Biography
Ray Tomes is a New Zealand software pioneer and cycles researcher. Starting his career as a system software developer using IBM (with punch cards to store programs) and later DEC computers, he soon moved into developing economic modelling programs used in successfully forecasting the New Zealand economy. Ray studied pure maths, applied maths, stat maths and physics at Auckland University in the 1960s.
Ray discovered repeating cycles in the economic data and so started a lifelong dedication to the research of cycles across all scales of physics, areas of human knowledge and time series market or scientific data. Ray's eventual creation of a simple elegant principle that connects phenomena across all scales and is fully compatible with standard physics, is set to become the third frontier of our understanding of the universe around us and within us.
The middle of 5 children, Ray grew up in Auckland and still lives there with his wife Lorna, surrounded by his 2 sons, 2 step sons and his extended family who call him Dad or Poppa. Ray was 3 times New Zealand Go champion and also attended the World Amateur Go Championships in Japan on 3 occasions, in 1984 he placed 8th. He also won a beginners windsurfing race once and retired undefeated. He is a huge Terry Pratchett fan and also loves the humour of Rowan Atkinson, Monty Python and other wacky British comedians.
Ray is a committed Vipassanna meditator, attending many courses and serving at the Dhamma Medini Vipassana Meditation Centre in Makarau North of Auckland.
Ray has traveled the world and given more than 25 presentations on Cycles and Harmonics Theory at various conferences, many of which, along with interviews of Ray can be found on Youtube. Collaborating online with people from all over the world, Ray has also posted and battled in many different Physics and Science forums discussing, challenging and trying to improve on his ideas and theories and our understanding of the universe and all its gigantic and tiny wonders.
Recently awarded the Dewey Lifetime Achievement award from the Foundation for the Study of Cycles recognizing his more than 60 years of dedicated cycles research, this is Ray's first book.
