Mar 10, 2016 The Great Red Spot could be something different than what is expected. As mentioned in a recent Picture of the Day, the Juno mission is slated to enter orbit around Jupiter in July of 2016. One of the mission’s primary targets is the Great Red Spot in…
Plant electrotropism is plant response to natural internal and external electrical forces. Voltage recordings done on a variety of trees and plants show very large numbers of electrons continuously flowing towards branch tips, with or without leaves. Using voltage recordings, ohm measurements, the strength of Earth’s electric field from references,…
Mar 9, 2106 It is not possible to tell if stars are old or young based on their colors or temperatures. A recent press release from the European Southern observatory (ESO) reports that double star IRAS 08544-4431 is surrounded by a dusty disk. What makes the discovery so…
Mar 8, 2016 One more year to go. The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. — Sophocles Editor’s note: Originally published August 2015. NASA launched the Juno Mission to Jupiter on August 5, 2011. After traveling out past the orbit of Mars, the spacecraft returned for a gravity assist from…
Thunderbolts colleague Dr. Tom Wilson addresses some of the responses to the most viewed episode to date of Space News from the Electric Universe, entitled “Impossible Neutron Star Shatters Theory” through an entertaining parable about change. This Space News has garnered close to 200,000 views in 18 months. JOIN US…
Mar 7, 2016 The Big Bang theory states that for some reason (not explained) an irruption of energy from some other realm replaced “nothingness” with what was to become the present Universe. The theory was proposed because Edwin Hubble, using the recently completed 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson observatory,…
Mar 4, 2016 Sixty years ago, Winston Harper Bostick found that an amorphous mass of high-velocity plasma has a natural ability to convert a large proportion of its kinetic energy into magnetic energy, contained in an organised toroidal structure. He termed this structure a ‘plasmoid’. Bostick also showed that such…
Mar 3, 2016 What causes colorful streaks on Tethys? As reported in previous Pictures of the Day, maps of Mimas, Enceladus, Rhea, and Dione show that they are red to some degree. All the latest maps indicate that most of them are redder on their trailing hemispheres. No one is…
Due to Illness, the late Michael Steinbacher could not present at the EU2015 conference. Andreas Otte gave the presentation Michael had intended to present. For several years, Michael Steinbacher has studied the geological formations of the American Southwest in the field. He has compared the standard explanations and alternative explanations…
Mar 2, 2016 Is the Moon habitable? Lunar colonization is a dream long held by humanity. Cyrano de Bergerac, in his book The Other World wrote: “The angel had told me in my dream that if I wanted to acquire the perfect knowledge I desired, I would have to…
