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William Mark Spann
William Mark Spann
Born	August 15, 1958 (age 67)
Residence	Hueytown, AL, United States
Nationality	USA
Known for	Electric Universe, Plasma Cosmology, Aether, Catastrophism, Planetary Science
	Scientific career
Fields	Independent Researcher

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William Mark Spann (born August 15, 1958) is an American independent researcher whose interests include the Electric Universe, Plasma Cosmology, the Aether, Catastrophism, and Planetary Science. He resides in Hueytown, Alabama.

Biography

Spann traces his interest in cosmology and catastrophism to 1975, when at the age of 16 his family moved to Decatur, Georgia, a few miles from the Fernbank Science Center. He spent a great deal of time at the center's planetarium events and among its science museum exhibits. Having become acquainted with the museum's curator, Spann asked for advice on a single topic that might serve for the History, Science, and Sociology term papers he had due that semester. The curator gave him a worn, yellowed paperback on the condition that he never reveal its source. Spann read the book within a few days; it was Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, which he credited with shaping his subsequent interest in catastrophist cosmology.

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-I began my interest in Cosmology and Catastrophism in 1975 at the tender age of 16 when my family moved to Decatur Georgia just a few miles from the Fernbank Science center, where I spent an inordinate amount of time at the planetarium events and rummaging through the science museum and exhibits. One day I met with the curator of the Museum with whom I'd gained acquaintance, to ask for advise on a topic or subject on which I might be able to write one single term paper to cover all three term paper assignments for my History, Science, and Sociology classes I had due that semester. He reached behind him and pulled from his bookshelf a rather tattered and yellowed paperback book, which he freely offered to me on the one condition that I never tell anyone where I got it. I thought the condition odd at the time, but I took the book and read it cover to cover in a matter of days. The title of that book was WORLDS IN COLLISION.
+'''William Mark Spann''' (born August 15, 1958) is an American independent researcher whose interests include the [[Electric Universe]], [[Plasma Cosmology]], the [[Aether]], [[Catastrophism]], and [[Planetary Science]]. He resides in Hueytown, Alabama.
+==Biography==
+Spann traces his interest in cosmology and catastrophism to 1975, when at the age of 16 his family moved to Decatur, Georgia, a few miles from the Fernbank Science Center. He spent a great deal of time at the center's planetarium events and among its science museum exhibits. Having become acquainted with the museum's curator, Spann asked for advice on a single topic that might serve for the History, Science, and Sociology term papers he had due that semester. The curator gave him a worn, yellowed paperback on the condition that he never reveal its source. Spann read the book within a few days; it was Immanuel Velikovsky's ''Worlds in Collision'', which he credited with shaping his subsequent interest in catastrophist cosmology.
 [[Category:Scientist|Spann William]]
+[[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]
+[[Category:Catastrophism]]
+[[Category:Plasma]]
+[[Category:Plasma Cosmology]]