Meet Steve Puetz

Steve Puetz (pronounced “pits”), mathematician, statistician, and financial expert, has agreed to head the Hawaii Regional Office of the Progressive Science Institute. The title of Steve’s (2009) masterpiece, “The Unified Cycle Theory: How Cycles Dominate the Structure of the Universe and Influence Life on Earth,” caught my eye immediately. We traded books and the rest is history. My review of his work appears on Amazon.com and in my blog of February 5, 2010. Since then, we have been working on a joint paper for the NPA Conference in June (Borchardt and Puetz, 2010). He also has prepared two other papers for the conference, with the first being a summary of his book (Puetz, 2010a) and the second being a presentation of the statistical analysis that showed that the cycles were neither random nor subjective (Puetz, 2010b).

My interest in Steve’s work stems from the underlying philosophy of “The Scientific Worldview,” “univironmental determinism,” which states that what happens to a portion of the infinite universe is determined by the matter in motion within and without. As dedicated readers know, today’s systems philosophy tends to overemphasize the microcosm and neglect the macrocosm. The cycles he described clearly beg a macrocosmic, universal cause that we think amounts to ethereal pressure differences that vary more or less systematically throughout the universe. Among the most impressive results are the correlations between volcanism and climatic cooling, which appear in addition to those due to the well-known Milankovitch cycles. We are still actively pursuing a more complete answer for why the wave length and amplitude of each cycle is exactly 3 times that of the next smallest cycle. We would love to collaborate with anyone who can help us discover the theoretical basis for that.

Stephen J. Puetz

Borchardt, Glenn, and Puetz, S.J., 2010, Unified cycle theory: Integration toward a cause, in Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, Long Beach, CA, Natural Philosophy Alliance: http://www.worldsci.org/php/index.php?tab0=Abstracts&tab1=Display&id=5229


Puetz, S.J., 2009, The unified cycle theory: How cycles dominate the structure of the universe and influence life on earth: Denver, OutskirtsPress.com, 489 p.

Puetz, S.J., 2010a, Unified cycle theory: Introduction & data, in Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, Long Beach, CA, Natural Philosophy Alliance: http://www.worldsci.org/php/index.php?tab0=Abstracts&tab1=Display&id=5227


Puetz, S.J., 2010b, Unified cycle theory: Statistical validation, in Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, Long Beach, CA, Natural Philosophy Alliance: http://www.worldsci.org/php/index.php?tab0=Abstracts&tab1=Display&id=5228