THE THEORETICAL GROUP

The Institute's theoretical activities span a whole range of technologies and industries. The great strength of the Institute's work is the blend of strong analytical capabilities in all aspects of transport phenomena, engineering physics and systems modeling along with many years of experience in process and hardware design and fabrication.  Researchers associated with the Institute have been active in theoretical elementary particle physics.  In a paper published in 1986 by the director of the Institute, Dr. Tinari predicted that for the universe to be consistent with the laws of quantum mechanics, that there must be five fundamental forces, and not only the four that were known at the time.  In 1997, astrophysical observations using the Hubbell Telescope have indicated that the behaviors of distant matter can only be explained by the existence of a new, large-scale repulsive force. Confirmation of this discovery would be a great vindication of the quality of the research work being conducted by the Pacific Institute. 

• Development of a new fundamental theory of elementary particles based on the mathematics of Catastrophe Theory. 

• Theoretical studies of nuclear winter and the associated effects of nuclear war. 

• Studies of complexity in nature and examination of possible applications to turbulence modeling. 

• Applications of perturbation theory to dynamical systems. 

• Research into Artificial Intelligence 

• Examination of applications of Chaos theory to modeling physical systems. 

• Studies of new frontiers in educational theory.