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Unseen Art Irony …

Unread post by BeAChooser » Wed Oct 26, 2022 3:26 am

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/ ... rk-matter/
Unseen Cosmic Forces Inspire Otherworldly Photographs of Magnets and Metallic Particles

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A fascination with nature, science, and the vast mysteries of the cosmos has inspired Alabama-based photographer Zac Henderson’s series Dark Matter III, part of an ongoing project that transforms magnets and metallic grains into spectral and unearthly forms. As its name suggests, the works are inspired by dark matter, a form of matter thought to be abundant in the universe, integral to its structure and evolution, and yet difficult to detect. Henderson describes it as “what keeps galaxies glued together,” and he’s influenced by the interaction of unseen forces on the world around us.

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Wonder if the artist ever heard of the Plasma Cosmology and the Electric Universe? Thinking he might not have, I sent him this email:

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I saw an article about your Dark Matter project and artwork. The article stated that "a fascination with nature, science, and the vast mysteries of the cosmos" inspired you to transform "magnets and metallic grains into spectral and unearthly forms" and that "as its name suggests, the works are inspired by dark matter, a form of matter thought to be abundant in the universe, integral to its structure and evolution, and yet difficult to detect." The article said you describe dark matter as “what keeps galaxies glued together.” But the astrophysics community has spend BILLIONS of dollars looking for dark matter without success. Maybe there's a reason.

What's ironic is that your images depict not dark matter but magnetism, which does indeed exist and heavily influences the structure and behavior of matter (specifically plasma) in our solar system and beyond. Electromagnetism (magnetism caused my moving electric currents) is what many smart people believe is actually responsible for the observations that led mainstream scientists to think dark matter existed in the first place. In fact, the number one justification given for the existence of dark matter is the shape of the rotation curves of spiral galaxies. But do you know that state of the art computer modeling back in the 1980s by a plasma physicist named Anthony Peratt, who was a student of the Nobel Prize winning plasma physicist Hannes Alfven (he won it for his work in magnetohydrodynamics), showed that the rotation curves of spiral galaxies could be explained solely with electromagnetism and the known (from decades of laboratory experiments here on earth) behavior of plasmas under the influence of electromagnetic forces? No need for dark matter.

This is a fact that you'll never see mentioned in any mainstream article proselytizing about dark matter. Peratt used particle in cell simulation codes (he had access to them because he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Applied Theoretical Physics Division) to show that electric currents and electromagnetic physics could not only explain the rotation curves (without invoking ANY dark matter) but were essential to explain the initial formation and evolution of galaxies from interacting plasma filaments. Here’s a link to a peer reviewed, scientific paper that Peratt published on that work in 1986: http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCos ... TPS-II.pdf . Here another related paper by him in 1990: http://plasmauniverse.info/Perattpdf/Pe ... Cosmic.pdf . Keep in mind that these papers were published at a time when most in the mainstream astrophysics community were denying that the universe was filled with plasma filaments AND denying that electric currents (much less HUGE electric currents) existed in intergalactic space. Years of telescopic observations, however, have now proven without a doubt that plasma filaments are ubiquitous at every scale and that huge currents do indeed flow along those filaments … observations successfully predicted by Hannes Alfven and Peratt. Well the mainstream has come to accept the existence of filaments, the later observation is still largely ignored by the mainstream.

Peratt is not the only work challenging the mainstream's theorists. Prior to him, and perhaps the foundation for his work, Alfven and Per Carlqvist published papers in 1978 and 1981 that were titled “Interstellar Clouds and The Formation of Stars” and “Cosmic Plasma”. Here are the papers: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi- ... etype=.pdf and https://books.google.com/books?id=gAnvC ... en&f=false .  The papers postulated both electrical solar and galactic models that involved an electric circuit that was really just a scaled up version of the homopolar motor that Michael Faraday invented.  For example, they said that galactic discs behave like the conductive plates in a homopolar motor. Birkeland currents flow within the galactic disks, powering their stars. The galaxies are, in turn, powered by intergalactic Birkeland currents that are detectable by the radio signals they induce. Since Birkeland currents are drawn toward each other in a 1/r linear relationship, dark matter can be dispensed with when electric currents flowing through dusty plasma are recognized as providing the attractive force that is otherwise unaccountable in a gravitational model of the universe and its galaxies.  

These and other plasma cosmology models explain many of the other curious observations that the mainstream has struggled with or simply been unable to explain … like the recently discovered fact that gigantic intergalactic filaments rotate (https://www.universetoday.com/151553/th ... ears-long/ ). Note that artwork in that article even shows that the filaments are helically wound. This is something that mainstream astrophysicists simply can’t explain. But the model I’m pointing you towards can. Indeed, helical winding behavior is inherent in the interaction of current carrying plasma filaments. We see it occurring in the labs and in our best computer models. This is behavior that Alfven and Peratt predicted over 40 years ago but which the mainstream still largely ignores. They can't rationally explain how filaments become helically twisted. Turbulence, their usual explanation, is nonsense.

At the solar level, one of the enduring mysteries is why protostars produce jets. They're calledHerbig Haro objects. Remember that mainstream astrophysicists rely on ubiquitous black holes (all detected indirectly, just like dark matter) to explain them in galaxies ... but protostars aren't black holes . So the mainstream invokes still more magic physics to explain them. But again, the plasma cosmology/electric universe community maintains that is not necessary. See what plasma focuses do in the lab, for example. That same electromagnetic/plasma physics that explain galaxy rotation curves is probably the explanation for photostar jets, too.

Another solar mystery is why 90% of the angular momentum of the solar system isn’t in the sun but in the planets. The mainstream has never been able to adequately explain this without invoking still more unproven physics. But Alfven and Gustaf Arrhenius explained it back in 1975 (see https://books.google.com/books?id=pvrtC ... es 138-143) using known and well understood physics regarding plasmas and electromagnetism.

You may have heard of the AU Microscopi observations where astronomers discovered “clumps” of matter moving outward from the star at high velocity in the equatorial plane. The velocities seem to increase the farther the clump is from the star. This is contrary to the idea that the “clumps” are the result of flare activity, the mainstream explanation. Furthermore, the clumps are moving very fast (up to 10 km per second). This seems to preclude the notion that the motions are due to forming planets. And at least three of the clumps even appear to have reached escape velocity for the system. It’s all become a big puzzle to astrophysicists … who think only in terms of gas, gravity, and amazingly, wind. But it won't be a puzzle if you think in terms of electromagnetism and plasmas.

You see, as a cloud of rotating plasma (gas and dust, the mainstream would say) begins to coalesce into a star and planets (and that is the mainstream model), there is a problem that the mainstream’s gravity-only astrophysicists seem to simply ignore.  A slowly rotating cloud may tend to collapse under gravity but there is a point where the outward rotational force will counteract further collapse. Stars can’t form without doing something with this excess rotational energy (angular momentum).  It must be dissipated to enable the cloud to collapse further … but the mainstream model has no believable way to do this. So the mainstream tries to ignore it.

Alfven and Arrhenius, however, theorized that because the inner part of the charged protostellar plasma cloud would spin faster than the outer part, an electric current would be generated, "flowing out along the solar magnetic field lines, through the cloud and back to the sun at its equator" . The interaction of the currents and magnetic fields would cause the inner cloud to slow down, and the outer cloud to speed up, transferring angular momentum outward, and allowing further collapse. They theorized that force free plasma filaments (they exist), called “superprominences”, could transfer the angular momentum from the sun to the plasma from which the planets formed.

And because the filaments pinch the plasmas together in the process, they would also help speed up planet condensation. They noted that there would be what they termed “jet streams” forming from the matter in the system along the equatorial axis (in the disk) where atoms in the plasma state would coexist with neutral grains of matter. They said these jet streams would be of decisive importance as an intermediate stage in the accretion of planets and satellites from grains. Inside the jet streams, the grains would accrete to larger bodies and eventually to planets and satellites. Perhaps what we see in the AU Microscopii observations are these grain/plasma jet streams and their interaction with the large electromagnetic fields and currents during the formation of a new solar system.

Now I could go on giving you examples of what’s probably really going on out there, rather than the “unseen and unproven cosmic forces" and *physics* of the dark matter believing community. Look up IBEX’s ribbons and flux transfer events (FTEs), for example. They’re more solar phenomena that the work of plasma cosmologists like Alfven and Electric Universe theorists might explain but which have caused problems for the mainstream. Unfortunately, like Peratt's work, the work of Alfven and those like him has largely been ignored. Maybe that's because the current crop of mainstream *physicists* have been taught very little about electromagnetic effects on plasma. Most of them probably never heard of any of the folks I've named, except perhaps Alfven. And his work is misused.

Alfven warned the physics community soon after he accepted his Nobel Prize that “In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often pinch to filamentary or surface currents. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure.”   That was NOT what the mainstream was saying about the intergalactic environment at the time and they've resisted the idea ever since. And his notion of plasma pinches?  You can hear dark matter proponents saying "what the heck are you crazy plasma geeks talking about?", even though plasma pinches can be demonstrated in earth labs.

You probably don't know this, but Alfven's MHD theorem is now used by the mainstream to support all sorts of outrageous claims by mainstream astrophysicists (and fusion physicists) ... especially the idea of "frozen in" magnetic fields. But in the 1980s, Alfven referred to his frozen-in theory by saying this (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19870013880) “I thought that the frozen-in concept was very good from a pedagogical point of view, and indeed it became very popular. In reality, however, it was not a good pedagogical concept but a dangerous 'pseudo-pedagogical concept.' By pseudo- pedagogical I mean a concept which makes you believe that you understand a phenomenon whereas in reality you have drastically misunderstood it. I never totally believed in it myself.“ He went on to say, "M. Azar has studied how a number of the most used textbooks in astrophysics treat important concepts like double layers, critical velocity, pinch effects and circuits. He has found that students using these textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of these, in spite of the fact that some of them have been well known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of the astrophysicists.” And there in lies the problem.

Despite all the above, for more than 30 years, the mainstream astrophysics community has desperately tried to ignore the implications of Peratt’s and Alfven’s work and they act like dark matter has been proven to exist, WHEN IT HAS NOT. So perhaps the real unseen force you should be celebrating is the one that we actually know exists … the one that Peratt and his predecessor, Hannes Alfven, studied and used in their models, which seem to eliminate the need for dark matter. And boy wouldn't that force makes some really cool artwork? ;)

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