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12. So What? 12. So What? could freeze or sterilise the Earth. Planetary surfaces and atmos- The consequences and possibilities in an Electric Universe are _ pheres are deposited during their birth from a larger body and dur- far-reaching. Firstly, we must acknowledge our profound ing electrical encounters with other planets. Planetary surfaces ignorance! We know nothing of the origin of the universe. There bear the electrical scars of such cosmic events. was no Big Bang. The visible universe is static and much smaller The speed of light is not a barrier. Real-time communication than we thought. We have no idea of the age or extent of the over galactic distances may be possible. Therefore, time is uni- universe. We don't know the ultimate source of the electrical versal and time travel is impossible. Antigravity is possible. energy or matter that forms the universe. Space has no extra dimensions in which to warp or where parallel Galaxies are shaped by electrical forces and form plasma universes may exist. There is no "zero-point" vacuum energy. focuses at their centres, which The invisible energy source in space is periodically eject quasars and jets of electrical. electrons. Quasars evolve into companion Clean nuclear power is available from galaxies. Galaxies form families with The consequences resonant catalytic nuclear systems. Higher identifiable "parents" and "children". ap agels ew energy is available from resonant catalytic Stars are electrical "transformers", not and possibilities in an chemical systems, rather than in the usual thermonuclear devices. There are no H i chemical reactions. Biological enzymes neutron stars or black holes. We don't Electric Universe are are capable of utilising resonant nuclear know the age of stars because the far-reaching. catalysis to transmute elements. thermonuclear evolution theory does not Biological systems show evidence of com- apply to them. Supernovae are totally municating via resonant chemical systems, inadequate as a source of heavy elements. which may lend a physical explanation to We do not know the age of the Earth the work of Rupert Sheldrake. DNA does because radioactive clocks can be upset by powerful electric not hold the key to life but is more like a blueprint for a set of discharges. components and tools in a factory. We may never be able to read The powerful electric discharges that form a stellar photosphere the human genome and tell whether it represents a creature with create the heavy elements that appear in their spectra. Stars "give two legs or six because the information that controls the assembly birth" electrically to companion stars and gas giant planets. Life line is external to the DNA. There is more to life than chemistry. is most likely to form inside the radiant plasma envelope of a We are not hopelessly isolated in time and space on a tiny rock, rown dwarf star! orbiting an insignificant star in an insignificant galaxy. We are Our Sun has gained new planets, including the Earth. That hopefully connected with the power and intelligence of the accounts for their "fruit salad" of characteristics. It is not the most universe. ospitable place for life, since small changes in the distant Sun The future in an Electric Universe looks very exciting indeed! oo References engineering, gives his view of how stars Wal was invited to attend the first inter- ¢ The Electric Universe website at really work in the Electric Cosmos, at national Velikovsky conference in Ontario http://www.electric-universe.info has the http://www.electric-cosmos.org/. in 1974, where he met Velikovsky and latest news and views. ¢ THOTH email newsletter, available free many leading scholars in a debate about * The Plasma Universe website of Anthony _ to anyone with an interest in the expanding _the recent history of the solar system. Wal Peratt, author of Physics of the Plasma discussion of the recent history of the solar —_ again visited Velikovsky at his home in Universe (a subset of The Electric system and the Electric Universe, at Princeton in 1979. They discussed the Universe), is at http://public.lanl.gov/ http://www.kronia.com/newsletter.asp. problem of the gravitational model of the alp/plasma/universe.html. solar system for Velikovsky's thesis. It * Eric J. Lerner's The Big Bang Never About the Author: planted the seed that was to grow into the Happened (1991) is a readable overview of | Wal Thornhill was one of the lucky high- Electric Universe model. Wal has written plasma cosmology—the cosmology of the school students in the 1950s to be inspired papers for the Society for Interdisciplinary future. by Immanuel Velikovsky's controversial Studies Review in England, and served as a * Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS) | book, Worlds in Collision. As a physics council member of SIS while working in is the oldest and most up-to-date society for undergraduate at Melbourne University, London. He also attended a postgraduate catastrophist information and research, at Wal spent many hours in the anthropology course in Astrophysics at the University of http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/. section of the Baillieu Library and became London and meetings of the BAAS, the "Halton Arp, A Modern Day Galileo", by | convinced that Velikovsky had made a_ Royal Astronomical Society and the British A. Acheson, SIS Internet Digest, no. 2, powerful forensic case for recent unusual Astronomical Association. He has present- 2001. "You can't vote on the truth.’ No events in the sky involving the planets ed the Electric Universe at many confer- matter how many people believe some- Mars and Venus. It needed investigation ences in the USA and England and co- thing, if the observations prove itis wrong, _ instead of suppression by academics. So, authored a book, Thunderbolts of the itis wrong" (Arp, Seeing Red, p. 273). after a postgraduate year wasted rebuilding Gods. The book's introduction may be Arp presents the observations that show the a radiotelescope dish, Wal left academia viewed at http://(www.thunderbolts.info. Big Bang theory is wrong at website with his curiosity still intact and a healthy Wal Thornhill will be a speaker at the http://www.haltonarp.com. Thornhill's scepticism of expert opinion. He worked NEXUS Conference in Brisbane, Australia, open letter to scientists on Big Bang theory _ with IBM and then the Australian govern- in September 2004. is at http://www.holoscience.com/news. ment in leading-edge computing and com- He may be contacted by email at php?article=zj49j0u7. munications. At the same time, he fol- info@holoscience.com, or via his website * Don Scott, who is a professor of electrical lowed his intuition. at http://www.holoscience.com. The consequences and possibilities in an Electric Universe are far-reaching. About the Author: Wal Thornhill was one of the lucky high- school students in the 1950s to be inspired by Immanuel Velikovsky's controversial book, Worlds in Collision. As a physics undergraduate at Melbourne University, Wal spent many hours in the anthropology section of the Baillieu Library and became convinced that Velikovsky had made a powerful forensic case for recent unusual events in the sky involving the planets Mars and Venus. It needed investigation instead of suppression by academics. So, after a postgraduate year wasted rebuilding a radiotelescope dish, Wal left academia with his curiosity still intact and a healthy scepticism of expert opinion. He worked with IBM and then the Australian govern- ment in leading-edge computing and com- munications. At the same time, he fol- lowed his intuition. JUNE — JULY 2004 NEXUS +53 www.nexusmagazine.com