Robert Stephen Fritzius 305 Hillside Drive Starkville Mississippi 39759 Born, October 7, 1939, Blytheville Arkansas. Reared in Missouri. Education: B.S. Electrical Engineering, Purdue (1966). Lieutenant, United States Navy Reserve, (Retired) Currently ongoing studies/projects 2005 - 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, A NEO Connection? 2005 - Messier 33 Internal Motions 2002 - GRB 990510 and a Solar Wind Problem 2000 - Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection? Employment History 1958 - 2001 (Retired in Dec 2001.) 1994 - 2001 - Telecommunications Specialist (Personal Wireless Communications Systems Manager and Installation Radio Frequency Spectrum Manager) at Columbus Air Force Base, Columbus, MS. 1989-1993 - Research Assistant in Mosquito Research, working in a statewide ecological survey and an insecticide resistance study on Anopheles quadrimaculatus and related mosquitoes in Mississippi. Used starch gel electrophoresis for species identification. Wrote and used Artificial Intelligence (neural net) software to assist in the identifications. Department of Entomology, Mississippi State University. 1986-1987 - Designed and built prototype Ventriloquist voice-activated radio-controlled skeet and trap launch triggering systems for the Computer Learning Works, LLC, at Starkville, Mississippi. Details on third generation models are available at: Ventriloquistinc. 1984-1985 - Computer programmer in BASIC in areas of Lumber Yard Product Tracking, Computer Aided Instruction, HVAC Energy Management, and Business Systems Data Base Translations. Performed CP/M to MS-DOS, Commodore to Apple II, and Commodore to IBM-PC inter-platform porting of BASIC software packages. 1981-1983 - Worked as computer programmer (prototype GIS software in BASIC) in Insect Pest Management for Cooperative Extension Service, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS. 1980-1981 - Participated in 1980 excavations at Halutza (Elusa) in the northern Negev of Israel and illustrated a monograph on Cathedrals of the Negev. 1978-1980 - Studied mechanical engineering and Palestinian archaeology. Debugged FORTRAN software and conducted data analysis using the software for statewide public schools energy audits. Mississippi State University. Feb 1978 - Retired from Navy as Lieutenant USNR. 1975-1977 - Electronic Warfare troubleshooter, including Satellite Communications Systems. Co-designer of radio frequency Jamming tests for Global Positioning System (GPS). Air Force Electronic Warfare Center, Kelly Air Force Base, TX. 1973-1975 - Officer-In-Charge - Intermediate Avionics Maintenance, and Special Configurations Officer. Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE (VQ1), Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam. 1971-1973 - Electronic Warfare Division Officer. Designed and Conducted Link 4A Air Tactical Data System (ATDS) Jamming Vulnerability Study. Naval Missile Center, Pt. Mugu CA. 1970-1971 - Communications Engineer (Long Lines for Voice, Teletype, Secure Voice, data and AUTODIN). Defense Communications Agency- Southeast Asia Mainland, Saigon, Republic of Viet Nam. 1968-1970 - Airborne Communications Systems Evaluator. Evaluated Link 11 airborne-to-shipboard high frequency tactical data links, airborne UHF relay, shipboard infra-red decoys, and assisted in evaluation of air-to-sea RADAR seekers versus shipboard electronic countermeasures. Deputy Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Pacific, San Diego CA. 1968 - Fleet Replacement Pilot Training in F-8 Crusader aircraft. Terminated flying status in April 1968. Fighter Training Squadron 124. Naval Air Station Miramar, San Diego, CA. 1966-1967 - Student Naval Aviator (Jet pipeline). Designated as Naval Aviator in 1967. Naval Air Training Command. Pensacola FL, Meridian MS, Kingsville TX. 1966 Attended OCS and Commissioned as Ensign, USN, Newport RI. 1962-1966 - Studied electrical engineering, Purdue University under the Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program. Promoted to Chief Electronics Technician in 1965. 1961-1962 - TACAN Maintenance Technician. Supervised maintenance of Ground Transmitters and Receivers for Air-to-Ground Communications. Naval Ordnance Testing Station, China Lake, CA. 1961 - Studied Tactical Airborne Navigation (TACAN) ground station maintenance. Naval Schools Command, Electronics Technician (C) School, Treasure Island, CA. 1960-1961 - Shipboard Electronics Technician (RADAR, HF and UHF Communications, and SONAR). U.S.S. Ruff MSC(O) 54, Everett, WN. 1959-1960 - Maintained frequency shift keyers (FSK) for HF Radio Transmitters, frequency measuring equipment, and a pulse-position- modulation (PPM) multichannel radio link. Ran and maintained the station's Time Standard. Performed crystal grinding to tailor quartz crystals for use in radio frequency determining circuits. Naval Communications Station, Guam. 1958 - Studied Electronics theory and RADAR / IFF maintenance. Naval Schools Command, Electronics Technician (A) School, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA. 1958 - Enlisted in United States Navy. Scientific Societies/Associations American Astronomical Society - Associate Member Mississippi Academy of Sciences - Chairman, Physics and Engineering Division (2004-2005) Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) - Former Webmaster, NPA home page. Rainwater Astronomical Association - French Camp, Mississippi Technical/Professional/Scientific Courses Yale Summer Workshop on Basic Astrometric Methods, July 2005, New Haven, CT. U. S. Air Force, Installation Spectrum Management, Oct 1999, Randolph AFB. TX. U.S. Naval Aviator Training (Jet Pipline) 1966-1967 Picturetel S4000 Videoconferencing System, Theory, Operation and Maintenance, August 1994, Danvers, MA. U.S. Navy Electronics Technician (C) School, TACAN Maintenance, Jan-Feb 1961, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA. U.S. Navy Electronics Technician (A) School, May-Nov 1961, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA. Meetings/publications Fritzius, R. S., Is Venus A New Planet?, Poster 65.01, Amercian Astronomical Society - Division for Planetary Sciences, conference, Orlando, Florida, 7-12 October 2007 - HTML - PPT Fritzius, R.S., Gamma-Ray Bursts: Sans Second Postulate, Given as Poster P3 0010, Session E1.1 at the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 19-21 July 2004, Paris, France. Fritzius, R.S., A Possible Effect of GRB990510 on the Solar Wind, Given as Poster 87.06 at the American Astronomical Society 203rd Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2004. Fritzius, R.S., GRB 990510 as the Cause of the May 10, 1999 Solar Wind Stoppage; Oral presentation given at the sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, in Hattiesburg, MS, 14 February 2003. See: GRB 990510 and a Solar Wind Problem for most of the details. Fritzius, R.S., Applying Extinction Limited Ritzian Relativity to Current Astrophysical Problems, Poster number 7, given at the National Academy of Sciences Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium Challenges to the Standard Paradigm: Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, at The Beckman Center, Irvine, CA, 1-3 November 2002. Fritzius, R.S., A Search for Evidence of Interplanetary and Atmospheric Microbial Delivery Systems, Poster Number 32-12, American Astronomical Society, Division of Planetary Sciences meeting, Birmingham, AL, 6-11 October 2002. Fritzius, R.S., A Ritzian Interpretation of Variable Stars, Presented at the Galileo Back in Italy - II Conference at the University of Bologna, Italy, 26-28 May (1999). An abbreviated version of this paper, that focused on gamma ray bursts, was presented as Theoretical Poster 37 at the Fifth Huntsville Gamma Ray Burst Symposium 18-22 October (1999). Fritzius, R.S., Emission-Absorption-Scattering (EAS) Sub Quantum Physics, AAAS SWARM Division meeting at Texas A&M - NPA Symposium, May (1997). Fritzius, R.S., The Possibility that QSOs are Non-Cosmological in Origin, AAAS SWARM Division meeting at Arizona State University - NPA Symposium, June (1996). Fritzius, R.S., Galilean Relativity and Spectroscopic Binary Brightness/Velocity Curves, AAAS SWARM Division Annual Meeting at University of Oklahoma - NPA Symposium, May (1995). Fritzius, R.S., "Variable Electrical Charge Cosmological Redshift," AAAS Pacific Division Annual Meeting at San Francisco State University - NPA Symposium, June (1994). Mallet, J.L. and R.S. Fritzius, "Genetic Evidence for Insecticide Resistance in Sibling Species of the Mosquito Anopheles quadrimaculatus," Resistant Pest Management, 5, 25-26 (1993). Fritzius, R.S., "Computer Modelling Olber's Paradox," Mississippi Academy of Sciences - 56th Annual Meeting, Biloxi, MS, February (1992). Fritzius, R.S., Emission-Absorption-Scattering (EAS) Particle Physics, Russian translation (16 GIFs) - Invited paper at International Conference on Sir Isaac Newton, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg Russia, March (1993). Fritzius, R.S., The Ritz-Einstein Agreement to Disagree, Physics Essays, 4, 371-374 (1990). Negev, A., "The Cathedral at Elusa and the New Typological and Chronology of the Byzantine Churches in the Negev", Liber Annuus, 39, 129-142 (1989). Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem. (Plans 1,3 and Figs 1-12 - Isometric reconstructions of mono-apsidal to tri-apsidal transitions, by R.S. Fritzius.) Fritzius, R.S. and J.P. Lestrade, "Mapping Gamma Ray Bursters", Mississippi Academy of Sciences - Annual meeting, Jackson MS, February (1989). Observer at conference "On the Problem of Space and Time in Modern Physics", at Pulkovo Observatory, Leningrad, Russia, March (1989). Fritzius, R.S., Cosmological Red Shift, Technote I-88, Magnolia Scientific Research Group, Starkville, MS (1988). Leach, Robert A., The Chiropractic Theories, Illustrated by R.S.Fritzius, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1986). Bonner, F.T. and R.S. Fritzius, "Computer Program for Graphically Displaying Two-Way Thermogradient Plate Seed Germination Data," USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, Starkville, MS (1985). Ritz, W., Critical Researches on General Electrodynamics, Editor/Publisher of English translation of Introduction and First Part of "Recherches Critiques Sur L'Electrodynamique Generale," Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 13, 145-209 (1908). Co-editor with Yefim Bakman of Tel Aviv University of Second Part (pages 209-275) in 2005. Powe, R.E., R.E. Forbes, B.K. Hodge, D.G. Hotard, M.W. Parker, R.S. Fritzius, Development of Energy Audit Program for Elementary and Secondary Schools in Mississippi, Engineering and Industrial Research Station, College of Engineering/Mississippi State University, MSSU-EIRS-GE-80-2 (1979). U.S. Patent 3638058 for an Ion Wind Generator. A corona discharge system configured for neutralizing ionized air stream (1972). Intended use - (not pursued) - aero-electric propulsion. (Inspired by Major DeSeversky's early 1960's ion-propelled lifting system.) Fritzius, R.S., Star Atlas in Galactic Perspective, (1972). * * * Interests Art (pen and ink), choral performance, archaeology, astronomy, gamma ray bursters, grand synthesis, Venusian astrobiology, variable electric charge cosmological redshift, pulsars, quasars, time, putting Newton back into physics, Ritz's electrodynamics, Velikovsky's catastrophism. Write QuickBASIC computer programs to model natural systems. Examples: D-CEPHEI models Vladimir Sekerin's C+V hypothesis for brightness and apparent velocity variations of spectroscopic binary stars. ELECTRON models electron-proton collisions leading to the braking action of bremsstrahlung. HOLOGRAM creates simple digital holograms with provisions for the operator to vary the geometry of the experimental setup. Robert is Married to Myra Jane (DaVault) Fritzius, who is also from Missouri.