arXiv subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Jean-Paul Auffray.
A conjecture formulated by Henri Poincare in 1912 suggests that Max Planck's elementary quantum of action constitutes an authentic "atom of motion". When the conjecture is implemented, the resulting entity, the xon, becomes "the string string theorists forgot to notice". If a string exists in Nature, then string theoretical research should be pursued.
Lee Smolin's casual accounting of special and general relativity in The Trouble with Physics raises an interesting question: is it possible to develop a legitimate argument concerning string theories starting from a shaky basis? This is apparently what Lee Smolin succeeded in doing when he wrote The Trouble with Physics. The book's shortcomings are nevertheless troublesome.
Samuel Preston's 1875 postulates concerning the nature ether are reviewed.
The mass-energy relation E=mc2 has a dual origin, one grounded in the postulate of the existence of an aether made of "ultramondane particules" moving in space at the speed of light, c; the other, a consequence, first deduced by Henri Poincare, of John Poynting's electromagnetic Theorem.