Interests: Most science subjects, particularly electricity in astronomy, terrestrial and cosmic lightning, solar system characteristics. and geology. Also evidence for ancient civilisations on Earth, Mars and Moon.
Member of SIS (Society for Interdisciplinary Studies).
Now retired and was formerly professional electrical engineer with an international oil company. Later developed a fire protection system for cables in industrial plants and underground railways.
Papers published in Nature, the Observatory Magazine, the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Journal of Meteorology, SIS Review and others. I read The Guardian (daily), the Observer (Sundays), New Scientist and sometimes more entertaining magazines when on a local market stall at reduced prices.
I enjoy naturist activities if the weather and location is suitable and regularly contribute articles to Starkers magazine, mainly about peculiar or sometimes unusually sensible attitudes to nudity displayed in literature and newspaper reports.
My wife June and I enjoy walking and cycling in the countryside and support wildlife projects. We encourage the many birds in our garden (and discourage cats) and provide ponds and rubble for lots of frogs, newts and some toads to breed and hibernate.
Books I have enjoyed recently are (among others): Lifelines by Steven Rose, Life by Richard Fortey, T.rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez, Fire in the Mind by George Johnson, Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould, Kinds of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett, Forbidden Archeology and Forbidden Archeology's Impact by Michael Cremo, The Giza Power Plant by Christopher Dunn and books by Z. Sitchin, Richard Dawkins, Alan Alford and Elaine Morgan.
A paper similar to this but excluding reference to Jupiter (a
later discovery) was submitted to the Journal of Scientific Exploration (Stanford,
California) but was rejected by the editor. I hope he comes to regret this unexpected
decision.
(2) Lightning
in Astronomy
This includes a paper published in the prestigious scientific
journal Nature with other more speculative articles in December 1974. Congratulations
to the then editor and his advisor, Dr John Gribbin. There is also a copy of
introductory notes I sent with a reprint of the Nature paper to many astronomers.
Most are still firmly wedded to the idea that only gravity is important in astronomy,
although electrical forces, even allowing for the bipolar or dual nature, are
vastly greater, particularly in catastrophic discharge conditions.
(3) Electrons
in the early Universe
I include this unpublished paper hoping it will be a revelation
to astronomers and physicists who have doubts about the reality of Black Holes,
since electrical forces and radiation pressure of internal high temperatures
at a certain stage of gravitational collapse will prevent further collapse and
lead to explosive expansion.
(4) New Light on the Sun
(5) Solar Physics: Magnetism's
Blind Alley
Most astronomers believe that powerful magnetic fields
are the cause of the immense disturbances on the Sun, but there are still many
problems about how this works. The Hungarian astronomer and physicist, Dr Laszlo
Körtvélyessy, has now proposed a new theory which seems to answer
all these problems.
