Endorsements
“I really love
this book. It is causing me to rethink a great deal of my own work.
I am convinced that The Electric Sky deserves the widest possible readership….
I felt genuine excitement while reading and felt I was delving into a delicious
feast of new ideas.”
– Gerrit L. Verschuur,
PhD, University of Manchester.
A well-known radio astronomer and writer,
presently at the Physics Department, University of Memphis. He is the author of
"Interstellar
matters : essays on curiosity and astronomical discovery", and "The
invisible universe – The Story of Radio Astronomy” as well as many other
books and scientific papers.
: the story of radio astronomy". ISBN 0387962808
“You don't
have to be an astronomer to enjoy this book. It's an exciting story about how a
small group of physicists, engineers and other scientists have challenged the
‘establishment’ – the ‘big science’ astronomers who are reluctant to listen to
anyone outside their own elite circle.”
– Lewis E.
Franks, PhD, Stanford University, Fellow of the IEEE (1977), Professor
Emeritus and Head of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Massachusetts (Retired).
“Gravity was the focus of 20th century astronomy. For the 21st
century, it will be electromagnetism and plasmas in addition. This forthcoming
scientific revolution is presaged by the rapid pace of discoveries about our
own star, the Sun, and its total plasma environment, and discoveries about the
nature of the interstellar medium."
– Timothy E.
Eastman, PhD, Head of
Raytheon's space physics and astrophysics groups. He is well known for his work
on magnetospheric boundary layers and the initial discovery of the Low Latitude
Boundary Layer.
http://www.plasmas.org/space-astrophys.htm
“It is
gratifying to see the work of my mentor, Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfvén enumerated
with such clarity. I am also pleased to see that Dr. Scott has given general
readers such a lucid and understandable summary of my own work.”
–
Anthony L. Peratt, PhD,
USC, Fellow of the IEEE (1999), former scientific advisor to
the U.S. Department of Energy and member of the Associate Laboratory
Directorate of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is the author of Physics
of the Plasma Universe and numerous published papers.