My name is Brian Lee Scipioni. I earned my PhD in physics at Ohio University. I was born to find the unity in the complexity that surrounds us. The ideas about unification expressed herein had their genesis in about 1978. However, life does get in the way, and some ideas require a long gestation. An Already-Unified Gauge Field Theory was my original dissertation topic. When I realized it wasn’t going to happen anytime soon, I did something more practical – conducting polymers. My dissertation was “Formation and Electrical Conductivity of Iodine- and Copper-Doped Poly(Carbon Disulfide)”. I think all theoreticians should have some experience in experimental work. It provides perspective.
I have worked as a defense analyst, a computing physicist for the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, a software engineer and architect, and a college physics teacher. I am now Space Matters Research.
I have two wonderful adult children. My daughter is a veterinarian, married to an MD with two beautiful daughters. My son in a PhD physicist like his dad :-), and is married to a lawyer and they also have two beautiful daughters.
My beautiful late wife, Leslie Patten-Scipioni, is the nicest person anyone would meet – everyone said that. https://everloved.com/life-of/leslue-patten-scipioni/obituary/
My major influences are Einstein and The Beatles. They both reinvented their respective fields. Their imagination and creativity still amaze me.
I attended McQuaid Jesuit high school in Rochester, NY, USA, an all boys college preparatory school, and St. Augustine elementary school. In elementary school our report cards had two pages. On the left were letter grades for the different classes, and on the right a list of behavioral statements with boxes that could be checked, indicating a problem. Every single grading period I received the same three checkmarks: Disobedient, Does not work to ability, Lacks self-control. My paper, “An Already-Unified Gauge Field Theory”, is an exercise in all three.
For the record:
There was an entrance exam for my high school. Stanford-Binet apparently from my transcript. I finished in the 97th percentile overall, 99th in math. Sophomore year, one day instead of a class, we were given a test and told it would not count for grade. I and a couple of others joked: “Hey, let’s put all the wrong answers down!” That was so me. For the first 10 minutes or so of the test, I put all the wrong answers down. Then the joke wore off and I started answering correctly since I like tests. At the end of senior year I found out that was an I.Q. test. Needless to say my result was not stellar, and became part of my permanent record. To this day I wonder why they did not tell us what the test was for. Sharing information is good.
Publications
Scipioni, B. L. (1983) “Formation and Electrical Conductivity of Iodine- And Copper-doped Poly (Carbon Disulfide)” (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from WorldCat. (OCLC # 11540115)
Scipioni B. “Formation and Electrical Conductivity of Iodine- And Copper-doped Poly (Carbon Disulfide)”. Paper presented at: March Meeting of the American Physical Society: 1983 March; Los Angeles, CA
“Requirements for a system to analyze high energy physics events using database computing” by E. May and D. Lifka and E. Lusk and L. Price and C. Day and S. Loken and J. MacFarlane and A. Baden and R. Grossman and Z. Qin and L. Cormell and A. Gauthier and P. Leibold and J. Marstaller and U. Nixdorf and B. Scipioni, Proceedings of 12th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems; 1993