Speakers – EU 2012 Conference Keynote Speakers Wal Thornhill Wallace Thornhill The Electric Universe—an Interdisciplinary Synthesis The Electric Universe paradigm is a shift in fundamental perception. It acknowledges the primacy of the electric force in nature and is inherently skeptical about gravity-only cosmology, standard relativity theory, and extravagant mathematical speculation. In its appeal to direct evidence and common sense it requires a broad field of view: the human story cannot be excluded. A physicist and natural philosopher, Mr. Thornhill has spent decades questioning popular ideas about the physical world. In the past 15 years, standing on the shoulders of his predecessors, he has laid an interdisciplinary foundation for the Electric Universe paradigm. holoscience.com Don Scott Donald E. Scott Reason for Variations in the Solar Wind Discovered Professor Scott’s presentation will include a description of an analogy between observed solar activity and the well-known behavior of solid-state transistors. Astronomers have no idea what causes the fluctuations in the solar wind. The transistor analogy represents a simple and understandable mechanism that is being publicly presented for the first time at this conference. Prof. Scott is a retired EE professor and life-long amateur astronomer. He earned a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in electrical engineering. electric-cosmos.org Dave Talbott David Talbott Seeking the Third Story Many centuries ago, ancient myths gave way to the rise of science. But has science fulfilled its promise, or fallen into dogma and self-serving politics? This talk will speak for a new understanding of both the myth-making epoch and the promise of science—a third story, one that is possible only in the Electric Universe. Mr. Talbott is the founder and director of The Thunderbolts Project. His book The Saturn Myth (1980) helped to inspire the work of several others now joined in this collaborative project. thunderbolts.info Greg Volk Gregory D. Volk Are Fundamentally New Options Possible in Science Today? The Third Option. Without diligence, we fall into the “Either-Or” fallacy, limited to two choices, when in fact there could be many more. Our very use of language often sets up these false dichotomies unawares. For example, could there be other relativity theories besides that of Einstein? Does “speed of light” presume that a “thing” travels at a certain speed through space? Does equating “mass” with “amount of substance” prevent us from deriving mass from something else? Mr. Volk, editor of the World Science Database, is an electrical engineer convinced that common sense science is key to solving fundamental mysteries in physics. worldsci.org/people/Gregory_Volk Featured Speakers (More speakers will be added over the coming weeks) Dwardu Cardona Dwardu Cardona. Invading Cosmic Bodies The proposition that Earth’s primeval sun consisted of a brown dwarf star rather than its present solar orb was presented at the 18th annual conference of the Natural Philosophy Alliance in July of 2011. The present paper offers further cosmological evidence indicating that the invasion of such a foreign system into the present Sun’s domain has left indelible marks with little or no room for misinterpretation. A former Senior editor of the journal Kronos and Editor of the journal Aeon, Mr. Cardona has published well over a hundred papers and has authored three books, God Star, Flare Star, and Primordial Star, with a fourth book nearing publication. Ed Dowdye Edward Dowdye, Jr. The Failed Attempts to Detect Macro Lensing General Relativity proposes a bending of light in the vacuum of space around stars and galaxies. But evidence shows it is the plasma rim of the Sun, not surrounding space, that bends light, and time-resolved images of stars orbiting Sagittarius A* do not show the predicted “Einstein rings.” Dr. Dowdye, originator of the Extinction Shift Principle, a dual challenge to General and Special Relativity, is an electrical engineer [former NASA] with degrees in mathematics and physics. extinctionshift.com/SignificantFindings Bill Lucas Charles William Lucas, Jr. It is an Electric Universe After All It is now possible to describe a universal electrodynamic force law that completes the goals of 19th century science, deriving gravity and inertia as electrodynamic forces between neutral electric dipoles. This approach predicts more experimental phenomena, including the decay of gravity, than previous theories, and it offers a promising foundation for the unification of the theoretical sciences. Mr. Lucas earned his doctorate in Intermediate Energy Physics from William and Mary in 1972. His important discoveries include a universal electrodynamic force law and a new theory of elementary particles in terms of closed charge loops giving rise to improved theories of the atom, the nucleus and molecules. worldsci.org/people/Charles_Lucas Jim Oschman James L. Oschman, Ph.D. Human Metabolism Meets Cosmic Metabolism The human body contains various electronic circuits that regulate virtually every physiological process. Flows of electrons and other charged particles in these circuits give rise to biomagnetic fields that radiate from the body and interact with the fields of the earth and lunar, solar, interplanetary, and interstellar fields. Dr. Oschman is a biophysicist and international lecturer on the scientific basis for energy medicine. He is the author of two books and over 100 articles. energyresearch.us/ Steve Smith Stephen Smith The Planet Mars in 3-D The best way to see the effect of formative processes on Mars is to view the surface in 3-D. Old theories can no longer explain the profound anomalies on the planet. This presentation will underscore the explanatory power of the electric scarring hypothesis. A long time enthusiast of the Electric Universe and catastrophist study, Mr. Smith is the Managing Editor of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day (TPOD). thunderbolts.info/wp/daily-tpod/