Biography


Louis-Victor ANCET (1911-2000) - Biography


Victor, Marie, Joseph ANCET was born on October 5, 1911 in St Jean du Gard - France.


He started his studies in the Ampère Lycée (high school) of Lyon (France) and had to interrupt them because of his parents' financial difficulties.


In this capacity he obtained the following certificats:


He obtained the testimonies of satisfaction of the Ministry of the Air of the general of brigade and the general of division for several inventions:


In 1942, demobilized due to the armistice, he resumed the study of the circular loom (awarded in 1929) with the encouragement and financial help of Mr. Marius Fayolle, his cousin.

Although admired by textile professionals, his circular loom was not the commercial success he had hoped for.


Encouraged and helped by his cousin, he embarked with him on a new industrial adventure by creating one of the first shuttleless looms in the world.

In 5 years he developed the prototype of a shuttleless loom, revolutionary for its time, whose realization provoked the astonishment and admiration of textile professionals, which earned him the pseudonym of "New Jacquard".

This innovative loom, known for its great reliability, was manufactured in Lyon (France) in the workshops of the Fayolle Textile company "FATEX" and was a great commercial success.  Many textile factories throughout the world were equipped with the FATEX and IWER looms, patented by ANCET.


After this adventure, the income from the sale of the looms having assured him a comfortable retirement, Louis-Victor Ancet focused his activities on study and research.

Passionate about science and technology, a scientist at heart, his ebullient and inquisitive mind was frustrated at not having been able to pursue university studies.

This is why for decades he was self-taught and studied mathematics, physics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, astronomy etc. .... 

His intelligence and incessant work allowed him to reach the level of the greatest scientists, he was able to study and understand the great advances of the ancient and modern philosophical and scientific thought and thus acquire a universal scientific and philosophical culture.


His Cartesian critical mind pushed him to think more intensely about modern theories, especially those dealing with electrodynamics, magnetic, electric and gravitational fields.

Thus he delved into the study of Leibnitz's and Einstein's theories on electrodynamics, as well as that of Relativity.


Although he admired this great physicist, he was irritated by the excessive media coverage of his theory, which overshadowed the geniuses who had preceded him, as well as the patient work of illustrious predecessors, such as Lorentz for his "transformation" and Gustave Le Bon for the dematerialization of matter, he wrote a book entitled "La Mésaventure Relativiste" which tries to rehabilitate Gustave Le Bon and to highlight the inconsistencies of Relativity, while proposing an alternative non-relativistic vision of the phenomena, (See chapter 10 - the mechanics of the electron).


Beyond the critical ideas contained in this book, Victor Ancet proposes as a replacement a New Theory of Relativity and Electrodynamics, as well as a new Theory of the Aether (whose non-existence he questions) which demonstrate thatif one were to free oneself from the straitjacket of relativistic thinking, new horizons could open up to the physicists of the future.


Philosopher also, he brings answers to the eternal metaphysical question "where do we come from, where are we going".

He explains in a very convincing way, thanks to well-documented scientific facts, the place of Life in the Universe, its origin, its destiny.

This vision of Life and of the Universe, exposed in his book "Passport to Eternity", deserves to be considered because it is the only way to understand the universe. deserves to be considered because it can be prophetic.


In parallel to all these scientific and philosophical reflections, his universal mind bubbling with ideas led him throughout his life to propose innovations in a large number of fields, as shown by the impressive list of his patents described in the "inventor" section.

One example is the weapon detector that he designed and built in response to the numerous aircraft hijackings that occurred in the late 60's. Supported by the company Graniou Electronique (Nice) which bought his patent, ANCET weapon detectors were installed in many airports from 1970, as well as in sensitive public places.


His curious, inventive and Cartesian mind was insatiable. Still working to find a solution to Fermat's last theorem (not proven at this time), death stopped him suddenly at the age of 89.