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Regarding the number of publications in high ranked scientific journals, I would like to add that the main professional activities of Prof. A. Meessen were peda
by chmike 10y ago
Regarding the number of publications in high ranked scientific journals, I would like to add that the main professional activities of Prof. A. Meessen were pedagogic.
1. He gave lessons to the Physics students;
2. He created and managed a pedagogic lab for school students where he developed and exposed many educative and entertaining physics experiments;
3. He regularly performed what is called "school teacher recycling education" where physics school teachers could refresh their pedagogic methods with new, simple and entertaining experiments;
4. He wrote multiple school books on physics and this started before the time we had home computers, text editors and laser printers (it's a huge work he did all alone);
and many other activities and responsibilities I'm not aware of.
In addition to that he also had an intense research activity on many topics related to physics and his domain of competence. As can be seen on his web site, ufology is one of the domain he worked on, and as you can easily imagine it's nearly impossible to publish in a scientific journal on this subject. It is a remarkable opportunity that was given to him to present the results of his research on UFO propulsion at the Progress In Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS) in 2012. The link between Electromagnetic UFO propulsion and Ball Lightning is obvious.
But the most important research topic, in duration and result, is his space time quantization theory. He worked on it totally alone for 50 years. He focused on working on the theory instead of showing up and shaking hands at conferences to build up a network. This has later proven to be a huge handicap he is paying a high price today. As I said, he is currently finalizing a big article on his most recent results which is an explanation of dark matter and other things.
As a true scientist he always expected that his work would be judged on its scientific value, not the strength of his network or the number of publication in high ranked journals. The reality is apparently sadly different and in my opinion shows a poor state of science. But this is not news.
People might have various opinions on the validity of his theories. The last word should now go to experimentalists that will give a shot at it. These theories are not pies in the skies. They can be tested and I'm sure Prof. Meessen would be happy to give advise and help the audacious as long as he is still alive.