For a scientific theory to be valid it has to be able to make testable predictions that can be replicated by others. What testable predictions does the Electric Universe Theory make? For the EUT to supersede the current gravity theories it needs to be able to make better or more replicatable predictions and results than the current theory, or to make predictions that the other theory doesn’t make and then verify those predictions, thus at least partially disproving or displacing the preceding theories. What predictions does EUT make that are better or contrary (and testable) to current theories?
As others have noted here, it is important to recognize that underlying the words and pictures of conventional theories is rigorous mathematics. “It looks like an electric field” is not a theory.
Also, what is important to realize is that by the time a hypothesis becomes a theory in physics…particularly one as accepted as the one we are talking about…it has survived a lot of tests and is extremely unlikely to be completely overturned. After all, even Einstein’s relativity theory didn’t really completely overturn Newtonian mechanics; rather, it just pointed out that Newtonian mechanics breaks down in realms where there hadn’t been any good tests of it. And, a similar thing could be said about quantum mechanics.
In these sort of instances, I like the saying that “it is important to be openminded but not so openminded that your brains fall out.”
While the mathematical equations may be beautiful and convincing to the ones who created them, it is only the plasma itself which does not ‘understand’ how beautiful the theories are and absolutely refuses to obey them.
The galaxies we witness in space spin far too quickly to be held together by the observable mass we can detect. We postulate that there may be something we cannot see, like dark matter, MACHOS or primordial black holes. Our evidence for black holes relies on our assumption of how gravity works, and so when we see rapidly spinning disks of gas we assume there is an invisible object in the center holding them together.
I consider myself open-minded only enough that a very convincing argument can hold any sway on me. The EU theory (while I do not understand everything about it) warrants more than a cursory glance and immediate dismal from me. As I said earlier, the features on the Valles Marineris are amazing to me.
Can you honestly say you don’t see the spiraling arms in the Topographic map of Mars? I’ll repost the link for you:
The mountain range on the western end, which leads to the south and back toward the middle. The valley on the eastern end, which leads to the north and back toward the middle. A coincidence?
The question isn’t whether the formations are there or not. The question is “so what?” What do these formations have to do with the Electric Universe theory? In what way do they provide evidence for that theory?
