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DeiRenDopa said:
Quite a lot of time and effort went into the dozens (hundreds?) of posts which demonstrated, by direct reference to Birkeland's own works (which you kindly provided, remember?), that his models failed, and failed badly, when subject to astronomical tests^. You even acknowledged this, remember?
Which *tests* are you referring to, because I don't recall it actually "failing" anything. His proposal for rings was not completely accurate, but the placement of material in rings is associated with the same processes he simulated in the lab. Which things did it "fail" in your opinion?
Way to go MM, way to go!
Later in the very same post you contradict yourself!
I'm willing to concede that there are differences between his "rings" and the rings on Saturn.
Or, in plain English (let alone the criteria used in astronomy), he failed (his model is inconsistent with astronomical observations).
We can go further.
In Birkeland's model, Saturn's rings are self-luminous in the visual waveband.
Yet they are not.
So, his model failed.
We discussed plenty of other failures in the thread you yourself started MM, and in which you had ample opportunity to provide detailed, quantitative explanations which showed the consistency between Birkeland's actually published work and subsequent astronomical observations. You failed to do so, and so, by your own standards, Birkeland's ideas did too.
An example.
In Birkeland's own writings, he proposes that the Sun emits relativistic electrons (using today's terms; the solar wind is composed of relativistic electrons). His published work includes pages and pages on the derivation of this idea (quantitatively, using equations etc), backed up by pages and pages of reports of his terrella experiments.
However, as has been known for many decades now, the solar wind does not consist of relativistic electrons.
Ergo, Birkeland's idea/model has failed, in the sense that it is inconsistent with objective, independently verified observations.
(there's more of course; interested readers are referred to the long thread in which this is discussed)
I do not recall you presenting "Bruce's work", and a quick check failed to turn up anything.
This demonstrates conclusively that you have not read my website and you are ignorant of important work in this field.
Thanks.
I must say that I did not expect you to be so blatant and forthright in admitting that you lied.
Here's what I wrote, in full:
I do not recall you presenting "Bruce's work", and a quick check failed to turn up anything. However, I could well be wrong ... if you'd be so kind as to give a link (or links) to the posts in this forum where you presented "Bruce's work", I'd be happy to check it out and, if appropriate, retract my comments in regard of this.
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Perhaps you wrote in haste?
Perhaps you did actually present "
Bruce's work"
in this forum?
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I'm willing to concede that there are differences between his "rings" and the rings on Saturn. This however is not a "disproof" of his concepts or his work. The very placement of material is most likely related to the EM currents he was proposing. Again, this one issue does not in any way negate any of the rest of his work in any way. If that is best you've got when you dismiss his life's work, that is utterly pitiful.
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Ah ha, a keen student of Gish are we MM? Though still, perhaps, learning to gallop.
Again, what I wrote is (bold added so you won't miss it, again):
And the (astrophysical, cosmological) theories of Birkeland, Alfvén, Bruce, and Peratt (and others) have been subject to empirical tests (i.e. are they consistent with multiple, independently obtained *quantitative* observations?), ... and they have failed all such tests.
Now the only theories Birkeland proposed that could, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered cosmological were his ideas on the nature of galaxies ('spiral nebulae' is the term he used, IIRC).
We can go through those ideas (again) if you like, and you will be shown (again) that they are inconsistent with subsequent astronomical observations ...