Dewey B. Larson
Dewey B. Larson (Nov 1, 1898 - May 25, 1990) was an American engineer and theoretician born in McCanna, North Dakota. The author of several works on the fundamental nature of the universe and the originator of the Reciprocal System of physical theory, Larson developed a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework to explain natural phenomena from sub-atomic particles to super-galaxies. By answering questions such as, “Why does light sometimes behave as a particle and sometimes as a wave?”, “What is the origin of gravity?”, and "How are galaxies and quasars related?” the breadth of Larson's work is unmatched by any other scientific investigator, past or present.
Around Unexpected Corners (autobiographical info on the beginning of the Reciprocal System, 1968)
Submitted by DB Larson on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 01:49AROUND UNEXPECTED CORNERS
About twenty years ago Dr. James B. Conant, at that time president of Harvard University, gave a talk to a group of chemists and chemical executives in which he expressed serious concern over the effect on scientific progress that was likely to result from the virtual disappearance of what he called the “uncommitted investigators”, a term which he applied to those individuals who carry on scientific research work on their own initiative, without support from or direction by the established research agencies. As Dr. Conant put it, these individuals “could investigate what they pleased when they pleased, or break off research at any point. They were as free as the wind because they had no program except the ever-changing one in their own minds”.
Books by Dewey B. Larson
Submitted by B Peret on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 17:22Dewey Larson published a number of books on physics, astronomy, sociology, economics and metaphysics during his life, as well as a great number of papers. Please visit the ISUS Store if you wish to purchase any of the books, or the RS Library to view on-line versions.
An Interview with Dewey B. Larson
Submitted by jsammer on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 17:04Taped in August, 1984 at Salt Lake City
by Jan Sammer
(In the text version, the order of the paragraphs has in some cases been changed)
JS: I’d like to start out by asking a few biographical questions. Somewhere I've read that your family comes from Norway. Was it your parents or your grandparents who first came to this country?
