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Bob: “What is lacking is the cause of the bumps and what drives the flows causing magnetism and gravity.”

What do you think of Wallace Thornhill’s view on gravity?

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=schopenhauer+philosophy+&&view=detail&mid=9906274175F3A998FCCB9906274175F3A998FCCB&&FORM=VDRVRV

Well, I’ve been able to listen to it.  I’m not impress.  First impossible expectations.  Then science by rhetoric, assuming assumption, conclusions that are non sequiturs.  Then I caught him in a couple simple fibs and fabrications, so don’t trust him with his grander opinions.  I’d love hearing a real physicist comment on that  Gyro-demonstration at 55ish min, there was some fast talking going on there and some glaring omissions.

The Difference between Science and Pseudoscience
Discerning science from pseudoscience

By Michael Shermer on October 1, 2015

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-difference-between-science-and-pseudoscience/

Newton was wrong. Einstein was wrong. Black holes do not exist. The big bang never happened. Dark energy and dark matter are unsubstantiated conjectures. Stars are electrically charged plasma masses. Venus was once a comet. The massive Valles Marineris canyon on Mars was carved out in a few minutes by a giant electric arc sweeping across the Red Planet. The “thunderbolt” icons found in ancient art and petroglyphs are not the iconography of imagined gods but realistic representations of spectacular electrical activity in space.

These are just a few of the things I learned at the Electric Universe conference (EU2015) in June in Phoenix. The Electric Universe community is a loose confederation of people who, according to the host organization’s Web site (thunderbolts.info), believe that “a new way of seeing the physical universe is emerging. The new vantage point emphasizes the role of electricity in space and shows the negligible contribution of gravity in cosmic events.” This includes everything from comets, moons and planets to stars, galaxies and galactic clusters.

I was invited to speak on the difference between science and pseudoscience. The most common theme I gleaned from the conference …

http://www.tim-thompson.com/grey-areas.html

What follows is a copy of a message I sent to a mailing list, in response to the peculiar theory that the sun, and other stars, are really electric discharge phenomena. In the as-yet poorly presented theory of the electric universe (see Wallace Thornhill’s online presentation Lightning of the Gods), stars are not the giant gass balls we all think we know they are. No, they are the focal points of enormous galactic currents. As the currents fall onto the surface of the star, they release their energy and the star shines. Orthodox physicists, we are told, have for years overlooked the obvious evidence. I have retained as much of Thornhill’s message as necessary to retain context for my own remarks, but you can read the full text of his original message, if you want to. …

This is really too long, but I put some effort into it, so I will
send it out anyway. That’s life.

We have now seen several messages from Thornhill, forwarded by
Dave Talbott. They are so bizarre that it it difficult to understand
how to respond. Without ever offering a particularly good reason (nor
for that matter, even a particularly bad one), Thornhill simply and
expediently denies the validity of all physics. Every time a counter
point is made to one of his assertions, the canned answer takes the
form of “if I am right, everything about physics is wrong”. And so I
will pick one message that just happens to mention me by name, but
I really want to address the question of “grey areas” in standard
theory. …