:’) He’d have to answer that one, I think.
V wrote that Newton’s ‘world’ was devoid of the knowledge of electricity. Apparently Newton suspected there was more to it all than just gravity. Like Sheldon said in one episode of The Big Bang Theory, he would have ‘discovered’ gravity even without the apple. Chuckle.
There’s always something more. It was that ‘something more’ which Einstein was looking for. He may have found it too late, he was a very sick old man when he read Worlds in Collision, wasn’t he? What a pity. He must have taken that epiphany to the grave.
http://www.holoscience.com/wp/synopsis/synopsis-3-a-little-history/
It became clear to Velikovsky that Newton’s concept of gravity was insufficient to explain the reported behaviour of the planets. And it certainly could not answer the obvious question, “why do the skies look so peaceful now?” This allowed a dogmatic response by academia to Velikovsky’s seminal breakthrough. It was said his theory didn’t obey Newton’s laws. But what did Newton know of electricity? And if anyone believes that Newton’s laws guarantee a stable planetary system – think again! Any gravitational system with more than two orbiting bodies is unstable. Yet the question is hardly ever asked, let alone answered, “what produces the observed stability of the solar system?” Velikovsky was convinced that the clue lay in his discovery that electrical forces dominate the incredibly weak force of gravity at times of planetary close encounters. Although he was unable to explain at the time how this would create the observed stability of the solar system, with his uncanny prescience he had pointed the way to the Electric Universe.
The result is now a “Big Picture” that emphasizes our dramatic prehistory and essential connectedness to the universe. No longer do we have to look at ourselves and the universe through the distorting sideshow mirrors of modern science.
The implications of electrical activity between planets will be profoundly disturbing for those who have built their cosmology around the weak force of gravity, acting in an electrically sterile universe. This strange, dogmatic oversight guarantees that nothing will remain in future of the fanciful Big Bang theory or the simplistic story of the formation of the solar system.