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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

img src="http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/balick/WFPC2/m29.model.jpeg

There is no need to resort to the Electric Universe or any other crackpot theory.

61 posted on 11/25/2014 9:07:45 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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RationalWiki - Metapedia

RationalWiki is a genetic-egalitarian race-denialist propaganda website that is run by Ontario resident Trent Toulouse. RationalWiki is a wiki founded by secular humanists in response to Conservapedia.

Hahahahah... quoting liberals now?

63 posted on 11/25/2014 10:02:25 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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