Milky Way filament G49. Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Ke Wang et al. 2015.
Jan 5, 2016
The Milky Way is more complex than previously thought.
Any substance containing charged particles is a plasma: electrons, positive ions, electrically charged dust, neon lights, lightning, planetary magnetospheres, the so-called “solar wind,” stars, and even galaxies are plasma. However, Electric Universe advocates do not consider plasma to be a simple substance; rather, it is an emergent phenomenon, it can not be analyzed in terms of its component parts, it arises in response to complicated interactions.
Filaments of electric charge flow in closed circuits through plasma. It is the existence of electric circuits in space that distinguishes Electric Universe theory from most conventional viewpoints. Phenomena that appear “mysterious” to space scientists are readily explained using observational evidence coupled with the results from laboratory experiments. That fact helps to distinguish Electric Universe concepts from others. Gravity cannot be modeled in the laboratory in the ways that plasma can.
According to a recent press release, data from Herschel’s observations confirm the electrical nature of the cosmos. The Herschel Space Observatory possessed the largest mirror ever launched into space: 3.5 meters in diameter. Herschel entered orbit around LaGrange point L2 (behind Earth in relation to the Sun) in July 2009, so that its extremely sensitive, supercooled infrared detectors could be protected from solar radiation. However, Herschel’s helium coolant system was built to last only three years, so its helium tanks are long past empty. Analysis of the data continues and will continue for several more years.
X-ray emissions from planets, braided plasma filaments, hourglass-shaped nebulae, and jets of charged particles erupting from galactic axes provide observational evidence for the existence of plasma circuits in space. Celestial bodies are not isolated from one another but are connected across vast distances.
Electric discharges in plasma create tube-like magnetic sheaths along their axes. If enough current flows, the discharge causes the sheath to glow while sometimes creating other sheaths within it. These “double layers” form when positive charges build up in one region and negative charges build up nearby. An intense electric field develops, which accelerates charged particles. Electric charges spiral in the magnetic fields, emitting X-rays, extreme ultraviolet, and sometimes gamma rays.
Electromagnetic forces squeeze those conductive channels, called “Birkeland currents,” into filaments that tend to attract each other in pairs. Electric fields that form along the plasma strands generate an attractive force that can be orders of magnitude greater than gravity. However, when they get close to each other, instead of merging, the plasma “cables” twist into a helix that rotates faster as it compresses tighter. It is those “cosmic transmission lines” that make up galactic circuits.
The cosmos appears to be interlaced with those circuits. Each of them appears to be composed of untold numbers of twisting Birkeland currents. At the largest observable scale, there are power-consuming loads in the circuits that convert electrical energy into rotational energy. These are known as galaxies.
Electric Universe theorists insist that galactic evolution can also be explained in terms of large-scale plasma discharges that form spirals of coherent filaments. Why stars in galaxies tend to coalesce in long arcs like bright beads on a line is one of a hundred mysteries that conventional cosmology must confront. No gravity-only hypothesis can resolve the issue of star formation, in general, but the structure that has been seen within the barred spirals and the tremendous elliptical whirlpools that congregate in million-light-year clusters continues to elude explanation.
Since galaxies exist within a filamentary circuit of electricity that flows through the cosmos, they should be evaluated according to electrodynamic principles and not on mechanical kinetic behavior with mysterious magnetic fields added to save the theory.
For example, twin lobes of gamma rays in an hourglass shape extend axially beyond the Milky Way’s central bulge. Each structure measures approximately 65,000 light-years in diameter. Plasma physicists are familiar with hourglass shapes. The funnel-like formations are an unmistakable signature of Birkeland currents filaments.
Stephen Smith
