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11-14-2003, 03:17 AM

dear friends,

here's the latest from mitch battros concerning the article i posted. i couldn't
find a link at his site so please excuse the length of the article.

be well, be love.

david

some confusion regarding the article: "the sun goes haywire"...11/14/03
by mitch battros (ectv)
this article was published by a person named tony phillips. there are many who
believe he speaks for nasa or the space weather center. he "does not". this
person is nothing more than an independent journalist. he has shown to have a
strict conservative bias for what is now clearly defined as "old school". tony
phillips is one of those people who hold on to old ideas regardless of new
evidence to the contrary.
i have come up against this guy since 1999. he simply represents the "old
paradigm". he just cannot adjust to a rapidly moving shift. i believe it scares
him, and all those like him. i have a whole chapter on this dynamic in my book
"solar rain". it is chapter 9: "nasa, noaa and thing called 'peer review' "
so what is a "paradigm". (webster) it is a set of assumptions, concepts,
values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the
community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. so what is
a "paradigm shift"? when assumptions, concepts, values, and practices are no
longer useful or valid.
tony phillips has a website that looks like it belongs to nasa, but it does not.
it is only his independent view of the world, nothing more. website:
http://science.nasa.gov/ sure it has nasa markings, it may even be so-called
"sponsored" by nasa, but when you contact nasa and question them, they make it
perfectly clear "he does not represent us (nasa)".
it appears many people such as tony phillips, are grasping with both hands what
is familiar to them. oh, i can imagine today's time must be quite a threat to
people like tony, but nothing will stop our evolution. i found it quite humorous
to see what he had written in this latest article.
just like any journalist can do, including me, you can go out and find someone
who reflects your ideology. that is exactly what phillips did. he found david
hathaway, a solar physicist at nasa's marshall space flight center. i'm sure
david is a great guy, be he does not speak for the scientific community, and
specifically those in the space weather field. this is simply one physicist who
has an "opinion". nothing more, nothing less.
here is what dr. hathaway has to say: "very few sunspots," says hathaway--and
space weather near earth was mild. "mild is just what we expect at this point in
the 11-year solar cycle," he explains. "the most recent maximum was in 2001, and
solar activity has been declining ever since."
now that is interesting. let me see if i can follow this. dr. hathaway, a solar
physicist whom was not made clear if he specializes in 'space weather' says
"everything is normal and fine". then we have dr. ernest hindler, the leading
authority specifically in the "space weather" field, and who sat on the six
person panel when the decision was made on what the "nasa prediction" would be
for cycle 23, say live on the air during one of our interviews "we missed on
cycle 23. we were wrong". we also made reference to something outside an 11 year
cycle, which i call a "mega cycle". hmmm, now who are we going to believe?
surely there can be no dissent in the scientific community!
perhaps this is a hint to tony phillips 'watch the bouncing ball' interview with
someone he found agrees with his "opinion". a few paragraphs down from the above
statement reads...
sunspots cause solar flares and, usually, the biggest flares come from the
biggest spots. the three giant sunspots unleashed eleven x-class flares in only
fourteen days--equaling the total number observed during the previous twelve
months. "this was a big surprise," says hathaway.

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