How could anyone not know that Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen?

We live in an age of information overload. As a culture, we are struggling to deal with the inordinate amount of information that is out there. Those of us who decide to "go into" the space sciences become constrained in their beliefs by what they're taught. They are only taught conventional theories and models. But, if you look hard enough, even a layperson can over just a few short months identify that unconventional models are performing better than the traditional models. It all boils down to what you allow yourself to read.

There are many serious problems with the conventional astrophysical and quantum-domain models. They are primarily ad hoc models that are bandaged up each time a new anomaly is discovered. This has been going on for decades. Those scientists who advocate a completely fresh approach to these two areas are typically judged on the basis of their models' "differentness" rather than on how well these new models are performing.

Many scientists will, for instance, claim that all aether models are void of any merit because of the Michelson-Morley experiments, but they make such claims without apparent awareness that MM did not lead to a null result, and without any awareness of the work of Dayton Miller. This sort of thing is extremely widespread. You will even see mention within quantum mechanics textbooks that people who believe the Dayton Miller experimental results are "kooks". This is inappropriate, and it denies the inherently controversial nature of the aether debate. They are basically telling you what to believe rather than telling you why to believe it.

"Looking hard enough" involves reading. And not just a little. It can take months or even years of reading before a person can for instance adequately judge a new astrophysical or quantum-domain model. Some models will be so mathematically complex as to be inaccessible to most people. But, the most useful models will be those that simplify our understanding, that make predictive results or that reveal some previously overlooked pattern to reality.

When I speak of heretics, I'm speaking of Wallace Thornhill, Hannes Alfven, Kristian Birkeland (a heretic of his time), Nikola Tesla, Konstantin Meyl, David Thomson (Aether Physics Model), Halton Arp, David Talbott, Dwardu Cardona and Ralph Sansbury, for instance. The large majority of these people remain completely unrecognized for their accomplishments.

The American public still to this day doesn't even understand what Nikola Tesla did (he pulse-width modulated a DC impulse current, aka plasma pinch). Most conventional scientists are not even aware that Tesla created products that used longitudinal electromagnetic waves.

Very few people within the scientific community have read about Konstantin Meyl's modifications to Maxwell's Equations -- even though he makes some excellent points that deserve attention.

Practically nobody is listening to David Thomson right now. He reveals in "Secrets of the Aether" that when you reformulate material characteristics like resonance, permitivity, permeability, conductance, inductance and capacitance in terms of quantum measurements, you will notice that they all possess the term 4*pi in them. Why in the world does structure appear to precede material existence?

Physicists today apply formulas that employ units as if they are nothing more than convention. There is no serious attention being paid to dimensional analysis within physics today. Many times, a unit will be employed within formulas that has no physical meaning. Other times, different units will be equated with one another, as if physical concepts are interchangeable. David Thomson discusses this at great length in "Secrets of the Aether" and he makes excellent arguments that everybody's ignoring. David Thomson makes an excellent, groundbreaking first try at rigorously reformulating all of the units of physics. He can explain what every term within every formula means. He is the antithesis of routine application of formulas -- a widespread practice these days.

For instance, energy defines in terms of the dimension of mass times velocity squared. And yet, the photon is said to have zero mass, as if a physical particle can even have zero mass in the first place. Simple mathematics then suggests that the photon must have zero energy, but this obviously defies reality. People fail to realize that there exist alternative ways to explain such apparent contradictions. Special Relativity is just one. There is little interest in understanding all of the various ways of explaining these enigmas, but in fact they are actually tests for our models.

Thornhill accurately predicted that the Deep Impact Mission would involve two separate flashes -- a prediction that was stunningly different from expectations at the time. The response? He didn't publish a paper on it, so the prediction was not really a prediction at all. This is nonsense. It indicates that he's figured something out. People should listen carefully to those scientists who can claim predictive successes. Few people appear to realize that the OH observed coming off of comets can actually be nothing more than hydrogen protons from the solar wind electrically machining oxygen molecules embedded within the silicates of comets. The Electric Universe group has released numerous publications on comets that are especially poigniant, and yet continue to be ignored or ridiculed by conventional scientists. The idea that comets are in fact some type of dirty snowballs is really a relic by now that space scientists nevertheless cling to. We should clearly be looking to the plasma sciences to understand such phenomenon. After all, from the magnetosphere outwards, space is 99.999% plasma ("charged particles").

At some point between a small iron ball and the Earth itself, conventional wisdom teaches astrophysicists that iron balls stop accumulating and trading electrical charge with their surroundings. And yet, we can now photograph lightning (sprites) going to space and curious non-moving clouds that precede earthquakes.

The notion of quasi-neutrality -- the idea that for some specific volume, all plasmas charge-neutralize -- is nothing more than an assumption. Yet scientists treat this assumption as if it is a physical law. Just look at the macroscopic images of the universe. Recent publications demonstrate that the axes of spiral galaxies do tend to align along the large filaments of the universe. One could make an excellent case, as the Electric Universe theorists do, that these spiral galaxies are somewhat similar to Faraday motors and that their axes are in fact electrically connected by Birkeland Currents. This argument deserves attention because if you dig into it, you will come to see that much recent evidence supports it.

Dwardu Cardona and David Talbott have revolutionized our understanding of historical documents, as they relate to the space sciences. Astrophysicists to this day will assert that there exists no information within mythology. But, they make this assertion out of pure ignorance and hubris. We should always be wary of claims that people of the past were insane when evidence appears to contradict it. Their snap judgment of mythology is a complete dismissal of decades of work and the analytical technique of comparative mythology. Most mythologists cannot claim to understand the languages that mythologies in source documents are written in. Dwardu Cardona's innovation is that he can read many of these source documents within their original languages. His books "God Star" and "Flare Star" are two of the most important works in the study of mythology ever written. Yet, they remain unread by a population that prioritizes belief over written record. The ancients tell us exactly what happened to them in some pretty clear terms. The stories correlate to an incredible degree amongst all of the cultures of the world. We just refuse to listen to what they have to say. It is our own loss.

The people at BAUT unfortunately are more interested in demonstrating why all of these people are cranks that shouldn't be heard out. In truth, they all make great points that deserve attention and debate. We ignore them to our own detriment, but you will never realize it so long as you constrain your reading materials to those that are popular. The answers are out there; you just have to be willing to listen.