Book Review: A Beginner's View of our Electric Universe, by Tom Findlay
You can find the book at http://newtoeu.com/
Making a "Beginner's Guide" to Electric Universe ideas is very difficult. Tom pulls it off with just the right balance for audiences that are not well trained in astrophysics. And, even for we trained folk, the book is a very good read, never descending into hand-waving nor reaching for unsatisfying analogies.
Beginner's Guides to EU are difficult because including the causative role of electric fields and currents in physical sciences is very far reaching - reaching to all the physical world. The old astrophysics mantra that cosmic plasma must be charge neutral, aside from being wrong and never based upon any actual measurements, has hampered scientists seeing how Nature works. Nature is ALWAYS separating charges, non-neutrality being a fundamental and ubiquitous mechanism for energy exchange. Pollinating insects always have a higher electrical potential than the flowers they visit. All moons exchange millions of amperes of current with their planets. So writing a "Beginner's Guide" usually starts out with good intent, but soon starts including more and more of the known universe, and soon the author is buckling under the weight of trying to describe a cosmological reformulation. Never an easy thing.
Good job Tom.
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