World Science Database Home Scientists Abstracts Books Events Journals Experiments Topics Index More Find Login Scientists Interests Profession Websites Notables Countries World Map Recent Memorials Memorial More Prof. Donald E. Scott "Don" dascott2@cox.net Tel: (480) 659-6657 11001 E Santa Fe Trail Scotsdale, AZ 85262 United States Map It View count: 251 Scott, Prof. Donald E. (Easy Link: http://www.worldsci.org/people/Donald_Scott) Professor of Electrical Engineering (Retired) Interests: Astronomy, Cosmology, Solar system, Electric Universe, Plasma Nationality: USA Age: 77 Born: 1934 Related Websites: [LINK] Electric Cosmos [LINK] Thunderbolts [LINK] Electric Sky preview Books: 2006 The Electric Sky: A Challenge to the Myths of Modern Astronomy Abstracts Online: 2003 The Origin of Petroglyphs - Recordings of a Catastrophic Aurora in Human Prehistory Event Attendence: 2011-07-06 18th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference Conference will attend 2011-04-02 The Natural Philosophy of the Electric Universe Video Conference 2010-09-11 Planetary Scarring in an Electric Universe Video Conference 2010-08-21 The Meaning of Maxwell's Equations, Part 2: Ampere's Law Video Conference 2010-08-07 An Introduction to Electric Universe Theory Video Conference 2005-06-23 1st Crisis In Cosmology Conference (CCC-I): Challenging Observations and the Quest for a New Picture of the Universe Conference Biography Donald Scott earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. Following graduation he worked for General Electric in Schenectady, NY, and Pittsfield, MA. He earned a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, and was a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst from 1959 until his retirement in 1998. During that time he was the recipient of several good-teaching awards. He was, at various times, Assistant Department Head, Director of the undergraduate program, Graduate admissions coordinator, and Director of the College of Engineering's Video Instructional Program. In 1987, the McGraw-Hill Book Company published his 730-page textbook, An Introduction To Circuit Analysis ? A Systems Approach. He has authored numerous scientific papers and chapters including Real Properties of Electromagnetic Fields and Plasmas in the Cosmos, published in the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 8/2007. He is a lifelong amateur astronomer. Some of the author's images of astronomical objects. Articles: * Magnetic Reconnection ? Reinventing the Wheel (02/16/08) * Incorrect Assumptions in Astrophysics II (08/09/08) _________________________________________________________________ Books by Prof. Donald E. Scott [LINK] View count: 312 The Electric Sky: A Challenge to the Myths of Modern Astronomy by Prof. Donald E. Scott Pages: 256 Publisher: Mikamar Publishing Year: 2006 ISBN: 0977285111 ISBN: 978-0977285112 Websites: www.electric-cosmos.org www.thunderbolts.info/electricsky.htm Buy it now Description It is clear that electric plasma research affords simpler, more elegant, and more compelling insights and explanations of most cosmological phenomena than those that are now espoused in astrophysics. This book contains astronomical science for the expert written for the public. Preface: In recent years we have read about the "discovery" of black holes, neutron stars, cosmic strings, and such things as dark energy and invisible matter. Anyone who reads Sagan, Hawking, and the other popular astronomy writers can see how complicated and counter-intuitive the concepts of modern astrophysics are becoming. Even so, until recently, I assumed that astronomers and astrophysicists knew what they were talking about. Now ? I?m sure they do not. It was when astrophysicists began saying things that I, as an electrical engineer, knew were wrong that I began to have serious doubts about their pronouncements. But I agonized over whether those doubts were legitimate. Even though my life-long avocation has been amateur astronomy, my formal background is in engineering ? not astronomy or cosmology. Earning a doctorate in electrical engineering eventually led to my teaching that subject at a major university for thirty-nine years. What troubled me most was when astrophysicists began saying things about magnetic fields that any of my junior-year students could show were completely incorrect. If astrophysicists were saying things that were demonstrably wrong in my area of expertise, could it be that they were making similar mistakes in their own field as well? I began to investigate more of the pronouncements of modern astrophysicists and the reasoning behind them. This book is an account of what I unearthed when I started digging into this question. It is becoming clear that knowledge acquired in electric plasma laboratories over the last century affords insights and simpler, more elegant, more compelling explanations of most cosmological phenomena than those that are now espoused in astrophysics. And yet astrophysicists seem to be intent on ignoring them. Thus, lacking these fundamental electrical concepts, cosmologists have charged into a mind-numbing mathematical cul de sac, creating on the way a tribe of invisible entities ? some of which are demonstrably impossible. I have tried to hack a path through these hypotheses, contradictions, and alternative explanations that will be clear and understandable for the average interested reader to follow. The answers to the questions we ask are not stressfully convoluted and arcane ? rather, they are logical, straightforward, and reasonable ? and long overdue. I hope your journey through these pages will be meaningful, educational, perhaps exciting, and most important of all, eye-opening. Reviews: I really love this book. It is causing me to rethink a great deal of my own work. I am convinced that The Electric Sky deserves the widest possible readership.... I felt genuine excitement while reading and felt I was delving into a delicious feast of new ideas. -- Gerrit L. Verschuur, PhD, University of Manchester. A well-known radio astronomer and writer, presently at the Physics Department, University of Memphis. He is the author of "Interstellar matters : essays on curiosity and astronomical discovery". It is gratifying to see the work of my mentor, Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfvén enumerated with such clarity. I am also pleased to see that Dr. Scott has given general readers such a lucid and understandable summary of my own work. -- Anthony L. Peratt, PhD, USC, Fellow of the IEEE (1999), former scientific advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy and member of the Associate Laboratory Directorate of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is the author of Physics of the Plasma Universe You don't have to be an astronomer to enjoy this book. It's an exciting story about how a small group of physicists, engineers and other scientists have challenged the establishment, the big science astronomers who are reluctant to listen to anyone outside their own elite circle. -- Lewis E. Franks, PhD, Stanford University, Fellow of the IEEE (1977), Professor Emeritus and Head of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts (Retired) _________________________________________________________________ Papers by Prof. Donald E. Scott The Origin of Petroglyphs - Recordings of a Catastrophic Aurora in Human Prehistory (2003) Prof. Donald E. Scott 11001 E Santa Fe Trail, Scotsdale, AZ 85262, United States; dascott2@cox.net, (480) 659-6657, www.electric-cosmos.org Anthony L. Peratt 551 Brighton Loop, Los Alamos, NM 87544, United States; alp@ieeetps.org, (505) 672-6410, www.plasma-universe.com pp. 143, 120 Abstract: IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, Jeju, Korea, 2003, pp. 143 and 120.