Friday, August 1, 2008

Velikovsky's original innovative ideas inspired new generations of scholars to pursue historical questions of earth and sky. Today one of the most important studies has to do with the role of plasma physics in artifacts of the ancient sky as well as modern astrophysics. Velikovsky's work needs to be viewed from its beginnings, its evolution, and contemporary studies. I will introducing some of these contemporary ideas from time to time. I leave it to the reader to evaluate.

ELECTRIC SKY
Don Scott
A Challenge to the Myths of Modern Astronomy

There is a revolution just beginning in astronomy/cosmology that will rival the one set off by Copernicus and Galileo. This revolution is based on the growing realization that the cosmos is highly electrical in nature. It is becoming clear that 99% of the universe is made up not of "invisible matter", but rather, of matter in the plasma state. Electrodynamic forces in electric plasmas are much stronger than the gravitational force.
Mainstream astrophysicists are continually “surprised” by new data sent back by space probes and orbiting telescopes. That ought to be a clue that something is wrong. New information always sends theoretical astrophysicists "back to the drawing board". In light of this, it is curious that they have such "cock-sure" attitudes about the infallibility of their present models. Those models seem to require major "patching up" every time a new space probe sends back data.

Astrophysicists and astronomers do not study experimental plasma dynamics in graduate school. They rarely take any courses in electrodynamic field theory, and thus they try to explain every new discovery via gravity, magnetism, and fluid dynamics which is all they understand. It is no wonder they cannot understand that 99% of all cosmic phenomena are due to plasma dynamics and not to gravity alone.
When confronted by observations that cast doubt on the validity of their theories, astrophysicistss have circled their wagons and conjured up pseudo-scientific invisible entities such as neutron stars, weakly interacting massive particles, strange energy, and black holes....

[from introduction to The Electric Sky]

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