Charged By Gerald H. Pollack

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CHARGED: The Unexpected Role of Electricity in the Workings of Nature
By Gerald H. Pollack
Ebner & Sons Publishers

In 2013, Dr. Gerald Pollack published a groundbreaking book titled The Fourth Phase of Water, which revealed a whole new perspec­tive on how water works at a molecular level and how it relates to human health. One of the things he focused on was how electrical charge influences the structure of water. In Charged, Pollack launches into how electrical charge can explain a wide range of physical phenomena.

This review is a little outside our normal orbit of health and nutrition, but I think the lines between different scientific subjects are artificial and should be crossed much more often than they are. (If you’re looking for just another health or nutrition review, you’ve been warned.)

In his previous book, Pollack explained how solar-powered electrical charge drives blood through thousands of miles of capillaries. In Charged, he expands his study of the interplay between charge and water to explain weather events, from rain to wind to hurricanes to tor­nadoes. How does rain, in at least some cases, fall faster than gravity can account for? He even goes on to explain how charge has to do with Earth’s rotation and revolution around the sun. He questions whether momentum alone could keep the Earth moving the way it does for bil­lions of years (assuming it has been billions of years, but whatever).

Then it really gets interesting. I am always greatly entertained and fascinated when some­one starts pulling at the loose threads of anoma­lies that establishment science has tried to sweep under the rug. Take gravity, for example. For a long time, we thought Newton had it figured out. Then Einstein came along with his curved space—which, I must admit, never made sense to me. Pollack cites studies that neither Einstein nor Newton can explain.

We have been led to believe that the force of gravity is a constant. Newton’s equation for gravitational attraction includes a fudge factor called the gravitational constant or big “G” in the equation. Awkwardly, studies indicate that the force of gravity varies by a very small but measurable amount, both daily and seasonally. If you think you feel slightly lighter in winter than in summer, or during the night versus the day, you are right (though I’m pretty sure no one is sensitive enough to feel it). Sooo, that gravitational constant iswell, um, heh heh, not soconstant. Charged puts forth a theory of grav­ity based on electrical charge that makes a lot more sense to me than Einstein’s curved space, and it accommodates these anomalies nicely. If he is right, this is a breakthrough in physics that even Einstein couldn’t really figure out. I’m tempted to lay that all out—the beauty of it is that it is not all that complicated—but if you really want to know, buy the book.

Pollack wraps up this subversive tome with an excellent summary of how establishment sci­ence really works and why. He starts off with a great quote from old Ben Franklin: If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. We get a review of the trials and tribulations of Galileo, Semmelweis and Frenchman Jacques Benveniste (a friend of Pollack’s), along with other modern examples like Velikovsky, Mary Enig and all those anti-vaxxers. These days, we may not burn them at the stake literally, but we do our best to censor them and ruin their careers. Humans do not respond well to having their belief systems challenged. We tend to invest heavily in the status quo. Real science opposes the status quo.

Inside the box, no real thinking is going on, only sheeplike groupthink. There are certainly way-out-there ideas that I don’t agree with, but I encourage people to keep thinking outside the box; that is where all the fun is. If you are curious about physics, astronomy, weather, how ships sail against the wind or how planes or birds fly, this book is gold.

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