Product Description

6-3/4"x9" paperback, full color graphics and 140+ illustrations The Electric Universe Monograph by Dave Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, members of the Thunderbolts.info group, is powerful material about the Electric Universe and plasma cosmology. This book not only complements The Electric Sky book, but actually overlaps very little, while covering cosmic quandaries and plasma and electricity in space. The chapter on the electrical properties of comets is such great material, thoroughly convincing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196290 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-24
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 132 pages

Review
A magnificent description of electricity in space. Authors Thornhill and Talbott offer a sweeping critique of today's popular cosmology. They show that galaxies, stars (including our Sun), and comets can be best understood through the well-tested behavior of electricity the one force about which astronomers seem to know almost nothing. Having now devoted many years to investigating this question, I am in full agreement. --Donald E. Scott, professor of electrical engineering (retired)

On a plane back to London I read The Electric Universe from cover to cover (the light above my seat was the only one that remained on throughout the night). What a masterpiece. Each single sentence is absolutely spot-on and well formulated. This is just such a powerful textbook the potential and logic of the electric universe theory leaps off every page. The omission of mythological and other ancient data from the argument will undoubtedly help to forestall accusations of using 'tales and stories' to bolster a scientific theory. The book also conveys a strong impression that this theory has reached full maturation; it's not the incoherent ranting of someone exploding with a lot of new ideas, but obviously the fruit of many years of careful thinking and making associations. The soberness of tone and the lavish illustrations strike the right chord and I find it hard to imagine a reader who would not find the argument compelling. I have nothing to contend with concerning the main argument. --Rens van der Sluijs

The last 150 years have seen immense progress in the understanding of electrical phenomena. Nevertheless, the conventional cosmology taught today remains essentially a theory of gravity. "The Electric Universe" presents an alternative theory that recognizes electrical forces as the dominant influence in shaping the universe, and a major factor in determining much of our cultural and historical experience. Based on well-understood principles that can be observed and demonstrated in any plasma laboratory, the electrical model also offers ready explanations for processes that continue to puzzle astronomers today. Compelling, highly readable, and superbly illustrated, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to what will surely be the beginnings of a scientific revolution in the years ahead. --James Hogan, science/SF author

About the Author
David Talbott Comparative mythologist whose work offers a radical new vantage point on the origin of ancient cultural themes and symbols. His research has been the primary catalyst behind the "Saturn Model," and is the subject of the feature documentary, "Remembering the End of the World." Author of The Saturn Myth and co-author (with Wallace Thornhill) of Thunderbolts of the Gods Wallace Thornhill Australian physicist. His work on "The Electric Universe" provides the broadest synthesis of electrical principles to date. It offers a new vantage point on solar system history, planetary cratering and scarring, the dynamics of the sun, and the nature of galaxies. Wal is a senior editor for the Picture of the Day feature on www.thunderbolts.info.

Customer Reviews

Wow!
I've recently read several other books of interest, including Arp's Seeing Red, Lerner's The Big Bang Never Happened, Thornhill & Talbott's other work Thunderbolts of the Gods and Scott's The Electric Sky.

These are all rather excellent works of science by folks who know what they're talking about, and don't need to resort to "dark matter," "dark energy," "black holes," "neutron stars" or other fictitious entities to explain the workings of the universe.

Rather they go about it from an electrical / plasma (ionized matter with electrical properties) point of view. In this way, "surprising" features from the "standard model" point of view are demystified as simple electrical / plasma phenomena known from lab experiments and electrical theory dating as far back as Birkeland, Alfven, CER Bruce, Juergens and a host of others.

It's time that good science make its way back into physics and astronomy. It's also time that abstract maths be put in their place as a tool and NOT as a prime mover and shaker. Science should be based first on observation {!}. That's exactly what Thornhill and Talbott do in The Electric Universe. They *observe* the universe *as it is* and then apply known electrical and plasma processes to explain it.

The material is accessible to the layman. However, it may behoove readers to do additional reading to fill in any conceptual gaps. Keep an open mind, and your world view may be changed forever. Mine has been changed permanently since introduction to the material a year ago. The universe is finally beginning to make some physical sense that has been lacking in the sad world of "Big Bang" untested (often *untestable* {!}), unproven hypotheticals (dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, black holes, WIMPs, MACHOs). It's time to end dogmatic adherence to a paradigm that has consistently failed in its predictions and embrace an electrical / plasma interpretation that can make specific testable /verifiable predictions.

If you enjoy this book, you'll probably enjoy the books listed above, as well.

Electromagnetism Rules
This is simply a phenomenal book on an alternative theory to account for all scientific observations made in cosmology from decades ago to present. I have also read The Electric Sky by Donald E. Scott and Thunderbolts of the Gods by David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill. I highly recommend all three of these wonderful books to anyone who has the slightest interest in astronomy.

These books lay out the theory that electricity runs or powers the universe. Electric currents are everywhere in the universe which consists of 99% plasma which is matter with electric charge. Of course, you can't have electricity without magnetism, so it is this force that shapes and defines our magnificent universe.

It was so refreshing to read these books because it was like a great veil being lifted from my eyes allowing me to truly understand what is happening in our cosmos for the first time with real understanding. It was suddenly so obvious. Common sense and logic coupled with direct scientific observation and evidence plus testability of the theory completely verifies and substantiates the claims made in these books.

If the rest of the scientific community can latch on to and accept the truth stated in these books, we will truly enter a new age of understanding and leave the current dark ages science has fallen into behind. Talbott, Thornhill and Scott are true pioneers and their work is highly valuable and important to furthering academic understanding.

Opens your eyes to the obvious
This is a great read, explaining the largely overlooked importance of electricity in astronomy. Space is not a non-conductive vacuum, but highly-conductive tenuous plasma which generates its own magnetic and electric fields, the latter influencing charged particles up to 10^43 times more strongly than gravity.

In this view, the Universe is threaded with filamentary electric currents, from those in the Sun's flares, to the currents flowing through the Solar System (interplanetary current sheet), to the Birkeland currents that flow through the ionosphere, to the currents flowing between Jupiter and its moon, Io, and the currents that must flow out along the spiral arms of galaxies since that's what rotating plasmas must do!

The book is very easy to read, and recommended together with Don Scott's The Electric Sky, and the the authors' earlier book, Thunderbolts of the Gods + DVD