Feb 05, 2014 The “Little Ice Age” impact on Europe was sudden and ferocious. Using its weapons of plague, famine and (perhaps controversially) earthquake, the so-called “Little Ice age” reduced the population of Europe by around 30 to 50 percent. The virulence and death toll of the 1348 AD…
Our weekly review of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day, with new articles every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and “best of” every Tuesday and Thursday. Monday — Black Flares: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Wednesday — Solar Bursts: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Friday — Knot so Fast!: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/…
Feb 04, 2014 Radio-wave observations of a Herbig-Haro (jetted) star at the edge of an opaque plasma cell reveal the wiring harness that drives it. In visible light, a spiraling filament jets toward the upper left of the image. It ends in a bright double layer. Surrounding it is a…
Feb 03, 2014 The Dawn spacecraft will arrive at Ceres in August of 2015 Ceres is the largest asteroid in the Solar System. The most recent measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope puts it at approximately 975 kilometers in mean diameter. It is so large that it is roughly…
Solar physicists around the world today are wondering: has the Sun fallen silent? In 2013, the Sun began the peak phase of its 11-year sun spot cycle called the Solar Maximum when sun spot production should be at its highest. However, the lack of sun spot activity has left solar…
Jan 31, 2014 Well-organized phenomena in space cannot be solely based on mechanical action. A recent press release from the Hubble Space Telescope science team announces a “cosmic caterpillar” in the constellation Cygnus. This knotted structure is said to be caused by “harsh winds from extremely bright stars…” The stellar winds are…
Jan 30, 2014 A gravity-only Universe cannot explain certain discrepancies. Ilya Prigogine, from a young age, was concerned that accepted physical theory had a couple of glaring discrepancies from observation: determinism and time symmetry. Most observations are of contingency and irreversibility. No one has yet seen an egg “un-fry”…
Jan 29, 2014 The intensity of the Sun’s magnetic field and solar wind periodically decline to low levels but explosive events are possible. On August 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite on a mission to monitor energetic ions coming from the Sun, as well…
Jan 28, 2014 Rediscovering F. A. Hayek’s The Sensory Order has been exciting. Hayek began his inquiry into the foundations of theoretical psychology in 1919 before specializing in economics (and winning a Nobel Prize in that latter field in 1974). He didn’t publish The Sensory Order until 1952, when…
Our weekly review of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day, with new articles every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and “best of” every Tuesday and Thursday. Monday, Stars in the Plasma Focus: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Wednesday, Does Recession Exist? https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Friday, The Galilean Moons: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/…
