A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

Reviewer comments
“Tom Findlay's book is a remarkable contribution from a newcomer to the Electric Universe. He
shows the impact that this new and simpler way of seeing the universe can have on a practical man
with a keen interest in astronomy. "A Beginner's View" is easy to read and copiously illustrated. Tom
makes a heartfelt plea for individuals to participate in science once more; to use their intuition and
common-sense to question the science fiction headlines and gross expenditure on massive projects.
After all, history shows most great breakthroughs are made by individuals, most of them outsiders.”
Wallace Thornhill, lead author and researcher of “The Electric Universe”
“Newcomers to the idea of electricity in space are apt to find even the possibility of electrical explanations
for cosmic phenomena to be unfamiliar and therefore startling. This book provides a comfortable
transition from familiar gravity-based explanations to a basic understanding of plasma behavior and
its manifestations in stars and galaxies. The book will ease the surprise and enable the reader to better
understand the more technical publications in this new way of thinking about the universe.”
Meldon Acheson
“One of the biggest challenges facing modern science is ensuring that the members of the general
public fully understand what has been achieved in all areas of science and what is proposed for future
research. This is vital because it is that public which eventually pays the bill for the 'games scientists
play'. The advocates of certain theories have been eminently successful in this enterprise but the end
result has been that the public has been left woefully ignorant of many of the very real controversies
existing. This is especially true in the general area of astronomy/astrophysics. For a great many years
now, that general area has been dominated by theories which elevate the force of gravity to a dominant
position, while ignoring the possible effects of the much much stronger electromagnetic force. Workers
in the field covered by the names plasma cosmology and electric universe have attempted to rectify
this position. However, most of the existing material in this area is hardly in a form for consumption
by the general public. This present book by Tom Findlay, “A Beginner’s View of Our Electric Universe”,
is an excellent attempt to rectify this situation. In it, readers will find explanations for a great
number of astrophysical phenomena in terms of electric universe ideas; some even clear up situations
not understood on the basis of currently accepted conventional wisdom. Although in a sense a 'popular'