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Aria Veritas's avatar

"So, if Peratt is correct, Guillaume would also have been, alongside Birkeland, one of the earliest proponents of cosmic electric forces."

George Woodward Warder wrote The Universe a Vast Electric Organism which was published in 1904. I bought it, got through a chapter or two but it's a bit too poetic for me, though he seems to know what he was talking about. He has a chapter called, Recent Electrical Discoveries and mentions Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light in the first few paragraphs. Just looked him up, he's classified as a "poet philosopher", so that explains it.

If one looks at eastern metaphysics obliquely, one sees the concept of an electric universe never died, only our consciousness of it did. It's returning now. The concept of "Agni" and even "Atman" is pretty close to the idea of the atom or at least a fiery electro-magnetic principle, but its nuances extend indefinitely.

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Korpijarvi's avatar

Sorry for the ugly URL, but some might enjoy your suggestion:

https://ia801304.us.archive.org/19/items/universeavastel00wardgoog/universeavastel00wardgoog.pdf

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Bullshit's avatar

Keep up this research, John, I'm convinced people only accept CMB is "proof" of the Big Bang because they're kept ignorant of these details. I like the way Peratt makes us aware that the Big Bang is not an "amazing" discover, but a closing down of the idea of infinity, which - as Pascal and Blake knew - is a closing down of progressive political ideas too.

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thinking-turtle's avatar

Thanks for your blog, very interesting! We know that Newton's law predicts the orbit of the earth quite precisely. If there is an even minor electrical force between the sun and the earth, that would mean Newton's laws describe an equilibrium that is not just made up of gravity.

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Poisoned Kiwi's avatar

You may have already tried this:

https://yandex.com/search/?text=%22Charles+Guillaume%22+AND+%22Birkeland%22&lr=20873

This has a potential reference

https://archive.org/stream/lagographie06fragoog/lagographie06fragoog_djvu.txt

Adam Paulsen, Sur les récentes théories de l'aurore polaire, Uésumé el critique des théories de MM. Birkeland, Arrelinius et Nordmann; idées personnelles, in Oversigt over del KffL Datuke Videtiikabeimes Selskabs Forhandlinger. Copenhague. 1906, n* 2.

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Adam Paulsen, On the recent theories of the polar aurora, Uesume el critique des theories from MM. Birkeland, Arrelinius and Nordmann; personal ideas, in Oversigt over del KffL Datuke Viditiikabeimes Selskabs Forhandlinger. Copenhagen. 1906, n* 2.

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John Plaice's avatar

I had a look. That is a review of a book by Adam Paulsen, which critiques the ideas of Birkeland and others.

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