Wal Thornhill

Wallace William Thornhill

Born: Melbourne, Australia, 1942.

Home: Canberra, Australia.

BSc (physics & electronics) Melbourne University, 1964.

Before entering university Wal had been inspired by Immanuel

Velikovsky’s iconoclastic best-selling book, Worlds in Collision. It

taught him to be sceptical of expert opinions. Wal worked at IBM

Australia for 11 years, first as a scientific programmer, then a systems

engineer specializing in operating systems and compilers. Moving

to Canberra in 1967, he was IBM’s systems engineer for the Research

Schools at the Australian National University, which gave him

excellent access to libraries and scientists there during the Apollo

missions to the Moon. The early 1970’s were spent in the prestigious

IBM Systems Development Institute in Canberra, working on

government projects, data communications and the application of the

first computer graphics system in Australia for the Bureau of

Meteorology. In 1975 Wal joined the Department of Foreign Affairs to

develop secure diplomatic communications, message switching and

office automation. Global travel established close contacts with

scholars who were pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Wal is

devoted to the continuing study of astronomy and physics and

regularly attends colloquia at the Australian National University.

Wal was invited to attend the 1974 international Velikovsky conference

at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, on the subject of ‘The

Recent History of the Solar System.’ There he met Velikovsky and

David Talbott, one of the conference organizers. Wal subsequently

visited Velikovsky at his home in Princeton, NJ, on April 28, 1979. It

was but a few months before Velikovsky’s passing and the discussion

turned on the key question raised by his theory of recent solar system

chaos – the true nature of gravity and its role in cosmology. That led

Wal to a re-examination of Einstein’s legacy and the electrical nature

of matter. Wal has written papers for the U.S. journal, Aeon, and the

Review of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS), in England.

He served as a council member of SIS for several years while working

in London. He attended a postgraduate course in Astrophysics at the

University of London and meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society

and the British Astronomical Association.

 

Wal has achieved a broad synthesis of ideas he calls ‘THE

ELECTRIC UNIVERSE,’ in collaboration with David Talbott. It was first

presented at a world conference in Portland, Oregon, in January 1997.

A booklet and CD with that title were produced. Workshops and

conferences were subsequently held in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle,

Washington. Wal became the main contributor to a free Internet

newsletter ‘THOTH,’ and has been invited to speak several times a

year in the US. He has presented at conferences in the USA, Australia,

Europe and the Middle East. In 2000, Wal was one of the keynote

speakers at a historic conference in Portland, OR along with the noted

astronomer, Halton Arp, from the Max Planck Institute for Physics

and Astrophysics in Germany, and the leading plasma cosmologist, Dr.

Anthony Peratt, from the Los Alamos National Laboratories, author of

'Physics of the Plasma Universe.' Later that year Wal shared the

lectern with Dr. Arp at University College, London [the late Dr. Arp was

dubbed the modern Galileo for proving observationally that

the universe is not expanding].

 

In 2001, Wal was a keynote speaker at the “Intersect 2001”

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conference in Laughlin, Nevada. The broad scope of the ELECTRIC

UNIVERSE can be gauged by the connections established at that

conference with the well-known Oxford biologist, Rupert Sheldrake,

author of many books including Seven Experiments That Could Change

the World; the cellular biologist, Bruce Lipton, and the psychologist,

Garry Schwartz, of the University of Arizona. Anthony Peratt

provided evidence at that meeting confirming that the powerful electric

force is paramount in the universe.

 

Wal has published two books with David Talbott (author of ‘The Saturn

Myth’)—the first titled 'Thunderbolts of the Gods' and the second, 'The

Electric Universe,' on the combined subjects of the recent history of

the solar system and the electrical nature of the universe. More

volumes are planned. Also e-books are available online: ‘The Big

Bang?,’ ‘The Electric Sun’ and ‘The Comet’ being the first. The peerreviewed

paper ‘The Z-Pinch Morphology of Supernova 1987A and

Electric Stars’ was published in the IEEE Transactions on Plasma

Science, Vol 35 No. 4, Special Issue on Space & Cosmic Plasmas,

August 2007. ‘Toward a Real Cosmology in the 21st Century’

was published in special issue #2 of the Open Astronomy Journal in

2011. Wal was awarded a gold medal in 2010 by the European Telesio-

Galilei Academy of Science. He presented the Natural

Philosophy Alliance John Chappell memorial lecture, 'Stars in an

Electric Universe' in 2011 at U. Maryland and was awarded the NPA

2013 Sagnac Award for Lifetime Achievement.

 

Wal has a website, HOLOSCIENCE, at www.holoscience.com. It

summarizes the Electric Universe Model and provides alternative views

on scientific news. He is chief science advisor to the Thunderbolts

Project [www.thunderbolts.info] and vice president of the non-profit

U.S. TBolts Group Inc. His Youtube ‘Space News’ presentations are

very popular on the Thunderbolts website. Since 2012 there have been

annual Electric Universe conferences and a Special Workshop in 2014.

Wal was again the keynote speaker at EU2016 in Phoenix, AZ, where

he delivered ‘The Elegant Simplicity of the Electric Universe.’ He is in

regular worldwide demand for interviews and presentations. The

Thunderbolts Project is responsible for initiating a unique experiment

to independently test the electrical model of stars. Phase 2 of that

experiment is in progress in Toronto.