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The exploration of the subnuclear world is done through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energies and in a large variety of environments ? from particle accelerators and underground detectors to satellites and space laboratories. For these research programs to succeed, novel techniques, new materials and new instrumentation need to be used in detectors, often on a large scale. Hence, particle physics is at the forefront of technological advancement and leads to numerous applications. Among these, medical applications have a particular importance due to the health and social benefits they bring. This volume reviews the advances made in all technological aspects of current experiments in the field.

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• Advanced Detectors and Particle Identification
• Astroparticle and Underground Experiments
• Calorimetry
• High Energy Physics Experiments
• Radiation Damage
• Radiotherapy and Medical Instrumentations
• Software Applications
• Space Experiments and Heliosphere
• Tracking Devices

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Preface (123k)
Chapter 1: GEM detectors activity at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN (291k)

Readership: Graduate students, academics, researchers and practitioners in high energy physics/particle physics, experimental physics, astrophysics and medical imaging.

Proceedings of an International Conference held 1994 in Olympia, Greece

Contents:

FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS:

• Michele Barone, The Underwater Neutrino Telescopes  1
• Jenner Barretto Bastos-Filho & R. M. X. de Araujo, Dimensional Analysis and Fundamental Physical Constants in N-Dimensional Spaces for Real N  11
• G. F. Sanger, On Mechanisms of Ambiguity and Adaptation in Nature and Their Dimensions  23
• Ruggero Maria Santilli, An Introduction to Hadronic Mechanics  69

RELATIVITY

• Roland H. Dishington, Cause and Effect in Special Relativity  187
• Joseph Levy, Is the Invariance of the Speed of Light Compatible with Quantum Mechanics?  Some New Arguments  203
• Constantin I. Mocanu, Hertzian Extension of Einstein Special Relativity to Non-Uniform Motions  217
• A. Panaitescu, On the Electromagnetic State Quantities in Electrodynamics of Moving Media  241
• A. Paparodopoulos, The Law of Universla Gravitation in a G Variant Universe  265
• Simon J. Prokhovnik, The Nature of Friedmann Universes  277
• Horst E. Wilhelm, Physical Foundations of Galilei Covariant Electrodynamics  283

QUANTUM PHYSICS

• A. Afriat, Correlations Involving Several Subsystems 2999
• Co. Antonopoulos, On Measurements with Contradictory Results; Tracing the Roots of the Original Wholeness  313
• A. K. Aringazin, K. M. Aringazin, A. Baskoutas, G. Brodimas, A. Jannusis & E. Vlachos, q-Deformed Harmonic Oscillator in Phase Space  329
• M. Damjanonvic & Z. Maric, Relativistic Dynamics and Space-Time Structure of Few-Body Processes  349
• J. Foadi, A Geometrical Approach to Bell Inequalities  357
• L. C. B. Ryff, Some Reflections and Conjectures on E.P.R. Correlations and Realism  369
• Franco Selleri, Complementarity vs. Causality in Space and Time  381
• James Paul Wesley, Light Radiates as Stochastic Bursts of Photons  399

GEOPHYSICS

• V. P. Ivankin, On the Origin and Development of the Solar System  409
• Martin Kokus, Red-Shift Quantization and the Fractal Geometry of the Universe  425
• H. G. Owen, Speculations on the Physical State of the Earth's Inner Core  429
• Giovanni Scalera, Relocation of Paleopoles on Variable Radius Earth Models  463
  

The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about a hundred scientists who carry on research in conceptually important areas of physical science (they do "fundamental physics").  Most of them were physicists, but also historians and philosphers of science were well represented.  An important fraction of the participants could be considered "heretical" because they disagreed with the validity of one or several fundamental assumptions of modern physics.  Common to all participants was an excellent scientific level coupled with a remarkable intellectula honesty: we are proud to present to the readers this certainly unique book.

Alternative ways of considering fundamental matters should of course be vitally important for the progress of science, unless one wanted to admit that physics at the end of the XXth century has already obtained the final truth, a very unlikely possibility even if one accepted the doubtful idea of the existence of a "final" truth.  The merits of the Olympia conference should therefore not be judged a priori in a positive or in a negative way depending on one's refusal or acceptance, respectively, of basic principles of contemporary sience, but considered after reading the actual new proposals and evidence there presented.  They seem very important to us... - From the Preface.

Contents:

ASTROPHYSICS: ANOMOLOUS-REDSHIFTS

• Empirical Evidence on the Creation of Galaxies and Quasars, Dr. Halton C. Arp 1
• Periodicity in Extragalactic Redshifts, William M. Napier 13
• Quasar Spectra: Black Holes or Nonstandard Models?, Jack W. Sulentic 27
• Configurations and Redshifts of Galaxies, Miroslaw Zabierowski 37
• Isominkowskian Representaion of Cosmological Redshifts and the Internal Red-Blue-Shifts of Quasars, Dr. Ruggero Maria Santilli 41
• The Relativistic Electron Pair Theory of Matter and its Implications for Cosmology, Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass 59
• Are Quasars Manifesting a de Sitter Redshift?, John B. Miller & Thomas E. Miller 67
• What, if Anything, Is the Anthropic Cosmological Principle Telling Us?, Silvio Bergia 73
• Large Anomalous Redshift and Zero-Point Radiation, Dr. Peter F. Browne 83
• Theoretical Basis for a Non-Expanding and Euclidean Universe, Thomas B. Andrews 89
• Light Propagation in an Expanding Universe, Alexandros Paparodopoulos 99
• Fornax - The Companion of the Milky Way and the Question of Its Standard Motion, Miroslaw Zabierowski 105
• Cosmological Redshifts and the Law of Corresponding States, Victor Clube 107

RELATIVITY: ENERGY AND TIME

• Did the Apple Fall?, H?seyin Yilmaz 115
• Investigations With Lasers, Atomic Clocks and Computer Calculations of Curves Spacetime and of the Differences between the Gravitation Theories of Yilmaz and of Einstein, Prof. Carroll O. Alley 125
• Gravity is the Simplest Thing!, Dr. David F. Roscoe 139
• Fourdimensional Elasticity: Is It General Relativity?, Angelo Tartaglia 147
• Universality of the Lie-Isotropic Symmetries for Deformed Minkowskian Metrics, Ascar K. Aringazin & K. M. Aringazen 153
• Hertz's Special Relativity and Physical Reality, Dr. Ing. Constantin I. Mocanu 163
• From Relativistic Paradoxes to Absolute Space and Time Physics, Horst E. Wilhelm 171
• Theories Equivalent to Special Relativity, Dr. Franco Selleri 181
• The Physical Meaning of Albert Einstein's Relativistic Ether Concept, Prof. Ludwig Kostro 193
• The Limiting Nature of Light-Velocity as the Causal Factor Underlying Relativity, Trevor Morris 203
• The Ether Revisited, Adolphe Martin & Dr. C. Roy Keys 209
• What Is and What Is Not Essential in Lorentz's Relativity, Jan Czerniawski 217
• Vacuum Substratum in Electrodynamics and Quantum Mechanics - Theory and Experiment, Horst E. Wilhelm 223
• The Influence of Idealism in 20th Century Science, Heather McCouat & Simon J. Prokhovnik 233

GEOPHYSICS: EXPANDING EARTH

• Creeds of Physics, Samuel Warren Carey 241
• Earth Complexity vs. Plate Tectonic Simplicity, Giancarlo Scalera 257
• An Evolutionary Earth Expansion Hypothesis, Dr. Stavros T. Tassos 275
• Global Models of the Expanding Earth, Klaus Vogel 281
• An Orogenic Model Consistent with Earth Expansion. Carol Strutinski 287
• Earth Expansion Requires Increase in Mass, John K. Davidson 295
• Principles of Plate Movements on the Expanding Earth, Jan Koziar 301
• The Origin of Granite and Continetal Masses in an Expanding Earth, Lorence G. Collins 309
• The Primordially Hydridic Character of Our Planet and Proving It by Deep Drilling, C. Warren Hunt 315
• Possible Relation Between Earth Expansion and Dark Matter, Stanislaw Ciechanowicz & Jan Koziar 321
• Earth Expansion and the Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanicism, Dr. Martin Kokus 327
• Tension-gravitational Model of Island Arcs, Jan Koziar & Leszek Jamrozik 335

FIELDS, PARTICLES: SPACE-TIME STRUCTURES

• Electromagnetic Interactions and Particle Physics, Asim O. Barut 339
• Isotropic and Genotopic Relativistic Theory, Asterios Jannussis & Anna Sotiropoulos 347
• A Look at Frontiers of High Enrgy Physics: From the GeV (10⁹ eV) to PeV (10¹⁵ eV) and Beyond, Prof. Michele Barone 359
• An Approach to Finite-Size Particles with Spin, Bronislaw Sredniawa 369
• A New High Energy Scale?, Vladimir Kadyshevsky 377
• On the Space-Time Structure of the Electron, Dr. Martin Rivas 383
• Physics Without Physical Constants, Prof. Edward Kapuscik 387
• The Relation Between Information, Time and Space Inferred from Universal Phenomena in Solid-State Physics, Gerhard Dorda 393
• Quantum-Like Behavior of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field and Observation of Discreet Forbidden States in the Classical Mechanical Domain, Ram K. Varma 401
• Unipolar Induction and Weber's Electrodynamics, Prof. Andre K. T. Assis & Dario S. Thober 409
• Impact of Maxwell's Equation of Displacement Current on Electromagnetic Laws and Comparison of the Maxwellian Waves with Our Model of Dipolic Particles, Lefteris A. Kaliambos 415
• Direct Calculation of H and the Complete Self Energy of the Electron from Fluid Models, Dr. William M. Honig 423
• Interbasis "Sphere-Cylinder" Expansions for the Oscillator in the Three Dimensional Space of Constant Positive Curvature, George S. Pogosyan, A. N. Sissakian & S. I. Vinitsky 429
• Pancharatnam's Topological Phase in Relation to Dynamical Phase in Polarization Optics, Susanne Klein, Wolfgang Dultz and Heirun Schmitzer 437
• On the Connection Betwee Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Dr. Andrzej Horzela 443
• Discrete Time Realizations of Quantum Mechanics and Their Possible Experimental Tests, Carl Wolf 449
• Heraclitus' Vision - Schr?dinger's Version, Pitter Gr?ff 459

QUANTUM PHYSICS: DUALITY AND LOCALITY

• Is It Possible to Believe in Both Orthodox Quantum Theory and History?, Euan J. Squires 465
• A New Logic for Quantum Mechanics?, Eftichios Bitsakis 475
• Dangerous Effects of the Incomprehensibility in Microphysics, Jenner Barretto Bastos-Filho 485
• Classical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Vladimir K. Ignatovich 493
• Rabi Oscillations Described by de Broglian Probabilities, Mirjana Bozic & Dusan Arsenovic 503
• A Test of the Complimentarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light, Yutaka Mizobuchi & Yoshiyuki Othake 511
• Experiments With Entangled Two-Photon States from Type-II Parametric Down Conversion Evidence for Wave-Particle Unity, Prof. Carroll O. Alley, T. E. Kiess, A. V. Sergienko & Y. H. Shih 519
• Note on Wave-Particle Unity, H. Yilmaz
• Correlation Functions and Einstein Locality, Augusto Garuccio & Liberatot De Caro 529
• Optical Test's of Bell's Inequalities: Cloing the Poor Correlation Loophole, Susana F. Huelga, Miguel Ferrero & Prof. Emilio Santos  537
• Atomic Cascade Experiments with Two-Channel Polarizers and Quantum Mechanical Nonlocality, Mohammad Ardehali 545
• New Tests on Locality and Empty Waves, Ramon Risco-Delgado 555
• Wave-Particle Duality, Prof. Marius Borneas 561
• Quantum Correlations from a Logical Point of View, Nikos A. Tambakis 565
• Local Realism and the Crucila Experiment, Yaov Ben-Dov 571
• The Space of Local Hidden Variables Can Limit Non-Locality And What Next?, Milan Vinduska 575
• How the Quantum of Action Cannot Be a Metric One, Constantin Antonopoulos 583
• The Ghostly Solution of the Quantum Paradoxes and Its Experimental Verification, Raoul Nakhmanson 591

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