Re: "Deep Impact" and the Electric Universe

Gans has a VERY GOOD handle on the type of scientifico-intellectual
pathology he is dealing with concerning Talbott, Thornhill, and Scott.
However, perhaps it is NOT as good as it might be:

Paul J Gans wrote:
> Dave <dtalbott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Paul, if you don't understand the nature of double layers, why not just
> >say so? It's not an intellectual crime, until you cavalierly dismiss
> >those who DO understand double layers.
>
> ROTFLMAO.
>
> You *are* funny. It happens that I do understand double
> layers and you don't.
>
> There are no real double layers in neutral plasmas. Just
> approximations. The term "double layer" applies best to
> lipid membranes where it really means somehthing.
>
> For the lurkers out there, what David thinks he is talking
> about is the ability of neutral plasmas to spread out the
> electrical field of a charge.
>
> A far better example is to take a charge (put it on a bit
> of rubber or a pith ball) and enclose it inside a metal
> sphere.
>
> A metal is a sort of neutral plasma. The positive charges
> happen to be fixed (the atomic nuclei) but the negative
> ones (the electrons) are free to move about in the metal.
>
> The effect is to spread the electrical field over a
> much larger surface (the metal ball) than that of the
> pith ball.
>
> However, by Gauss's Law, if one surveys the field outside

Aye! Here's the rub: Gauss's Law. It may not be apparent from the
discussion here, but in their heart of hearts people like Talbott do
not accept ANY authority that contradicts their idee fixe, and that
includes Gauss's Law whose validity was explicitly denied to me by Dr.
Earl Milton (spectroscopy) and Dr. George R. Talbott (physics) (no
relation to Dave) in correspondence in 1984 concerning the use of
Gauss's Law to establish the origin of the geomagnetic field INSIDE the
earth in that then enigmatic geodynamo.

> the metal sphere, weaker though it may be, it will still
> indicate that the original charge is still present.
>
> Simple rule to remember: you can NOT make a charge vanish
> except by neutralizing it.
>
>
> >This morning I'm printing out a few of your posts in this thread and
> >will present them to Wal, Don, and Tony, just to let them know, on your
> >authority, that their life's work has been hopelessly misguided.
>
> That's a little rough on them, don't you think? But it is
> a good thing to do, and about time. Please let them know
> that I am sorry, but it would have been better to study
> science than to just flatulate about it.
>
> Perhaps if they were to write their memoirs they could keep
> others from the same tragic mistakes?
>
> ----- Paul J. Gans

I wonder if Tony Peratt truly knows what sort of scientific deviants he
is trafficking with?

Still not suffering fools gladly!

C. Leroy Ellenberger, "Vivere est vincere"
"DAVID N. TALBOTT: Hoist, Clueless & 'Nihilated"
<http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/cle/cle-talbott.txt> t.o 14 Jul '94

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