James a Weninger
James a Weninger | |
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| Residence | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Plasma cosmology, precession, Electric Universe theory |
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| Fields | Physics, Astronomy |
James A. Weninger, also known as Jim Weninger, is an American researcher in physics and astronomy based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is described as a physicist with working experience in observational astronomy, and is known within the plasma cosmology and Electric Universe communities for his work on precession and on the large-scale filamentary structure of the cosmos.
Biography
Weninger resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the Phoenix metropolitan area. He became active in the Electric Universe research community associated with the Thunderbolts Project, presenting at its annual conferences and collaborating with other independent researchers on questions of astrophysics and cosmology.
Work
Weninger's research centers on precession and on the idea that the Solar System moves along a large-scale plasma filament. He argues that observed precession is difficult to account for within a gravity-only model, and proposes instead that electromagnetic forces and plasma filaments shape the motion of the Solar System.
At the EU2016 conference in Phoenix, Arizona, he gave a session titled "The Motion of Our Solar System in a 'Donald Scott' Filament," presenting evidence intended to support the hypothesis that the Solar System travels along a large-scale plasma filament following the Lundquist–Scott model of Birkeland currents. In this work he described a fractal pattern of filaments embedded within filaments, which he related to Hannes Alfvén's prediction of a filamentary universe.
At the EU2017 conference he presented, together with David Johnson and Lukas Womack, a session titled "The VU: Virtual Reality Applied to Scott's Model of Birkeland Currents." He has also collaborated with Eugene Bagashov on presentations concerning plasma astrophysics and the interstellar object ʻOumuamua.
These proposals fall outside mainstream astrophysics, which explains precession and the motion of the Solar System through gravitation.