Stellar clusters (blue) near a pair of galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Tremblay (European Southern Observatory)
Jul 14, 2014
A helix of stars surrounds a pair of galaxies thought to be colliding.
Galactic evolution occurs as large-scale plasma discharges form spinning wheels of coherent filaments that display electrodynamic behavior and not merely that which gravity alone can contribute. This concept differs from conventional thinking, since modern cosmology insists that galaxies “condense” from vast clouds of cold, dark hydrogen and other dusty gases. Stars within galaxies often form long arcs like silver beads on a string, as well. The Nebular Hypothesis does not adequately explain star formation. Star clusters, as well as clusters of galaxies that then group themselves in superclusters, are also beyond any conventional definition.
The conundrum facing cosmologists is illustrated by a recent press release, an “…uncanny 100,000-light-year-long structure that looks like a string of pearls twisted into a corkscrew shape… Astronomers don’t quite know how to explain the origin and ultimate fate of the object, but the answer must be extraordinary…”
Their discovery of “young” star clusters in a helical train within galaxy cluster SDSS J1531+3414 was shocking to the research team. Since their only recourse is to use models that rely on a gravity-based cosmos, everything in the announcement is couched in those terms. The cluster’s gravity “warps” space; it is a “self gravitating” phenomenon; it is composed of “pools of cold molecular gas”; or it has been formed by a “shockwave” caused by two galaxies as they “crash together.”
In an Electric Universe, plasma is the dominating factor. Whenever electrically charged plasma moves through clouds of dust and gas, those clouds become ionized, creating regions of charge separation. That, in turn, initiates an electric field, causing the electric charges to flow. When electricity traverses any substance, magnetic fields that tend to align and constrict the current. Those electromagnetic fields form what are sometimes called “plasma ropes”, otherwise known as Birkeland currents.
Gravity is not ignored in Electric Universe theory. However, it is not the protean causal force that is so often presented in the scientific press. Major difficulties arise when electricity in space is ignored. Jets of ionized particles seen erupting from galaxies and quasars, for example, are one of the most difficult scenarios facing modern astronomers. How can gravity or any kinetic effect generate energetic particle emissions that span light-years-long distances? How can they remain confined in narrow beams? The prevailing theory of “compacted gravitational point sources”, otherwise called “black holes”, exciting gas and dust does not address the existence of collimated jets. There is only one force that can hold such a matter stream together over those distances: electromagnetism.
As retired Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Donald Scott, recently explained, charged particles in motion constitute an electric current, forming filaments of plasma. Electric currents are accompanied by magnetic fields that wrap around the filaments, diminishing in strength in a 1/√r relationship with their distance. This means that plasma filaments are probably the most powerful long-range attractors in the Universe, drawing charged matter toward them, incidentally dragging the neutral molecules along.
The cosmos is laced with interacting circuits; each of them composed of untold numbers of twisting Birkeland currents. At the largest observable scale, there are power-consuming loads in those circuits that convert electrical energy into rotational energy. They are known as galaxies.
Since galaxies exist within a filamentary circuit of electricity that flows through the Universe, they should be evaluated according to electromagnetism and not mechanical, kinetic behavior with mysterious magnetic fields added to save the theory.
Stephen Smith
