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El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research; Chino Valley, Arizona: Creation Research Society. Stacey, F.D. 1969. Physics of the Earth . New York: John Wiley and Sons. Urban, M., F. Couchot, X. Sarazin, and A. Djannati-Atai. 2013. The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light. European Physical Journal D 67:58-64. THE AUTHOR In 1963 Russell Humphreys received a B.S. in physics from Duke University, and in 1972 he received a Ph.D. in physics from Louisiana State University. He worked as a physicist for General Electric Company and then for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, retiring from there in 2001. After that he worked for the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego and then Creation Ministries International in Atlanta. In 2010 he fully retired but still researches, speaks, and writes about creation science from his home office in Chattanooga, Tennessee. APPENDIX (helpful notes on the references) Baumgardner, J.R. 2000. See especially section 11, “Correlation between surface heat flow and the radioactivity of surface rocks,” pp. 80-86. Bullinger, E.W. 1898. Bullinger gives very simple instructions as to how to interpret the figures of speech, called similes, used in the verses in this paper: “They require no explanation. They explain and are intended to explain themselves (p. 727).” Chaffin, E.F. 2005. Free download of ch. 7 from: http:// www.icr.org/i/pdf/technical/Accelerated-Decay-Theoretical- Considerations.pdf. Dirac, P.A.M. 1951. Dirac, one of the founding fathers of modern quantum theory, answers in the affirmative to the question in his title. Einstein, A. 1917. See especially p. 185 and eq. 9. Einstein, A. 1922. See pp. 3-24 of reprint, especially pp. 13, 15, and 23. Henley, E.M., and Thirring, W. 1962. P. 8: “Space is spanned by the continuous background of the fields of elementary particles; in some respects this is the sequel of the ether concept of the last century. Matter is just a local excitation of this background …” Humphreys, D.R. 1994. See the “Timothy Test” of interpretations in Appendix B, section 2, pp. 55-57. Humphreys, D.R. 2000. See especially section 15, “Heat and other problems,” pp. 369-374. Humphreys, D.R. 2005. See especially section 13, “Disposing of excess heat,” pp. 67-74. Free download of Ch. 2 from: http://www. icr.org/i/pdf/technical/Young-Helium-Diffusion-Age-of-Zircons. pdf. Humphreys, D.R. 2014. See especially reference 27. Web version at: http://creation.com/new-view-of-gravity. Kaku, M. 1994. Because of the Scriptural clues, I think of hyperspace as something real, not a mathematical convenience, consisting of only four spatial dimensions instead of ten or twenty- two (most of which are “compactified”, i.e. rolled up into a very small size), as in string theory. Landau, L.D., and Lifshitz, E.M. 1975. As it looks now, my derivation would expand the known Lagrangian for a membrane under tension to one extra dimension and convert it into the Einstein-Hilbert action (energy-time principle), from which Landau and Lifshitz in the pages above derive the exact Einstein gravitational field equations. Lorentz, H. A. 1904. Here Lorentz correctly showed that an ionic lattice moving through an æther would physically contract due to Humphreys ◀ Accelerated cooling ▶ 2018 ICC 738