Has anyone here heard of this theory? What do you think of it? I think it makes a lot more sense than the Big Bang Theory - http://www.holoscience.com/wp/
What about Immanuel Velikovsky 's works? Any opinion?
Perhaps we live in something like the Matrix after all 
Philosophers have suggested this for literally thousands of years.
Can you please elaborate? Which philosophers?
Aristophanes.
pythagoras, plato, schopenhauer, tesla…
A physics theory without quantitative predictions? It sounds like BS.
http://neutrinodreaming.blogspot.com/2011/09/electric-universe-theory-debunked.html
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/18950/how-to-debunk-the-electric-universe
Just looking at the webiste should let you know it is bs.
What is it with crackpot theories popping up on this forum every so often? So far we’ve had “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, “A Priori Physics”, and “Why Modern Theoretical Physics Is A Lie”.
What is it with crackpot theories popping up on this forum every so often?
We are the perfect target audience. Smart enough to follow an argument, interested in theoretical matters, and most important, not professional physicists.
And then there’s the fact that modern cosmology and astrophysics is, well, laughable. I was just reading an article today on Space.com talking about the millions of unseen black holes sprinkled through the Milky Way. Uh huh, sure. The black hole is a metaphysical entity, people. Wake up!
Clayton -
Prove it, doctor.
Prove what?? Physicists themselves tell us that the center of a black hole is a point of infinite density. Now, I am merely applying their very own empiricism back onto them if I say, as you put it: prove it, doctor! If we can invoke infinite magnitudes to explain natural phenomena, then where are the limits? Why these infinitudes but not those? “Physics” that invoke infinite physical magnitudes is not physics, it is metaphysics.
Clayton -
The electric universe theory actually makes more sense to me. Wasn’t Tesla also a proponent of this theory? I happen to think that Tesla was the greatest research scientist of all-time.
I wonder if the people who are currently pioneers in this field (plasma cosmoslogy) has done any extensive experiments to prove their convictions.
@Clayton - do you have any suggested reading material for me to better understand this theory? I read your other posts and i saw a lot of equations, you must have done a lot of research than I did!
@ Clayton - oh the way, what do you think of Immanuel Velikovsky’s works? It was quite fascinating to read about it.
For reading material suggestions, I just recommend visiting thunderbolts.info and reading their articles as well as browsing their book store.
Velikovsky was a true Renaissance man. I have yet to read Worlds in Collision so I won’t feign expertise. His hypotheses seem incredibly difficult to accept on first brush but I think he may be more correct than we are yet prepared to accept. Once you come to grips with the idea that the Solar System is an electrical system - in fact, that the entire visible Universe is an electrical system - it fundamentally reconfigures your entire way of thinking about the heavens. It’s all connected.
The prevailing cosmological model sees the planets as “rocks whizzing through empty space, attracted by gravity to the Sun and each other”. As our understanding of the solar medium, interstellar medium, etc. has evolved, it is clear that this old Newtonian model has failed, at a basic level, to grasp the causal relationships in the Solar System. This is not Newton’s fault, since the physics of electrical phenomena was wholly unknown at that time. In fact, Newton explicitly called out his gravitation theory as “action at a distance” and derided anyone who believed that action at a distance is possible. This, in fact, is what modern physics holds… we call it “bending of space-time” but the only way that these supposed physical effects manifest themselves is in action at a distance.
Clayton -
About action at a distance. In Newton’s time, it seemed odd that you could move something without actually putting your hand on it and pushing it. That two things have some magical effect on each other without being in contact was a novel idea, and people were sceptical. Everyone would have felt much better if we lived in water, so that if you move object A, it moves the water, which moves other water, until water finally touches object B. That would be a satifactory explanation of gravity to their minds, since there was no action at a distance.
And indeed, the search began for a water substitute, ether, that we live in without knowing it, as fish live in water, and it’s the ether that connects objects to each other, like water does in the above example.
But the thing is, if we retain that way of looking at things, and don’t like the concept of action at a distance, then we have to reject electricity as well, because it too, works exactly like gravity, object A exerting its magical electromagnetic influence at a distance without being in contact with object B.
So giving an electrical explanation for the universe doesn’t improve the situation.
This electric physics is such bullshit, really. LOL @ the sun not working by nuclear reactions.
By the way, theories spoused before importants parts were known or understood will always commit gross mistakes.
This “all eletric” theory came before the strong and weak forces were clearly understood, so it had a very incomplete set of the puzzle, the same way that trying to do an all encompassing economic treatise before the SVT would eventually lead to some dead ends.
It’s not just “Electric Physics”, they are using established and understood physics of Plasma. The problem is that modern cosmologists have yet to fully digest and utilize plasma physics in their model’s. Plasma physics is incredibly complex and does many things that do not seem obvious or common sense. I can understand the reason folks reject it out of hand, I did myself when I first came across it, but you have to actually look at it as a whole to see how all the pieces fit together. I was unconvinced for a long time until it finally clicked.
They don’t reject quantitiative physics, they just state the obvious, that Mathematical model’s can only describe, not explain. We need a qualitative understanding first before we can develop a mathematical model to describe it. Not the other way around.
They have some really interesting projects in the works now. The SAFIRE project, in which they’ve enlisted some scientists from establishment physics, is going to test the hypothesis of the electric sun model.
The traditional Fusion based sun model has a lot of anomolies. It cannot intrinsically explain the Sun’s differential rotation, sun spots, the existence of a Corona, the acceleration of the solar wind and many more. The establishment theory just believes they are transient or secondary phenomena, with details just left to be filled in. Clearly the current model is lacking. There is really not direct proof of the Fusion based sun. The electrical model on the other hand, explain all observed dynamic and steady state phenomena naturally.
I think it this thread will benefit greatly if everyone expressing an opinion on technical matters states his qualifications.
A few examples:
PhD in Astrophysics.
MA in Physics, specialized in quantum mechanics.
Read a lot of comic books.
That last line fits me, which is why I don’t venture an opinion.
What about you, Orthogonal, Vital, everyone else?