Evolution and Earth’s Electric Field By Alexander Fournier Biorhythms of the Earth and its Offspring In 1982 experienced anthropologist and pharmacologist Francis Ivanhoe published the first of multiple studies in which he would catalog an important discovery for evolutionary science. Surveying all known Paleolithic human skulls, he witnessed a correlation…
At the EU2015 conference this past June, the well known “skeptic” Michael Shermer participated in a panel discussion on the topic, “When Radical Ideas Challenge Conventional Science.” Wal Thornhill and I also participated, along with Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona. Subsequently, Dr. Shermer’s dismissive review of the…
Oct 08, 2015 Undetectable, unseen, and unknown. In previous Picture of the Day articles about the existence of “dark matter,” it was noted that it is an add-on, or ad-hoc, theory because the lack of luminous matter in the Universe is a problem for “Big Bang cosmology.” The Big Bang…
Oct 7, 2015 Pulsars rotating faster than a dentist’s drill? Pulsars are described as “lighthouses” with rotating beams of energy concentrated at specific points. Plasma physicists Anthony Peratt and Kevin Healy noted that: “Because of the stability of the pulse period, Thomas Gold concluded that pulsars must be highly…
Oct 6 2015 Filaments in nebulae suggest charge separation in space. The Orion Nebula is visible to the naked eye in the constellation Orion; it is the second star in Orion’s sword. Astrophysicists believe several formations in the cloud are star-forming regions because high frequency light emanates from many active areas….
Comments on Michael Shermer’s Article in Sci. American By Dr. Donald Scott All authors published in Scientific American should be rigidly bound by the editors to stay within the constraints of science. In science any and all claims must have clear bases in fact. In the event editors allow baseless…
Oct 5, 2015 Do we judge the solar system by what we see on Earth or do we look at the planets to see how the Earth was shaped? We have spent the last few hundred years exploring the Earth and are sure we know how things work here….
In the previous Space News episode, we discussed recent, astonishing images of the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. Many other surprises have already been revealed in the data thus far released from NASA’s New Horizons mission. Today, physicist Eugene Bagashov discusses what we have learned thus far about Pluto’s…
Oct 2, 2015 Are dunes on Titan like those on Earth? “To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” — William Blake The Cassini spacecraft created a gravity map…
Pay no attention to the Black Hole hiding in there. Eleven Years Looking For Nada By Andrew Hall Nada is Spanish for nothing. It’s also the number of gravitational waves found after an eleven year study, as reported by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and the International Centre…
