James M. McCanney, M.S. (Physics), gave a two-hour long, commercial-free radio broadcast Monday night, November 26, at 10:00 p.m. to Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. He talked about Comet Holmes, which, in case you haven’t heard, is now twice the diameter of the Sun (the coma part of the comet, not the nucleus.) To hear the archived broadcast, visit this page:
McCanney subscribes to the electric universe point of view and has published several books and scientific papers. He claims to be the originator of the Plasma Discharge Comet Model and has some interesting information about the electrical nature of the universe, solar system and more especially, comets. Comet Holmes pretty much, in my opinion, is the nail in the coffin of the standard Dirty Snowball Comet Model so what McCanney has to say helps to explain the “anomalous” flare up of Holmes.
As the faithful are to be looking for the signs of the times and as there will be great signs in the heavens, astronomy should be of interest to all LDS. If you have interest in the plasma model of the universe, have been following with interest the very large and very fast flare-up of Comet Holmes, or are just watching for the prophesied signs, you may want to listen to the above program.
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I just want to post a note about McCanney and the Thunderbolts group. Although both factions are researchers into the plasma model of the universe, neither side likes the other side. McCanney villifies the Thunderbolts group as wanna bees (scientists without degrees) who are plagiarizing him, thinks they are funded by disinfo organizations and that their real mission is to distract from his own work. He cites Coast to Coast dropping him from their roster of guests and promoting Thunderbolts, instead. Thunderbolts, on the other hand, think McCanney’s accusations border on being sociopathic and claim he’s stating lies about them. There is no love lost between these two groups. Nevertheless, both groups of plasma researchers are worthy of study, depite the animosity. McCanney’s take on Comet Holmes is different than the Thunderbolt take, yet they both subscribe to the plasma model. So, there are many possible ways to explain astronomical observations using this model. Who is right? McCanney or Thunderbolts, or both? Or are they both wrong together? Well, that’s why we LDS have the Holy Ghost, to have it manifest the truth of all things to us. One thing, to me, at least, seems true: the plasma model can explain the astronomical occurrences better than the standard models, but until we get the equipment into space that can measure all the electrical fields strengths, etc., around the solar system, we must give best guesses as to the specific electrical cause(s) that create celestial displays such as Comet Holmes’ startling flare-up.
Update: Comet Holmes has continued to grow in size. According to McCanney’s predictions and calculations, it grew in size to 6-8 times the size of the Sun around Christmas-time, and now he is saying that it “has doubled again in size giving a total volumetric increase to be about 8 (yes eight) times the volume of our sun.”
To view recent pics of Holmes, visit this page. Holmes is apparently very visible, still, with the naked eye. I do not know of anyone who has confirmed the size of Holmes, though everyone says it is growing and is gigantic.
On another note, McCanney also made a prediction about a December hurricane or tropical storm appearing, which came true. I visited the NOAA web site and saw the “Special Tropical Disturbance” announcement which was quietly posted. That disturbance went away, thank goodness, but it does lend credence to McCanney’s claims.
Finally, on January 4th the Sun reached solar minimum and we are now in a new Sun cycle. So, from January 4th onward, the Sun should become more and more active on its eleven year journey to solar maximum.
Have you heard any explanations as to how a giant ball of ice and dirt’s coma can grow to that size? I have read people bashing McCanney but I haven’t seen any explanations for Comet Holmes’ continued growth.
Years ago I used to theorize that physicists must get together in secretive rooms and someone would bring in the hallucinatory drugs and they’d all get high and have visions, kind of like the Indians do, and whatever they saw in their visions is what they ended up writing in their published physics papers. I don’t know if that theory has any validity, but it does explain the sheer stupidity of holding onto the dirty snowball or snowy dirtball theory of comets. Comet Holmes has completely blown away mainstream comet theory, in my estimation. Anyone who believes the gravity only model for comets in the face of what is happening with Holmes is either mentally retarded or a pathological liar. Way back when I read Milton W. Monson, Sr.’s book Physics Is Constipated (Intellectually, That Is), his theory of why scientists couldn’t see the forest for the trees was what he called Super Stupidity. He even dedicated an entire chapter to this topic. The explanations of Holmes by the mainstream astronomers are just plain absurd. There is no way that a rock 2.2 miles in diameter can grow its coma eight times larger than the Sun’s volume and hold that cloud into a spheroid shape using gravity alone as it traveled through space. The thought defies logic. The only valid explanation is electricity. I can only imagine that faced with this type of evidence of the Electric Universe, modern, mainstream scientists must be as hard-hearted as the ancient Pharisees who had the Son of God before them but still wanted to crucify Him. All evidence shouted out that Christ was Immanuel, but they rejected the evidence because it meant they were wrong and would have to submit to His authority. It is a great mystery to me why they persist in these ridiculous gravity-only theories, but I am confident that the tide will start to turn and more people’s eyes will be opened as we get nearer to the approach of our Savior, as the heavens will contain many signs and wonders. So many LDS think little of the prophecies of signs and wonders in heaven, because the heavens are relatively calm right now and because no one considers the possibility of plasma discharge across space between worlds, or of rapid realignment of the planets and all that that entails, but when it starts happening, I’m sure people will quickly convert over to the Electric Universe perspective. Whether they convert to the Lord and join his church is another matter altogether. I suppose if we LDS embraced the truths of the Electrice Universe and were vociferous proponents of it, showing via our scriptures how all these prophecies could have their fulfillment in a plasma-based universe, when the signs start piling up, people would naturally look to Mormonism as the ones who accurately predicted these things happening, but, unfortunately, we LDS as a whole have, to a great extent, embraced the mainstream views, and we’ll be just as surprised as the Gentiles when all this stuff is pressed upon us.