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Introduction
Jim Schofield is a retired Professor, Theoretical Physicist and devoted polymath with very diverse interests, from Computer Science and Sculpture, to Dance and Mathematics. He has been writing critically on the Philosophy of Science for many decades, and began publishing his extensive research in this area online, after establishing SHAPE Journal with Dr. Peter Mothersole and his son Mick Schofield, in 2009.
Before taking early retirement in the 1990s due to ill health, Schofield was Director of Information Technology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Jim now does research in History of Science, History of Philosophy and Theoretical Physics.
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This short paper is taken from The Systems Theory of Everything II by Jim Schofield, arguing that a new Systems-based philosophical approach is needed, both to extend Marxist Theory to deal with the many social problems we face in the 21st Century, but also to finally resolve many of the impasses in the Sciences, particularly Theoretical Physics. N...
This series of issues attempts to set out the first definitive account of Jim Schofield’s new Systems Approach to Science. The various papers collected here, and over the next few editions of this journal, explore the proposed theory and explain why it is such a radical departure from the current universally applied scientific method.
While working...
This special print edition of SHAPE has been produced to mark 10 years of the journal. Collated here are two issues, originally published in May and June 2019, which collect together key papers on Jim Schofield’s ground-breaking new theory of physics, the Universal Substrate.
This is a completely new approach to sub-atomic physics that hypothesize...
The Casimir Effect (between two conducting plates in a vacuum) presents an excellent phenomenon for contrasting the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory with a new alternative account, suggesting the effects of an undetectable Universal Substrate composed of units consisting of mutually-orbiting pairs of Leptons (Substrate Theory) which repl...
As climate change accelerates and capitalism slowly dies around us, it is no longer hyperbolic to state that human civilization now hangs in the balance. For the positivist consensus, salvation must come from science and its greater capacity to understand these problems and proffer vital solutions. Unfortunately for us all, and unbeknownst to most,...
This collection of papers re-examines some of the problems and assumptions of redshift in light of recent developments in Substrate Theory. If redshift is not what contemporary physicists say it is, the whole edifice of modern cosmology and astrophysics comes tumbling down - the universe isn't expanding, there wasn't a Big Bang, etc. etc.
The prob...
