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The New Paradigm Shift: Our Electric Cosmos – Alfvén Triumphs Again (& Again)
by Wal Thornhill
A science journalist dubbed me “the boundary rider of science.” And it is from that broad perspective that I see our sciences like juggernauts speeding down their blind tunnels of specialization and one can only wait for the inevitable crash.
Modern science attempts to describe our reality using meaningless language (e.g. “the fabric of space-time”) and invalid metaphors with the result that ever more forces, unreal dimensions and invisible or virtual matter are invoked. It seems to me that our salvation lies with engineers who must deal with the real world. For it was an outstanding and outspoken electrical engineer and physicist, Hannes Alfvén, who gave us an electrical engineer’s practical explanation of many of the mysteries of the universe—known as plasma cosmology.
But in a classic academic ‘Catch-22,’ because it’s not mainstream students are not given the opportunity to consider it at any university.
Alfvén emphasized the influence upon him of Kristian Birkeland’s earlier research into the electrical nature of the aurora and other phenomena in the solar system. Birkeland seemed to intuitively sense the real electrical nature of space but was too far ahead of his time. The theory of electric discharges was still in a very primitive state. He wrote:
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/10/the-new-paradigm-shift-our-electric-cosmos-alfven-triumphs-again-again/
