Okay, I read all 38 pages of it, looking for a suggested mechanism whereby five planets could have been moved closer to Earth, allowing them to hang in Earth's sky for long enough to impress Ancient Man with their godlike qualities (I'm flashing on the Vogon ships here, "hanging in the sky the way a brick--doesn't"), and then moved to their present positions.
No soap.
There's a lot of fine vague hand-waving about plasma and its mysterious electrical properties, but no actual nuts-and-bolts explanation of "how the thing's supposed to work". Lots of nifty graphics, though.
The closest it comes to an actual explanation is on page 31:
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If stars are formed by electrical discharge and remain the focus of discharge, we can no longer simply project current planetary motions backward into primordial times...Changes in the galactic currents powering the system can alter both stellar behavior and planetary behavior suddenly and extravagantly.
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Though orbital instability is a certainty in the long term evolution of an electrical model, it may be short-lived as electrical forces act to minimize interactions between the charged bodies.
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So I guess, umm... "Changes in the galactic currents" made it happen.
Or something.
And now I unavoidably can't help wondering whether, when the changes in the galactic currents made this happen, the Earth's magma--
bobbled.
P.S. John Owens:
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I note the obligatory whinging about the peer review process on the "timely announcement" link:
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And I note the obligatory "They scoffed at Galileo, too!" By inference, at least.
On page 12.
