Reply To: Improving the Pitch

[jjohnson]

Not everyone comes to the Thunderbolts site from mythical origins. Don’t let that put you off. I stumbled onto it just trying to find better explanations of how things actually work. Peratt’s textbook and Maxwell’s equations, among other pioneering work, serve pretty well for this enthusiast. The idea that there may be plasma/electrical influences that affect things other than stars and galaxies is intriguing, and obviously discussed and debated there, but the great thing is that everyone accepts the odd views (depends on your own perspective, of course) and keeps on plugging for better electrical explanations. You can’t let wackos deflect from understanding reality. One also always has to ask, “what if they are right?” Skepticism and open minds and hard work with critical thinking needed in any scientific enquiry.

I think very many at TB are also keenly interested in and impressed by the careful, pragmatic progress by FocusFusion, and are less than impressed by the 6 decades of taxpayer-busting by conventional fusion research models based on unobserved conditions inside our star. Not to mention LIGO and the sometimes implausible explanations in the APOD titles. Why don’t they teach astronomers electricity and plasma? is one of our continuing questions.

And I love your transparency and technical plan with milestones, and discussion of how do we handle the technical and social and economic consequences if this works out well? You are a great group and you have the support of a lot many more than appear in print.

Jim