About Felix Alba-Juez
Engineer by training. Physicist by inquiry. Author by necessity.
A life spent trying to understand difficult physical ideas—and make the joy of understanding available to other curious readers.
Biography
From engineering practice to foundational physics.
Felix Alba-Juez is an electrical engineer, former university professor, inventor, author, and independent researcher living in Saint George, Utah, with his wife, Susana. Born in Spain and raised in Argentina, he built his early career across mathematics, electrical engineering, metallurgy, and industrial measurement before turning increasingly toward the conceptual foundations of physics.
His professional work joined theory to practical instrumentation. As an educator, researcher, consultant, and patent holder, he worked with physical measurement in settings where an idea ultimately has to answer to reality. That habit of testing assumptions carries into his writing on relativity and quantum theory.
Felix’s books are written for the serious general reader. They challenge familiar explanatory shortcuts—what he calls “folklore”—while preserving the intellectual depth of the underlying physics. His present research develops the Ontic Probability Interpretation and QR/TOPI.
Engineering & invention
Ideas required to work in the physical world.
Felix’s industrial career joined mathematical models, experimental measurement, instrumentation, and software.
Industrial consulting
Through Felix ALBA Consultants, Inc., he worked with organizations including DuPont, ALCOA, the U.S. Department of Transportation, NASA, and Dow Chemical.
Ultrasonic spectroscopy patent
He developed a patented method for measuring particle-size distributions through ultrasonic spectroscopy, with protection recorded in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan.
Multiple scattering theory
His research developed a multiple-scattering treatment for concentrated particle systems, extending measurement into difficult industrial suspensions.
Optical analyzer & simulation
He developed an optical particle-size analyzer together with simulation and interpretation software for industrial measurement.
Technology acquired
The associated intellectual property was sold to Agilent Technologies, closing a long chapter of applied research and product development.
University research
Felix returned to the University of Utah as a Research Professor, continuing the bridge between industrial instrumentation and foundational inquiry.
Valencia · Spain · 2009
Science belongs in public life.
The City of Arts and Sciences offered a fitting setting for Felix’s transition from industrial research toward writing for the general reader. His first book, Cabalgando con la Luz, would appear that year—bringing relativity into an approachable narrative without surrendering its conceptual difficulty.
Read about the book →Selected chronology
A career across disciplines and continents.
Spain to Argentina
Born in Burgos, Spain, Felix moved with his family to Necochea, Argentina, as a child. He later relocated to Bahía Blanca to pursue engineering.
Engineer and educator
While completing Electrical Engineering at Universidad Nacional del Sur, he began his academic career as a teaching assistant in mathematics.
University professor
At Universidad Nacional de San Juan, he served successively as Adjunct, Associate, and Full Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Research in Utah
He moved to Salt Lake City as a postdoctoral fellow and research associate in the University of Utah’s Department of Metallurgy, working on research and development in mineral processing and measurement.
Inventor and consultant
Through Felix ALBA Consultants, Inc., he developed industrial measurement methods involving ultrasonic and optical spectroscopy and became the holder of multiple patents.
Author and publisher
Beginning with Cabalgando con la Luz and its English edition, Galloping with Light, Felix published five works on relativity, entropy, quantum physics, and reality.
Independent researcher
His current work develops TOPI and QR/TOPI: a proposed interpretation and framework connecting probability, quantum theory, nonlocality, reality, and relativity.
Editorial team
Writing is only the beginning.
Drafts are reviewed for clarity, precision, and strength of argument before Felix completes the final edit and prepares them for publication.
President · Author · Editor in Chief
Felix Alba-Juez
Felix lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife, Susana. He develops the physical and philosophical arguments, writes each manuscript, and leads the final editorial and publishing decisions.
Technical Editor and Critical Reader
Nico Alba
Nico serves as a technical editor and critical reader, reviewing manuscripts for clarity, consistency, grammar, and readability. His perspective helps reveal where complex arguments need further explanation.
Nico is a technical writer and editor living in Salt Lake City, Utah. His experience spans roles at Adobe, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, NetFoundry, and now Pinecone ↗, a New York–based startup building knowledge infrastructure for AI.
His interests include reading, chess ↗, strength training, climbing, travel, house music, and Argentine asado.
The publishing process has also involved a group of approximately ten critical readers. Once a manuscript is ready, the group begins an iterative review and editing period—historically lasting about two months—before Felix undertakes the final revision and publication.
Working philosophy
Understanding begins when inherited explanations are treated as questions rather than conclusions.
Clarity before shorthand
Language should expose the structure of an argument, not disguise uncertainty behind familiar phrases.
Intuition without dilution
A reader does not need formal training to engage profound ideas when they are presented carefully and honestly.
Reality before interpretation
Successful theories must ultimately be examined for what they say exists—not only for what they allow us to calculate.