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Charged – Pathway Publications

Charged: The Unexpected Role of Electricity in Nature

Explore the groundbreaking research of Dr. Gerald Pollack on electricity’s fundamental role in biological systems

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Early Praise for Charged

“Prof. Pollack is extrapolating upon his great discoveries. This is the kind of thinking needed to advance our paradigms scientifically. Reading this book changed how I look at… Everything!”
—George Wiseman, Alternative Energy Innovator and President of Eagle-Research
“The same scientist who revolutionized our understanding of water a decade ago, is about to do the same to the role of electric charge in the world… I almost fell off my chair several times when reading the Introduction, but chapter after chapter convinced me that he had very solid evidence for every claim. And Prof. Pollack’s courage for challenging the status quo — rarely popular — is astounding and inspiring!!”
—Yonah Alexandre Bronstein, PhD, President and CTO of ASTAV, Inc.

Synopsis

What if gravity has an invisible partner — a powerful force that explains why clouds float, what triggers rainfall, and how bugs fly?

Could such a force reside in electrical charge?

Renowned scientist Gerald Pollack, author of The Fourth Phase of Water, returns with a paradigm-shifting exploration into the profound significance of electricity in nature. With clear thinking and crisp writing, partnered with charming illustrations by the author’s son, Ethan Pollack, Charged offers an example of science at its best: identifying straightforward explanations for phenomena we witness every day but don’t really understand.

Topics range from the origins of weather and gravity to how birds and airplanes fly, and how fish swim. You’ll also learn what turns the Earth every 24 hours — and even how sailboats can sail almost directly into the wind.

Please visit our home page to view an outline of topics covered in Charged.

More Praise

“Charged is the book I seriously wish had been available before I entered engineering school many years ago. It is a marvelously readable tour through the underpinnings of how our reality appears to work — that often flies in the face of convention … But always makes great sense. Absolutely brilliant!”
—John L. Petersen, Founder and President of the Arlington Institute
“Gerald Pollack is one of my favorite scientists. He asks penetrating questions about everyday phenomena, like clouds, the rotation of the earth and the flight of birds and comes up with radical yet simple suggestions for a new scientific vision…”
—Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, biologist and author of Science Set Free
“A lot of my culinary creativity and insight is inspired by my motto: question everything. Gerald Pollack is an explorer and visionary who figures out the fundamental questions we all need answers to (even if we haven’t realized it yet) and explains them with lucidity and clarity. Charged will open your eyes, your mind and your understanding.”
—Heston Blumenthal, award-winning chef, cookbook author and restaurateur, including 3-Michelin-Star The Fat Duck
“Delightfully illustrated and perspicuously written, Charged uncovers and untangles spellbinding anomalies of everyday life — from the unexpected origin of clouds, winds and raindrops to that of falling and flying of objects, animals, and machines — through the pervasive role of electrical attraction and repulsion in the natural world…”
—Alex Gómez-Marín, professor of the Spanish Research Council and director of the Pari Center in Italy
“Gerald Pollack has done it again! Pollack guides us masterfully through the complex topic of electrical charge and how it impacts life as we know it. Painting a completely new picture with compelling and captivating writing, Charged is a must-read book for anyone interested in science!”
—Catherine Clintion, Naturopathic Physician, Author, Speaker
“Charged forces you to walk through the world with eyes a lot more open than before; you cannot unsee the many observations once pointed out. It presents a mind-boggling series of paradoxes that scientists seemingly worked around for decades without questioning what now seem to be mere assumptions rather than proven concepts…”
—Achim Hoffmann, PhD, CEO of Ocane Ltd.

Sample Chapter

A Shortcut to the Road Ahead

The key to this book lies in the unexpectedly central role of electrical charge throughout nature. The book will take you on an electrical journey. It will explore how an appreciation of the role of electrical charge might offer a way forward to a simpler and more straightforward understanding of the science of everyday life — the science that lets us understand how the world works.

You might presume you already know how the world works. After all, you regularly think about explanations for natural phenomena. It’s raining — so you surmise that those droplets must be pulled to the earth by gravitation. Suppositions like that can feel satisfying; you’re comforted by your apparent understanding of nature. Who needs any further comprehension?

Yet, even in that seemingly straightforward realm, matters are not so straightforward. A scientific study challenges that simple gravitational interpretation (see Chapter 8): In drawing those raindrops toward the earth’s surface, at work is something beyond just one mass pulling another. To explain the observed high speed of descent, another force must be at play.

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