Year: 2012
Smith’s Cloud
Ice in the Furnace
Lunar Dust Levitation

Nov 30, 2012 Static electric charge might help to explain the glowing haze sometimes seen rising 100 kilometers above the Moon’s horizon. Between May 1966 and January 1968, NASA launched the Surveyor missions to the Moon. Each Surveyor spacecraft weighed approximately 450 kilograms and was designed to soft-land on…
Getting Sloshed

Nov 29, 2012 Is hot gas sloshing in a gravitational wine glass—or is astrophysicists’ reasoning going in a circle? A recent press release explains: “Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth….” The blue image is assembled electronically from x-ray data and superimposed on…
Stephen J. Crothers: Black Holes, General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation
For several years now, far from the spotlight of mainstream media, a controversy has been brewing over the mathematical foundations of black hole theory and other widely accepted cosmological theories. Mathematician Stephen J. Crothers has offered the proofs that he says refutes the very existence of black holes, and also the Big Bang cosmology…
Saturn’s Northern Hot Spot
Serious Issues with Plate Tectonics

Nov 27, 2012 David Pratt’s publication in the year 2000 enumerates multiple problems affecting the theory of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading. The above schematic of Alaska reveals regions of rock strata that appear to have “accreted” to an original craton. Southern Alaska is composed of fragments in all shapes and sizes,…
EU Scholarship Announcement-9

Our Ninth EU2013 Scholarship Winner: Ivan Stancek Ivan Stancek will be a first year student at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. For the last several years, he has conducted research in magnetism and its asymmetrical properties. He believes that magnetic theory can bring the other theories to greater simplicity than…
EU Scholarship Announcement-10

Our Tenth EU2013 Scholarship Winner: Pancho Eliott 19-year old Pancho Eliott has always enjoyed the puzzles and challenging ideas that arise throughout life, especially the ones which arise from both math and physics. This is the reason why he went on to study them at the University of Manchester, UK….