons/positrons) and worked with Jocelyn Marcotte on the mathematics of the moving electron's "phase wave." Widely credited in the WSM community (including by Jeff Yee) as the visual gateway that pulled a number of people into the theory.

Geoff Haselhurst — runs spaceandmotion.com, describes himself as a natural philosopher and theoretical physicist; says he "discovered" WSM in 1997. Frames WSM as uniting metaphysics, physics, and mathematics under "One Substance, One Law," tracing the lineage from Clifford (1876) through Mach, Einstein and Schrödinger's rejection of point-particles. Co-authored with Karene Howie. Per the CRI site, Space and Motion was the recommended starting point for newcomers to WSM, and Milo Wolff and Haselhurst together started the discussion group that eventually pulled in LaFreniere. Geoff did many interviews of Milo and publicized WSM.

Jeff Yee — the most recent addition to this lineage. Technology executive (roles at AT&T, Antenna Software, Moovweb, ZTE), B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Univ. of Hawaii), M.S. Management (Antioch). Not a physicist by training — came to the subject after seeing the electron described as a wave, and has said he wants the science to lead to real products, not just theory. Founded Energy Wave Theory (energywavetheory.com), publishing the Particles of the Universe book series starting 2012, explicitly building on Wolff, LaFreniere, and a third figure, Xavier Borg (see below). His model treats the neutrino as the one fundamental particle everything else is built from.

Others worth including:

• Xavier Borg — credited by Yee as a third independent source, contributing work on gravity and tetrahedral atomic structure that got folded into Energy Wave Theory.
• Daniele Funaro — listed on the CRI WSM page as author of "Electromagnetism and the Structure of Matter," another electromagnetic-standing-wave approach linked from the same community.
• Jocelyn Marcotte — not a standalone WSM theorist, but did the equations behind LaFreniere's moving-electron "phase wave" animations, so he's part of that specific thread.

This has historically not been a specific subject in its own right, but a number of famous scientists of the twentieth century have spoken on the merits of a WSM perspective. These include William Clifford (in 1870), Einstein, de Broglie, Schroedinger, and later on Milo Wolff, Yuri Ivanov, Ray Tomes, Geoff Haselhurst, Gabriel La Freniere, Daniele Funaro and then many others got involved. The principle idea is generally that the fabric of space itself (sometimes called the aether) distorts and supports waves (possibly electromagnetic), and that particles are just a particular type of waveforms and not ultimately existing separately in their own right.

At some time in the near future we will announce Prizes for achievements in particle wave proofs.

First published: 2026

Brief summary

Traces the history of de Broglie's double-solution and pilot-wave theories, in which a pair of waves both propagate in three-dimensional physical space and satisfy the same wave equation -- foundational context for later spherical standing wave models.

Article

Historical Debates Over the Physical Reality of the Wave Function is a preprint published by arXiv in 2026. It traces the history of de Broglie's double-solution and pilot-wave theories, in which a pair of waves both propagate in three-dimensional physical space and satisfy the same wave equation -- foundational context for later spherical standing wave models.

Historical account of de Broglie's 1927 'principle of the double solution' involving paired 3D physical-space waves, foundational to later WSM interpretations. It also considers no single numeric period but detailed wave-equation history. This gives the cycle claim a specific numerical and evidential setting rather than presenting periodicity only as a visual impression.

The article reports the following result: De Broglie's 1927 paper on wave mechanics and atomic structure featured 'the principle of the double solution,' a pair of waves both propagating in three-dimensional physical space and satisfying the same appropriately specified wave equation. The argument is strongest when its equations, assumptions and testable predictions are stated clearly and compared with established quantum and relativistic models.

For cycles researchers, the article brings together wave function realism, de broglie double solution, pilot-wave theory, quantum foundations. It is relevant to wave-based models of matter because it links physical interpretation to standing waves, phase, wavelength and relativistic or quantum behaviour.

Because it is a preprint, the work should be read alongside later peer-reviewed publications and independent replications. It remains useful because the proposed cycle, dataset and analytical approach are stated clearly enough to be scrutinised.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: arXiv
• Source type: Preprint
• URL type: PDF
• Credits: arXiv
• URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09397

First published: 2019

Brief summary

Presents mathematical derivations for particle rest energy as the sum of standing wave energy, with spherical longitudinal waves reflecting at wave centers to form standing waves until the particle radius, calculating the electron's 10 wave-center structure.

Article

Explained and Derived by Energy Wave Equations is a preprint published by viXra (preprint repository) in 2019. It presents mathematical derivations for particle rest energy as the sum of standing wave energy, with spherical longitudinal waves reflecting at wave centers to form standing waves until the particle radius, calculating the electron's 10 wave-centre structure.

Quantitative derivation of particle energy from standing wave shell count (K=10, n=10 for the electron). It also considers addresses Michelson-Morley experiment implications for an aether-based wave medium. This gives the cycle claim a specific numerical and evidential setting rather than presenting periodicity only as a visual impression.

The article reports the following result: Particle rest energy is the sum of standing wave energy; spherical, longitudinal waves reflect off the particle's wave centers to create standing waves until the particle's radius, at which point waves become traveling waves again. The argument is strongest when its equations, assumptions and testable predictions are stated clearly and compared with established quantum and relativistic models.

For cycles researchers, the article brings together energy wave equations, particle rest energy, longitudinal standing waves, electron structure. It is relevant to wave-based models of matter because it links physical interpretation to standing waves, phase, wavelength and relativistic or quantum behaviour.

Because it is a preprint, the work should be read alongside later peer-reviewed publications and independent replications. It remains useful because the proposed cycle, dataset and analytical approach are stated clearly enough to be scrutinised.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: viXra (preprint repository)
• Source type: Preprint (non-peer-reviewed)
• URL type: PDF
• Credits: viXra (preprint repository)
• URL: https://vixra.org/pdf/1705.0101v5.pdf

First published: 2018

Brief summary

Argues the de Broglie wave is a relativistically-induced modulation of an underlying carrier standing wave moving with the particle, rather than an independent wave, offering a physical ontology for wave-particle duality.

Article

The de Broglie Wave as Evidence of a Deeper Wave Structure is a preprint published by arXiv (Shanahan) in 2018. It argues the de Broglie wave is a relativistically-induced modulation of an underlying carrier standing wave moving with the particle, rather than an independent wave, offering a physical ontology for wave-particle duality.

Reinterprets de Broglie wavelength/frequency as a modulation of an underlying standing wave carrier. It also considers addresses Schrodinger equation interpretation directly. This gives the cycle claim a specific numerical and evidential setting rather than presenting periodicity only as a visual impression.

The article reports the following result: It is argued that the de Broglie wave is not the wave usually supposed, but the relativistically induced modulation of an underlying carrier wave that moves with the velocity of the particle, which in the particle's rest frame has the form of a standing wave. The argument is strongest when its equations, assumptions and testable predictions are stated clearly and compared with established quantum and relativistic models.

For cycles researchers, the article brings together de broglie wave, carrier standing wave, wave-particle duality, relativistic modulation. It is relevant to wave-based models of matter because it links physical interpretation to standing waves, phase, wavelength and relativistic or quantum behaviour.

Because it is a preprint, the work should be read alongside later peer-reviewed publications and independent replications. It remains useful because the proposed cycle, dataset and analytical approach are stated clearly enough to be scrutinised.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: arXiv (Shanahan)
• Source type: Preprint
• URL type: PDF
• Credits: arXiv (Shanahan)
• URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02534

First published: 2016

Brief summary

Extends Wolff and LaFreniere's standing wave electron model, citing 2008 Lund University imaging of the electron in motion showing standing-wave characteristics with a wavelength radius of 10 wavelengths from the particle core, consistent with the model's mass calculation.

Article

Electron Particle (Energy Wave Theory) is a non-peer-reviewed theoretical website published by Energy Wave Theory in 2016. It extends Wolff and LaFreniere's standing wave electron model, citing 2008 Lund University imaging of the electron in motion showing standing-wave characteristics with a wavelength radius of 10 wavelengths from the particle core, consistent with the model's mass calculation.

Wavelength radius n=10 for the electron. It also considers cites 2008 Lund University experimental electron imaging as consistent with standing-wave structure predictions. The study includes energy/wavelength equations. This gives the cycle claim a specific numerical and evidential setting rather than presenting periodicity only as a visual impression.

The article reports the following result: In 2008, scientists at Lund University in Sweden captured the electron for the first time ever in motion, showing standing wave characteristics with an apparent 10-wavelength radius from the particle core, consistent with the Longitudinal Energy equation. The argument is strongest when its equations, assumptions and testable predictions are stated clearly and compared with established quantum and relativistic models.

For cycles researchers, the article brings together electron standing waves, energy wave theory, wavelength radius, particle structure. It is relevant to wave-based models of matter because it links physical interpretation to standing waves, phase, wavelength and relativistic or quantum behaviour.

Because it is a non-peer-reviewed theoretical website, the article is a strong starting point for discussion in the Wave Structure of Matter forum, although its conclusions should still be compared with later replications and updated datasets.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: Energy Wave Theory
• Source type: Non-peer-reviewed theoretical website
• URL type: WWW
• Credits: Energy Wave Theory
• URL: https://energywavetheory.com/electromagneticwaves/electron-particle/

First published: 2016

Brief summary

Overview of Milo Wolff's theory representing the electron as two spherical quantum waves (in-wave and out-wave) forming a standing wave, proposed as a way to resolve paradoxes in quantum theory and general relativity.

Article

Unifying Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity (Milo Wolff's Wave Structure of Matter) is an overview/commentary published by Institute of Science in Society (I-SIS) in 2016. It provides an overview of Milo Wolff's theory representing the electron as two spherical quantum waves (in-wave and out-wave) forming a standing wave, proposed as a way to resolve paradoxes in quantum theory and general relativity.

The study describes standing wave structure (in-wave/out-wave) forming particle location. The study references Wheeler & Feynman's 1945 failed vector electromagnetic wave attempt at the same model, contrasted with Wolff's scalar quantum wave approach. This gives the cycle claim a specific numerical and evidential setting rather than presenting periodicity only as a visual impression.

The article reports the following result: Milo Wolff's main claim to fame is the theory of the wave structure of matter, in which the electron is represented as consisting of two spherical quantum waves, one moving radially outward and another radially inward, resulting in standing waves. The argument is strongest when its equations, assumptions and testable predictions are stated clearly and compared with established quantum and relativistic models.

For cycles researchers, the article brings together milo wolff, quantum mechanics, general relativity, spherical quantum waves. It is relevant to wave-based models of matter because it links physical interpretation to standing waves, phase, wavelength and relativistic or quantum behaviour.

Because this is an overview/commentary, it is best used as an accessible introduction or perspective rather than as conclusive evidence. Forum discussion should follow its references back to the primary data and original research wherever possible.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: Institute of Science in Society (I-SIS)
• Source type: Overview/commentary
• URL type: WWW
• Credits: Institute of Science in Society (I-SIS)
• URL: https://www.i-sis.org.uk/Unifying_Quantum_Mechanics_and_General_Relativity.php

First published: 2014

Brief summary

Models a massive particle as a three-dimensional standing wave and derives the Lorentz transformation's length, time and simultaneity effects as direct consequences of changes in this wave structure between inertial frames.

Article

A Case for Lorentzian Relativity (Standing Wave Model of Matter) is a preprint published by arXiv (Shanahan) in 2014. It models a massive particle as a three-dimensional standing wave and derives the Lorentz transformation's length, time and simultaneity effects as direct consequences of changes in this wave structure between inertial frames.

Standing wave frequency/wavelength changes under Lorentz transformation directly derived. It also considers connects to de Broglie's original 1924 thesis concept of a wave structure for matter. This gives the cycle claim a specific numerical and evidential setting rather than presenting periodicity only as a visual impression.

The article reports the following result: By modelling a massive particle as a standing wave in three dimensions, the changes in length, time and simultaneity described by the Lorentz Transformation emerge as immediate consequences of changes in the wave structure of the particle as it changes inertial frame. The argument is strongest when its equations, assumptions and testable predictions are stated clearly and compared with established quantum and relativistic models.

For cycles researchers, the article brings together lorentzian relativity, standing wave model, lorentz transformation, matter waves. It is relevant to wave-based models of matter because it links physical interpretation to standing waves, phase, wavelength and relativistic or quantum behaviour.

Because it is a preprint, the work should be read alongside later peer-reviewed publications and independent replications. It remains useful because the proposed cycle, dataset and analytical approach are stated clearly enough to be scrutinised.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: arXiv (Shanahan)
• Source type: Preprint
• URL type: PDF
• Credits: arXiv (Shanahan)
• URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4534