Sputnik Planitia geography. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute. Click to enlarge.
Nov 17, 2016
Pluto reveals its electrical birth.
In an Electric Universe, the Solar System, and by extension, the rest of the galaxy, is governed by electromagnetism. This idea sets consensus ideas about cosmology and cosmogony against an electrical theory for how the planets behave. In most theories about planetary geomorphology, kinetic energy and gravity are the only forces allowed. Therefore, impacts from large asteroids are said to be responsible for what is observed on other planets and moons.
Sputnik Planitia on Pluto is a case in point. Sputnik Planitia is a large, roughly heart-shaped formation approximately 1300 kilometers by 900 kilometers in extent. Its size puts it on par with other basins on Mars (Hellas Planitia) or Mercury (Caloris Basin). According to a recent press release, the giant depression represents an impact site that subsequently filled with nitrogen ice. As the announcement states:
“…if Pluto possesses a subsurface ocean, the required positive gravity anomaly would naturally result because of shell thinning and ocean uplift..To prolong the lifetime of such a subsurface ocean to the present day and to maintain ocean uplift, a rigid, conductive water-ice shell is required.”
The impactor, followed by eons of accumulated nitrogen snow, are thought by planetary scientists to indicate that there is a subsurface ocean on Pluto because “…impact-driven uplift of an ice–ocean interface (if the ocean is present) probably occurred.”
The geology of Pluto is intriguing because of “mysteries” and “processes that have yet to be understood”. Complex chains of craters and melted pits extend outward from terraced depressions. Flat bottoms and vertical sidewalls are signs of electric discharge machining. Indeed, the indications are that electrically active phenomena sculpted Pluto’s surface.
Rather than kinetic energy effects, the canyons and “rilles” on Pluto (as in the image at the top of the page) are most likely lightning blast marks etched into the surface, pointing to the dwarf planet’s savage electrical birth. Their dendritic forms are called Lichtenberg figures.
Sputnik Planitia is composed of geologically different materials. The supposed impact craters within the basin are made of something else entirely. Presently, no one is sure which minerals correspond to which colors, so it is difficult to ascertain what past events caused what. However, it is clear to Electric Universe advocates that conventional theories are lacking. What they lack is an understanding of how electricity drives the cosmos.
Stephen Smith
