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in Collision with Reality

Last updated 3/4/2001
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There is a revolution taking place today in astronomy and cosmology
that will rival the one set off by Galileo.
Most of today's "accepted" astronomy/cosmology is a theory
precariously based on two erroneous _assumptions_:

1.  If the light from an object exhibits redshift, the object _must_
be moving away from us.
2.  Electrical fields, currents, and plasma discharges are not
important.  _Only_ gravitational and magnetic fields are
important.

Both of these assumptions are demonstrably wrong. They have been
and continue to be contradicted by actual observations of the sky.
Those observations tell us that:

Redshift is more a measure of an object's _youth_ than its velocity.
The universe is highly _electrical_ in nature.

The two big, false assumptions (#1 & #2 above) have been padded
out by an elegant, abstract mathematical "model" consisting of
equations concerning: mass, energy, velocity of light, etc.   The
results that have been obtained by solving these equations
indicate that most of the universe must consist of "dark matter":
stuff that we cannot observe.  The model requires a "Big Bang"
wherein all the matter in the Universe (presumably including the
99% of it that we cannot see) was created out of nothing, in an
instant, precisely 12 billion years ago.  It also requires us to
accept such arcane notions as: "curved space", "neutron stars",
several different sizes of "black holes", "superluminal jets",
"dark energy", and "variously flavored neutrinos".  All of these
entities are theoretical constructs that were invented in order to
save the model from contradicting observations.  None have ever
been observed or photographed.  But their existence is  invoked to
"explain" otherwise inexplicable phenomena.  We hear statements
such as, "There must be a black hole at the center of that
galaxy." (Otherwise we cannot explain its level of energy
production.)  "There must be 'invisible dark matter' in that
galaxy." (Otherwise we cannot explain how it rotates the way it
does.)  "Pulsars must be made up of 'strange matter' " (Otherwise
we might have to look for an electrical explanation).

It is intellectually dishonest to conjure up the existence of
unobservable entities in order to save a theory that observation
would otherwise disprove.  If you allow me to get away with
postulating the existence of ghosts, then you will have to put up
with my blaming ghosts for an increasing number of otherwise
inexplicable events - (like why I couldn't find my keys this
morning!)  Ghosts would make it easy for me to avoid confronting
the reality that my memory is not as good as it once was.  One
reality being avoided by astronomers is that the cosmos is highly
electrical in nature.  Another is that high values of redshift do
not imply high recessional velocity.

Although recent observations of the sky strongly suggest that
reality doesn't obey the elegant mathematics, for modern
cosmologists, the mathematical symbols _have become reality.
_Their equations are so beautiful that they feel the universe
_must work this way. _Unfortunately, since reality doesn't
understand this, all the magical, counterintuitive concepts
enumerated in the previous paragraphs are total nonsense.   The
solar "wind" is, more accurately, an electrical current.  Quasars
are not the brightest, most distant and rapidly moving things in
the observed universe - but they are among the youngest.  And the
Virgo galaxy cluster does not take the shape of a long

[1]Finger of God

pointed directly at Earth (which Copernicus would find immediately
obvious).  The Universe is essentially infinite in size and age.
And it is fundamentally electrical.

In present day astrophysics, the Emperor really has no
clothes.  And the people offering us the proof are astronomer
Halton Arp,  physicist Wallace Thornhill and electrical engineer
Anthony L. Peratt.  For the details, click on the links at the
bottom of this page.

There have been many instances in the past when accepted
astronomical dogma has been proven wrong.  There is usually no
public disgrace for the in-group of researchers who were on the
wrong side of the issue.  When, after being viciously denigrated,
the validity of a new idea becomes inescapably obvious, a few
years go by, and then we hear: "Well, Everyone has known for a
Long Time that this (the new idea) was always true."

Long held theories are extremely difficult to get rid of for
several reasons.  In any field of science the in-group of
mainstream investigators control who is awarded research funding
and what gets published.  This is called "peer review" - it sounds
like a good idea to keep "kooks" out of the limelight.  But, peer
review makes it difficult to pursue any divergent course of
research (that may disprove accepted dogma) if:  a) one cannot get
research funding and  b) one cannot get any results published.
This is exactly what has happened to people like Halton Arp.  And
it is the reason that the untenable house of cards called modern
cosmology has survived this long.

As late as 1920 Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) of Harvard College
Observatory claimed (in a public debate) that the "elliptical
nebulae" were all located within our Milky Way Galaxy, and that
there was nothing beyond the Milky Way - according to him the
Milky Way _was_ the entire Universe.  Of course, this is
completely wrong - these "nebulae" are each distant galaxies in
their own right.  Shapley was a leader of the "mainstream" and so
was not ostracized.  Now we just hear, "Well, Everyone has known
for a Long Time that those objects are distant galaxies."

In a few years, perhaps we will hear: "Well, Everyone has
known for a Long Time that quasars are not extremely distant and
red shift is more a measure of the youth of an object than its
recessional velocity.  No one said for sure that there ever was a
Big Bang.  It was just another theory.   Everyone has known for a
Long Time that electric currents flowing in plasmas produce many
of the 'mysterious' observed phenomena."  And we will not hear of
"machos", "wimps", "neutronium", "dark energy", and "broken
magnetic field lines" from any serious scientist.

Time will tell who's right.

Will Halton Arp get the worldwide recognition he so richly
deserves?  Will Tony Peratt?

Or will lesser men quietly adopt their ideas and claim them to
be "well known"?
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -  Aldous
Huxley
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References

1. file://localhost/www/sat/files/Amy.htm
2. http://www.kronia.com/newsletter.html
3. http://www.users.uswest.net/~dascott/Arp.htm
4. http://www.users.uswest.net/~dascott/ElectricUniverse.htm
5. http://www.dragonscience.com/
6. http://www.achilles.net/~jtalbot/bio/Humason.html
7. file://localhost/www/sat/files/Cosmology.htm
8. http://www.users.uswest.net/~dascott/index.html