Jan 12, 2015 One of the Mars Exploration Rovers is still going strong. Recently, the Opportunity rover on Mars focused its camera on a grand vista from the summit of Cape Tribulation at the highest point of Endeavor crater’s rim—a view extending for more than 40 kilometers. Considering that…
Left: The ‘sun disc’ or ‘disc of Shamash’, a detail from the ‘sun-god tablet’ (c. 860-850 BCE), discovered in a foundation deposit in the Temple of Shamash at Sippar, ‘Iraq. Courtesy British Museum, London, United Kingdom. © Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs. Right: The total solar eclipse of 18 July…
Jan 7, 2015 Evidence for the dust cloud came from a gradual drop on either side of Rhea in the number of electrons detected by two of Cassini’s instruments. Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California discovered a “debris ring” surrounding Saturn’s frigid moon, Rhea. The Cassini…
Left: Bone pendant from Saint-Marcel (Argenton-Sur-Creuse, Indre, France) Right: Bone pendant from the Grotte Des Espélugues (Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France) Jan 06, 2014 Reproduced above are images of two engraved pendants made of reindeer bone, from prehistoric sites in France. Both objects are attributed to the Magdalenian culture, which subsisted in the…
Jan 5, 2015 China’a lunar mission was a success. Does new data confirm the Electric Universe theory? On December 2, 2013, the China National Space Administration launched Chang’e 3, a robotic lander with an accompanying rover, on a mission to study the Moon. The lander was named after the…
With this video, Dr.Tom Wilson begins a series of discourses looking at critical issues in the theoretical sciences. The series will give special attention to themes highlighted by the science of the Electric Universe.
Jan 3, 2015 “Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.” — Piet Hein GROOKS I was checking out the dynamics describing the orbit of SOHO, the sun-watching satellite oscillating around a mathematical point in…
Jan 01, 2015 By what physical mechanism do planets and moons orbit around their larger hosts? Before Newton’s theory of gravity burst onto the scene, the so-called ‘vortex theory’ of the French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), first proposed in the 1630s, was much in vogue. Invoking experimental analogues in fluid…
