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'''Bernard Haisch''' is a German-born American ] who has done research in solar-stellar astrophysics and ].<ref name=BHAISCH>{{cite web| title = UFO EVIDENCE: UFO Researchers & People- Bernard Haisch, Ph.D.| url=http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail76.htm | accessdate = 2008-02-06}}</ref> He has developed with Alfonso Rueda a speculative theory that the non-zero lowest energy state of the ], as predicted by ], might provide a physical explanation for the origin of ], and might someday be used for ]. Haisch has advocated the serious scientific study of ] and is known for his interest in the ] phenomenon as well as a variety of other unorthodox topics. '''Bernard Michael Haisch''' is a German-born American ]<ref name="AMWS">{{cite encyclopedia|entry=Bernard Michael Haisch|title=]|publisher=Gale|year=2008}}</ref> who has researched solar-stellar astrophysics and ].<ref name="ufoskeptic">{{cite web|author=Haisch, Bernard|title=Dear Colleagues|website=ufoskeptic.org|url=https://www.ufoskeptic.org/home/}}</ref> Haisch, with Alfonso Rueda, developed a speculative theory that the non-zero lowest energy state of the ], as predicted by ], might provide a physical explanation for the origin of ], and might someday be used for ]. Haisch has advocated the serious scientific study of ] and is known for his interest in ] phenomena as well as a variety of other unorthodox topics.


Since 2002 Haisch has been involved with ManyOne Networks and related ] projects which aim to produce, among other things, a multimedia ]. In 2006 Haisch published a popular book in which he attempted to reconcile modern scientific belief with traditional religious belief. He attributes his spiritual interests to his educational experience at the ] (a high school affiliated with the ]), and at the ] and ]. Since 2002, Haisch has been involved with ManyOne Networks and related ] projects that aim to produce, among other things, a multimedia ]. In 2006, Haisch published a popular book attempting to reconcile modern scientific belief with traditional religious belief. Haisch attributes his spiritual interests to his educational experience at the ] (a high school affiliated with the ]) and at the ].


==Scientific career== ==Scientific career==


Haisch was born in ] and earned a Ph.D. in ] from the ] in 1975 and thereafter spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the ] in ]. Haisch was born in ] and earned a Ph.D. in ] from the ] in 1975 and thereafter spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the ].


Haisch has worked at the Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory at ] in ] and served as deputy director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics Laboratory at the ]. He has been a visiting scientist at the ] in ], ] and at the ] in the ]. His main research from the mid 1970s until the late 1990s was high energy astrophysics, and specifically the ] and ] emissions from ] and ] on the ] and other ]. Haisch has worked at the Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory at ] in ] and as deputy director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics Laboratory at the ]. Haisch was a visiting scientist at the ] in ], ], and at the ] in the ]. His primary research from the mid-1970s until the late 1990s was high energy astrophysics, specifically the ] and ] emissions from ] and ] on the ] and other ].


Haisch has published more than one hundred research papers on a variety of topics, many in prestigious journals such as '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''. He also served for ten years as an editor of the ''Astrophysical Journal''. Haisch has published more than one hundred research papers on a variety of topics, many in journals such as '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''. Haisch also edited the ''Astrophysical Journal'' for ten years.


In the 1990s, Haisch and Alfonso Rueda developed a "quantum vacuum inertia" hypothesis responsible for mass.<ref name="Matthews_1994">{{cite journal|author=Matthews, Robert|date=February 4, 1994|title=Inertia: Does Empty Space Put Up the Resistance?|work=]|volume=263|issue=5147|pages=612–613|doi=10.1126/science.263.5147.612}}</ref><ref name="Powel_1994">{{cite magazine|author=Powell, Corey S.|date=May 1994|title=Unbearable Lightness|work=]|volume=270|issue=5|pages=27–28|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0594-27}}</ref><ref name="Levin_2009">{{cite journal|author=Levin, Yefim S.|date=January 27, 2009|title=Inertia as a zero-point-field force: Critical analysis of the Haisch-Rueda-Puthoff inertia theory|work=]|url=https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.012114}}</ref> The inertialess "SHARP drive" in ]'s '']'' was named for ], Haisch, Rueda, and ].<ref name="Clarke_1997">{{cite book|author=Clarke, Arthur C.|authorlink=Arthur C. Clarke|year=1997|title=]|pages=64,255–256}}</ref><ref name="Gilster_2004">{{cite book|author=Gilster, Paul|year=2004|title=Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration|pages=174}}</ref>
===The Quantum Vacuum and the Principle of Inertia===


Haisch was editor-in-chief of the '']''.<ref name="Haisch_Sims_2004">{{cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard|author2=Sims, Marsha|year=2004|title=A Retrospective on the ''Journal of Scientific Exploration''|work=Journal of Scientific Exploration|volume=18|issue=1|url=https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/18/jse_18_1_haisch.pdf}}</ref>
In an extensive series of papers, Haisch and Alfonso Rueda, a physicist currently teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering, ], ], have developed a controversial hypothesis in the context of ]. In his recent mainstream non-academic book (see section below), Haisch has summarized this "quantum vacuum inertia" hypothesis as follows:
{{quotation|There exists a background sea of quantum light filling the universe and that light generates a force that opposes acceleration when you push on any material object. That is why matter seems to be solid, stable stuff that we, and the world, are made of. So maybe matter resists acceleration not because it possesses some innate thing called mass as Newton proposed and we all believed, but because the ] exerts a force whenever acceleration takes place.|Bernard Haisch, ''The God Theory''}}


⚫ In addition to papers in mainstream journals and conference proceedings, Haisch also published papers in '']'' magazine and the ''Journal of Noetic Sciences'', a ] journal published by the ].
This assertion, that ] experience a ] due to the zero-point field, and that this "electromagnetic reaction force" is responsible for the inertia of material objects, rests upon a computation in which Haisch and Rueda have computed a nonzero ''"zero point field ]"''. (See the 1998 ''Foundations of Physics'' paper cited below.)

Computations by other physicists, such as ], apparently contradict this result. The mainstream view is that the zero point field does not give rise to a physical force on observers accelerating with respect to "the vacuum". However, it is known classically that without the zero point field the spin state of all matter would collapse inward almost instantaneously.

===Non-mainstream publications===

Haisch is a former editor of the ], which publishes papers on "topics outside the established disciplines of mainstream science" such as ] effects, the UFO phenomenon, and ]s.

⚫ In addition to papers in mainstream journals and conference proceedings, Haisch has also published papers in '']'' magazine and the ''Journal of Noetic Sciences'', a ] journal published by the ].


==Other ventures== ==Other ventures==
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===California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics=== ===California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics===


In 1999 Haisch founded the in ], an organization mainly devoted to the study of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and funded by private philanthropic money. The institute formerly employed five full-time physicists doing research on ], ] and ]. Haisch served as the institute's director from 1999 until 2002. In 1999, Haisch founded the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in ], an organization mainly devoted to studying the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and funded by private philanthropic money. The institute formerly employed five full-time physicists researching ], ] and ]. Haisch served as the institute's director from 1999 until 2002.


===UFO Skeptic=== ===UFO Skeptic===


Haisch has also created a website called , which promotes the investigation of the UFO phenomenon by professional scientists. Haisch created a website, ''UFO Skeptic'', advocating professional scientists to investigate UFO phenomena.

===''The God Theory''===

In 2006, Haisch published a book entitled ''The God Theory'', in which he writes
{{quotation|I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a spark of God. I propose a worldview that offers a way out of the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet.|Bernard Haisch, ''The God Theory''}}

Haisch published a follow-up in 2010, 'Purpose Guided Universe'. Both books reject both ] and traditional theistic viewpoints, favoring instead a model of ] wherein our Creator has become our Universe, to share in the actualized experiences therein manifested. Haisch provides as proof of his views a combination of fine tuning and mystical experiences arguments.
{{quotation|Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.<ref></ref>|Bernard Haisch}}


===Digital Universe=== ===Digital Universe===


In 2002 Haisch became Chief Science Officer of ManyOne Networks. Since 2004 he also served as president of the now defunct ], which, among other things, aimed to create a peer-reviewed alternative to ], seeking to provide a comprehensive and reliable account of current mainstream scientific theory, evidence, and belief. In 2002, Haisch became the Chief Science Officer of ManyOne Networks. Since 2004, he also served as president of the now defunct ], which, among other things, aimed to create a peer-reviewed alternative to ], seeking to provide a comprehensive and reliable account of current mainstream scientific theory, evidence, and belief.<ref name="Keim_2007">{{cite journal|author=Keim, Brandon|date=March 2007|title=News feature: WikiMedia|work=]|publisher=Nature Publishing Group|volume=13|issue=3}}</ref>


==Publications== ==Publications==
*{{Cite book|author=Haisch, Bernard|title=The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All|location=York Beach, ME|publisher=Red Wheel/Weiser Books|year=2006|isbn=1-57863-374-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/godtheoryunivers0000hais}} *{{Cite book|author=Haisch, Bernard|title=The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All|location=York Beach, ME|publisher=Red Wheel/Weiser Books|year=2006|isbn=1-57863-374-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/godtheoryunivers0000hais}}
⚫ * {{Cite journal |author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Strong, K.T. |author3=Rodono, M. | title=Flares on the Sun and other stars | journal = ] | volume = 29 | year = 1991 | pages = 275–324 | doi=10.1146/annurev.aa.29.090191.001423|bibcode = 1991ARA&A..29..275H }}
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Selected mainstream papers by Bernard Haisch on astrophysics:
⚫ * {{Cite journal |author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Strong, K.T. |author3=Rodono, M. | title=Flares on the Sun and other stars | journal = ] | volume = 29 | year = 1991 | pages = 275 | doi=10.1146/annurev.aa.29.090191.001423|bibcode = 1991ARA&A..29..275H }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Schmitt, J.H.M.M. |author3=Fabian, A.C. | title=Disappearance of coronal X-ray emission in stars with cool dense winds | journal = Nature | volume=360 | year=1992 | pages=239 | doi=10.1038/360239a0|bibcode = 1992Natur.360..239H | issue=6401| doi-access=free }} * {{Cite journal |author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Schmitt, J.H.M.M. |author3=Fabian, A.C. | title=Disappearance of coronal X-ray emission in stars with cool dense winds | journal = Nature | volume=360 | year=1992 | pages=239 | doi=10.1038/360239a0|bibcode = 1992Natur.360..239H | issue=6401| doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Antunes, A. |author3=Schmitt, J.H.M.M. | title=Solar-like M-class X-ray flares on Proxima Centauri observed by the ASCA satellite | journal = Science | volume=268 | year=1995 | pages=1327–9 | pmid=17778978 | doi=10.1126/science.268.5215.1327|bibcode = 1995Sci...268.1327H | issue=5215 }} * {{Cite journal |author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Antunes, A. |author3=Schmitt, J.H.M.M. | title=Solar-like M-class X-ray flares on Proxima Centauri observed by the ASCA satellite | journal = Science | volume=268 | year=1995 | pages=1327–9 | pmid=17778978 | doi=10.1126/science.268.5215.1327|bibcode = 1995Sci...268.1327H | issue=5215 |s2cid=46660210 }}

A few representative publications regarding the proposed physical origin of inertia as an electromagnetic drag force and hypothetical spacecraft propulsion schemes:
*{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Rueda, A. |author3=Puthoff, H. E. |title=Inertia as a zero-point-field Lorentz force |journal=Physical Review A|volume=49|year=1994|pages=678–694 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.49.678| pmid=9910287| issue=2|bibcode = 1994PhRvA..49..678H }} *{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, B. |author2=Rueda, A. |author3=Puthoff, H. E. |title=Inertia as a zero-point-field Lorentz force |journal=Physical Review A|volume=49|year=1994|pages=678–694 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.49.678| pmid=9910287| issue=2|bibcode = 1994PhRvA..49..678H }}
*{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |title=Contribution to inertial mass by reaction of the vacuum to accelerated motion |journal=Found. Phys.| volume= 28 |year=1998 |pages = 1057–1108 |doi=10.1023/A:1018893903079| issue=7| arxiv=physics/9802030 }} *{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |title=Contribution to inertial mass by reaction of the vacuum to accelerated motion |journal=Found. Phys.| volume= 28 |year=1998 |pages = 1057–1108 |doi=10.1023/A:1018893903079| issue=7| arxiv=physics/9802030 |bibcode=1998physics...2030R |s2cid=15176550 }}
*{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |title=Toward an Interstellar Mission: Zeroing in on the Zero-Point-Field Inertia Resonance|arxiv=physics/9909043| date=21 September 1999|doi=10.1063/1.1290904|journal=AIP Conference Proceedings}} *{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |title=Toward an Interstellar Mission: Zeroing in on the Zero-Point-Field Inertia Resonance|arxiv=physics/9909043| date=21 September 1999|doi=10.1063/1.1290904|journal=AIP Conference Proceedings|volume=504 |pages=1047–1053 |s2cid=118870412 }}
*{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |author3=Dobyns, York |title=Inertial mass and the quantum vacuum fields |journal= Annalen der Physik | volume= 10 |year=2001 |pages = 393–414 |doi=10.1002/1521-3889(200105)10:5<393::AID-ANDP393>3.0.CO;2-Z|arxiv = gr-qc/0009036 |bibcode = 2001AnP...513..393H| issue=5 }} *{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |author3=Dobyns, York |title=Inertial mass and the quantum vacuum fields |journal= Annalen der Physik | volume= 10 |year=2001 |pages = 393–414 |doi=10.1002/1521-3889(200105)10:5<393::AID-ANDP393>3.0.CO;2-Z|arxiv = gr-qc/0009036 |bibcode = 2001AnP...513..393H| issue=5 }}
*{{Cite journal|author=Haisch, Bernard |title=Freeing The Scientific Imagination|journal=Noetic Sciences Review|volume=57|year=2001| pages=24}} *{{Cite journal|author=Haisch, Bernard |title=Freeing The Scientific Imagination|journal=Noetic Sciences Review|volume=57|year=2001| pages=24}}
*{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |title=Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum Inertia Hypothesis |journal= Annalen der Physik | volume= 14 |year=2005 |pages = 479–498 |doi=10.1002/andp.200510147|arxiv = gr-qc/0504061 |bibcode = 2005AnP...517..479R| issue=8 }} *{{Cite journal|author1=Haisch, Bernard |author2=Rueda, Alfonso |title=Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum Inertia Hypothesis |journal= Annalen der Physik | volume= 14 |year=2005 |pages = 479–498 |doi=10.1002/andp.200510147|arxiv = gr-qc/0504061 |bibcode = 2005AnP...517..479R| issue=8 |s2cid=14283455 }}
*{{Cite journal|author1=Deardoff, J. |author2=Haisch, B. |author3=Puthoff, H. E. | title = Inflation-Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation | journal= Journal of the British Interplanetary Society |year=2005 |volume=58 | pages=43–50|bibcode = 2005JBIS...58...43D }} from , Haisch's website devoted to encouraging genuinely objective and scientific inquiry into matters related to the UFO phenomenon. *{{Cite journal|author1=Deardoff, J. |author2=Haisch, B. |author3=Puthoff, H. E. | title = Inflation-Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation | journal= Journal of the British Interplanetary Society |year=2005 |volume=58 | pages=43–50|bibcode = 2005JBIS...58...43D|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090916220126/http://www.ufoskeptic.org/JBIS.pdf}}


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==Further reading==
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*{{cite news|author=Haisch, Bernard|date=July 24, 2006|title=Why Wiki can drive you wacky|work=]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-24-oe-haisch24-story.html}}


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Bernard Michael Haisch is a German-born American astrophysicist who has researched solar-stellar astrophysics and stochastic electrodynamics. Haisch, with Alfonso Rueda, developed a speculative theory that the non-zero lowest energy state of the vacuum, as predicted by quantum mechanics, might provide a physical explanation for the origin of inertia, and might someday be used for spacecraft propulsion. Haisch has advocated the serious scientific study of phenomena outside the traditional scope of science and is known for his interest in UFO phenomena as well as a variety of other unorthodox topics.

Since 2002, Haisch has been involved with ManyOne Networks and related Digital Universe projects that aim to produce, among other things, a multimedia online encyclopedia. In 2006, Haisch published a popular book attempting to reconcile modern scientific belief with traditional religious belief. Haisch attributes his spiritual interests to his educational experience at the Latin School of Indianapolis (a high school affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church) and at the Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology.

Scientific career

Haisch was born in Stuttgart, Germany and earned a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975 and thereafter spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Haisch has worked at the Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory at Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, California and as deputy director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Haisch was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. His primary research from the mid-1970s until the late 1990s was high energy astrophysics, specifically the ultraviolet and X-ray emissions from coronae and flares on the Sun and other late-type stars.

Haisch has published more than one hundred research papers on a variety of topics, many in journals such as Nature, Science, Physical Review, Astrophysical Journal, and Annalen der Physik. Haisch also edited the Astrophysical Journal for ten years.

In the 1990s, Haisch and Alfonso Rueda developed a "quantum vacuum inertia" hypothesis responsible for mass. The inertialess "SHARP drive" in Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey was named for Andrei Sakharov, Haisch, Rueda, and Harold E. Puthoff.

Haisch was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

In addition to papers in mainstream journals and conference proceedings, Haisch also published papers in Science & Spirit magazine and the Journal of Noetic Sciences, a parapsychological journal published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Other ventures

California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics

In 1999, Haisch founded the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Palo Alto, California, an organization mainly devoted to studying the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and funded by private philanthropic money. The institute formerly employed five full-time physicists researching string theory, general relativity and stochastic electrodynamics. Haisch served as the institute's director from 1999 until 2002.

UFO Skeptic

Haisch created a website, UFO Skeptic, advocating professional scientists to investigate UFO phenomena.

Digital Universe

In 2002, Haisch became the Chief Science Officer of ManyOne Networks. Since 2004, he also served as president of the now defunct Digital Universe Foundation, which, among other things, aimed to create a peer-reviewed alternative to English Misplaced Pages, seeking to provide a comprehensive and reliable account of current mainstream scientific theory, evidence, and belief.

Publications

References

  1. "Bernard Michael Haisch". American Men & Women of Science. Gale. 2008.
  2. Haisch, Bernard. "Dear Colleagues". ufoskeptic.org.
  3. Matthews, Robert (February 4, 1994). "Inertia: Does Empty Space Put Up the Resistance?". Science. 263 (5147): 612–613. doi:10.1126/science.263.5147.612.
  4. Powell, Corey S. (May 1994). "Unbearable Lightness". Scientific American. Vol. 270, no. 5. pp. 27–28. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0594-27.
  5. Levin, Yefim S. (January 27, 2009). "Inertia as a zero-point-field force: Critical analysis of the Haisch-Rueda-Puthoff inertia theory". Physical Review A.
  6. Clarke, Arthur C. (1997). 3001: The Final Odyssey. pp. 64, 255–256.
  7. Gilster, Paul (2004). Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration. p. 174.
  8. Haisch, Bernard; Sims, Marsha (2004). "A Retrospective on the Journal of Scientific Exploration" (PDF). Journal of Scientific Exploration. 18 (1).
  9. Keim, Brandon (March 2007). "News feature: WikiMedia". Nature Medicine. 13 (3). Nature Publishing Group.

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