Wave-Structure-Matter Archive: The Interesting Threads

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.