A filament by any other name....

[nick c]

Cosmic web orchestrates the progression of galaxies

The shape of galaxies and how they evolve depend on a web of cosmological filaments that run across the universe. According to a recent study headed by EPFL's Laboratory of Astrophysics, this cosmic web plays a much bigger role than previously thought.

Related paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04389

The article does not mention the E word, nor does it take the next step which is equating these ubiquitous filaments with Birkeland Currents.

[Maol]

[SARC]Perhaps it is perceived as so obvious it is deemed unworthy of mention. [/SARC]

[nick c]

Sarcasm appreciated!
It is a great example of how given the peer review system, paradigm change is an extremely slow process if not completely impossible.

[JHL]

That's actually funny, filaments, ranking up there with spacetime as the shirtsleeve jargon for stuff with zero material basis but that still somehow must be taken as gospel. What they're passed off as is physical nonsense, which makes what they actually are all the more illusive.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Gravity waves firing off the shoulder of the galactic core; I watched them somehow traverse absolute vacuum...

[celeste]

Cosmic web orchestrates the progression of galaxies

The article does not mention the E word, nor does it take the next step which is equating these ubiquitous filaments with Birkeland Currents.

The bullet points in the summary are fascinating, in that there is evidence for Marklund convection, Don Scott’s Bessel idea, and even the idea that galaxy shapes vary in the same way as a function of distance from the filament, as the solar cycle varies with the sun’s motion around solar system barycenter!

Forget the mainstream assessment. This article is worth a deep read for anyone in EU.

https://bazaarmodel.net/Images/phorum/P ... tion-2.jpg
The last bullet point in 8.1 is right, but the reason given in the third paragraph of 8.2 is wrong. The reason hydrogen is depleted as we get closer to the filament spine, is Marklund convection. Not tidal effects, or ram stripping, etc.

As far as their finding of no correlation of galaxy axies to these filaments, the reason is this:
They are not talking about the small scale filaments running through a galaxy. They are talking about huge scale filaments, where an individual galaxy can be at any distance from the central axis (this is what they are mapping). But that means, as in Don Scott’s model, the actual local current direction can vary repeatedly in direction as we move out from the central axis. They will no doubt do a better mapping of these actual orientations, and we should be watching.

[Cargo]

this cosmic web plays a much bigger role than previously thought.

Across the universe, galaxies are distributed along what's called the cosmic web, a complex network of filaments made up of ordinary and dark matter. And where those filaments intersect

Gods help us, it's a cosmic barf bag of bullchips. What are we to think of it, please tell us oh mighty Oz.

Papers like this should be rejected and investigated for data abuse. A taxpayer somewhere lost money to these boffins.

[BeAChooser]

The article does not mention the E word

It also doesn't mention plasma. It's "gas", "gas", "gas". And it doesn't mention that these filaments are likely all rotating ... as noted in this thread: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/forum3/ph ... ?f=3&t=522 . That's a rather major detail to leave out of their analysis, don't you think? In fact, it's been left out deliberately ... because they can't explain it. There hasn't been a peep about it since the discovery. Ignoring troubling facts is how the mainstream shields itself from doubt about the edifice of funding and prestige that they've built built for themselves. Which is why I don't hold out a lot of hope that observations from the James Webb telescope are going to change things. There's too much money at stake.