Questions aplenty - the apparent stability we see today

[Archonix]

I've been reading these fora and the various websites related to this Electric Universe concept for the past month or so (can't afford the videos yet, but I'm saving up!) and, naturally, I have a few questions. I can't say for sure whether this first has been answered before as the search function seems to think a lot of specialist words are "common", and ignores them. You lot like your big words. A poor builder like me feels completely out of his depth.

The question that's come to mind most often whilst reading here is this: the EU seems to be quite catastrophic in it's nature. That is, events seem to play out in sudden, violent bursts a sort of punctuated equilibrium. The idea of, say, Venus being ejected from Jupiter, various other planets being the ejecta of one of the gas giants, and these in turn being the ejecta of the sun as a system attempts to balance its charges, seems to be the one big thing that the EU hypothesis rests on. The question I have is: will it happen again?

By that I mean, how likely is it that the sun or one of the gas giants will eject another large body? I'm not asking for predictions, just probabilities. Are we at the point where it's unlikely to happen again?

(Also I wasn't quite sure where to put this question so here it is )

Thanks in advance for your time. I may be back with more mundane trivia to pester you with at a later date.

[mharratsc]

Archonix asked:

By that I mean, how likely is it that the sun or one of the gas giants will eject another large body? I'm not asking for predictions, just probabilities. Are we at the point where it's unlikely to happen again?

In short- no. If you're in an externally powered circuit and you don't control the generator, then anything is possible, including surges and 'brown-outs'.

Spooky, eh?

On the plus side however, Prof. Don Scott has proposed a mechanism wherein the Sun behaves as a PNP transistor, providing the ability to self-regulate power and keep a bit of balance going. That's a plus.

[moses]

By that I mean, how likely is it that the sun or one of the gas giants will eject another large body? I'm not asking for predictions, just probabilities. Are we at the point where it's unlikely to happen again?
Archonix

Whereas the galactic current entering, and going past, the solar system, could produce a power surge, we would likely have considerable warning, although we would have to go underground for a long time most likely. But otherwise, as for a planet being ejected, I consider that to be exceedingly unlikely and I am not even sure that it happened in the last few thousand years, as a planet coming close to another planet would flare up and appear to be born from that other planet. And any small power surge would result in current passing between Venus and Earth, say, but this would tend to stabilize the system by modifying the orbits of the planets. Thus it would take an extra large power surge to cause the planets to go into the state of chaotic orbits that existed a few thousand years ago just prior to the formation of this stable system.

So in short, I think that there is near zero possibility of a sudden planetary birth or the formation of chaotic planetary orbits.
Mo

[Archonix]

I see. Well that's reassuring, if just a smidgen disappointing. Not that I'd want to see us struck by gigantic lightning bolts...

Archonix asked:
On the plus side however, Prof. Don Scott has proposed a mechanism wherein the Sun behaves as a PNP transistor, providing the ability to self-regulate power and keep a bit of balance going. That's a plus.

Now that's interesting! I wonder if other stars or interstellar bits and bobs form other kinds of circuitry. Actually that raises a point: if the sun is a PNP transistor, could other stars be NPN? I experiment with circuits now and then (all the flashing effects on my model kits need a bit of futzing with) and there's one in particular that always fascinates me because it's so simple. Sort version is, a cap and a npn transistor wired in parallel, with the transistor base floating, will spontaneously generate an oscillating waveform. If I can build it, surely it can occur out there too?