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Despite the fact that our lives are powered by electricity to an astonishing degree, most of us have little or no understanding of how or why it works. Instead, we rely on a blurry notion that it flows--like water--through wires to turn on our appliances. In Electric Universe, David Bodanis fools readers, by keeping them entertained and intrigued, into learning the science behind electricity. He does this by telling a series of stories, starting with how a backwoods American really invented the telegraph and how Samuel Morse stole the credit for it. From there, he works through the lives of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday, and other pioneers. He shows how their experiments affected their lives--never more poignantly than with the tragic story of Alan Turing, whose early work designing computers wasn't enough to prevent him from being driven to suicide. It's surprisingly easy to identify with some of these brilliant scientists, because Bodanis relates their failures as well as their successes. In the end, although we may continue using words such as "current" to describe the "flow" of electrons, Bodanis makes certain that we see electrical energy for what it really is, at a subatomic, quantum level. Even so, there's not a single boring bit in the book. Electric Universe is an excellent scientific history, one that reveals both the progress of knowledge and the strange science of the wiggling electrons that run our lives. --Therese Littleton
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In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world’s most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.
For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals.
A superb storyteller, Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through lucid accounts of scientific breakthroughs. The great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality.
From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a master science writer.
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Good, but not great..........2007-09-18
I found Electric Universe interesting, but lacking in certain respects. Granted, I listened to the abridged audio, CD version of this book, and my background is in Electrical Engineering, so I'll try to not to judge harshly because it was a good book. I would certainly recommend this to anyone new to the history and principles of electricity and electronics. It is a good starting point, in that it's very comprehensive, meaning it covers most of the big ideas and important people and puts these into a historical perspective that anyone can easily follow. A little more detail and focus would have been nice at times, but again, maybe that's just me. I'm a little disappointed my favorite EE wasn't mentioned in the book, Nikola Tesla, but I should expect that by now (forever an underrated geniuses). With that said, I'd certainly recommend Electric Universe, and I'm certainly glad I experienced it, but it probably won't crack my top ten anytime soon. Coolest parts of the book, Faraday, Turing, and finally, an accurate portrayal of Edison.
What? No Tesla?.......2007-07-19
For the critical thinker who studies the history of science or history in general it is often most instructive what an author leaves out. Somehow Bodanis managed to tell the "true" story of electricity without mentioning Tesla once. WTF?
Shockingly Common.......2007-05-14
You won't learn much about electricity by reading this book. Oh, there is the odd, interesting snippet here and there, but by and large the book is mostly a recounting of the lives of the British wing of electrical research over the past several hundred years. Missing is Benjamin Franklin. Missing is Nikola Tesla. The story is grossly incomplete.
Bodanis' style is a little too cutesy, a little too formulaic. His analogies are sophomoric: "...these silicon rocks can shift electric currents through in one direction or another, and the rock itself doesn't have to move...The rock can simply sit there, Buddha-like..." And the construction of the book is odd, with five sections covering electrical properties from "Wires" to "Waves" and so on, each told with mini, mini biographies of some of the scientists, researchers, and inventors involved. Sometimes the chapters build upon one another, demonstrating a curve of learning across the decades, but then there will be a complete disconnect: The chapter on Heinrich Hertz is recounted completely with excerpts from Hertz' diaries--interesting if placed in context, but this chapter reads like a plaster patch placed in the middle of the book. Toward the end of the book an addendum, a chapter entitled "What Happened Next" follows the lives of some of the historical people recounted in the book after their great discoveries were made. Joseph Henry, it seems, became a friend of Abraham Lincoln, and died in 1878 wishing he had taken out more patents. Another ending chapter, "Mr. Amp, Mr. Volt, and Mr. Watt"...oops, Bodanis forgot to explain the basics during the course of the narrative--just stick it in here. And then on to the "Notes", wherein lies much useful information that should have been incorporated into the earlier chapters.
As a hodgepodge of information about electricity, "Electric Universe" could serve as a reasonable resource for primary or secondary school curricula. But in truth, this same information is readily available on Wikipedia if one trusts that source, or better yet, within a good, bound set of encyclopedias.
Yet another book that proves any subject can be made interesting.......2006-11-27
Electric Universe is one of those science books full of anecdotal details and the little stories behind the big stories. The book covers some of the big discoveries and inventions in the field of electricity. Lightbulbs, telephones and radar are among the big ideas that get mentioned.
The subtitle is meant more as a play on words than anything else, as there are no real "shocking" stories here, just a lot of interesting facts that make the book part science lesson and part history lesson in a format that is accessible even for those with no background or interest in science.
Reading (or listening as the case may be) to a book like this, one gets the feeling that one could write a nonfiction story on just about anything and make it interesting. After all, there is always a story of some sort if you are willing to dig. Whether it's a book like The Meaning of Everything about the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary or Salt about, well, salt successful books have been written on subjects that don't at first seem interesting. I'm waiting for Whirr: The Story of the Electric Can Opener and From Corncobs to Quilted Northerm: The Story of Toilet Paper. Hmm, perhaps I should be writing book proposals instead of book reviews.
Ambitious Title for a Lightweight Book with some Interesting Facts.......2006-09-20
The reader should understand that this author picked a huge subject and out of that book he follows a few interesting sidelights. The book's contents is like a rock skimming across the surface of a lake, Where the rock hits, there is an interesting story, but do I feel like I know about the lake? This author has an interesting style, his E=MC2 book dealt with a narrow subject (an equation). This book is a fast read with interesting facts, but of course it can not cover the scope of the title
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In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system; and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality.
From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a master science writer.
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Very Satisfied.......2007-05-17
My 14 year old son had to read this for school. In his words, it took what he thought was going to be a dull subject and made it interesting with all the stories and examples. He actually enjoyed it.
Not as good as E=mc squared.......2006-09-17
Bodanis's prior book "E=mc squared" was a more informative and entertaining read than Electric Universe. Electric Universe was a bit too dumbed-down technically in its attempts to be accessible. More detail could have been paid to Maxwell and his wave equations, and ignoring Nikola Tesla's contributions to electromagnetics is a glaring ommission. Bodanis does present though some interesting observations and anecdotes on the personalities and politics of science; scientists may claim the moral high ground with their vetting of each other when they compare themselves to the non-scientific community, but really great scientitsts are often no better than the rest of us, all's fair in love, war, and scientific endeavor.
A very stimulating book, filling the blanks of science history for me. ........2006-08-10
"ELECTRIC UNIVERSE: How Electricity Switched On The Modern World" by David Bodanis
WINNER of the 2006 Aventis General Prize for popular science writing.
David Bodanis is one of those rare authors who laboriously researches private diaries and letters to get ..."the rest of the story." This Tour De Force contains a wealth of background of related research.
Bodanis traces the lineage of profound minds which powered the unlocking of the atom and our grasp of electromagnetism. The lineage of Michael Faraday, Joseph Henry, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), James Clerk Maxwell, Alexander Graham Bell, Heinrich Hertz, etc....
Two of the books highlights are the illuminations of Joseph Henry (working with magnets in America) and William Thomson (working with the Atlantic telegraph table). Thomson and James Clerk Maxwell were key figures in the expansion of our understanding of magnetism and electricity.
In a style that is reminiscent of James Burke's "CONNECTIONS" Bodanis shows the process of theoretical cross-fertilization over a period of decades, revealing that with progressive changes in our view of the Electron , a new foundation is established for the release of fresh tecnology. From the late Victorian era view of the Electron as a hard little ball, to Faraday's & Hertz's vision of the Electron as a part of a force field, leading eventually to the idea that
the Electron can pop through space in an abrupt teleporting jump known as a Quantum, Bodanis shows how far our grasp has come, and tells this story in such a compelling manner that "Electric Universe" is hard to put down, once picked up.
There can be difficulties with this kind of literature. Either the author is droll, and the reader becomes bogged down with a single particular theory or abstraction and the resulting confusion causes revulsion; but Bodanis is not that kind of science writer. He makes the excitment of reading about science, contagious. I had no trouble at all following every single idea, and Bodanis has an infectious humor. Sometimes his phraseology is absolutely hilarious!
The 'Cliffs Notes' history of electricity.......2006-05-27
Purchased this book after seeing that it won the 2006 Aventis General Prize for popular science writing. While the book is a quick and interesting read, I found that it ultimately left me wanting more... much more. The book certainly manages to hit many of the high points in the history of electricity and electronics. Unfortunately, it fails to provide much detail about any single person or idea. The book does include an extensive "Guide to Further Reading" and numerous notes for those who like more details. Annoyingly, the notes aren't referenced in the main text so you're forced to read in parallel through the main portion of the book as well as the "Notes" chapter if you want the full story.
In the end, I suppose my own expectations got the better of me: I was hoping for an in-depth history of electricity, perhaps along the lines of Richard Rhodes Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", rather than a entertaining afternoon read...
Well written and interesting.......2006-04-06
This book, a popular account of a number of things that relate to electricity and electronics, reads very well and I found it to be one of those gripping books that one wants to finish.
The author makes a few claims that I have never seen before, such as one that Morse, in inventing the telegraph, stole most of his ideas from Joseph Henry, and I'd be curious to see how much of this is generally accepted. But if so, it would certainly appear that Samuel Morse was overrated by history. The book covers both Morse and Henry, and also such well-known inventors as Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, often showing sides of them that we don't see elsewhere. The book devotes a large amount of space to Alan Turing, who is obviously highly regarded by the author. It also covers much of the scientific side of the story, even giving a glimpse of quantum mechanics (the scientific theory which underlies much of modern electronics).
That being said, this is a _popular_ book. It does not attempt to present all the mathematics of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory or quantum mechamics, but simply describes them in terms that a non-physicist can comprehend, and I think it is successful at that level. If you don't expect of it something that clearly was not intended by the author, but want a well-written book on the historical aspects of electric and electronic devices, you will be well-served by this book.
A very extensive bibliography, not just listing the books but explaining what you will find in each one cited, ends the text of this book.
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1903. Partial Contents: Electricity produces all the phenomena of nature; Electrical creation, it seems to solve the riddle of the universe; Electrical creation more fully stated confirms scientific evolution; Man is a Soul clad in air, a Spirit in an electric organism; All light, heat and life evolved only in the atmosphere of suns and planets; Electrical derangement of the bodily organism produce sickness and death; Present science is in a dubious and chaotic condition; Electrical creation explains natural philosophy; Science and philosophy sustain the religious concept; Love is the electric law of life; The electric universe is self-sustaining and eternal; Are all suns and worlds inhabited.
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In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world’s most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.
For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals.
A superb storyteller, Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through lucid accounts of scientific breakthroughs. The great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality.
From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a master science writer
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Electricity made simple (and fun).......2005-04-08
This audio is an entertaining look at how electricity works and affects our daily lives. Bodanis's uses analogies that make this subject understandable. He examines electricity's development along with providing short biographies of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Heinrich Herz and other pioneers. Bodanis also describes early failures and setbacks that resulted in eventual breakthroughs. A superb storyteller, Bodanis includes tales of romance, hard work, and fraud in the development of modern electrical applications. Bodanis taught at the University of Oxford for many years.
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The technical challenges of a human expedition to Mars are the principal theme to be explored by Martin Turner in Expedition Mars. The author begins by describing how the very latest rocket propulsion and spacecraft technology, and planned developments in nuclear and electric propulsion technologies, are the key factors which will enable a human expedition to Mars to take place. Of particular importance are the challenges of transporting cargo to Mars and in providing necessary life support for the crew, including the supply of consumables, such as food, water, air and fuel, for the return journey. In this regard the author considers how the International Space Station fits into the strategy for a human journey to the Red Planet, in its preparation of astronauts for long-duration spaceflight and the possible hazards posed by space radiation and prolonged weightlessness. The author discusses the relative merits of fast and slow journeys to Mars, i.e. is quicker also safer and cheaper? Also of importance is the role of unmanned robotic explorers in preparing the ground for human activities on Mars and in defining what the surface of Mars is like. The means by which future explorers will live and work on Mars are also explored, including issues such as habitation, modules, Mars buggies, spacesuits, scientific experiments and communications with Earth. He concludes by looking at the possible political obstacles to such a journey, but points out that sooner or later humans will have to make a choice; stay here on Earth or explore the Solar System beyond. One route takes us nowhere, the other leads to the stars.
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More Junk.......2004-08-27
At best, Turner's book is a regurgitation of a few of the historical proposed human Mars mission concepts. At worst, it is inaccurate. For example, on Page 251, it states that the core Magnum vehicle was based on an "extended Space Shuttle main fuel tank." The real proposed Magnum core would have used composite fuel tanks and RS68 engines, none of which were derived from Shuttle. The Magnum concept did propose using standard Shuttle SRBs, for boosters, not the liquid flyback boosters, as stated. Also Figure 9.1 is of a sidemount Shuttle Derived Vehicle (SDV), like Shuttle-C, and not a Magnum, as stated. The RS68 engines, referred to on Page 289, would not fit the pictured sidemount SDV configuration. The real proposed Magnum configuration is correctly identified in Figure 8.3. Few of the figures/photos in the book are in color and none give credit to Jack Frassanito, whose company produced most of the enclosed artist's concepts.
A very good book.......2004-03-02
Will the first Human mission to Mars be a historical fact in my liftime? This is the central question of the book and the answer from a technological standpoint is certainly positive. The book Expedition Mars covers all technological fields needed to make a manned mission to Mars happen. The orbital mechanics of such a trip described in this book are even for a non-expert easy to follow, while the section on launch mass makes clear that every kilogram of payload to be send to the Martian surface needs a major increase in the launch mass of the rocket lifting the mission of Earth's surface. In the chapter on possible propulsion systems the author takes into account the public distrust in nuclear propulsion and describes the necessary measures to be taken to test such an engine on Earth without the release of radioactive material. He also clearly explains that such a engine will only be used and activated in space, greatly diminishing the risks. Not only technical issues related to a mission to Mars are described in the book, but also the financial-economical and social part of such a mission are well covered, proving that scientists and engineers are able to explain their work to the man in the street. In the final chapters Martin Turner explains the NASA reference mission to Mars, greatly influenced by the work of Zubrin and coworkers, and shows that the improvement in the design of such a mission is ten fold in almost every aspect. The costs for a human mission to Mars is currently estimated at 55 billion dollars as much as the (ANNUAL agricultural subsidies of the European Union) to be spread over a period of 15-20 years, equalling 2 billion dollars a year. This fits in the American as the European space budget. It is even lower than the annual amount spend in the Space Shuttle programme. The last chapter is devoted to the social-economic arguments for and against a human mission to Mars and should be a must-read for every one in the space business. In a realistic way the pros and cons of a manned mission are explained with even new arguments, such that the money spend on space missions is mostly covered by the man hours in such a project. This refutes the statement by antagonists of the Mars programme that all money is launched into space instead it is launched into the local economy by the people who work in the space industry.
All in all this book should be on the list of all space enthousiasts and space professionals and can well be used in science classes to get students back to studying natural sciences and engineering.
Arno Wielders
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6-3/4"x9" paperback, full color graphics and 140+ illustrations The Electric Universe Monograph by Dave Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, members of the Thunderbolts.info group, is powerful material about the Electric Universe and plasma cosmology. This book not only complements The Electric Sky book, but actually overlaps very little, while covering cosmic quandaries and plasma and electricity in space. The chapter on the electrical properties of comets is such great material, thoroughly convincing.
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Steps forward in understanding.......2007-08-10
This is a valued book that functions as historical review and insight into steps forward toward a new millenia in understanding of the electric principles which operate at many levels from terrestrial to our sun and beyond to some of the most amazing electricaly active regions of distant space. I treasure this book nearly as much as my Bible. dz
Electric Plasma Universe spins.......2007-08-10
The ELECTRIC UNIVERSE - Wallace Thornhill & David Talbott '02 &'07, Mikamar,
The 3rd `plasma universe' book in series form Mikamar in last 3 years, is aimed at space & energy scientie, astrophysics & maybe free energy buffs. It's determined to change the prevailing dogma of relativity, gravity, dark matter & big-bang model of astro sciences into electric charged `plasma universe' of living expanding dimensions. They explain how & why current astrophysics is wrong with dozens of dazzling astro photos, discoverers & charts of plasma patterns from Kristian Birkeland c. 1900 to now. They argued with excellent evidence against modern myths of `vaccum universe' run with gravity only, no electricity filling-space & charging up stars.
I am bias for `electric universe' since the 1970s & love this new book so balanced honest, dramatic & clear. It persuades our visions of very charged-up alive universe of many mysterious dimensions. Do you dare to challenge astrophysics like they do?
They weave together a new cosmology discovering vast evidence electric currents filing space revealed by lab science a century ago contrary to Einstein & Co, speed of light & empty vacuum of outer space. Now 100s of Hubble space photos show electric filaments, spirals & Torus orbs of `cosmic donuts'. We can see that gravity don't explain what's happening there wiith open minds. They show & tell of dozen plasma scientists over a century now who build their case with outer space observations since `aurora' dazzled millions before inventions of electricity. The colored auroras I've seen & agree are plasma dancing in arctic polar vortex with solar energy flowing in magnetic fields currents of beautiful spiraling chaos.
They also present lab evidence of plasma filling space in dynamic ways unexplained by pop science. I think that plasma physics is a top secret energy source, known in the billion $ fusion energy research experiments & secret outer space propulsions systems. Their arguments are very clear & persuasive to science heads who sill consider the potential of electricity dominating space in dynamic patterns from Galaxy, sun & comets into earth atmosphere we can see with open eyes & minds to infinite mysteries of continuing creation. Not the once Big Bang of astro -fantasy, like all empire create `origin myths' for members to believe `sacred stories' supporting their `absolute knowledge' of universe to follow big science blindly.now!
How absurd to trust such narrow bias superiority-complex powering our empire science now & causing our vast pollution with same denial justifying waste, lies, war & secrecy. The "Electric Universe" can & is empowering us to learn & feel the electricity flowing around earth & in our bodies, like ancient Chi-kung masters feel, use & teach. We use the energy patterns of nature in 100 ways beyond Tesla tried a century ago. Now in homesteading we harvest the constant incoming energy in cycles as needed: solar, water, wind, hydro & earthy sources, like geo-thermal. Big science also denies those sources, to keep control with fantasies of their `nuclear universe' of war economy hyped by dazzling `cosmos' photos. "The Electric Universe" is showing & explaining how our beautiful energetic universe lives with plasma waves in vortexes & spiraling fields of chaos & order.
Most moderns scientists reject the chaos they show in cosmic photos, like cosmic glamour. But reject the dynamic geometry of plasma universe, like they reject how our weather works with plasma in our sun to earth atmosphere? §
Exiting the philosophical morass of modern cosmology.......2007-08-05
Talbott and Thornhill offer a way out of an intellectual morass which I'd pretty much written off on purely philosophical grounds before hearing about them. In other words, he big bang idea is sufficiently stupid that nobody should need Talbott, Thornhill, or Halton Arp to dismiss it. A minimal list of questions which big bangers need to answer would include:
1. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. How would anything ever "bang" its way out of that??
That's the most simple and basic question; I've never yet seen a reasonable answer to it.
Often the reply I get to that is "God did it!" Yeah, right; an omniscient and omnipotent God suddenly 17B years ago decides it would be a cool thing to create a universe whereas the idea had never occurred to him prior to that...
2. If God did it, why didn't that idea occur to him 17 trillion or 17 quadrillion years ago??
Then again, even if God DIDN'T do it, why 17 billion years ago and not somewhere in the infinite expanse of time prior to that? The answer I see most often (REALLY) is "Time didn't exist before the Big Bang!!!"
My normal interpretation of that statement is "Wow, this cat's been smokin too much REEFER..." which brings up the next two questions:
3. Is there any more charitable interpretation of "Time did not exist before the big bang"? and
4. Does that mean that, prior to the big bang, my wrist watch would not have worked?
5. Oh, yeah, the universe is supposed to be FINITE, you say? How's that? What's beyond it if it's finite??
6. Why only one big bang in one point in space?? Why don't we see evidence of this happening elsewhere, on any sort of a scale??
I mean, there're a few more but that would do for starters. Again the plasma cosmology idea eliminates the philosophical morass.
An Electric Paradigm.......2007-07-22
This monograph provides a compelling and succinct review of the current gravity-based model of the Universe and its significant problems. The book is written in a very approachable style for professionals and amateurs alike, capturing the essence of a very wide range of issues - which come across as being the tip of the iceberg.
The work demonstrates convincingly that current cosmological thinking is fatally flawed across the spectrum, and that there is a viable alternative: electricity and plasma.
Any one of the many issues raised in the monograph is sufficient in itself to require an overhaul of current theory. Given the investment currently underway in projects tied to current theory, and the tendency to inhibit alternative investigations, it's to be hoped that an overhaul is not too far away.
I highly recommend this book for anyone open to understanding more about the issues with the accepted understanding of the cosmos around us.
Electromagnetism Rules.......2007-07-12
This is simply a phenomenal book on an alternative theory to account for all scientific observations made in cosmology from decades ago to present. I have also read The Electric Sky by Donald E. Scott and Thunderbolts of the Gods by David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill. I highly recommend all three of these wonderful books to anyone who has the slightest interest in astronomy.
These books lay out the theory that electricity runs or powers the universe. Electric currents are everywhere in the universe which consists of 99% plasma which is matter with electric charge. Of course, you can't have electricity without magnetism, so it is this force that shapes and defines our magnificent universe.
It was so refreshing to read these books because it was like a great veil being lifted from my eyes allowing me to truly understand what is happening in our cosmos for the first time with real understanding. It was suddenly so obvious. Common sense and logic coupled with direct scientific observation and evidence plus testability of the theory completely verifies and substantiates the claims made in these books.
If the rest of the scientific community can latch on to and accept the truth stated in these books, we will truly enter a new age of understanding and leave the current dark ages science has fallen into behind. Talbott, Thornhill and Scott are true pioneers and their work is highly valuable and important to furthering academic understanding.
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