“Cosmic Frequency” by Simon Haduk
Aug 19, 2014
Is the recently announced “cosmic web” based on erroneous conclusions?
A press release from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), reports observations of the filamentary structure that comprises the Universe. A nebula exceeding 2 million light-years across, surrounding a quasi-stellar radio source (quasar) known as UM287, is said to reveal the first indications of a cosmic web in which all matter and energy exist.
According to J. Xavier Prochaska, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz: “This quasar is illuminating diffuse gas on scales well beyond any we’ve seen before, giving us the first picture of extended gas between galaxies. It provides a terrific insight into the overall structure of our universe.”
The standard model of the Universe states that galaxies are embedded in a diffuse cloud of gas and dust known as “baryonic matter”. Baryons are what is commonly referred to as “normal matter”, or atoms. However, along with baryons, consensus opinion among astrophysicists is that there is a vastly greater concentration of “non-baryonic matter”, otherwise known as “dark matter”, comprising more than 80% of all mass in the cosmos.
It is believed that dark matter is essential to the large-scale evolution of the Universe, since there is insufficient gravity in a baryon-only Universe for galaxies to form. After studying the Coma Cluster in 1933, Fritz Zwicky found that his calculations for orbital acceleration and stellar mass within it were off by a factor of about 160. He thought that something invisible to his instruments was holding the cluster together. That “something” later became known as dark matter. It is the gravity from dark matter that is supposed to allow galaxies to condense, as well as to sustain their shapes.
Dark matter is invisible to any instrument, so astronomers depend on observations of visible matter in order to test their theories, incorporating those observations into their computer models based on dark matter’s activity. Such is the case with this recent report. Since UM287 emits intense radiation, the gases and dust around it absorb energy, re-emitting it in the from of “Lyman-alpha band” ultraviolet light. It is in that glow from the nebula that astronomers see indications of a filamentary structure.
As quantum mechanics theory posits, electrons are negatively charged, so they are attracted to nuclear protons by a force called “binding energy.” Each “n” orbit possesses its own binding energy value expressed in “electron volts.” The closer an electron is to a hydrogen atom’s proton nucleus, the greater the binding energy. As an electron jumps from an orbit with a lower binding energy to an orbit with greater energy (n2 to n1 for example), it emits light at a specific ultraviolet frequency. Light from the n2 to n1 jump corresponds to 121.6 nanometers and is called “Lyman-alpha” radiation, named for Theodore Lyman, who first discovered it in 1906.
It is probable that the Universe is constructed from threads of matter. However, those threads are most likely electrical in nature. One of the principal tenets of Electric Universe theory is that electricity flowing through ionized gas, otherwise known as plasma, creates long electromagnetic filaments called Birkeland currents. Primal electric forces are orders of magnitude greater than gravity. Birkeland currents attract one another in a linear relationship that can inexorably more powerful and of longer range than gravity. That means they are the strongest long-range attractors in the Universe.
Illumination by UM287 is probably not creating the ultraviolet glow that astronomers detect. In an Electric Universe, nebulae, no matter their scale, can be more properly identified with the glow from a gas discharge tube—similar to a neon lamp. An electric discharge through plasma forms double layers along the current axis. Positive charge builds up on one side and negative charge on the other side of this “sheath.” An electric field develops between the sides, and if enough current is applied the sheath glows, otherwise it is invisible. Electric currents flow within and across the sheaths.
Electric sheaths that are normally invisible are “pumped” with additional energy from Birkeland currents in which they are immersed. Electromagnetic forces draw matter from the surrounding space into filaments. The electrical power pushes them into “glow mode.”
Electricity powers the Universe.
Stephen Smith
