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Originally Posted by exopolitical
Was the December 26, 2004 Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami
Caused by a Stellar Explosion 45,000 Light Years Away?
Sound Crazy? Read Carefully Below.
BY Paul LaViolette, PhD is at:
http://www.etheric.com/GalacticCenter/GRB.html
Exopolitical (the poster - me) is not Paul LaViolette, and I am not the author of this article.
However, the above article is based upon Paul LaViolette's research on the galactic superwave phenomenon, first established in his PhD Thesis. |
Where is his degree from? I found a link offering to sell me his thesis, but I'm not buying without more information. Any reputable scientist should provide a simple bio listing his academic credentials, the degree granting institutions, and the name of his advisor at the least. The rest of the linked pages have none of this information and no bio of LaViolette, just a lot of books for sale and rampant speculation.
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Hence your distinction about "mainstream" and "non-mainstream" IS somewhat misleading, as it implies that the above article is somehow not "mainstream science."
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isn't mainstream science. It's out there beyond the far fringe. Anyone who includes links to things like the Podkletnov gravity shield is beyond the fringe. How did Podkletnov measure the propagation speed of this longitudinal gravitational wave to be 64 times the speed of light when the most sensitive detectors have yet to even find evidence for gravity waves (although I'm confident they will.)
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Paul LaViolette's research is based upon mainstream science.
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The idea of gamma ray bursters is mainstream. However, linking these to catastrophes is not. Just because a burster was discovered about the same time as the 04 tsunami does not mean one caused the other. That's making a classic
post hoc logical error. All the page provides is a lot of hand-waving about EMP, gravity waves and other things supposedly associated with this "superwave." What's the mechanism that causes earthly catastrophe. If it caused an earthquake off Sumatra, why not in the Aleutians, or in California, or in any of the other main active seismic zones in the world? If it was an electromagnetic pulse why did my computer continue to work. Surely a pulse of that would cause an earthquake like that should have disabled every electrical system on the planet. If it was a gravity wave why didn't LIGO detect it?
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Just because a particular phenomenon like the galactic superwave is not widely known does not make it non-mainstream science.
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No, but all of the other things wrong with it do.
You're welcome. I plan to go into this more, perhaps not with JayUtah like detail, but at least at the "the first mistake occurs in paragraph 2 of page 1" level of detail. In the meantime I leave you with the thoughts of a wise man.