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| {{short description|German-born American astrophysicist}} | {{short description|German-born American astrophysicist}} | ||
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| '''Bernard Haisch''' is a German-born American ] |
'''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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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> | ||
| Haisch |
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 addition to papers in mainstream journals and conference proceedings, Haisch |
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 ]. | ||
| ==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 California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in ], an organization mainly devoted to |
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 |
Haisch created a website, ''UFO Skeptic'', advocating professional scientists to investigate UFO phenomena. | ||
| ===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 }} | * {{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 }} | ||
| * {{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 }} | ||
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| {{Refend}} | {{Refend}} | ||
| ==Further |
==Further reading== | ||
| {{Scholia}} | {{Scholia}} | ||
| *{{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}} | *{{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
- Haisch, Bernard (2006). The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All. York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser Books. ISBN 1-57863-374-5.
- Haisch, B.; Strong, K.T.; Rodono, M. (1991). "Flares on the Sun and other stars". Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics. 29: 275–324. Bibcode:1991ARA&A..29..275H. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.29.090191.001423.
- Haisch, B.; Schmitt, J.H.M.M.; Fabian, A.C. (1992). "Disappearance of coronal X-ray emission in stars with cool dense winds". Nature. 360 (6401): 239. Bibcode:1992Natur.360..239H. doi:10.1038/360239a0.
- Haisch, B.; Antunes, A.; Schmitt, J.H.M.M. (1995). "Solar-like M-class X-ray flares on Proxima Centauri observed by the ASCA satellite". Science. 268 (5215): 1327–9. Bibcode:1995Sci...268.1327H. doi:10.1126/science.268.5215.1327. PMID 17778978. S2CID 46660210.
- Haisch, B.; Rueda, A.; Puthoff, H. E. (1994). "Inertia as a zero-point-field Lorentz force". Physical Review A. 49 (2): 678–694. Bibcode:1994PhRvA..49..678H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.49.678. PMID 9910287.
- Haisch, Bernard; Rueda, Alfonso (1998). "Contribution to inertial mass by reaction of the vacuum to accelerated motion". Found. Phys. 28 (7): 1057–1108. arXiv:physics/9802030. Bibcode:1998physics...2030R. doi:10.1023/A:1018893903079. S2CID 15176550.
- Haisch, Bernard; Rueda, Alfonso (21 September 1999). "Toward an Interstellar Mission: Zeroing in on the Zero-Point-Field Inertia Resonance". AIP Conference Proceedings. 504: 1047–1053. arXiv:physics/9909043. doi:10.1063/1.1290904. S2CID 118870412.
- Haisch, Bernard; Rueda, Alfonso; Dobyns, York (2001). "Inertial mass and the quantum vacuum fields". Annalen der Physik. 10 (5): 393–414. arXiv:gr-qc/0009036. Bibcode:2001AnP...513..393H. doi:10.1002/1521-3889(200105)10:5<393::AID-ANDP393>3.0.CO;2-Z.
- Haisch, Bernard (2001). "Freeing The Scientific Imagination". Noetic Sciences Review. 57: 24.
- Haisch, Bernard; Rueda, Alfonso (2005). "Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum Inertia Hypothesis". Annalen der Physik. 14 (8): 479–498. arXiv:gr-qc/0504061. Bibcode:2005AnP...517..479R. doi:10.1002/andp.200510147. S2CID 14283455.
- Deardoff, J.; Haisch, B.; Puthoff, H. E. (2005). "Inflation-Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation" (PDF). Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 58: 43–50. Bibcode:2005JBIS...58...43D.
References
- "Bernard Michael Haisch". American Men & Women of Science. Gale. 2008.
- Haisch, Bernard. "Dear Colleagues". ufoskeptic.org.
- 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.
- Powell, Corey S. (May 1994). "Unbearable Lightness". Scientific American. Vol. 270, no. 5. pp. 27–28. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0594-27.
- 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.
- Clarke, Arthur C. (1997). 3001: The Final Odyssey. pp. 64, 255–256.
- Gilster, Paul (2004). Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration. p. 174.
- Haisch, Bernard; Sims, Marsha (2004). "A Retrospective on the Journal of Scientific Exploration" (PDF). Journal of Scientific Exploration. 18 (1).
- Keim, Brandon (March 2007). "News feature: WikiMedia". Nature Medicine. 13 (3). Nature Publishing Group.
Further reading
Scholia has a profile for Bernard Haisch (Q3638669).
- Haisch, Bernard (July 24, 2006). "Why Wiki can drive you wacky". Los Angeles Times.