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Originally Posted by roachboy
this sort of idea---not inflected in the way the doc does, tho---is at the base of complex dynamical systems theory accounts of human cognition. whether the general idea seems crackpot or not is mostly a function of the scale you choose to apply it to. living systems are obviously electrical, taken at a certain scale. that is not all they are in a way, but in another, that's all they are.
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That seems plausible, and unfortunately it was not how this thread was framed. Likewise what others have put forth seems more to do with metaphysics than with the true spirit of this thread which seemed slanted towards physics. One is not like the other, and even though they both carry the same goal and a similar name to me they are mutually exclusive. Maybe it's just a result of schooling that trains me to throw away anything that is not tractable to well poised mathematical constructs or it could just be preference. In any case, I thought that the OP was specifically not referencing to any metaphysics. It could be that I came to the baseball game with a soccer ball.
In my opinion, there is really only one way to do new science. To put forth a new theory you construct a logical argument; this must be either quantifiable in at least some ways or predicated on a priori information. This electric universe theory does not seem to fit the former, and therefore it must attempt the latter. I won't attempt to discredit this theory because I wouldn't really know what to discredit(though from robot_parade's link this guy seems to have found something and on a cursory review seems to do a good job at what I'm not willing to do
http://www.tim-thompson.com/electric-sun.html ) and as a lover of thinking I'd rather spend my time elsewhere. However, what I'm willing to say is that from what I’ve read about it i am at least 98% sure that it has little bearing in a beautiful, conformed and rigid construct that I call physics and it's proponents attempts at introducing this new theory seem abysmal.