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Welcome to Boisvert's Discovery of the Discontinuity of Motion–– a thought-provoking discovery that questions our preconceptions of the nature of motion on both a physical and philosophical level.


Galileo Galilei said,

"Nothing in nature is more ancient than motion...yet I have discovered that there are many things of interest about it which have hitherto been unperceived."


This site is about motion. It questions our current beliefs and "what we think we know" about the way things move.

The observations presented in this site are not unsubstantiated speculation, but interpretations of the physical evidence of hundreds of photographs and 30 years of experimentation and research. The evidence has not been falsified and the photos, though scanned from original 35-mm photographs and negatives, have not been digitally manipulated. There is no "trick photography". We clearly illustrate how the experiments were set up and performed.

We encourage interested members the scientific community to interpret the photos on this site, or better yet, repeat the experiments in their own controlled laboratory environment and provide their own observations.


Boisvert's Assertion: All motion is quantified, formal and discontinuous--not continuous as we have believed.

Evidence: Photographs––with illustrations and description of their setup, as well as descriptions of the equipment––providing physical evidence to supporting Boisvert's assertion the nature of motion is instantaneous and discontinuous.

Problems this discovery addresses: The Paradoxes of Zeno––answered as Zeno may have preferred it––in real physical terms; a simpler solution to the Michelson-Morely conundrum than the Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction, and more.

Implications: A new and different understanding of reality.


Motion is integral to every moment of our existence. Without motion there would be no change, no reality.

Science must always question it's notions of the accepted and the acceptable. It must be cautious but constantly open to ideas that originate outside the mainstream, for sometimes truly important ideas can only be fostered that way.

Wilfrid Boisvert's discovery of the Discontinuity of Motion may be one of those ideas.

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Boisvert's Discovery of the Discontinuity of Motion© by Wilfrid Boisvert;
Presented for the Web by Gordon Smith and Adrien Boisvert.
Copyright 1996: Gordon Smith. E:mail enquiries, questions, criticism to: gds@islandnet.com

Last Update: October 21, 2001