Editors Note: The Bentham Open Astronomy Journal has now published a “Special Edition” with a focus on Plasma Cosmology. A peer-reviewed journal, its goal is to publish quality papers rapidly and to make them freely available to researchers worldwide. The following article by Wallace Thornhill, chief science advisor of the…
Oct 27, 2011 Earth’s aurorae demonstrate the electrical connection between our planet and the Sun. The Sun unleashed another coronal mass ejection (CME) on October 22, 2011, causing an outburst of colorful displays in nighttime skies as far south as Arkansas, in the United States. There is an electrically active…
Oct 26, 2011 Does the position of geologic strata determine age? In part one of this article, a reference to laboratory experiments that falsify the consensus view of sediment deposition mentioned that fossil ages could not be reliably determined based on the so-called “geologic column.” The geologic column is defined…
3.1 Introducing Plasma It is known that space is filled with plasma. In fact, plasma is the most common type of matter in the universe. It is found in a wide range of places from fire, neon lights, and lightning on Earth to galactic and intergalactic space. The only reason…
Oct 25, 2011 Did the terrain we see around us take millions of years to form? Some recent experiments suggest otherwise. As mentioned in past articles, Electric Universe proponents think that something is wrong with the “long, slow” view of geology. Fossils are dated based on the rock layers in…
Oct 24, 2011 There are more globular clusters around the Milky Way than there ought to be. Stars form along filaments of electric current that flow through, into, and out of our galaxy. Studies of galactic magnetic fields show that the same process takes place to a greater or…
Editor’s note: the following article has just been published in the October-December issue of Edge Science. In the 20th century no scientist added more to our knowledge of electromagnetism in space than Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995). His insights changed the picture of the universe, revealing the profound effects of charged particle…
Oct 21, 2011 Cold dark matter theory might be in need of serious revision. Dark matter theory is in the news again. Although cold dark matter (CDM) gets its name from the idea that it cannot be detected with any known instruments, cosmologists persist in using it to prop…
Oct 20, 2011 Saturn exhibits a circuit between Enceladus and its electrical environment. One of the most surprising results of the Galileo space probe’s mission to Jupiter was the identification of electrical activity between several Jovian moons and their parent. So-called “volcanic” plumes were seen erupting from the moon…
Oct 19, 2011 Hayabusa’s return to Earth was delayed for more than three years. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hayabusa spacecraft (Japanese for “Peregrine Falcon”) in May of 2003, after a several month delay and a change in mission goals as a result. Hayabusa was originally…
