Expert: Ed - 8/19/2007

Question
Hi Ed

Is there anything i can do with an idea?
In all my ignorance I've come up with a big theory. "The earth produces flare activity!" The reason i believe in the existence of "earth flares" is built on my own "vast" research (as was noted by Prof. James Gort http://en.allexperts.com/q/Astronomy-1360/earth-flares.htm ) into accounts of glowing phenomena. However! This is all i do have. I have no mathematical models or any reasonable solution to show proof of their existence.

Thanks David


Answer
David,

This sounds interesting to me.  I wish I could help you get published somehow.  

The best idea I can come up with, is for you to try running your thought past the folks at the Keck observatory, in Hawaii.  Due to their location on a volcano, it occurs to me that they would be in a unique position to assess the validity of the concept that you are putting forward.  Surely they would be on a first name basis with geologists or volcanologists in the area.  It seems like if you could get a collection of people from various disciplines in the earth sciences, together with physicists and astronomers, to consider your idea, then I think there's a fair chance that you could get some helpful feedback.

www.keckobservatory.org/

Maybe Prof. Gort could give you some kind of letter of introduction?  I myself am not a professor, so, he would be a better guy to approach about something like that.

Keep Looking Up,
--Ed