Underground Knowledge — A discussion group discussion

Besides the great Nikola Tesla, here are some other scientists I think deserve more recognition...Please add any more names you feel have influenced our world, or who were ahead of their time and whose scientific ideas are now influencing our future. Thanks.

Viktor Schauberger



Viktor Schauberger (30 June 1885 in Holzschlag, Upper Austria[1] – 25 September 1958 in Linz, Austria[1]) was an Austrian forest caretaker, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and biomimicry experimenter.

Schauberger developed his own ideas based on what he observed in nature. In Implosion magazine, a magazine released by Schauberger's family, he said that aeronautical and marine engineers had incorrectly designed the propeller. He stated:

“As best demonstrated by Nature in the case of the aerofoil maple-seed, today’s propeller is a pressure-screw and therefore a braking screw, whose purpose is to allow the heavy maple-seed to fall parachute-like slowly towards the ground and to be carried away sideways by the wind in the process. No bird has such a whirling thing on its head, nor a fish on its tail. Only man made use of this natural brake-screw for forward propulsion. As the propeller rotates, so does the resistance rise by the square of the rotational velocity. This is also a sign that this supposed propulsive device is unnaturally constructed and therefore out of place.”


Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature



Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger



The Water Wizard: The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water



The energy evolution : harnessing free energy from nature

Buckminster Fuller (aka Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller /ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)[1] was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer and inventor.

Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.

Fuller was the second World President of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.

Buckminster Fuller's Universe: An Appreciation



The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller



The Buckminster Fuller Reader



Buckminster Fuller





Synopsis for Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe:

From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms “spaceship earth” and “synergetics,” the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was to create living environments that minimized consumption of the earth’s resources while maximizing interconnections with global systems of information and transportation. This book explores Fuller's extraordinary body of work focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought.

The book chronicles Fuller’s profound, often prophetic contributions, including his environmentally sensitive building designs. The essays illuminate the underappreciated thematic interactions of many sculptors, painters, musicians, and architects with this self-described “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,” including contemporary artists wrestling with Fuller’s legacy today.

For the best scientist that hardly anyone has ever heard of (I would be extraordinarily surprised if anyone here has): F. E. Volochine.

Now, confess - have you heard of him? Why? In 1925 he developed a theory to account for nuclear binding energies, based on magnetism. He predicted the neutron would have a spin of 1/2, and he predicted its magnetic moment quite accurately, and his bonding energies were extremely good, including the excited states. As it happened, he was wrong because he required the proton and neutron to be about 7 times smaller than they are, HOWEVER, I have shown (in my ebook "Guidance Waves") that for deuterium at least, electromagnetism will account for the binding energy quite nicely if you assume the interaction is similar to that of chemical binding, but using quarks.

Thanks Ian.
No, never heard of F. E. Volochine.

James wrote: "Thanks Ian.
No, never heard of F. E. Volochine."

He published with the Polish Academy of Sciences, which is also probably not the best read source of journals.

Beyond Tesla: History's Most Overlooked Scientists https://www.livescience.com/46723-mos...

Top 7 Most Underrated Scientists Ever http://www.debate.org/opinions/polls/...

Interesting that they have Maxwell as highly underrated. I always thought physicists everywhere really rate Maxwell, and Faraday got himself on an English banknote. I am not convinced on the "underrating".

How about Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry?

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

I would add Kristian Birkeland. He was the first to recognize auroras as electrical currents in plasma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristia...

Richard Feynman?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

Richard Phillips Feynman,[2][3][4] ForMemRS (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.

James wrote: "Richard Feynman?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

Richard Phillips Feynman,[2][3][4] ForMemRS (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, kn..."

Feynman is hardly underrated - he would probably be the most quoted physicist from the last half of the 20th century