"Aetherometry" is a neologism coined by Paulo Correa and Alexandra Correa to denote the experimental and analytical system they developed, the goal of which is asserted to be the precise experimental and theoretical study of "massfree energy" (which they describe as the study of the "metrics of the massfree aether"). (Note that "massfree energy" is not a term used by mainstream physicists). Unlike those previous theories of the aether which were ruled out by the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment, aetherometry proponents claim that their concept of massfree energy provides a theory of the aether based upon that null result.

Aetherometry purports to provide a different foundation for much of accepted physics, chemistry, and biophysics, and to go beyond them by explaining a number of what its supporters claim are hitherto unexplained anomalies. Among the subjects it addresses are blackbody radiation, microwave cosmic background radiation, Kirlian photography, Tesla coil resonance, electroscopic discharge, anomalous cathode reaction forces, autoelectronic emission, the thermal effects of orgone accumulators, the 1941 Reich-Einstein experiment, and the orgone motor. It also claims to explain the failures of a number of controversial theories in minor fields of scientific investigation, such as orgonomy, De Broglie's matter waves, LeSage-type theory of gravity, and models for cold fusion. The main philosophical influences claimed by aetherometry are Friedrich Nietzsche, Camillo Berneri, and Gilles Deleuze while its main scientific influences are claimed to be Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Reich, Harold Aspden, and René Thom.

Eugene Mallove, founder of Infinite Energy magazine, was a public supporter of aetherometry, and was one of the founding members of the International Society of Friends of Aetherometry.

Papers about aetherometry have not been published in any major scientific journals, although articles about aetherometry have been published in Infinite Energy, which specializes in unorthodox topics such as cold fusion, "vast energy sources from the vacuum state", and energy sources requiring "significant extensions to the Second Law of Thermodynamics" [14]. Work in Aetherometry, including plasma physics and technology-tests, has been independently reviewed by the following: Eugene Mallove (PhD), Harold Aspden (PhD, P. Eng), Uri Soudak (P. Eng, MSc), Dr. M. Askanas (PhD), Professor Emeritus A. Axelrad (MD, PhD), Professor Emeritus William Tiller (PhD), Luis Balula (M.Arch, PhD), Howard Brinton (MD), Vitaly Bard (MD), Lev Sapogin (PhD), George Egely (PhD), Prof. Emeritus Herman Branover (PhD), Michael Tilley (BSc), David Pratt, Tom Bearden, Michael Carrell.

Aetherometrists have published most of their work at Akronos Publishing, an independent, nonsponsored publisher. This approach bypasses established peer review system employed by scientific journals. Proponents of aetherometry justify this by stating that the major journals ignore them because acceptance into mainstream science is permeated with entrenched interests, and state that one cannot judge the scientific merits of a new science that has arisen outside the institutional framework and which challenges accepted notions, by the fact that it has not been accepted by the mainstream.

External links

Advocacy sites:

"Aetherometry, the Science of the Metric of the Aether" http://www.aetherometry.com/

International Society of Friends of Aetherometry (2005). http://aetherometry.com/ISFA_overview.html Retrieved June 25 2005

Massfree Energy Technologies http://www.massfree.com/

Related sites:

http://www.energyscience.org.uk/ http://www.aspden.org/ Harold Aspden's sites

Drew, David (2005). " Plasma Cosmology". Retrieved June 25 2005

Opposing views:

Criticisms of Vol 1 of Experimental Aetherometry by James DeMeo.

:* A rebuttal of James DeMeo's criticisms (from the Aetherometry site)
Entries in other Internet encyclopedias:

Aetherometry article by Malgosia Askanas and another person on Wikinfo