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Blue State Bandit

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Sat Nov 23, 2013, 05:29 PM Nov 2013

The Science of Denying Science. First in a series. [View all]

In light of recent discussions I've had on the subject of Astro/Heliophysics, I have decided to start posting stories in which the leaders of the field admit to how wrong they have been... which is usually followed by a "fix" with the term "dark" in it's name.

We can not proclaim to hold the scientific method up as a beacon of sanity in a time when basic scientific facts such as evolution, and biology, are under attack by religious zealots, while "dirty snowballs" careens through a 1,000,000° Kelvin corona without completely sublimating directly from solid thru liquid and gas to plasma.

Allowing this to continue leaves the scientific method open to bastardization by those who want to teach religion in science class, or deny the effects of pollution because somebody thought "global warming" was a brilliant marketing idea.

It is not my intention to propose new theories, but simply to point out the glaring hole in modern astrophysics that has the effect of denying the existence of a major force that touches and animates everything in the universe. I will, however post, on occasion, laboratory experiments that supports this point of view.

I will pose these 2 fundamental question for those open minded enough to ask:

1) If space is electrically neutral, as mainstream astronomy experts claim, and everything we see in the heavens are the results of friction, shock-waves, and gravity alone, then why do these same scientists measure these energetic events in Electron Volts and Amperes?

2) If a comet is a "dirty snowball", then why do they give off X-Rays?

And for our first in this series...

Massive GRB sends theories ’down the drain’.


“Some of our theories are just going down the drain,” said Charles Dermer, an astrophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a member of one of the teams reporting on their observations of the burst, known as GRB 130427A.




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Well, that's science for you. You think everything has been settled Warpy Nov 2013 #1
Well put. Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #2
Sounds a bit kooky to me. longship Nov 2013 #3
I said "Electron Volts... AND Amperes." Ain't that some "shit" Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #6
The guy does not understand unit analysis. longship Nov 2013 #7
...the combination of which is called a watt. Which is a measurement of of electrical or thermal Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #9
So did you mean "and" to imply multiplication? caraher Nov 2013 #10
And as in "As well as" Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #16
There are mysteries out there, but I don't think either of these are unexplained caraher Nov 2013 #4
For example. The prolific use of terms such as solar wind... Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #8
I'm missing the part where NASA is hiding something caraher Nov 2013 #11
Misinterpreting. Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #15
A volt is a joule per coulomb muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #5
I mean large scale flows of charge from anode to cathode. Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #13
'anode' and 'cathode' in space? muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #17
Then explain the physics of why particles... Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #18
Quick guess: Rutherford-scattering DetlefK Nov 2013 #19
It's called coulomb scattering and denotes the (alpha) particle's momentum changes to 180°... Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #20
You are unnecessarily complicating it. DetlefK Nov 2013 #21
“There no longer exists any guidance on what constitutes getting out of the Solar System" Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #22
PS Same formula, different name. Blue State Bandit Nov 2013 #24
Oh boy, it's electric universe time again. (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2013 #12
If space is electrically neutral......... dimbear Nov 2013 #14
How Philosophy Corrupted Physics cantbeserious Nov 2013 #23
You can't be serious caraher Nov 2013 #25
One Of The Common Fallacies - Ad Hominen Attacks - Listen To What The Man Says Before Attacking cantbeserious Nov 2013 #26
The world is full of BS caraher Nov 2013 #27
If You Had Bothered - You Would Learn That He Holds Master's Degrees In Both Philosophy And Physics cantbeserious Nov 2013 #28
I actually tried in vain to find his CV online, though sure he does hold those degrees caraher Nov 2013 #29
Well The Same Could Be Said For Economists Like Steve Keen That Are Outside The Economic Mainstream cantbeserious Nov 2013 #30
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