In the 20th century, the story of our Universe’s origins was a shifting and incredibly strange tale. Around 1980, the physicist Alan Guth developed the idea of cosmic inflation or the notion that physical space experienced an exponential expansion immediately after the Big Bang. But in this series, we have…
Sep 8, 2017 Neutron stars do not exist. “The neutron star is simply yet another fantasy….A proton-free nucleus or ‘charge free’ atom made up of only neutrons has never been synthesized in any laboratory nor can it ever be…Lone neutrons decay into proton – electron pairs in less than 14…
Sep 6, 2017 Stars are electrical and they evolve according to the laws of plasma physics. “Every circuit which contains an inductance is intrinsically explosive. The inductive energy…can be tapped at any point of the circuit. If we try to interrupt the current…the inductance tends to supply its energy to…
Sep 5, 2017 If the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, then the future is dark. In 1998, two research groups discovered what is now called in consensus circles, “dark energy”. Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brian Schmidt from the Australian National University projects…
Sep 4, 2017 Theories about the Sun suffer from cloistered research. “When running a lab I found that one of my most important activities was to go from room to room and discuss in depth the problems which a certain scientist or a group of scientists was trying to understand….
Sep 1, 2017 Oxygen is abundant in the Universe. Previous Picture of the Day articles point out that planetary nebulae radiate in light frequencies associated with ionized oxygen. Since oxygen is the most common element in galactic structures, after hydrogen and helium, it is not surprising that a remote galaxy…
This episode marks the beginning of a special 10-part series, “Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric.” In this first chapter, we explore the significance of the astrophysical enigma of pervasive cosmic magnetic fields. Basic physics classes teach that electric currents produce magnetic fields. But why is this law of…
Aug 31, 2017 Perhaps lightning powers the wind. Weather on Earth is thought to be driven by solar influences on the atmosphere. As Earth rotates beneath the Sun, gases and dust absorb radiation in varying degrees. Heat causes the air to expand and lose density, creating low pressure regions….
Aug 29, 2017 What is a supernova? In an Electric Universe, stars do not follow a course through life that conventional understanding demands. Since stars are not balls of gas squeezed by gravity, other physical conditions must be considered. Plasma, for example, is not merely a “hot gas”, it…
Aug 28, 2017 The brightest objects in the Universe are electrical. A previous Picture of the Day discussed the twin lobes of gamma rays extending beyond the Milky Way’s central bulge. The funnel-like formations are each about 65,000 light-years in diameter, and are considered by Electric Universe advocates to be…
