Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille: On the Validity of Kirchhoff's Law | EU2014
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A 2014 conference talk by Pierre-Marie Robitaille, an MRI researcher at Ohio State, arguing that Kirchhoff's law of thermal emission is invalid and that this undermines the universality of Planck's law, standard solar models and the cosmological origin of the microwave background. It was given at the Thunderbolts Project's Electric Universe 2014 meeting, a venue outside mainstream physics.
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Cites user52052 · 2014-06 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Do oceans produce the cosmic microwave background?”
P.-M. Robitaille pointed out that the sensitivity of detectors on the satellites were only 2 times (and even 1.5 times only) over the background noise. Then he accounts for that at such a low resolution of the measuring instrument, the instrument must be directed to the irradiator for 10 minutes just to recognize and record the right signal. However, in the case of the satellites, the sighting time was a couple of seconds only. Hence all the measurements presented but people who tracked the satellite from the Earth were rigged to the previous data obtained by measuring from Earth. These remarks Dr. Robitaille addressed to the teams tracked the satellites; however, those researchers did not a
Cites Keith · 2015-08 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille: On the Validity of Kirchhoff's Law”
Lately I've been researching about the black-body spectrum and the historical development of Planck's Law. I mainly wanted to understand a little bit more why many different objects (Stars, Hot Metals) emit a Black-body-like spectrum. I found plenty of things, one in particular was this post : Research Gate post on Kirchoff's law [LINK] They link to this Video : Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille: On the Validity of Kirchhoff's Law | EU2014 [this video] This man claims that Kirchoff's law is wrong , he says that it's statement is not as general. He claims that it holds only for certain materials with a very high absorption coefficient. He also says that it fails in certain situations where the cavity ha
Cites Nanite · 2025-03 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille: On the Validity of Kirchhoff's Law”
This is also a very different statement of 'kirchoff's law' from OP's youtube video: [this video] So the newer video seems to be a different argument than the old video?
Critical user34039 · 2014-04 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Do oceans produce the cosmic microwave background?”
A guy who has a career in medical physics named Pierre-Marie Robitaille argues in two recently published papers in “Progress in Physics”, that the CMB is not from the big bang but from the oceans. The first paper is entitled WMAP: A Radiological Analysis. This work analyzes the WMAP images based on accepted standards for image acquisition and processing. It demonstrates that it is not appropriate to evaluate cosmological parameters based on measurements from either WMAP or COBE. In the second paper, evidence is presented for the reassigment of the CMB to the oceans of the Earth. This work demonstrates that the Earth cannot be modeled as a 285K source as the COBE team assumes. This is postula
Critical Geremia · 2014-04 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Do COBE, WMAP, and Plack have design flaws?”
MRI expert Pierre-Marie Robitaille on the design flaws of COBE, WMAP, & Planck and the violation Kirchhoff's Law: Here are his talks: Pierre-Marie Robitaille: The Cosmic Microwave Background [LINK] Pierre-Marie Robitaille: On the Validity of Kirchhoff's Law [this video] Robitaille holds the world record for highest resolution MRI imaging. An interesting point he makes is that cosmological sources would not vary over time, yet the COBE, WMAP, and Plank data are highly variable. Here are his papers detailing the design flaws of COBE, WMAP, and Planck: Robitaille P.-M. WMAP: A Radiological Analysis [LINK] Robitaille P.-M. COBE: A Radiological Analysis [LINK] Robitaille P.-M. The Planck Satellite LFI