What would be recommended reading?

[William 2012]

I have almost zero understanding of Physics, though I read many articles on Nanotechnology, Quantum Computation, etc.

I am wondering what the EU community would recommend as a ground up base of reading to establish knowledge of the Physics?

From the basics to the advanced, any help would be appreciated.

[William 2012]

Maybe I should expand my description of what I wish to learn.

I would like to know what books you would recommend to achieve a foundation of knowledge to be able to understand Aerospace Engineering, as well as the Physics of Propulsion, and Cosmology.



Again thanks for any help.

[suzdorr]

I'm new here and not sure what you're looking for, but I found this website very helpful in understanding fundamentals of magnetism: http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tut ... index.html

And this site looks very good in terms of general physics -- you can pick your level, from beginner to advanced: http://library.thinkquest.org/16600/

I stumbled upon Electric Universe just a few days ago -- it's the most exciting thing I've come across in decades. I've been involved in computing all my adult life. During a good portion of it, I worked on plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition systems (designed process controlling software and wrote a field-repair manual) -- this machine was my first introduction to plasma, a vivid one, and plasma became a metaphor for me in my own private cosmology ever after. I also read Velikovsky some 40 years ago and was immensely impressed by the credibility given to human stories.

(Seems to me that Robert Lawlor's "Voices of the First Day" is very attuned to Electric Universe as well. I'd love to see some comment here about that.)

Anyway, my own knowledge of physics is spotty at best. I'd try to study it but stuff just failed to make sense to me -- like what is it exactly that "waves" in empty space and how is it again that black holes work and what IS dark matter, anyway? I just figured my brain was incapable of mastering this stuff. Also, it seemed to me that the only place math truly works is with man-made constructs, not with dynamic systems (e.g., 1 fish + 1 fish = ? The result could be 0 if the two fish are hostile or zillions if the fish are different-gendered and really like one another). Exception: fractals.

So, the Electric Universe brings me home to what I intuited all along but couldn't quite give words to. I hope to find some of the dialog that goes on here in this forum comprehensible, and I too have my homework to do.

[jjohnson]

Welcome, suzdorr! Your working experience with plasma should be a big help. Read through this section of the Forum a little bit and you'll get about a year's worth. Don't be dismayed; most is not too technical, and we generally try to be easy to read and understand. Equations are few, but don't be afraid of math because it can help visualize things. The EU actually will eventually need to get a more mathematical foundation to impress the traditionalists, but it's still early days. You'll do fine!

[Osmosis]

To all on the EU Forum:
I just came across a copy of Justin Sandberg's "Electromass-Same Principles at Every Scale". I had down loaded it some time ago, from 'http://electromass.com'. This was mentioned on the EU forum by someone and I apologize for not remembering who. Anyway, download and read it, for another interesting view of the universe and how it all works.
Another year nearly kaput--Happy New Year!
osmosis

[starbiter]

Hello William: If you haven't already looked at these sites, this is my recommendation.
http://www.holoscience.com/
http://plasmascience.net/tpu/TheUniverse.html
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/indexOLD.htm
enjoy

[mharratsc]

Don't forget that Eric Lerner has another site in addition to his Focus Fusion site.

http://bigbangneverhappened.org

One of the most important resources on the site, and one that I think most especially shows the dogma and zealotry of the 'defenders of the faith' of mainstream cosmology, is found [url2=http://bigbangneverhappened.org/wiki.htm]here- the original version of the wiki article for plasma cosmology[/url2]. That is the way it looked before ScienceApologist decimated it.

Hope it helps,


Mike H.