tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361412992308994774.post4415544278809636861..comments2023-11-19T19:19:12.773-05:00Comments on Dealing with Creationism in Astronomy: Testing Science at the Leading Edge... IIW.T."Tom" Bridgmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10889134728080314165noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361412992308994774.post-62431107209112818262010-08-16T09:35:02.929-04:002010-08-16T09:35:02.929-04:00"Since the universe is plasma dominated, cosm..."Since the universe is plasma dominated, cosmic processes should be explained in accordance with plasma physics and electric engineering principles, briefly put."<br /><br />If that's so, why have there been essentially no such explanations published (I mean, of course, internally consistent explanations, and ones which explain all the relevant observations)?<br /><br />For example, of GRBs? of SgrA*? of estimates of galaxy cluster mass derived from multiple sources? of the CMB? of the primordial relative abundance of light nuclides?<br /><br />""Flux ropes" of electric currents were also detected just a few years ago by the THEMIS satelites, as expected by EU/PC."<br /><br />You're joking, right? Can you point to publications which support this claim? And by support, I mean scientifically, with equations, numerical predictions, and so on.<br /><br />"Other electric features of planets / the lunar surface has been revealed fairly recently, as expected with the plasma/electric approach."<br /><br />Ditto.<br /><br />"we can extrapolate knowledge of experimentally verified laws of electrical engineering and plasma physics"<br /><br />Which laws are these? Please list them.<br /><br />"and make efforts on detecting and verify them"<br /><br />Why is it, then, that no EU proponents seem to have done anything with the PB (or more) of freely available, high quality astronomical data, to perform such tests?<br /><br />APODNereidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361412992308994774.post-56718451817166587202010-07-30T10:06:41.184-04:002010-07-30T10:06:41.184-04:00Fundamental effects of gravity were tested centuri...Fundamental effects of gravity were tested centuries ago e.g. with the Cavendish experiment and the equivalence principle. There is a whole lot of technology and politics bound up to the historical shuttle launches that makes it worthwhile for nation leaders (not neccesarily a nation's residents) to invest billions on them and many other extravagant projects. Investments alone don't verify every purely theoretical aspect of today's science.<br /><br />Electric Universe (EU) and Plasma cosmology proponents' issue with standard cosmology is mainly that cosmic dynamics are explained primary by named unknown entities we can't neither test nor falsify. These entities are mathematical fudge factors, made physical, due to anomalies between the gravity-only model versus observation. Since the universe is plasma dominated, cosmic processes should be explained in accordance with plasma physics and electric engineering principles, briefly put. Most of what we know of e.g. plasma phyics (extrapolated to astrophyiscal plasma) are based on experiments and in situ measurements. The nature of auroras was experimentally tested decades before in situ measurements confirmed them. "Flux ropes" of electric currents were also detected just a few years ago by the THEMIS satelites, as expected by EU/PC. Other electric features of planets / the lunar surface has been revealed fairly recently, as expected with the plasma/electric approach. In my view, we can extrapolate knowledge of experimentally verified laws of electrical engineering and plasma physics to astrophysical scenarios, and make efforts on detecting and verify them. We can't expect the same things for mere math derived models.<br /><br />"We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture." - Evolution of the Solar System, NASA 1976, H. Alfvén & G, Arrhenius, p. 257. <br /><br />"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." - Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934Siggy_Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361412992308994774.post-1950009504598872112010-06-28T22:40:48.615-04:002010-06-28T22:40:48.615-04:00Great post! I recently found your blog and linked ...Great post! I recently found your blog and linked it in my new blog, but I don't have many viewers yet. I am enjoying your stuff and will visit often. Thank you for the great information. <br /><br />KLSmith<br />Findingdarwin.blogspot.comKLSmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07827960633442408692noreply@blogger.com