Lev Verkhovsky

• Master of Science
• Retired

It is known that the playwright and poet Ben Jonson often used personal satire in his plays -- he portrayed famous people and his acquaintances, settled personal scores. The article presents a hypothesis about which real people were behind the main characters of the comedy. These are the magician and healer Simon Forman, the now well-known Emilia...

The author suggested that the image on the Shroud of Turin is a thermal photo of the hot body of a man crucified, but not dead on the cross. The hypothesis is discussed that a similar story happened to Jesus Christ, and not by chance, but according to a plan developed by him. The article was published in the Soviet popular scientific magazine "Chem...

In the tragedy "Hamlet" there is a character Osric, who appears only at the end of the play. For what purpose did Shakespeare include him in the play and who was behind this character?

The general principles of thinking are considered. An attempt is made to present a geometric model reflecting logical and intuitive thinking. This article was published in the Soviet popular science magazine "Chemistry and Life" [Химия и жизнь] (1989, No. 7) in Russian. Below is an English translation with minimal changes.

The ways of synthesis of two main concepts of biological evolution -- Lamarckism and Darwinism -- are discussed. The fundamental importance of associative memory at different levels of biosystems is shown.

A new interpretation of the two opening lines of 151 sonnet is proposed.

The erroneousness of the widespread conclusion that the sonnet testifies to the homoeroticism of the author is shown.

This is the publication of my hypothesis about the structure of the DNA molecule in the Russian popular scientific magazine "Chemistry and Life", 1999, No. 9 (in Russian). Its translation into English was previously presented on the ResearchGate as an article: `DNA: the Double Helix or the Ribbon Helix?`

Supporters of the authorship of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, post videos on the Web called "How I became an Oxfordian." By analogy, I wrote the text "How I became a Rutlandian" -- a supporter of the version about the authorship of Roger Manners the 5th Earl of Rutland.

An interpretation of the tragedy, based on the assumption of authorship of Francis Bacon and the 5th Earl of Rutland is offered.

Two authors from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen discovered that when a nerve signal is transmitted in the axon's membrane he is accompanied by a shock wave that travels down the axon. Their main statement: As the wave front advances, it squeezes the lipid molecules, briefly changing them from fluid to liquid crystalline, making them bulge a...

This is the development of R.Mickelsaar's hypothesis about the honeycomb-like structure of the lipid membrane in relation to bioenergetics.

In the Renaissance, the occupations of alchemy, astrology, kabbalah and other magic ceased to be secrets, they came to the surface. Moreover, they became an intellectual fashion-crowned persons and higher clergy were carried away by them, staff alchemists and astrologers appeared at the courts; Emperor Rudolph II, who was in Prague, was especially...

The hypothesis is proposed that the author of the tragedy was the 5th Earl of Rutland, who reflected in it his personal relationships with other people.

A new interpretation of one of the central concepts of quantum mechanics -- the reduction of the wave function in the measurement -- is proposed. The applications of this approach to various phenomena of the micro-world are discussed.

The groups of symmetry of regular polyhedra are considered. It is shown that a total number and types of gauge bosons in the Grand Unified Theory with the group SU(5) can be deduced from the structure of the cube rotation group. Possible connections of fundamental fermions with the icosahedral symmetry are discussed.

Lev I. Verkhovsky (Moscow) Levver@listl.ru My site: http://lev-verkhovsky.ru/ Abstract Lorentz transformations in their originally more general form, i.e. with the scale factor are considered. It is shown, that H. Lorenz, A. Poincare, and A. Einstein put this factor equal to one without proper foundations. It is clarified the physical sense of this...