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To: Moonman62

I’m not the only one who thinks the Electric Universe is a crackpot theory.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=electric+universe+crackpot


57 posted on 11/25/2014 6:35:55 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62; editor-surveyor
I’m not the only one who thinks the Electric Universe is a crackpot theory.

You should check your search results. . . just because it has the word "crackpot" in the results does not mean it is proof of your search. Thanks.

58 posted on 11/25/2014 8:12:15 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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Oh, and still waiting for you to address that photo. . . and the reality of that object just 2,100 light years away from us.

"Eppur si muove"— Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). You are willfully blind.

59 posted on 11/25/2014 8:21:35 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Moonman62

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe

The “Electric Universe” (EU) is an umbrella term that covers various pseudo-scientific cosmological ideas built around the claim that the formation and existence of various features of the universe can be better explained by electromagnetism than by gravity. The exact claims are diverse and vary from crank to crank (author to author). A common motif is the insistence that all science should be done in a laboratory — an attempt to throw away gravity from the very beginning, because one can’t put a solar system or a galaxy in a laboratory. Most Electric Universe proponents claim some kind of relation to the “plasma cosmology” of the Nobel Prize laureate Hannes Alfvén. Too bad his model was rendered obsolete by the missing observations of the radio emission predicted by his cosmology.[2] EU advocates can be roughly split into two groups: garden-variety physics cranks who are convinced that they have a legitimate revolutionary scientific theory, and various woo-peddlers who use EU claims to prop their main ideas (because mainstream physics would blow them apart).


60 posted on 11/25/2014 8:30:07 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62
Your #1 hit, preposterousuniverse.com, which is just some guy's blog, is hilarious as a proof of your premise.

It has on the entire linked page some replies which randomly include the words "electric," "universe," and the phrase "I am not a crackpot" in their sentences, not at all together as the cohesive phrase "Electric Universe." I am still laughing at your Googling skills.

The #2 hit is to a Yahoo question that is answered with a simple “Yeah!” with no explanation. Followed by a guy who makes the sweeping statement that electromagnetism isn’t a scalable phenomena, when it clearly is, according to all physicists who work with it, demonstrating HIS ignorance. If it were otherwise, we would not be able to see anything in the Universe,

At least #3 goes to a legitimate reasoned argument. Thanks.

#4 “The International Skeptics Forum” was quite interesting. A number of the people that were really bad mouthing the Journal that published the papers on Plasma Cosmology and its editorial board, in fact the ones who started the bad mouthing, now have “banned” under their handles. It appears they were making a concerted effort to destroy any interest in EU and Plasma Cosmology that had been published in a scientific journal. . . and the editor of the site finally called them on it.

Many of your other hits actually connect to Electric Universe sites, and on the third page, it links to this thread on FreeRepublic. LOL!

62 posted on 11/25/2014 9:54:49 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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