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Yes, I tried to look for materials. I have an MSc in physics. I know what science is supposed to look like and what crackpot stuff looks like. Electric Universe is solidly in the crackpot section. I can expand on this if you like but the "qualitative explanation for humans" would be quite long and not really fit for a short post on this medium.

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Well you seem like an authority so I will trust you on that.

OK you don't sound convinced; let's try another way of putting it. If it were any use, scientists would be using it. They are very practical like that.

> They are very practical like that.

Or not. "Science advances one funeral at a time."

Related HN discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225

Should I have said "physicists"?

It wouldn't help your case since that's a paraphrasing of this quote from Max Planck:

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

. . . but only if it _works_, which is the point I was making.

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