A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE

   Article 7 : Are the Dominoes Falling?
     * by Rev Nicholas Sykes

   This series of articles has claimed that the existing paradigm of
   physical science, accepted and taught in the halls of academia as
   barely challengeable, has become unfit for purpose. Electric Universe
   proponents will not think it strange when the time comes for the whole
   line of dominoes, representing the presently accepted structure of
   "hard" physics, together with those other sciences dependent upon it,
   to come careening down.

   To be sure, such a state of affairs is not altogether new in the
   world. In the Epilogue to his last book "The Discarded Image", CS
   Lewis writes about the mediaeval "model" of science and its succession
   by the currently accepted model in this way:-

   "The old astronomy was not, in any exact sense, 'refuted' by the
   telescope. The scarred surface of the Moon and the satellites of
   Jupiter can, if one wants, be fitted into a geocentric scheme. ... The
   old scheme ... had been tinkered a good deal to keep up with
   observations. How far, by endless tinkerings, it could have kept up
   with them till even now, I do not know. But the human mind will not
   endure such ever-increasing complications if once it has seen that
   some simpler conception can 'save the appearances'. Neither
   theological prejudice nor vested interests can permanently keep in
   favour a Model which is seen to be grossly uneconomical. The new
   astronomy triumphed not because the case for the old became desperate,
   but because the new was a better tool; once this was grasped, our
   ingrained conviction that Nature herself is thrifty did the rest. When
   our Model is in its turn abandoned, this conviction will no doubt be
   at work again."

   Electric Universe researchers contend too that the EU paradigm is far
   more "economical" than the currently accepted model, but would also in
   my judgement add that the case for the standard model has reached the
   point of desperation.

   Let us return to the issue of Relativity, with which this series of
   articles began. With several of these articles in from the beginning,
   justifiable excitement has appeared in the media over some recent
   experimental results which may prove that neutrinos can travel faster
   than light. However, the whole of the Theory of Relativity is
   dependent upon light, or rather electromagnetic radiation in which
   light is a part, being the fastest possible messenger. Moreover, the
   Theory of Relativity has by now become a core principle that informs
   the working of the standard model. If Relativity falls, then
   everything we thought we knew about the Physics of the Universe, we
   know no longer. The question will undoubtedly arise:-

   IS RELATIVITY (like some banks and some countries) TOO BIG TO FAIL?
   With what shall it be bailed out, so that academics and their
   supporters can again live with some semblance of normality?

   Of course this is not a scientific question at all. But it is a
   question with which EU researchers have become all too familiar during
   the last few years.

   As has been noted, there is an increasing number of independent
   scientists who have proved to the satisfaction of many that the Theory
   of Relativity is groundless, in spite of the awe in with which it is
   generally held. I would now like to supply my "two cents" worth to
   their voice.

   The celebrated lecturer Richard Feynman noted, "If the sun is
   exploding `right now', it takes eight minutes before we know about it,
   and it cannot possibly affect us before then." His reason for this is
   the doctrine that the fastest "message" that travels between the Sun
   and the Earth does so at 3x 10^8 (three hundred million) meters per
   second, the speed of light through space. At that light speed the Sun
   viewed from the Earth appears to be where it actually was some eight
   minutes ago, and not where it actually is when it is being viewed.
   However, if the Sun by its gravitational pull is causing the Earth to
   maintain an orbit around it, the pull of the Sun on the Earth has to
   be from almost exactly where it is, and not from where it was eight
   minutes beforehand. If the pull of the Sun upon the Earth came from an
   eight minutes back position behind the Sun, the Earth (as well as all
   the other planets) would be slung out of orbit in short order and no
   solar system of planets could be maintained. It follows that there is
   a much faster messenger than light, namely gravity, that travels
   between the Sun and the Earth at a speed that makes the transmission
   of light seem like a dawdle.

   We don't need any experiment with neutrinos, therefore, to tell us
   that something can travel faster than light. We just have to take into
   account all the observations from which we infer that the Earth and
   the other planets have been moving round the Sun in a stable orbit for
   an extended period of time. This requires the gravitational "message"
   to be sent from the Sun and received by the Earth, as well as other
   planets, almost instantaneously. Therefore Einstein's special theory
   of relativity should have been repealed long ago, even aborted.

   Wal Thornhill has applied this near-instantaneous transmission of
   force to the level of the fundamental particles of matter such as the
   electron, providing the possibility of an electrical explanation of
   gravitation at the sub-atomic level. We will take a look at this
   another time.

   For more information on the new paradigm, see www.holoscience.com