User talk:Ibison

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Polarizable vacuum

I take it you are in real life Michael Ibison, an employee of Earthtech International and/or Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, which as I understand were both founded by Hal Puthoff? Wouldn't that make you an employee of Hal Puthoff? If so, since you are editing an article about Hal Puthoff, this appears to raise concerns about possible conflict of interest. Hope you will clarify the nature of your relationship to Hal Puthoff and Michael Ibison. ---CH 10:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dear CH

You are correct that I (ibison) am Michael Ibison. Though I am an employee of Earthtech International, the structure of the institute is such that on matters of physics, I, Harold Puthoff, and the other employees here are answerable not to each other but directly to our funders; I have complete autonomy in deciding how best to fulfill my contract of employment with respect to our (common) funder. For example, my view and that of Hal's on the utility of Polarizable Vacuum (PV) has not always coincided, which difference however has not stopped me posting a critical analysis of PV on LANL. Further, to his credit, Hal would never attempt to influence me in that regard. Please read it if you are concerned.

The main reason for my edit of the Wiki PV page is that

1) I thought it too pro-PV, mostly because:

1.1) It contained a serious omission, failing to place PV in historical context, posing it as the creation of Puthoff & Haisch, whereas it really should be attributed to Dicke, and perhaps Wilson (1926).

1.2) It did not actually say what was wrong with PV!

2) It contained an inaccurate statement about my support for PV and subsequently for the Yilmaz Theory.

On 1.2): The new Wiki entry now points out that

A) PV cannot accommodate frame-dragging;

B) PV gives the wrong radiative decay rate for binary pulsars.

C) The original preamble misleadingly gave the impression that PV is an EM theory of gravity, whereas neither PV nor the (GR-correct) analogue theory of gravity by de Felice (1971) model anything other than the passage of light through a gravitational field electromagnetically.

Point 2) was especially irritating. I have published probably the only detailed critical analysis of the Yilmaz Theory (see references below). (Which, by the way, is another example of my own editorial independence: Puthoff was positively disposed towards the Yilmaz theory.)

I think the PV page is now less pro-PV, and more factually specific. If you disagree then please correct the errors you think remain. I have no interest in promoting this theory and think that the facts should and do speak for themselves. Please let me know if you intend to edit the PV page or remove the dispute.

In future please do not jump to conclusions but take the time to make a proper inquiry.

References

M. Ibison, "Cosmological test of the Yilmaz theory of gravity," Classical and Quantum Gravity Vol. 23, pp. 577-589 (2006).

M. Ibison, "The Yilmaz Cosmology," Proceedings of the First Crisis in Cosmology Conference (CCC-I) AIP (2006).

M. Ibison, "Investigation of the polarizable vacuum cosmology," astro-ph/0302273.

Michael Ibison, 16:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I have replied in Talk:Polarizable vacuum. Thanks again for clearing up the issue of your identity. I hope you will add some information about yourself, your employment and research to your user page to prevent possible future concern on the part of other WP editors who might notice an apparent connection between Ibison (talk · contribs) and Earthtech. ---CH 19:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

After many delays, I have rewritten Polarizable vacuum, adopting many of the changes you wanted but reorganizing material and adding new material. See also the talk page. ---CH 03:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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