Background

Rainer Walter Kühne was born on May 23, 1970 in Braunschweig, Germany. His family tree can be traced back until the 16th century.

Education

Rainer Kühne studied at Primary School Am Lehmanger in Braunschweig, Germany from 1976 to 1980. In this year he studied at Orientierungsstufe Rothenburg in Braunschweig, Germany. Kühne graduated this school in 1982. He was a pupil of Grammar School Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig, Germany from 1982 to 1989. There he passes the Abitur (maturity) exam in 1989.

From 1990 to 1995 Kühne studied at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in Bonn, Germany. He studied at the faculty of Physics and was awarded the diploma in physics (comparable to a Masters of Arts degree) in 1995. In 1996 he studied at Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal in Wuppertal, Germany. He graduated this University in 2000. In this year he became a student of the Technische Universität Dortmund in Germany. He received a degree of the Doctor of Rerum Naturalium in the field of Physics in 2001.

Career

Dr. Kühne became known for his theory on Plato's island of Atlantis which he located in the Spanish Donana National Park. Kühne's Atlantis theory motivated an archaeological expedition headed by Prof. Sebastian Celestino Perez and Prof. Richard Freund which was financially supported especially by the National Geographic Society. Simcha Jacobovici's documentary "Finding Atlantis" which was aired for the first time on March 13, 2011, by the National Geographic channel reported on this expedition. So did Mike Ibeji's documentary "Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan" (Series: What on Earth?, Season 2, Episode 6) which was aired for the first time on March 1, 2016, by the Science Channel.

Kühne's most important scientific work is the formulation of quantum electromagnetodynamics (QEMD). He published this theory for the first time in 1997 and in corrected and completed form in 2011. Kühne's theory is a generalization of quantum electrodynamics. QEMD includes both electric charges and magnetic charges (also known as Dirac magnetic monopoles). Moreover, QEMD includes both the electric photon (also known as the conventional Einstein photon) and the magnetic photon (also known as the Salam magnetic photon). Kühne's main idea is the introduction of velocity coupling. That is, he introduced a four-velocity operator in order to explain the coupling of magnetic charges to the electric photon and of electric charges to the magnetic photon. This is the only possibility to describe quantum field theoretically an interaction between electric charges and magnetic charges in order to obtain both the Lorentz force and the Dirac quantization condition to explain the quantization of electric charge. (Abdus Salam's theory formulated in 1966 to describe the magnetic photon failed to explain this.)

Kühne's QEMD requires that the four-velocity has to be interpreted as an absolute velocity when on-shell electric charges emit real (non-virtual) magnetic photons. The absolute rest frame required for the absolute velocity is defined by the comoving frame of relativistic cosmology. This is the center-of-mass frame of all the masses within the observable universe (Hubble sphere), the frame which shows an isotropic redshift-distance relation (defined by the Hubble effect, whereas contributions of the optical Doppler effect are isotropic). The absolute velocity of the sun has been measured by the dipole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Its value is 370 km/s.

Kühne suggested an experiment to test his theory by searching for the magnetic photon rays which are emitted by all conventional light sources and detectable by conventional light detectors (such as the human eye, photo diodes, and photomultiplier tubes).

Illuminate a metal film of thickness between 100 and 1000 nanometers by a laser beam and place a detector (avalanche diode or photomultiplier tube) behind the metal film. Kühne's theory predicts that the laser emits both electric and magnetic photons and that the detector detects both kinds of the photon. The interaction cross-section of a magnetic photon is smaller by a factor of 560,000 to 780,000 with respect to the interaction cross-section of an electric photon of the same energy for quantum physical effects such as induced emission and the photoelectric effect. Classical electrodynamics predicts that the metal film absorbs the conventional photons (Einstein's electric photons) completely, the penetration depth (skin depth) is 2 to 7 nanometers, depending only on the frequency of the laser light and the electric conductivity of the metal film. Kühne's theory predicts that a high percentage of the Salam magnetic photons penetrates the metal film. The penetration depth is predicted to be 100 to 500 nanometers, depending only on the same frequency of the electric and magnetic photons of the laser beam and the electric conductivity (which has to be divided by a factor of 750 to 880) of the metal film. - Note that mirrors and metal films do not reflect electric and magnetic photons in the same way, because of the factor 750 to 880 by which the conductivity has to be divided.

Kühne argues that an effect of the magnetic photon rays has already been oberved by August Kundt in 1885.

Works

• Other Work

  • An Extended Micro Hot Fusion Model for Burst Activity in Deuterated Solids. In: Fusion Technology 27 (1995) pp. 187 - 189.

    (Extended Micro Hot Fusion Scenario.)

    1995
  • Possible explanations for failures to detect cold fusion. In: Physics Letters A 159 (1991) pp. 208 - 212.

    (Review of cold fusion experiments.)

    1991
  • A Model of Magnetic Monopoles. In: Modern Physics Letters A 12 (1997) pp. 3153 - 3159.

    (Quantum electromagnetodynamics.)

    1997
  • Quantum Field Theory with Electric-Magnetic Duality and Spin-Mass Duality but Without Grand Unification and Supersymmetry. In: African Review of Physics 6 (2011) pp. 165 -179.

    (Quantum electromagnetodynamics.)

    2011
  • On the Cosmic Rotation Axis. In: Modern Physics Letters A 12 (1997) pp. 2473 - 2474.

    (Gödel-Raychaudhuri universe.)

    1997
  • Critical Behavior of Heisenberg Chains Coupled to Phonons

    (Universality class criteria.)

    1999
  • Phys. Rev. B 60, 12125 (1999) - Thermodynamical properties of a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg chain coupled to phonons

    (Heisenberg quantum chain.)

    1999
  • The Possible Hot Nature of Cold Fusion. In: Fusion Technology 25 (1994) pp. 198 - 202.

    (Review of fracto-fusion.)

    1994
  • Review of Quantum Electromagnetodynamics. In: Electromagnetic Phenomena 3 (2003) pp. 86 - 91.

    (August Kundt experiment.)

    2003
  • Possible Observation of a Second Kind of Light - Magnetic Photon Rays. In: Has the Last Word Been Said on Classical Electrodynamics? eds. Andrew Chubykalo, Vladimir Onoochin, Roman Smirnov-Rueda, and Augusto Espinoza. Paramus, Rinton Press, 2004, pp. 335 - 349.

    (August Kundt experiment. )

    2004
  • Gauge Theory of Gravity Requires Massive Torsion Field. In: International Journal of Modern Physics A 14 (1999) pp. 2531 - 2535.

    (Einstein-Cartan theory.)

    1999
  • Cartan's Torsion: Necessity and Observational Evidence. In: Relativity, Gravitation, Cosmology, eds. Valeri Dvoeglazov and Augusto A. Espinoza Garrido. New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2004, pp. 37 - 42.

    (Einstein-Cartan theory.)

    2004
  • Cold Fusion: Pros and Cons. In: Physics Letters A 155 (1991) pp. 467 - 472.

    (Review of cold fusion.)

    1991
  • Did Ulysses Travel to Atlantis? In: Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, ed. S. A. Paipetis, Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Vol. 6, Springer, 2008, pp. 509 -514.

    (Atlantis as Tartessos.)

    2008
  • A Location for Atlantis? In: Antiquity 78, no. 300 (2004).

    (Atlantis in Donana.)

    2004
  • Phys. Rev. B 65, 144438 (2002) - Spin-phonon chains with bond coupling

    (Heisenberg chain.)

    2002
  • Thermodynamics of Heisenberg chains coupled to phonons

    (PhD thesis.)

    2001
  • Time-Varying Fine-Structure Constant Requires Cosmological Constant. In: Modern Physics Letters A 14 (1999) pp. 1917 - 1922.

    (H = 69.734 km/s/Mpc predicted.)

    1999

Politics

Rainer Walter Kühne regards himself as an unpolitical scientist.

References

• The Atlas of Atlantis and Other Lost Civilizations.: The complete guide to the history and wisdom of Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu and other ancient civilizations. Joel Levy presents Kühne's Atlantis theory for a general readership. Levy explains why the description of Plato's Atlantis is similar to the description of Tartessos, why the description of the Atlanteans is similar to the description of the Sea Peoples, and why Plato's description of ancient Athens refers to the historical Athens of the Bronze Age.
  2007
• Digging through History: Archaeology and Religion from Atlantis to the Holocaust Prof. Richard Freund describes the archaeological expedition in the Spanish Donana National Park to test Kühne's Atlantis theory. Richard Freund was a leading member of this expedition which was financially supported especially by the National Geographic Society.
  2012
• Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City Mark Adams, the author of the New York Times bestseller "Turn Right at Machu Picchu", interviews both Dr. Rainer Walter Kühne and Prof. Richard Freund on the Atlantis in the Donana National Park theory and the results of the archaeological expedition to test this theory.
  2015
• Quantum Field Theory with Electric-Magnetic Duality and Spin-Mass Duality but Without Grand Unification and Supersymmetry. In: African Review of Physics 6 (2011) pp. 165 -179. Kühne's final and complete formulation of quantum electromagnetodynamics. This theory is a generalization of quantum electrodynamics which includes Dirac magnetic monopoles and the Salam magnetic photon.
  2011