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Originally Posted by Jarvamundo
To familiarize the fundamentals from the men who pioneered classical electro-dynamics you'll have to go back to the early days of a company called General Electric, particularly Charles Proteus Steinmetz (in white) seen here with a very special man known to most here.
http://cr4.globalspec.com/PostImages...BB4967C66F.gif
What many people do not know, is that often in modern texts, this photo has been repeatedly doctored to have someone removed from it.
Ohh how the history of science can often be erased.
Here is the original photo, without the missing man.
http://www.divus.cz/images/umelec/tes04.jpg
10 points if you can name the man who was doctored out.
Unfortunately when dealing with the writings of Steinmetz, the man G.E. employed to come and study the 'missing mans' machines, quantum and c-limit causality cannot calculate some of his work.
All is not what it seems when you read all the way back to these gentlemen's original texts, i've had to dust of 1920's leather bound presses to see where some decisions of history were made.
Alex (the other alex) made a good point in another thread... Read wide, and trust no body with your personal investigations.
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And now we devolve to conspiracies. What next, Alex.
In actual fact, trying to debate with you is a waste of time. You have been repeatedly shown the errors in your logic and the misinformed opinions you so dearly cling to are so far out on the fringe, that they, despite all the attempts at making out as though they have some viable alternative basis to clearly accepted science, are not only pure speculation at best, but horribly bad science for the most part at their worst.
Let's all look at the people who are the epicentre of this farce and charade.
David Talbott...received a B.S. (how appropriately put) degree in education and political science. Then did (maybe) one year of graduate studies in Urban Studies. An inveterate Neo-Velikovskian and publisher of a number of books based on Velikovsky's ideas. No formal training in any real science, yet he has repeatedly written on subjects related to astrophysics, planetary geology, celestial mechanics etc, in his books about catastrophism and alternate histories.
Wallace Thornhill...earned a degree in physics and electronics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and began postgraduate studies. Before entering university he had been inspired by Immanuel Velikovsky's best-selling book, Worlds in Collision. Another Neo-Velikovskian.
Eric Lerner...Self styled "plasma physicist" (actually only has an undergraduate degree, a B.A. in physics). Eric Lerner is a principal in The Focus Fusion Society an organization that actively solicits funds in the form of donations from the public for research into plasma fusion energy systems. He is also a principal of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc which in its own words is a “consulting and communication corporation specializing in applications of plasma physics” which is raising funds by privately offering shares in itself. He's also a science writer and his written quite a number of sci-fi works, as well as fringe science subjects.
Don Scott...Retired professor of Electrical Engineering (electronics and semiconductor engineering).
Anthony Peratt...A professor of physics (plasma physics). Works at JPL.
Of all of them, only 2 (Peratt and Scott) could be considered learned enough to even consider taking any notice of. Even here, their ideas have been roundly criticised by the vast majority of their peers simply because they're making out pure speculation as having some veracity as an alternative to mainstream theories. However, they do have the runs on the board, so far as their reputations and credentials are concerned, and are respected to a greater or lesser extent in their own fields. However, that does not make their pronouncement on plasma cosmology anymore correct or fundamental than any other piece of speculation. The are wholly unproven, despite protestations to the contrary.
The others are no more than undergraduates who flunked out of anything more onerous and have no qualifications to really speak of in any of the fields they care to pontificate about. Their own ideas have not only been roundly refuted by mainstream science, even many of their own "alternative history/catastrophism" theorists have criticised their ideas, and the ideas of their progenitor
Immanuel Velikovsky (whom, btw, was a psychiatrist by profession). Their ideas hold about as much currency as tarot cards, horoscopes and the tooth fairy. They're nutcases.
If you want to read about Plasma Cosmology, go
here