Feb 13, 2017 Earth displays its celestial nature. Intense lightning in thunderstorms can interact with electricity (cosmic rays) coming from space. When the right conditions in Earth’s atmosphere occur, lightning causes giant particle accelerators to form above the clouds. Cosmic rays are high energy sub-atomic particles, mostly protons, that can…
From Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania and elsewhere, these scientists would like to highlight the life-like traits of anode tufts. As discussed briefly in the Newscientist, their research team even thinks that such plasma phenomena were a vector for patterns we associate with the earliest forms of life. Don’t…
Feb 10, 2017 Comets can influence solar behavior. If we can see the tails of comets fly off in the direction opposed to the Sun with an accelerated velocity, and if we believe these tails to be matter and not optical illusions or mere tracks of vibrating disturbance, then we…
Feb 9, 2017 Stars do not age according to modern ideas. “It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.” — Arthur Eddington, Astrophysicist T Tauri stars take their name from the original…
Feb 8, 2017 A slide rule hangs on the wall of my office, a dual-base vector hyperbolic log-log slide rule. A mere 40 years ago it was a state-of-the-art calculating machine. It reminds me that technology progresses not only by incremental improvements but by extinction and speciation: My aluminum slip-stick…
In this episode, physicist Eugene Bagashov analyzes additional recent studies that raise even further doubt of the dark matter hypothesis, and he explores the growing scientific case for dark matter alternatives. In a recent Space News episode, we reported on two 2016 scientific studies that each serve potentially fatal blows…
Feb 7, 2017 Does electricity energize the galaxies? In the cosmos there are regions where stars range in thousand light-year lines. Elsewhere, rings of stars can be found, along with galaxies stretching in filaments for enormous distances. The Milky Way contains over 200 billion stars in its spiral arms…
Feb 6, 2017 The Sun is a charged body seeking equilibrium with its surroundings. The electric charge flow into and out of the Sun can sometimes increase to the point where it releases plasma discharges called solar flares. Conventional scientists think that solar flares occur when magnetic loops “reconnect” with…
Perhaps no paradox in the symbolism of the mother goddess stands out more profoundly than the twin images of the goddess as both a power of love and light and a world destroyer. Add to this paradox the global association with the planet Venus and the mystery does not just…
Mainstream astrophysics tells us that more than 95% of all galaxies are home to one or more black holes — regions of space where matter said is to be collapsed to “near infinite density.” However, there is no experiment that can provide evidence for matter collapsed to “near infinite density”….
