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Mel Acheson: Gravitating Toward Plasma | Thunderbolts Plasma encompasses a larger domain of evidence compared to gravity, and explains more phenomena with a comprehensive and unitary theory. It sees more landscape, more features of that landscape, and more relationships among those features. Gravity, in contrast, sees fewer features and sees them as disparate events, each requiring a separate ad hoc explanation. For example, similar features on different planets have their own theory: impact craters, volcanoes, tidal cracks, floods of disappearing water, lava that runs uphill, and runaway greenhouses. Isaac Newton was unaware of plasma, although his disciples spent years learning how to shut their eyes to it. Science critic Mel Acheson explains how new ideas and new tools such as the EU Model enables us to make sense of the new plasma vistas.
