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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9256435" data-attributes="member: 6671663"><p>I spent a solid two hours on the question this afternoon, since I was curious. It remained the case that the only criticisms I could find of Anton Petrov’s work came from threads on the subreddit for electric universe hypotheses. Rational Wiki summarizes them well:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe[/URL]</p><p></p><p><em>Nobody</em> else seems to have a problem with him that left a footprint I could find: not CSICOP or contributors to its magazine the Skeptical Inquirer, not actual astronomers or cosmologists who comment on good and bad science reporting online, not actual science journalists and editors, not scientific and educational journals (who do regularly review best sources for the general public, and include him in lists of excellent non-professional sources), or anyone else. So either [USER=6854936]@Sorcerers Apprentice[/USER] is onto something that the <em>whole world</em> of astronomers, cosmologists, and the fans of their work, or they’re bringing to bear an extremely non-standard kind of perspective.</p><p></p><p>Note that the second is not a fancy way of saying “necessarily wrong”. There’s a time for each idea now generally thought to be correct when it existed inside precisely one mind. Ditto for non-scientific ideas, like artistic innovations. Sometimes ideas surface and get submerged again - how long was it until anyone noticed Mendel’s work on inheritance of characteristics? And Wegener had correct observations and interpretation, but no model for how continental drift could be powered, and it took decades for study, experiments, and modeling to have room for it to fit with what had by then become known. J.S.Bach went dismissed and ignored for most of a century before Mendelssohn revived interest in and appreciation of his work. And so on.</p><p></p><p>But ”not necessarily wrong” isn’t “likely right”, either. In the absence of a argument with evidence for Petrov’s wrongness and an explanation of why nobody else but a small group of cranks noticed, I’m going to continue using him as excellence in laying out brand-new info about technical subjects by a careful lay observer.</p><p></p><p>And now, back to Hasbro not selling D&D IPs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9256435, member: 6671663"] I spent a solid two hours on the question this afternoon, since I was curious. It remained the case that the only criticisms I could find of Anton Petrov’s work came from threads on the subreddit for electric universe hypotheses. Rational Wiki summarizes them well: [URL unfurl="true"]https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe[/URL] [I]Nobody[/I] else seems to have a problem with him that left a footprint I could find: not CSICOP or contributors to its magazine the Skeptical Inquirer, not actual astronomers or cosmologists who comment on good and bad science reporting online, not actual science journalists and editors, not scientific and educational journals (who do regularly review best sources for the general public, and include him in lists of excellent non-professional sources), or anyone else. So either [USER=6854936]@Sorcerers Apprentice[/USER] is onto something that the [I]whole world[/I] of astronomers, cosmologists, and the fans of their work, or they’re bringing to bear an extremely non-standard kind of perspective. Note that the second is not a fancy way of saying “necessarily wrong”. There’s a time for each idea now generally thought to be correct when it existed inside precisely one mind. Ditto for non-scientific ideas, like artistic innovations. Sometimes ideas surface and get submerged again - how long was it until anyone noticed Mendel’s work on inheritance of characteristics? And Wegener had correct observations and interpretation, but no model for how continental drift could be powered, and it took decades for study, experiments, and modeling to have room for it to fit with what had by then become known. J.S.Bach went dismissed and ignored for most of a century before Mendelssohn revived interest in and appreciation of his work. And so on. But ”not necessarily wrong” isn’t “likely right”, either. In the absence of a argument with evidence for Petrov’s wrongness and an explanation of why nobody else but a small group of cranks noticed, I’m going to continue using him as excellence in laying out brand-new info about technical subjects by a careful lay observer. And now, back to Hasbro not selling D&D IPs. [/QUOTE]
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