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Exploring the Electric Universe
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Introduction
In the wake of
recent discoveries, a new way of seeing the physical universe is
emerging. The new vantage point emphasizes the role of
electricity in space and shows the negligible contribution of
gravity in cosmic events.
Images returned by
high-powered telescopes and recent space probes have challenged
astronomers’ long-standing assumptions about galaxies and their
constituent stars, about the evolution of our solar system, and
about the nature and history of Earth.
The new discoveries
also suggest that our early ancestors may have witnessed awe
inspiring electrical events in the heavens—the source of myths
and symbols around the world.
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Cosmology
Today, we are seeing
things in space that were never imagined. We detect magnetic
fields everywhere, even in the "empty" depths of intergalactic
space. Magnetic fields cannot exist without causative electric
currents.
The naked electric
force is 39 orders of magnitude (a thousand billion billion
billion billion times) stronger than gravity. The visible
universe is constituted almost entirely of electrically active
plasma.
In the twentieth
century the pioneers of plasma science inspired a new school of
investigation called plasma cosmology. Plasma cosmologists
suggest that electricity is the primary force organizing spiral
galaxies and the astonishing galactic clusters now seen in deep
space.
Plasma cosmology has
achieved surprising success in predicting major discoveries of
the space age. This new perspective does not require purely
theoretical inventions like the Big Bang, dark matter, dark
energy, neutron stars, or Black Holes.
Stars
The "Electric
Universe" extends the findings of plasma cosmology to the
formation and evolution of stars and their planetary satellites.
Proponents of the
Electric Universe suggest that there are no isolated islands in
the universe. All objects in space, from subatomic particles to
galactic clusters, are connected by manifestations of the
electric force acting in realtime.
Stars are formed at
the intersections of galactic current filaments in dusty space
plasma.
It is electricity
that continues to energize the stars in a form of glow
discharge, our Sun included. This external power source explains
why the temperature of the Sun increases above the photosphere,
to coronal temperatures of 2 million degrees.
Powerful plasma
feedback effects maintain a steady output of visible solar
radiation while variations in power input show up in the
familiar sunspot cycle. It is in the nature of a glow discharge
that all stars possess a weak electric field beyond the corona.
As charged particles
of the solar wind move away from the Sun, they continue to be
accelerated due to the Sun's electric field.
The size of a star
and its color are determined electrically and may change
suddenly. Novae and supernovae are the explosive response of
stars to a power surge in their galactic circuit.
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Comets
Comets are
electrically charged bodies moving on elliptical orbits through
the Sun's interplanetary electric field. A comet’s swift radial
movement as it approaches the Sun, develops arcing on the
nucleus. The arcs produce jets of dust and ions that form the
coma and visible tails.
Many comets are
solid rocks with dry surfaces. The sharply defined features of
comet nuclei make clear that they are not “dirty snowballs”
sublimating in the Sun. Due to the electric force, a comet can
entrain a mass of hydrogen from the Sun greater than the mass of
the comet's nucleus. The unexpected X-rays of a cometary
discharge can reach 2 million degrees
Cometary nuclei
reveal deeply cratered and blackened surfaces due to electric
arcing. Since comet nuclei are eroded electrically, they could
not survive across eons of solar system history. Many comets
were born in catastrophic events only a few thousand years ago.
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Planetary Science
In the recent
history of the solar system, its electrical environment changed.
Under changing electrical conditions planetary orbits changed as
well.
Close approaches of
planets led to powerful electric arcing between planets and
moons. All rocky bodies in the solar system show the massive
scars of these kinds of electrical events.
Electric discharge
scarring is occurring even now on Jupiter’s closest moon, Io,
and on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus.
Electrical activity
continues on Mars, driving "dust devils" the size of Mount
Everest – created by the electrical differential between the
surface of Mars and surrounding space.
All of the dominant
surface features of Mars show the patterns of electric
discharge, suggesting that in the past a vast quantity of
material was excavated electrically from Mars.
It was an
interplanetary arc that created the Martian Valles Marineris,
the largest known scar on a solid planet. Much of the rocky
material exploding from Mars became comets, asteroids, and
meteorites. Some of the material arc machined from the Martian
surface is still reaching the Earth today.
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