Ãlvaro Q Valenzuela
University of Chile, Chile
Biography
Álvaro Q Valenzuela obtained his BSc in Engineering Sciences in 1974, and Electrical Engineering degree in 1977, at the University of Chile, where he taught electromagnetic fields and related subjects for more than two decades. In 1980, he joined the Chilean Air Force as a Civil Servant, where he is currently working. He has served abroad in South Africa, England and France, participating in the development of the first three Chilean satellites. In 1998 he obtained his MSc degree with distinction on Satellite Engineering at the University of Surrey. In 1994 he initiated independent research on classical extended electron models, specializing in the time invariant solutions of Maxwell equations in toroidal coordinates. The main findings of his research are summarized in the paper “The Revenge of Old Classical Physics: No Space for Photons or Relativity”, published by Galilean Electrodynamics, September-October 2009 issue.