The "fuss" is about the fact that if conventional comet theory based on Fred Whipple's "dirty snowball" has indeed been falsified by recent findings (images of rocky comet cores, the latest findings of the Stardust mission, the astonishing magnitude of the Deep Impact collision, etc.) and if comets are indeed nothing more than asteroids on eccentric trajectories with regard to the sun, then the implications for the whole of cosmology are literally shattering. Quite simply, if comets are indeed no different from asteroids in their physical and chemical make-up, that means that there is no ice in or on them to sublimate under the heating action of the sun and that consequently, the jets, comas and tails they display can only be explained in terms of electrical discharge phenomena. You may think this is nothing to make a fuss about but it would prove that we do not live in an electrically neutral universe as mainstream BB theory would have us believe and that we would in fact need to rethink the whole of cosmology. Hence, by the way, the energy which mainstream defenders put into their attempts to contest, refute or deny the accumulating evidence for the asteroidal nature of comets and its implications.

Going back to the theoretical drawing board just to try to give one more little tweak to conventional theory in the hope of patching it up yet again for a few more months or years won't do. What is needed is the recognition that we live in a completely different universe from the one described by mainstream BB theory and investment in research to better understand the overwhelmingly electrical nature of it.

A thorough analysis of the electrical nature of cometary behaviour can be found in the wealth of articles on comets to be found on the Electric Universe website here.

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