Grahame Blackwell was a professional programmer at age 17 - not unusual today, unheard of in the 1960s. As an undergraduate he designed and implemented the first high-level programming language for the first UK modular minicomputer.

After some years of systems programming, including specialist software for evaluation of experimental aircraft flight trials and real-time airline reservations on a global network (pre-internet), he transferred to the educational sector. Here he was at the forefront of the introduction of computers to secondary education for a time before moving into university lecturing, course leadership & research.

With an interest in intelligent robotics, he took an existing research group in a new direction, achieving his own PhD before leading others to their own postgraduate successes. He then turned his attention to the rapidly-evolving field of mobile telecommunications, where support was needed for the university's collaborative research involvement.

The university's head of research asked Dr Blackwell to lead their project team's software-intensive contribution to a 12-million euro 5-nation project, linking 3G mobile services to fixed networks. In this capacity, in addition to overseeing software development and supervising PhD research students linked to the project, he was tasked with presenting cutting-edge technological developments to both key EU research leaders and top technical experts in the TINA-C global consortium of conventional telecommunications corporations.

This total immersion in the details of mobile communications, working closely with experts from Orange PLC and other providers, gave him deep insight into the science behind sending of audio and visual information over the air waves.

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It became apparent that, although the cellphone experts knew pretty well everything about how to get the absolute best out of their technology, there was less understanding of what radio waves actually were and how they worked. In fact, on studying the scientific literature on electromagnetic (EM) wave theory, Dr Blackwell discovered a distinct limit in understanding of such phenomena.

EM waves drop out naturally as a solution of James Clerk Maxwell's equations governing EM fields: that's how he discovered that light is a manifestation of EM waves. But those equations fail to explain certain very obvious properties of light - and nobody has been able to explain them since. Notably, collapse of the wavefunction, where the statistically wavelike spread of a photon of light energy 'collapses' on being detected or absorbed at a point, with the probability function of that photon instantaneously reducing to zero everywhere else - the so-called wave-particle duality.

At the same time Dr Blackwell was becoming intrigued by time: what exactly is time, how does it cause the effects it does? From his experiences with nature, he was becoming aware that time-effects are the result of some sort of energetic flow. Seeing light flowing into matter - very obviously, both in plant growth and into our eyes giving us sight, less obviously in energetic excitation of atoms - and light flowing out of matter (notably when heated), it suddenly clicked: the flow of time is no more or less than the flow of light energy - into, around, and out of matter and material structures.

This led to the realisation that matter is actually composed of light (including non-visible frequencies), a notion amply supported by a wealth of scientific evidence from a wide variety of highly regarded academic sources. The most notable of these is actual production of matter from pure light energy, at Stanford in 1997 and again at RHIC Brookhaven in 2021.

This revelation immediately led to another: if matter is formed from light, then that would have a signficant bearing on Relativity Theory. Dr Blackwell had never had reason to doubt Relativity, but this insight cried out for the theory to be looked out in a new light - literally. Having a background in mathematics and an insatiable thirst for problem-solving, Grahame Blackwell adopted his usual approach in such situations - right back to basic principles and original sources.

He studied Einstein's early monographs on Theories of Special and General Relativity; he worked through texts on tensor calculus (central to General Relativity); he read up further on electromagnetic field theory; he also studied Quantum Mechanics, particle physics and associated subjects. Mathematical analysis took him to a conclusion which was world-shaking, but not actually totally surprising:
From this new perspective, every one of the verified findings of Special Relativity dropped out naturally, without any special property of light or any special qualities of universal processes. In particular, with this understanding of the nature of matter, the proposal that all inertial reference frames (constant-velocity non-gravitational states of motion) are equivalent is totally without foundation. The mathematics for transferring between states of motion, speed-related time dilation & increase in effective mass, and all other so-called 'relativistic' effects all stand - for very different reasons from those given in Relativity Theory.

Taking this further, Dr Blackwell considered possible reasons for effects attributed to General Relativity - and found that these too fall out quite naturally without any unexplained geometrical properties of spacetime and with no necessity for changes in the equations. This resulted in two peer-reviewed papers, one on Special Relativity, the other on General Relativity, being published in a leading systems-science journal in 2011.    See the papers

Continuing research on this topic has led to cogent explanations for antimatter and CP (charge-parity) matter-antimatter asymmetry, including asymmetry of cosmic abundance, of which a 2008 Nobel laureate said "We don't know why it's so". Inclusion of time-reversal under the light-flow paradigm for matter yields full CPT symmetry - another well-known effect for which an explanation has been sought for decades. This is yet further confirmation of this new paradigm.
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Dr Blackwell is now focused on the topic of consciousness, a phenomenon which conventional science seeks without success to relegate to an emergent property of brain. Planck & Schrödinger, along with many others, recognised consciousness as foundational to our space-time universe. In Grahame Blackwell's view this area of study, a valid scientific discipline reaching beyond the bounds of space and time, is crucial to development of our species if we are to achieve our full potential.

Leisure Activities
Grahame is a keen singer, having appeared regularly with an acapella choir as well as performing in various operas, in the chorus or in a lead role, with Devon opera companies. He has explored various parts of Dartmoor by bicycle, as well as walking on the Moor and in other National parks. He has also explored the waters of the South Devon coast, generally with snorkelling gear.
Pursuing his love of the sea, Grahame has sailed extensively out of the beautiful South Devon resort of Salcombe, along the South coast to legendary maritime destinations such as Fowey and Frenchman's Creek, as well as cross-channel to the Britanny coast.