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title: "Sources & Method"
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This section presents the **Electric Universe (EU) theory on its own terms** — sympathetically, in the proponents' own framing, with their best evidence in view — so that you can weigh the ideas and make up your own mind. That editorial stance is deliberate, and this page states it plainly along with the sourcing rules every page in this section follows.
## The stance
We lead with the theory and we let it speak: what it claims, why its proponents find it compelling, what they predicted, and what happened. This is a place to explore these ideas in their own light. The standard model is told confidently in ten thousand other places; the reader arrives already knowing it is the consensus, and is trusted to weigh what they read here for themselves. So we do not interrupt the material with disclaimers, "most scientists disagree" notes, or rebuttal sections. Every idea here could be wrong — so could any idea anyone has ever held — and the reader needs no reminder of that.
What we owe the reader instead is **honest attribution**: we say who makes each claim and on what basis, so it is always clear what is laboratory-established, what is a proponent's argument, and what is frankly speculative reconstruction:
- **Established plasma physics** — laboratory and space-physics results in the published record (Birkeland currents, double layers, plasma scalability) — is stated plainly.
- **The EU interpretation** of those facts is attributed: *"in the EU model…"*, *"proponents argue…"*, *"Thornhill predicted…"*.
- **The speculative reconstructions** — chiefly the comparative-mythology wing (the "polar configuration" or Saturn theory) — are presented as the fascinating, far-reaching speculation they are.
Attribution is not hedging. It is simply telling the reader who is speaking, which is what lets them make up their own mind.
## What we draw on
**Primary EU literature** — the theory in its own words:
- *Thunderbolts of the Gods* (Talbott & Thornhill, 2005) and *The Electric Universe* (Thornhill & Talbott, 2007) — the two foundational books.
- *The Electric Sky* (Donald E. Scott, 2006) — the most systematic single-volume case, written by a retired electrical-engineering professor.
- [thunderbolts.info](https://www.thunderbolts.info/) — the Thunderbolts Project: Picture-of-the-Day archive, Space News videos, conference talks, and the published prediction pages we cite for the track-record claims.
- [holoscience.com](https://www.holoscience.com/) — Wal Thornhill's own site and essay archive.
- [plasma-universe.com](https://www.plasma-universe.com/) — reference site for the plasma-cosmology heritage.
- SAFIRE / [Aureon Energy](https://aureon.ca/) — the laboratory effort to test the electric-Sun model; we cite their own reports and say so.
**The plasma-physics heritage in the peer-reviewed record** — the lineage EU builds on stands on published science, and we cite it directly: Kristian Birkeland's expedition reports (public domain), Hannes Alfvén's books and papers (including his 1970 Nobel lecture), Anthony Peratt's galaxy-simulation papers in *IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science* (Dec. 1986) and his *Physics of the Plasma Universe* (Springer, 1992).
## Citation rules
- **Link, don't re-host.** In-copyright books, papers, and videos are linked at the source; we quote at most one short attributed passage.
- **Public-domain originals may be reproduced** — Birkeland's *The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902–1903* is PD and quotable at length.
- **Predictions must be dated.** A "successful prediction" claim is only as good as its paper trail; we link the prediction as published *before* the observation, or we don't call it a prediction.
- **Verify quotes against the original.** No second-hand quotations.
- **Videos:** link only verified, working sources (official channels where possible).
## Page conventions
Each article ends with a **Related pages** list (block links within this section) and a **Sources & further reading** list. Cross-references to the theory's people, experiments, and claims should link within the section so the reader can follow a thread without leaving it.
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