David Wardlaw Scott, author of Terra Firma, has talked about how he feels the moon may indeed be 'electric.' This would provide serious attack against the idea of luna. Unfortunately, he doesn't delve into details.
Are there any flatists amongst us that believe in this? Can you give me a good argument towards an electric moon rather than than a bioluminescent or otherwise lit moon?
Are you or DW Scott suggesting the moon is a large light bulb?
I'd really be interested as to how this would work.
Just off the top of my head, electricity can only work as a complete circuit.
So this means you need a source of power,
Then you need a path from the source to the "SOMETHING"
That lights the moon. In a light bulb the something is the filament.
Then you need a path from the something back to the source.
Hey, maybe it's like this,
The moon has two poles, but instead of north and south
They are positive and negative!
There's your source of power!
A giant battery.
Tesla did many demonstrations of high-frequency field and xenon tube lamp glowing without visible closed circuit.
You just need the Moon to be covered with flourescent material, and high-voltage high-frequency field around it.
And capacitive connection between Moon and ground (through God's hand, or something similar).
Moon will glow.
Just to provide way to make phases somehow.
And to hide accidental sparks between field source and Moon surface.
Maybe if Moon was 3474 km in diameter, so the field could make only part of it glow.
But for that Moon had to be 384 400 km away, so we could see it with angular diameter of 0.5 degrees.