I'll give the short version about myself:
I started out during the second big war in 1942 in Queens NY.
My dad was in the Navy, on a mine sweeper based in Brooklyn.
Early education was Catholic schools through high school, then I attended
public Jr College in Farmingdale Long Island where I took electrical technology.
Those two years landed me a job with IBM in Manhattan fixing IBM machines.
I worked in the Federal Reserve Bank on Wall St where I maintained 60 card machines.
They were called "unit record" machines which used the punch cards that later produced
the "hanging chads" in a Florida presidential election.
In the bank basement there was lots of gold. Many countries had their own big metal cages where workers
moved gold bars from one to the other on pallets using small fork lifts as the countries traded gold around.
That was before Nixon took us off the gold standard.
Then I headed west to attend the University of Arizona.
After starting in Engineering, I ended up with a degree in business management.
Living in the sixties made it hard to focus on differential equations and physics.
I've been in Tucson almost all these years working for myself doing light construction, home repairs and now
mostly as a handyman for friends. I have a wife and two children (one in college, one graduated).
I managed to build my own house and remodeled a couple more that we have as rentals.
About ten years ago I stumbled upon the Electric Universe and continue to follow the slow moving train
of plasma physics moving toward the light. I focus mostly on our sun and how it works.
I believe the Electric Universe ideas are basically correct but incomplete. Saying the sun "discharges " to the heliosphere
without details and without an explanation of the three part sun (photosphere, chromosphere, corona) is not enough.
I think this is why the Electric Universe and plasma astrophysics is still being mostly ignored by the main stream.
They will not throw out what they have until there is complete evidence for a new paradigm shift.
A more complete electric sun picture would force their hand.
Of course, I recognize their jobs and money reluctance as well.
Back to the forum and constructive discussion.
Jack