The Wal Thornhill Invisible College
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 3:18 am
It seems we have lost someone who is dear to us. His passing at this time seems incomprehensible, because his steady and tremendous efforts to educate and to inspire showed no signs of waning, and his cheerful smile and considerate bearing while explaining seemed a sign of the best health.
This is sudden, and also a loss to science which has no remedy. Rather than dwell too long in excessive grief or anguish, it might help to call to mind what he said regarding emotional intelligence, for a start.
In "Grey Matter vs Dark Matter" August 28th, 2006 he wrote:
Is there Intelligent Life Down Here on Earth?
"If there were a modest degree of intelligent life on Earth you might think that a theory that rests upon empirical observation, without resorting to invisible dark matter and other abstract inventions and beliefs, would be the focus of attention. Alas, Eric Idle’s forlorn assessment seems to be accurate.
Evidently a PhD and a large number of published papers do not signify an individual’s intelligence. The techniques we use to judge intelligence are skewed toward cleverness, conformity and a good memory. But there is one important facet that is never considered—emotional intelligence. Yet it requires a high degree of emotional intelligence to respond rationally to information that threatens our sense of personal power or of how things are. Judging from the rejection of Halton Arp’s discoveries, it is a crucial lesson we are missing. Irritation or dismissal in response to a well-argued case is a signal that emotion has overruled reason.
For those who will not learn from it, history repeats itself. Halton Arp is to the 21st century what Galileo was to the 17th. Both were respected scientists, popular leaders in their field. Both made observations that contradicted accepted theory. Seventeenth century academics felt threatened by Galileo’s observations and so, backed by ecclesiastical authority, they ordered him to stop looking. Twentieth century astronomers felt threatened by Arp’s observations and so, backed by institutional authority, they ordered him to stop looking."
When I first read the articles on holoscience, I had not heard that phrase before, and went on an interesting search and study to learn more. It was helpful in my life. So let's buck up, and remember our emotional intelligence, and get to the science of the Electric Universe as well as we can.
One wish I have is to see this forum rededicated to what he said, by working on quoting his books, papers and presentations when we are discussing matters.
And my second wish is that there will now be within the forum a new Invisible College, called by his name, where we use dialogue to understand the science of the Electric Universe as he presented it, better. I will post some basic rules of The Dialogue Game which gives the sense of how we can achieve a new level of conversation on scientific topics.
This is sudden, and also a loss to science which has no remedy. Rather than dwell too long in excessive grief or anguish, it might help to call to mind what he said regarding emotional intelligence, for a start.
In "Grey Matter vs Dark Matter" August 28th, 2006 he wrote:
Is there Intelligent Life Down Here on Earth?
"If there were a modest degree of intelligent life on Earth you might think that a theory that rests upon empirical observation, without resorting to invisible dark matter and other abstract inventions and beliefs, would be the focus of attention. Alas, Eric Idle’s forlorn assessment seems to be accurate.
Evidently a PhD and a large number of published papers do not signify an individual’s intelligence. The techniques we use to judge intelligence are skewed toward cleverness, conformity and a good memory. But there is one important facet that is never considered—emotional intelligence. Yet it requires a high degree of emotional intelligence to respond rationally to information that threatens our sense of personal power or of how things are. Judging from the rejection of Halton Arp’s discoveries, it is a crucial lesson we are missing. Irritation or dismissal in response to a well-argued case is a signal that emotion has overruled reason.
For those who will not learn from it, history repeats itself. Halton Arp is to the 21st century what Galileo was to the 17th. Both were respected scientists, popular leaders in their field. Both made observations that contradicted accepted theory. Seventeenth century academics felt threatened by Galileo’s observations and so, backed by ecclesiastical authority, they ordered him to stop looking. Twentieth century astronomers felt threatened by Arp’s observations and so, backed by institutional authority, they ordered him to stop looking."
When I first read the articles on holoscience, I had not heard that phrase before, and went on an interesting search and study to learn more. It was helpful in my life. So let's buck up, and remember our emotional intelligence, and get to the science of the Electric Universe as well as we can.
One wish I have is to see this forum rededicated to what he said, by working on quoting his books, papers and presentations when we are discussing matters.
And my second wish is that there will now be within the forum a new Invisible College, called by his name, where we use dialogue to understand the science of the Electric Universe as he presented it, better. I will post some basic rules of The Dialogue Game which gives the sense of how we can achieve a new level of conversation on scientific topics.