CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Please note: the schedule is subject to change without notice.
Thursday, January 3 |
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| 9:00 AM | Pre-conference events and select interviews throughout the day |
| 12:00 PM | Registration Desk Opens |
| 5:00 | EU2013 Scholars Welcome Dinner, Gallery Room, Private |
| 6:30 | Social Hour |
| 7:30 – 9:30 | Welcome by Master of Ceremonies Bill Mullen
Greg Volk: Brief Notes on Conference Direction and Themes Wallace Thornhill: Science at a ‘Tipping Point’ David Talbott: The Tipping Point: Crisis in the Theoretical Sciences KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Mae-Wan Ho: Life is Water Electric |
Friday, January 4 |
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| 8:00 AM | Welcome and Announcements by MC |
| 8:10 | Michael Clarage TB-Talk: Our Universe—It’s Electric! |
| 8:30 | Wallace Thornhill: From Cosmic Currents to the Electric Sun |
| 9:15 | Paul Anderson: Electrical Discharge on Earth’s Surface |
| 9:55 | Morning Break |
| 10:10 | Monty Childs: SAFIRE: An Experimental Investigation of the Electric Sun |
| 10:55 | James Sorensen TB-Talk: Halton Arp in Perspective: Was the Big Bang a Fizzle? |
| 11:15 | Stephen Crothers: The Non-existence of the Black Hole and the Failure of General Relativity |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 | Bob Johnson: The Nature of the Sun Revisited |
| 2:15 | Michael Steinbacher: A Large Plasma-Vortex Discharge to the Colorado Plateau |
| 2:45 | Scott Wall TB-Talk: Predictions of an Electric Universe |
| 3:05 | Mel Acheson #1: Mathematical Metaphors |
| 3:15 | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 | Ralph Biggins TB-Talk: Measuring the Cosmos |
| 3:50 | Tom Wilson TB-Talk: Believing is Not Seeing: A Belief Crisis in Modern Cosmology, Astrophysics and Planetary Science |
| 4:10 | Ron Hatch: Relativity in the Light of GPS |
| 4:55 | Forrest Bishop TB-Talk: Beyond the Tipping Point |
| 5:15 | Dinner Break |
| 7:30 – 9:00 | Private scheduled meetings |
Saturday, January 5 |
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| 8:00 AM | Announcements by MC |
| 8:05 | Rens Van der Sluijs: The Visible Polar Column of World Mythology |
| 8:50 | Bill Mullen: Visual Intuition and the Ancient Sky |
| 9:30 | Dwardu Cardona: Strangers in a Foreign Galaxy |
| 10:15 | Morning Break |
| 10:30 | David Talbott: Re-examining the Ancient Sky |
| 11:30 | AP David TB-Talk: Troy Towns, Homer’s Iliad and Labyrinths |
| 11:50 AM | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 | Panel: Pattern Recognition: Windows to the Past Panelists: Dwardu Cardona, Rens Van der Sluijs, Bill Mullen and David Talbott |
| 2:00 | Rupert Sheldrake: Science Set Free |
| 2:55 | Alireza Moayed TB-Talk: The Electricity of Life |
| 3:15 | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 | Gerald Pollack: New Insights into Electricity and Structured Water |
| 4:30 | Dean Radin: Men Who Stare at Photons |
| 5:30 | Mel Acheson #2: What’s the Matter with Matter? |
| 5:35 | Dinner Break |
| 7:30-9:00 | Private Scheduled Meetings |
Sunday, January 6 |
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| 8:00 AM | Announcements by MC |
| 8:10 | Bill Nichols TB-Talk: Personal Strategic Experiences: Electric Universe–Are We Limiting Ourselves? |
| 8:30 | Frank Anariba TB-Talk: Cometary-electrochemistry: Can Electrochemical Processes Occur in Comets? |
| 8:50 | Craig Holdrege: Why Context Matters |
| 9:35 | Mel Acheson #3: Maps of Nature and the Nature of Maps |
| 9:40 | Chris Reeve TB-Talk: Concept Mapping: A Creative Approach to Science Education |
| 10:00 | Morning Break |
| 10:15 | Aloria Weaver and David Heskin TB-Talk: The Meeting of Art and Science |
| 10:35 | Cameron Mercer TB-Talk: Saving the World |
| 11:00 | Evan Camp TB-Talk: Exciting Students with Unsettled Science |
| 11:20 | Greg Volk: An Optimistic Assessment of “Fringe” Science |
| 11:55 | Mel Acheson #4: The Rime of the Ancient Water Bridge |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break |
Symposium: The Future of Science |
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| 1:30 | Jerry Pollack TB-Talk: The Ills of Science: Reflections on the Symptoms and the Prescription for Cure |
| 1:50 | Mae-Wan Ho TB-Talk: Liberating Science and Imagination |
| 2:10 | Afternoon Break |
| 2:20 | Panel: The Emerging Science of Life Panelists: Jerry Pollack, Rupert Sheldrake, Mae-Wan Ho, Dean Radin, Craig Holdrege and Wallace Thornhill Moderator: James Ryder |
| 3:35 | Panel: The Electric Universe: Open Questions Panelists: Mel Acheson, Monty Childs, Jim Johnson, Forrest Bishop, Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott Moderator: Don Haney |
| 5:00 | Break and Refresh |
| 6:30 | Social Hour |
| 7:30 | BANQUET in the Yucatan Ballroom |
| 8:45 | Open Microphone: Conference attendees offer impressions, hopes and suggestions for future events. |
| 10:00 | David Talbott: Closing Remarks |
