Per post #2314, this thread is now closed.

Later today (or tomorrow), I will add a post (or edit this one) with pointers to how discussion of specific, concrete, focussed EU ideas can continue, here in the ATM section of BAUT.

This will include guidelines on any future (focussed) EU threads (per #2348), as well as re-opening once the June Plasma conference has concluded.

[Edit: here are the promised pointers.

An EU proponent may start a new thread, on one, specific EU topic, so that we may have a focussed discussion of it.

The guidelines for the thread starter are:

* State whether the EU idea includes only mainstream physics (e.g. plasma physics, classical electromagnetism), or includes at least some new physics. If in doubt, assume the latter.

* If the EU idea has a (public) history, provide a succinct summary of its antecedents, and where one can read the prior work done on it.

* If the EU idea is chacterised as a theory, or a model (or includes these), provide references to (publicly available) material which details the theory or model (doesn't have to be a peer-reviewed publication, though that would be nice).

* If the EU idea is not quantitative (maths, OOM, numbers, equations, etc), provide a summary of how the idea could be tested, in principle, using today's technology.

* As always with ATM ideas, be prepared to have the idea challenged ... and be so prepared to defend it.

* For further suggestions, please read this Tim Thompson post.

Both upriver and VanderL have indicated that they are working on some new EU material; I look forward to them starting new threads, in the new format, to present the results of their work on specific, focussed EU areas.

There is a "Table of Contents" thread, for folk to create a link summary of this thread, to allow for references to discussion on specific topics within the EU idea to be quickly located.

In closing, I note that this EU thread has the distinction of being the longest, by far (>400 posts longer than #2), of all threads in this ATM section; I hope that UT and BAUT participants have found it educational and rewarding.]