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The Electric Sky

by Donald E. Scott · first published 2006

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What Hacker News says

  • …the books and journals page are shamelessly listed at least two titles which would be considered heretical by most mainstream space scientists: Eric Lerner's The Big Bang Never Happened and Don Scott's Electric Sky. The former critiques (still) problematical aspects of Lambda-CDM physical cosmology, while the latter explores such ideas as phenomenon like pulsars being essentially electrical in nature (not gravitational)…

    on “NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space” ↗
  • Symmetry · Jul 25, 2011 · Critical

    …who challenge conventional wisdom, but the vast majority of people who challenge conventional wisdom end up being wrong. I did read some of the page, but gave up after it was clear that he thought his "Electric Sky" hypothesis was an alternative to general relativity. It might very well be one could construct a credible argument in some areas, but look at the wikipedia page for tests of General Relativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity…

    on “Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?” ↗

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