Comets, Planets in Chaos and Plasma Mythology

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An unnamed comet streaks toward the Sun. Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)

 

Jul 30, 2014

Thomas Short, writing in the 18th century, chronicled the many calamities that decimated mankind over four thousand years.

Plagues, earthquakes, drought, pestilence and incredible floods. As you read through Short’s curious book, you are struck by the appearance of bright comets in numbers unmatched by modern experience.

The comets are invariably connected to major disasters! Up until the 1800s, many sources resonate with the fear that humanity held for the “comet”. Chinese records show the many forms a comet may take. Did they have a reason? When the “Age of Reason” arrived, curiously, the number of visible comets visiting Earth fell dramatically. Eventually, by the end of the 20th century, it became scientific dogma that comets were harmless dusty snowballs.

Then two stunning events occurred that forced a reappraisal of this benign scenario. In 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 split into 23 pieces, and one-by-one flash discharged well above the surface of the giant planet Jupiter. The result was devastating! Each discharge area was the size of Earth, with the destructive imprints persisting for over a year. For the first time modern man had seen how ruthless the innocent comet could be.

The second surprise was the observation by modern instruments of comets diving into the Sun. Immediately afterwards giant coronal mass ejections (CME) were seen blossoming out on the opposite side of the Sun. Electric Universe advocate, Wal Thornhill believes this an indication that the Sun is electrical in nature. The resultant CMEs were even larger than the Sun itself. How could such a puny object like a comet be so violently powerful?

Wal Thornhill states, “We don’t really understand comets or their origins”. However, new instruments have enabled scientists to question many of their previous notions about comets. First, they are not “dusty snowballs”. In fact, are similar to asteroids; being solid bodies. Second, as Wal Thornhill explains in the film accompanying this article, they are negatively charged, racing toward a positively charged Sun. As they get closer, they begin to discharge in what he believes is a “cold cathode discharge”. However, Wal also notes that early man documented the earliest appearance of a comet: the proto-planet Venus. Hesiod, writing around 700 BCE, notes that it sprang from the head of Jupiter.

Whether this is fanciful or fact we will never know. However, there is no doubt that Venus was described as a mighty comet. Many ancient chronicles note the features, such as its beard, that are classically ascribed to cometary bodies. In that mode, it wreaked tremendous damage on the human race. Much evidence is presented by the fiercely denigrated Immanuel Velikovsky, who claimed that Venus was once in an erratic orbit. The chaos, described by Velikovsky, resulted in electrical discharges between the planetary bodies, including Earth.

Velikovsky cites chapters out of Homer’s Iliad as an example of such “battles” between Venus, Mars and other planetary bodies. Whether we concur with Velikovsky’s ideas or not, there is no doubt that tremendous upheavals occurred on Earth at these times. Egyptian sources such as the Papyrus Ipuwer and the Papyrus Harris, testify to these destructive eras. Modern day evidence comes from such archaeologists as Claude Schaeffer, who showed that six destruction layers separate civilizations from the Bronze Ages down to the Iron Age. Those destructions, he believes, were worldwide.

They caused earthquakes, famine, plagues and the mass migration of human beings, bent on survival. The sudden and dramatic collapse of the early Bronze Age civilizations, around 2200 BCE, has puzzled many an archaeologist. Highly respected academics such as Kathryn Kenyon and John Garstung, have wondered over these unexplained phenomena. The consensus of academic opinion note that, not only was it sudden and dramatic, but that it was widespread: from Europe, across Asia Minor to the Indus Valley and beyond, to China. Further evidence of Velikovsky’s destructive scenario comes from archaeologists Amos Nur and Harvey Weiss. They scientifically measured those tumultuous times that were replete with earthquakes, soil deposition, famine, ash deposits, desertification, and site abandonment.

Echoes of such cosmic interference continued down through Roman and Greek times. Numerous devastating earthquakes are noted beginning with Thucydides, citing the destruction of Athens by earthquakes and plague. If, as Wal Thornhill believes, earthquakes are an underground electrical storm, then perhaps a comet has the ability to excite the telluric currents beneath the earth. The appearance of comets and subsequent deadly earthquakes is often touched upon in Thomas Short’s chronicles.

Finally, we come to the evidence provided by rock carvings known as petroglyphs. The shapes of these carvings, such as the “squatter man” figure, resemble plasma physicist Anthony Peratt’s plasma tube instabilities and computer simulations. Those studies revolutionized petroglyph interpretation. Since electrical phenomena are scalable, Peratt surmised that they were drawn in admiration of huge plasma instabilities in the sky. Precisely what caused those impressive displays can only be conjecture. Was it Venus? Was it the result of cometary interference? Was it the result of electrical phenomena we haven’t witnessed in recent centuries? We can’t be sure, but the realization that electrical effects are cosmically scalable provides a basis for constructing theories that are rooted in fact and not imaginary dusty snowballs! The filmed discussion with Wal Thornhill and myself travels a little deeper into this murky subject.

Peter Mungo Jupp

Mungoflix.com

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