Nov 01, 2013 It’s exciting to discover a new idea that explains more facts with more unity than previous ideas. It’s exhilarating to discover two such new ideas that interact to reveal opportunities previously unimaginable. That’s what happened with heliocentrism and gravity. Copernicus’ idea that the planets moved around the…
The symbol chosen for these annual conferences is the Cosmic Thunderbolt: Sanskrit vajra, Tibetan dorje, and Japanese kongō. This enigmatic “weapon of the gods” directly links a global theme of antiquity to the leading edge of plasma science. It’s not surprising that few scholars and scientists have paused to wonder about our early…
Oct 31, 2013 The discovery of ‘mega-lightning’, upper-atmospheric lightning or transient luminous events (TLEs) is relatively recent, due to the fleeting nature of these phenomena: most last no longer than a few milliseconds. A menagerie of types – such as the playfully labelled ‘sprites’ and ‘ELVES’ – discharge energetically…
Oct 30, 2013 Astrophysicists are hung up on gravity-only theories of star formation. According to the standard model, new stars result from a compression wave passing through a cloud of dust and gas. Supernovae explosions from another part of the galaxy push nebulae into a star making process based…
Oct 29, 2013 A new mission designed to study the Sun’s electrical relationship with Mars will soon be launched. Sometime in the morning a few months from now, between November 18 and December 7, 2013, NASA will launch the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission. Otherwise known as MAVEN, the…
Oct 28, 2013 In this second installment about the planet Mercury, more details about its possible electrical origin will be uncovered. MESSENGER entered orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011 after traveling nearly eight billion kilometers. Since that time, it has sent hundreds of close-up images of the surface,…
Dendritic Ridges–An Electrical Interpretation In 1777, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg demonstrated the lightning-like dendritic patterns taken by dust on non-conductive surfaces subjected to electric sparks. In honor of his contribution, these electrical patterns came to be named “Lichtenberg Figures.” Lichtenberg experimented with variations in the observable effects of electric sparks to…
Solving the Mystery of Dendritic Ridges The Thunderbolts ProjectTM is proud to announce its first Innovative Experiment PrizeTM : dendritic ridge systems created by electric discharge. Three cash prizes will be awarded: Gold-$6000; Silver-$3000; and Bronze-$1000. In the planetary science of the Electric Universe, the priority must be on experimental verification. For…
Oct 25, 2013 Data from the MESSENGER probe to Mercury continues to provide evidence for the Electric Universe theory. The planet Mercury has no atmosphere and little in the way of a magnetic field, so it is bombarded by the full force of the Sun’s radiation. Since the Moon…
Oct 24, 2013 What formed the hundreds of limestone knolls in this region? The Chocolate Hills are considered to be one of the seven natural wonders of Asia. They are composed of limestone that, according to geologists, has been eroded by rainwater and subsidence into what is known as…
