Sagnac Award winner.
Biography
Peter Graneau was born March 21, 1921 in Lissau, Poland (in the German region) and earned both his BS (1955) and PhD (1962) from the University of Nottingham, England, where he still maintains his citizenship. Emigrating to the US in 1967, Dr. Graneau worked at Simplex Wire & Cable Co until F 1971, when he became a research scientist at M.I.T. In the early 1980s, Graneau's experiments with railguns led him to seek solutions based on Ampere's original force law as an alternative to the unsatisfactory solutions of conventional electrodynamics. In 1985 he moved to Northeastern University, where he conducted some of his most significant experiments before retiring in 1990. He proposed Amperian electrodynamics to explain longitudinal forces along the direction of current flow, and devised experiments to produce longitudinal explosions or arcs in water from these forces. Joined by his colleague and son Neal, Dr. Graneau has published dozens of articles and books demonstrating that Amperian action-at-a-distance mechanics explain many phenomena regarded as anomalies in mainstream science. Among the most interesting and incisive writers about the problems of contemporary physics today, their books include Newton versus Einstein (1993), Newtonian Electrodynamics (1996), and In the Grip of a Distant Universe (2006). The Graneau team numbers among the several dissidents who have produced convincing experimental evidence contradictory to the predictions of Maxwell-Lorentz-Einstein electrodynamic theory. The series of experiments on water arcing, detailed in Unlimited Renewable Solar Energy from Water (2006), has profound implications in the field of New Energy. In his retirement, he continues to co-edit Infinite Energy magazine. World Science Database, Peter Graneau
Articles:
"Steady-State Electrodynamics of a Cylindrical Body in Axial Motion," Journal of Electronics and Control, V14, p. 459 (1963).
"Application of Ampere's Force Law to Railgun Accelerators," Journal of Applied Physics, V53, N?, pp. 6642 (1982).
"Electromagnetic Jet-propulsion in the Direction of Current Flow," Nature, V295, pp. 311-312 (Jan 1982).
"Compatibility of the Ampere and Lorentz Force Laws with the Virtula Work Concept," Il Nouvo Cimento B, V78, N2, pp. 213 (1983).
"First Indication of Ampere Tension in Solid Electrical Conductors," Physics Letters A, V97, pp. 253-255 (1983).
"Ampere and Lorentz Forces," Physics Letters A, V107, N5, pp. 235 (1985).
"Comments on 'Equivalence of the Lorentz and Ampere Force Laws in Magnetostatics," Journal of Applied Physics, V58, N9, pp. 3638 (1985).
"Electrodynamic Explosions in Liquids," Applied Physics Letters, V46, N5, pp. 468-470 (1985). (with P. Neal Graneau)
"Powerful Water-Plasma Explosions," Physics Letters A, V117, N2, pp. 101-105 (1986). (with R. Azevedo, C. Millet & N. Graneau)
"The Electromagnetic Impulse Pendulum and Momentum Conservation," Il Nouvo Cimento D, V7, p. 31 (1986). (with P. Neal Graneau)
"Railgun Recoil and Relativity," Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, V20, N3, pp. 391-393 (1987).
"Amperian Recoil and the Efficiency of Railguns," Journal of Applied Physics, V62, N?, pp. 3006-3009 (1987).
"Wire Explosions," Physics Letters A, V120, p. 77 (1987).
"Energy and Its Electrodynamic Mass," Physics Bulletin, V39, p. 136 (1988).
"Electrodynamic Water Arc Gun" (Presented at the 4th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology, April 1988).
"Electromagnetic Momentum Measurements," Applied Physics, V21, N5, pp. 1826 (1988).
"The Cause of Thunder," Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, V22, pp. 1083 (1989).
"Longitudinal Forces in Ampere's Wire-Arc Experiment", Physics letters A, V137, N3, pp. 87 (May 1989).
"The Motionally-Induced Back-EMF in Railguns," Physics Letters A, V145, p. 396 (1990). (with S. L. Morrill & D. S. Thompson)
"The Finite Size of the Metallic Current Element," Physics Letters A, V147, N2/3, pp. 92 (1990).
"Nonlocal Action in the Induction Motor", Foundations of Physics Letters, V4, N5, p. 499 (Oct 1991).
"Comment on "The Motionally Induced Back-EMF in Railguns", Physics Letters A, V160, N5, p. 490 (Dec 1991).
"The Role of Ampere forces in Nuclear Fusion", Physics Letters A, V165, N1, p. 1 (May 1992).
"Ampere Force Calculation for Filament Fusion Experiments", Physics Letters A, V174, N5/6, p. 421 (Mar 1993).
"Solar-Energy Liberation from Water by Electric Arcs" (J. Plasma Physics, 60, 4, 1998).
"Arc-Liberated Chemical Energy Exceds Electrical Input Energy (J. Plasma Physics, 63, 2, 2000).
"Evidence of Thunder Being a Chemical Explosion of Air" (J. Plasma Physics, 69, 3, 2003).