http://www.BillHowell.ca/System_maintenance/cellphone, wireless/2304112 reply to Sabine Hossenfelder (USB file transfers dont work).txt

I recommend that you don't waste too much time on my webSite: "internal" links on my site often don't work, while "external" links should be OK.  I just can't find the time to switch my web management programs to bash scripts while I've been doing a 2-year change to all operator names (and much functionality) in the QNial language libraries that I built and normally use.  I am a retired amateur, not a professional scientist.

Physics : 
The one "significant, unfinished] bit of work I've shelved for ~3-4 years (significant means step-by-step rederivation of theories) is a look into Charles William Lucas's "Universal force" theory, as a replacement of [general relativity, quantum mechanics, [strong, weak] force, gravity].  I have [~150, ~250] sets of derivations on slightly different basis for Chapter 4 only (the easiest chapter).  Here's one example : 

	'http://www.BillHowell.ca/ProjMajor/Lucas/documents/191025 17h43m math Howell.txt'

HOWEVER, I won't work on this again until I finish revamping my libraries for the QNial language (another 6 months to a year?), AND until I find a suitable derivation-checker.   Higher-order Logic (HOL), Isabelle etc are available, but seem not quite what I want.  Symbolic math programs (matlab, scilab, etc) do calculations, not dervations.  I have dabbled at building something myself, but that may be beyond me?  Any suggestions in terms of what you use might help.

What I have followed that might be of interest, taking the "far side of fun physics" is : 

SAFIRE electrical model of the Sun - inspired by the "Electric Universe" theories, with some tie-in to Anthony Peratt's astronomical plasmas (I think he was a student of Hans Alfen).  Many rules of physics, not to mention the Standard model f the Sun, are broken by experimental results (privately funded, [US, UK, Australian] scientists, Canadian [private funding, engineers].  Extends Kristian Birkeland's "Earth torella" geomagnetic experiments and concepts.  See https://aureon.ca/  as they have videos of the experiments, plus post-experiment business descriptions, like "radio-deisotopification" (my invented term, as they didn't have suitable phrase for me based on MIT work).

Edward Dowdye Hr, "Extinction shift principle" -  I bought the book to look at details of his analysis that General Relativity FAILS to describe the bening of light from Mercury by the Sun.  It only works at one altitude, and infinity (where it isn't doing anything).  But his extinction shift pronciple explain "intertial mass" misconceptions wonderfully. 
Edward Dowdye 2001 “Discourses & mathematical illustrations pertaining to the Extinction Shift Principle under the electrodynamics of Galilean transformations” copyright 1992, printed by Ed Dowdye, Second edition 2001, ISBN 0-9634471-5-7 

Steve Bryant - I mentioned this in a previous text message.  Not that Dowdye and Bryant are black, which I feel uncomfortable saying in today's environment, but they are heros to me.
Steven Bryant 2016 "Disruptive : rewriting the rules of physics" www.Infinite CirclePublishing.com, El Cerrito, CA  ISBN 978-0-9962409-0-1

Randall Mills grat concepts and "Hydrino concept" (fractional quantum levels of electrons, Lucas has this too).  He proposes to dump quantum mechanics, although he is still a GR believer.  Fantastic experiments and theoretical developments, and fun.
I wrote a partial review (my webSite only) of : 
Brett Holverstott 2016 "Randell Mills and the search for hydrino energy" KRP History publisher, 437pp, ISBN: 978-0-692-76005-5  www.BrettHolverstoot.com

Edwin Kaal (Germany) - replacement for atomic theories of quantum mechanics.  [Simple, powerful, intuitive].  I've just received a book he and colleagues wrote, but won't get to it for perhaps 6 months.  I have gone through several papers.

There are many more, of course.  I can't say whether the above people are [right wrong, true, false], I'm not smart enough to judge.  But their work is [inspiring, thoughtful, independent].  

Neural networks
My priority interest since 1988 is neural networks.  Right now, I'm scrambling on reading Steven Grossberg (giant in NNs) "Conscious Mind, resonant brain" monster book, with a view to also checking if "Tranformer Neural Nets" (TrNNs) and their Large Language Modelss" (LLMs) like chatGPT, have architectures that may serve as [protero, incipient] capabilities that could be extended to Grossberg's lobng-standing theoories (he claims to have first implemented non-linear NNs in 1957-58 or 19L60s?), but even if that is a stretch, he has done enormous fundamental work,  He even [describe, explain]s the split away from multi-disciplinary work in psychology and physics (eg Helmhotz, Maxwell, Mach), to the silos of today (mistake?).