“Electrical Storm” by DsVortex at DeviantArt
Jan 5, 2017
Magnetic fields in stars are not rare, study finds.
According to a recent press release, astronomers from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia “…discovered strong magnetic fields are common in stars, not rare as previously thought.”
Pictures of the Day often note that astronomers think that magnetic fields are not important when it comes to star formation, and Associate Professor Dennis Stello confirms that notion:
“Current models of how stars evolve lack magnetic fields as a fundamental ingredient.”
Magnetic fields are detected around and within galaxies. Supernovae explosions and the rotational energy of the galaxy itself are thought to create those fields. However, their models are not able to predict the fields observed in several spiral galaxies.
George Ellery Hale first plotted the Sun’s magnetic field using the change in position of Fraunhofer lines found in solar spectrograms. Spreading starlight into its components with a prism reveals dark lines at specific places. Those lines provide a way to determine a star’s constituent elements.
In the presence of a magnetic field, spectral lines split and occupy different positions. Those changes in position are called the Zeeman effect. However, although it is believed that magnetic fields are important in galaxy evolution, questions about their origin, evolution and structure remain largely unsolved.
It is not surprising that the magnetic field contours seen around galaxies remain unexplained in the minds of those who hold to a consensus viewpoint. In the theoretical pool of knowledge from which they draw there are no electrical entities to provide a source for that magnetism. Considering magnetic fields without also thinking about electric fields is like trying to understand floods without considering the rain.
In an Electric Universe, electromagnetic fields in stars and galaxies are easy to understand, since those fields do not exist in isolation. Although “plasma” is often mentioned by the mainstream, the fundamental theory they are investigating is mechanical in nature. It is a common mistake to think of plasma in terms of “ionized gas”, subject to the same gravity-based influences experienced by neutral matter.
Electricity in space is difficult to detect—its effects can be mistaken for other emissions—but electromagnetic fields can be mapped. Modern astronomers think that the fields are “primordial” fragments left over from the Big Bang, however.
Since moving charges constitute an electric current, that current can generate a magnetic field. The current is then “wrapped” in the field. More charged particles accelerating in the same direction strengthen the field. That is a familiar idea to Electric Universe advocates, but when astronomers find moving charges in space they are mystified and refer to them as “winds” or “shock waves”.
Another important consideration is that for charged particles to accelerate they must move in a circuit. For that reason, Electric Universe theory emphasizes connectivity with an electrically active cosmic network.
Stephen Smith
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
—Walt Whitman
