Saturn Supernova

Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/Henry Roe, Lowell Observatory/Emily Schaller, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/Henry Roe, Lowell Observatory/Emily Schaller, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

 

Jan 29, 2015

Shockwave: a compressional wave of high amplitude caused by a shock (as from an earthquake or explosion) to the medium through which the wave travels.

The plasmasphere of Saturn is highly energetic, enough so that, when the Cassini orbiter sent images to Earth, lightning up to a million times more powerful than anything on this planet was observed.

Saturn is quite large compared to Earth; its equatorial diameter is 120,500 kilometers. However, Saturn rotates so fast (a day on Saturn is only 10 hours, 34 minutes, shorter than any other planet except Jupiter) that its polar diameter is 108,700 kilometers. The difference is caused by “flattening” because the angular momentum of its rotational speed pushes the low-density atmosphere outward at the equator.

According to astrophysicists, the rapid rotation “flings cold, dense plasma outward from the inner magnetosphere by centrifugal force”. As the colder plasma accumulates in the outer magnetosphere, hotter, more tenuous plasma cycles back into the inner magnetosphere. Cassini observed narrow “jets” of hot plasma moving inward, tentatively identified by mission specialists as part of the exchange sequence.

It is assumed by mainstream scientists that Saturn’s 37,000 kilometer per hour rotational speed is the only mechanism available that can “force” cold plasma into the outer magnetosphere and start the recycling process with the hot plasma.

A recent press release states that Cassini detected charged particles “being accelerated to ultra-high energies”. They believe that the impetus experienced by the ions is similar to that which is felt by particles that are sped up by the shockwaves from supernovae: “Cassini has essentially given us the capability of studying the nature of a supernova shock in situ in our own solar system…”

As written previously, however, the idea that shockwaves, or kinetic effects, in general, are responsible for high speed particles is at odds with Electric Universe theory. Hot gas, sonic booms, wind, turbulence, blast fronts, and other commonly applied causal events are insufficient in providing the necessary energies.

In other instances of electrical discoveries in planetary environments, NASA scientists can only see internal pressure, centrifugal force, and “gas flow.” Of course, they are aware that plasma makes up more than 99% of the visible Universe, but they have yet to consider the role of charge distribution within the plasma of space. Instead, a charge-neutral Solar System is held up as the sine qua non of theoretical speculation.

Electrical theorists argue that Saturn moves within the plasmasphere of the Sun and interacts with the Sun’s electric field. Planets and moons in the Solar System are charged bodies. They are not isolated in “empty” space, but “converse” electrically with each other. Enceladus, Dione and Tethys all move within the plasmasphere of Saturn, so it is only to be expected that they would transact electrically with their primary. The simplest, most straightforward explanation for the charged particle acceleration is electric discharge, so there is no need to conjure implausible internal dynamics to account for them.

In fact, other investigators admit to Saturn’s interactions with its moons: “…we conclude that the observed double-peaked (‘butterfly’) pitch-angle distributions [of the plasma] result from the transport of plasma from regions near the orbits of Dione and Tethys, supporting the idea of distinct plasma tori associated with these moons.”

Saturn emits 2.3 times more energy than it receives from the Sun. 90 megawatts of X-rays were detected by Cassini. But even that was not attributed to its electrical nature. Instead, Saturn’s atmosphere is said to reflect X-rays from the Sun, although the science team admitted when the discovery was made that the intensity of the “reflections” was “surprising.” The reason it was so surprising is that they ignored the fact that planets with magnetic fields can capture ionized particles to form a giant electrified magnetosphere. It is that magnetosphere that traps and accelerates the charged particles from Saturn.

Stephen Smith

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