A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

complicated and opaque to common sense. Things are further complicated because in their attempts at proving
the relevance of this confusing situation, even more of their imaginative mathematical constructs have been
added to it. This has resulted in a confusion of incompatible assumptions that have taken up the thinking time of
good scientists - all to no end other than to cause division and build walls between these people and their work.
Many of the standard model theories that have emerged from this situation have been shown to be impossible
to work in the real world or to test in laboratories using proven methods - yet still they have been accepted
and linger on, just like a bad smell, and astro-science has not been called to account for this state of affairs. In
short, mathematics is regarded differently between the mainstream astro-science and EU communities. One side
puts theoretical mathematics first and builds its theories from it, and the other side places it secondary to logic,
common sense and actual results of observation and experimentation. Here, it would not be a big challenge to
guess correctly the nail on which I suggest, a fair minded person’s coat should hang!
The division that this difference in approach highlights is further added to by the current lack of cooperation
within and around science disciplines in general. There is no doubt that scientists working on their own have the
chance to achieve good things, but the quality of their work and their rate of output would improve if they were
open and confident enough to discuss what they are doing with colleagues who could help. Although a logical
thought to have, this turns out to be naïve, for an open attitude to work is rarely practiced by today’s science
research communities. Instead, we have significant isolationism between disciplines, usually for commercial
patent protection, egoism and project funding (survival) reasons. Ideally, of course, this should not be the case. If
there is even a chance for good cross-discipline cooperation to take science forward, then this is what should be
done. In recent years, many ‘maverick scientists’ have deliberately kept themselves away from being involved
with the mainstream attitudes I have described here. These are mostly scientists who talk and cooperate across
their disciplines and who are therefore seen as part of what has been rediscovered from earlier times as the
‘interdisciplinary approach to science’. Hopefully, this is the way research will again be done in the future.
It is interesting to note that in the very early days of research, unlike today, scientists were able to choose to
work on whatever took their fancy. This was a situation without any undue external pressures from the early
science institutions, universities and whatever commercial interests existed at the time. There was a genuine
sense of proper intellectual decorum around this, because these people truly believed that what they were doing
was for the overall betterment of science and mankind and that the sharing of information would help work
towards that goal. There are examples of early scientists making extraordinary personal efforts and sacrifices to
prove their thoughts and ideas correct, according to their own interpretation of the rules of rigorous scientific
research. The dedication displayed by many was often admirable, and in some areas at least, it has remained
this way with the more honourable types. We now look at some of the individuals from history and from today
to whom we should be beholden, in my opinion, in terms of the advancement of general science and for the
original contributions they made and which some still make to what has become the Electric Universe model.
2 | The work of the honourable but ignored