Jul 5, 2017 Editor’s note: It’s been ten years since I took over the Picture of the Day’s editorial management. Since then, it’s been my privilege to explore the various aspects of this Electric Universe and share it in these pages. Commemorating that day in July 2007, here is my…
Jul 4, 2017 Another of Saturn’s moons appears to be all wet. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. —Aristophanes According to a recent press release, Saturn’s moon Dione shares a “decoupled” crust “floating” on a subsurface ocean with…
Jul 3, 2017 Stars are not formed in gravity wells. A theory about how star systems form must include the most prevalent condition in the Universe: plasma. Stars are born when electric charge flow is confined into filaments that wind around each other, forming z-pinch zones that compress matter in…
At the forthcoming Thunderbolts Project conference, EU2017 – Future Science, in Phoenix Arizona, experts from a variety of disciplines will present their unique contributions to the Electric Universe cosmology. More and more inquirers are exploring this cosmology to find solutions to lingering scientific puzzles, including such questions as what is…
Jun 30, 2017 Cometary asteroids. “The EU model predicts that all active comets will exhibit frequent, short outbursts in different spots on their surfaces. The outbursts happen because they are electrical discharge phenomena, known technically as (cold) cathode jets.” — Wal Thornhill It is surprising that astrophysicists remain ignorant when…
Jun 29, 2017 The aurorae are not powered by magnetic reconnection. Earth’s northern lights both puzzle and entrance observers. Pierre Gassendi, in 1621, called the curtains of light in the north the Aurora Borealis after Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn, and Boreas, the Greek name for the north…
At the forthcoming The Thunderbolts Project Conference, EU2017 – Future Science in Phoenix, Arizona, experts in a variety of disciplines will present groundbreaking evidence for the role of electricity in nature. In the Electric Universe community, many contributors have come from a background in engineering, where applied technologies and industrial…
Jun 28, 2017 Christiaan Eijkman discovered that a bacterium in polished rice caused beriberi and an anti-toxin in the coating cured it. Eijkman verified his theory with a massive study of 280,000 people. He ruled out the possibility of other causal factors–sanitation, hygiene, and so on. And he cured…
Jun 27, 2017 Dwarf galaxy evolution is a problem for consensus theories. The Milky Way has at least two smaller companions, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Some astronomers suspect that there are as many as 80 or more. A new predictive model is supposed to help answer the…
Jun 26, 2017 Planetary magnetospheres are electrical phenomena. The mainstream theory of magnetic reconnection is a common “explanation” for Earth’s aurorae. As the consensus view states, the magnetosphere surrounding Earth stretches and deforms like a teardrop, because it is being bombarded by a powerful stream of charged particles from the…
