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Dr. Glenn Borchardt
Author, Scientist, Progressive Physicist,
Scientific Philosopher
Interests: Physics, Relativity, Aether,
Gravity, Neomechanics, Cosmology, Infinity, Infinite Universe
Theory, Scientific Philosophy, Univironmental Determinism,
Scientific Worldview, Aether Deceleration Theory
Glenn Borchardt has over sixty years of
practical and theoretical experience in earth science. He has
produced over 500 scientific reports, including consulting reports,
journal articles, book chapters, books, and computer programs.
Borchardt is the Director of the Progressive Science Institute in
Walnut Creek, California. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Chappell Natural Philosophy Society in 2023.
History
Glenn Borchardt was born in Watertown,
Wisconsin 300 years after Newton. He grew up on a dairy farm,
observing first-hand the evolution of farming from horses to
air-conditioned tractors. On fatherly advice, he attended the
University of Wisconsin, receiving B.S. and M.S. degrees in soil
science, a multidisciplinary field in which rocks were shown to
evolve into the soils necessary for life on earth. On wifely advice,
and faced with radiometric ages greater than 6,000 years, he
converted from Lutheran fundamentalism to atheism at the age of 22.
The work at Madison combined laboratory experiments in soil
mineralogy and soil chemistry with summer fieldwork as a soil
surveyor. The lure of studying soils in the mountains of Oregon
brought him to Oregon State University, where he received his Ph.D.
degree after completing a thesis on "Neutron Activation Analysis for
Correlating Volcanic Ash Soils". Forgoing an offer to continue
similar work on lunar samples, Borchardt accepted a prestigious NRC
postdoctoral associateship with the USGS in Denver, Colorado. Here
he used nuclear methods to correlate volcanic ash from much of the
western US. It was at this time that he devised the SIMAN
coefficient for similarity analysis, which is used widely for
comparing multivariate analyses of ash samples.
Professional Work
California Geological Survey. Here he spent
five years studying the clay mineralogy of landslides by using x-ray
diffraction, x-ray fluorescence, atomic absorption, and other
methods. A proposal to build a 600'-high dam across numerous
earthquake faults along the American River above the state capital
brought Borchardt's expertise in soils into the field of seismology.
Along with others, Borchardt showed that faults thought to have been
60 million years old actually had small amounts of movement during
the last 10,000 years, bringing dam construction to a halt. This
work helped to initiate a new field, "soil tectonics", in which the
ages of soils are estimated for use in assessing seismic hazard due
to surface fault rupture. Most buildings in California no longer can
be constructed across active faults (one showing tectonic
displacement at the surface during the last 11, 700 years). In
addition to dating soils, Borchardt has been part of a team of
scientists who produced numerous earthquake planning scenarios.
These books contain maps of the damage expected after hypothetical
earthquakes along major urban faults in California. As a spokesman
for the team, he has presented papers on this approach in the Soviet
Union, Russia, and Spain. One especially interesting project
involved the evaluation of historic earthquakes that occurred before
1849 when California's population was sparse and newspapers
nonexistent. One primary result: the supposed 1836 earthquake along
the Hayward fault actually occurred on the San Andreas fault at San
Juan Bautista, over 100 km away. This information helped to
designate the northern Hayward fault through Berkeley as most likely
to produce the next major urban earthquake in the US. In 1990
Borchardt taught soil mineralogy at the University of California in
Berkeley as a visiting professor. He retired from the California
Geological Survey in 2004, continuing to provide soil age estimates
as the principal of Soil Tectonics (http://soiltectonics.com/).
Since 1966, he has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific
reports and publications, including several books and computer
programs, as well as chapters on soil smectites and soil tectonics
in major textbooks. As an avocation, he has studied scientific
philosophy since 1976, stimulated by what he thought to be the
outrageous claims of cosmologists that the universe exploded out of
nothing. His systematic examination of the presuppositions
underlying this so-called "Big Bang Theory" showed them to be
anything but scientific.
Current Work
As the Director of the Progressive Science
Institute, in Walnut Cree, California
(www.scientificphilosophy.org), Borchardt published “The Ten
Assumptions of Science: Toward a New Scientific Worldview”
(iUniverse, 2004), in which he outlined ten fundamental,
non-provable beliefs that serves as the foundation of all scientific
investigation. The opposing assumptions, just as non-provable, were
considered the foundation for belief in the supernatural. His
assumption of microcosmic and macrocosmic infinity is a thread
running through each of the assumptions. Their suitability was shown
by their consupponibility, that is, if one can assume one of them,
one can assume all the others without contradiction. The work was
published when conventional scientific theory admitted to few
fundamental assumptions, though the surreptitious fundamental
assumption of
finity clearly was manifested in the popularity of the Big Bang
Theory. Borchardt's assumptions implied that the universe had no
origin and that the Big Bang Theory amounts to being the “Last
Creation Theory.”
Publications
In 2007 Borchardt published the culmination of
his work as "The Scientific Worldview: Beyond Newton and Einstein
(Understanding the Universal Mechanism of Evolution)" (iUniverse,
2007) updated as a second edition (PSI, 2024) as a logical outgrowth
of his 2004 book, "The Ten Assumptions of Science." Borchardt's
"univironmental theory" claims that the proper way to look at a
thing is to see its activities as a result of the interaction
between the thing (the microcosm) and its surroundings (the
macrocosm). He showed that univironmental determinism was the
universal mechanism of evolution and encouraged the dismissal of
neo-Darwinism as being a severely limited special case. First, in
being applicable only to the biological domain, and second, in
reducing the microcosm to genetics. Borchardt predicts that
univironmental theory will have a great impact in many fields,
particularly modern physics, cosmology, and philosophy. The advent
of univironmental theory presages the beginning of the end for the
Big Bang and many of its associated theories. The proposed
scientific revolution will be the last step in the pre-Copernican
stage of human evolution. Although the reluctance is manifest, the
acceptance of the universe as infinite and eternal will be an
essential part of the great global social transformation being
brought about by the Industrial Revolution. In addition, Borchardt
maintains that all philosophies are subject to microcosmic and
macrocosmic errors. Solipsism is overly microcosmic; fatalism is
overly macrocosmic. The correct philosophy, according to Borchardt,
is univironmental determinism, which is the simplest and greatest
generalization of all: what happens to a portion of the universe is
equally dependent on the infinite matter in motion inside it and the
infinite matter in motion outside of it.
In 2011 Stephen J. Puetz and Borchardt
published "Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the
Hierarchically Infinite Universe," which is the first book to
provide a detailed interpretation of current physical and
cosmological data based on Borchardt's Ten Assumptions of Science.
In addition to an alternative to the Big Bang Theory, the book
explains the physical cause of gravitation as the result of
gravitational pressure gradients.
In 2017 Borchardt published "Infinite Universe
Theory," which will replace the Big Bang Theory. It presents the
ultimate alternative to the Big Bang Theory and the common
assumption that the universe had an origin. The book begins with
photos of the “elderly” galaxies at the observational edge of the
universe. These contradict the current belief that the universe
should have increasingly younger objects as we view greater
distances. He restates the ten fundamental assumptions that must
underlie the new paradigm. Notably, by assuming infinity he is able
to modify classical mechanics into “neomechanics,” while insisting
that all phenomena are strictly the result of the collisions between
microcosms motion. He shows in detail how misinterpretations of
relativity have aided current flights of fancy more in tune with
religion than science. Borchardt demonstrates why only Infinite
Universe Theory can provide answers to questions untouched by
currently regressive physics and cosmogony. His new modification of
gravitation theory (Aether Deceleration Theory) gets us closer to
its physical cause without calling upon attraction, curved
spacetime, or “immaterial fields.” He insists that the acceleration
of gravitation simply is due to collisions by aether particles that
become decelerated, forming the dark matter that surrounds ordinary
matter. Borchardt has put forth a solid case for an Infinite
Universe that extends in all directions and exists everywhere and
for all time.
In 2020 Borchardt published "Religious Roots of
Relativity," which explains why relativity and the Big Bang Theory
currently have overwhelming popularity that has waned little in the
face of their many contradictions.
Religious Roots of Relativity shows that, unlike other
scientific theories, relativity is founded on religious assumptions.
In tune with “The Ten Assumptions of Science,” he elaborates on the
opposing indeterministic assumptions to present "The Ten Assumptions
of Religion" as the framework for this new book. Each fundamental
religious assumption is shown to have much in common with the
fundamental assumptions Einstein subconsciously used in devising
Special and General Relativity Theory. One theme runs throughout the
book: Einstein’s erroneous assumption that space was perfectly
empty. That was critical for his popular Untired Light Theory, just
as it has been for popular biblical creation stories, and for the
Big Bang Theory. There is no evidence, however, for perfectly empty
space; it is only an idealization akin to the dreams and imaginings
of religion. It cannot possibly exist. Nonexistence, the imagined
nothingness, therefore is impossible. The universe exists everywhere
and for all time. Without relativity and its foundation in religion,
the book predicts the Last Creation Myth will be victim to the Last
Cosmological Revolution: Infinite Universe Theory.
Education
1969 Ph.D., Soil Mineralogy, Oregon State
University, Corvallis
1966 M.S., Clay Mineralogy, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
1964 B.S., Soil Science, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
Glenn has authored five notable books on
physics and scientific philosophy:
2004 The Ten Assumptions of Science
2007 The Scientific Worldview (updated in 2024)
2011 Universal Cycle Theory (with Stephen J.
Puetz)
2017 Infinite Universe Theory
2020 Religious Roots of Relativity
Personal
Glenn and Marilyn have lived in the San
Francisco Bay Area since 1972. They have two daughters, five
grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. In addition to
explaining progressive physics, Glenn’s hobbies are hiking, downhill
skiing, archery, hunting, fishing, birding, and watching
detective stories and sports
on TV.
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