my involvement with Safire began in Jan 2013. a colleague and business partner who was a physicist at Los Alamos (the late Louie Rosocha) called me in
Dec 2012 and said that there was a conference called the Electric Universe in Albuquerque in Jan 2013 that seemed off the wall but might be interesting. my artist girlfriend at the time, who is a terrific painter (she painted the Einstein piece of the first page of my website
www.kinema.com along with lots of other science related paintings - prints of a couple of her paintings are on the EU store site stickmanonstone.com), and i met Louie in ABQ for the meeting. Louie & i decided during the first couple of talks that the
EU concept is fraudulent ******** being promoted by several people as real science to the general public. we hung around to see what this whole thing encompassed. mostly they hate mainstream physics and the role that mathematics plays in it,
they don't really know any physics or mathematics to speak of, they are, of course, Einstein haters, and feel put upon because mainstream science ignores them. they have all the usual trappings of
crackpot scientists. they don't believe that fusion in the core powers stars. their "physicist" is Wallace Thornhill and, to some extent, Don Scott. Thornhill spent his career as a computer salesman for IBM in Australia. Scott taught electrical engineering somewhere in MA. i've been a professional physicist for 52 years, much of it in gas discharge physics. same for Louie. so we had vast experience with laboratory plasmas. although Louie is deceased i continue to work having been self employed for 33 years. i've attached, along with a PDF of our one & only Safire paper, my bio that gets published by the IEEE when i publish in one of their journals.
i quit for several reasons: (1) they could no longer pay me, (2) they're just
amateurs to whom i tried unsuccessfully to teach plasma physics & chemistry for a half dozen years and i was tired of working with amateurs, (3) i had and still do have two other contract jobs that i work on, (4) Monty and the others were making
fraudulent statements about their measurements & observations (see their 2018 progress report - my name is on it even though i asked them to take it off), & (5) they were headed in a direction involving cold fusion, transmutation of elements, and net energy generation that are just
crackpot. all because they are pretty
ignorant of physics. nor can they do mathematics or computer modeling & simulation, which are necessities in this field."
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! The solar wind before the coma blocks it will charge dust and electrostatic forces will eject some dust from the nucleus. When the solar wind is blocked from the coma formed by ice sublimating, that process will stop. The dominant mechanism for ejecting dust from comets with coma is sublimating ice.
