The electric currents that connect the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter to their respective moons are now recognized in the scientific literature. However, like the spectacular electromagnetic cosmic jets seen exploding from active galactic nuclei, space scientists heretofore have always proposed that the electric currents are the result of strange…
Jul 20, 2018 Electrons and positrons are formed in lightning bolts. Lightning is a plasma that creates powerful electromagnetic pulses across a wide range of frequencies. Thunderheads may be several thousand cubic kilometers in extent, yet all of that stored electrical energy travels down a discharge channel no wider than…
Jul 19, 2018 Birkeland currents are a better model than gravity. Among astronomers, it is commonly thought that the vast majority of observable galaxies hide “supermassive black holes” (SMBH) within their cores. SMBHs contain up to a billion times more mass than putative stellar black holes, and it is…
In this Discourse, we pause to review ground previously covered, with an emphasis on predictive ability. How well does the proposed history of the Polar Configuration predict and explain the multitude of mythic archetypes? Among the many dozens of archetypes we’ve reviewed in recent years, how many would be expected…
In this Discourse, we pause to review ground previously covered, with an emphasis on predictive ability. How well does the proposed history of the Polar Configuration predict and explain the multitude of mythic archetypes? Among the many dozens of archetypes we’ve reviewed in recent years, how many would be expected…
Jul 18, 2018 Nebulae are electrical phenomena. As written in previous Pictures of the Day, plasma behavior is unfamiliar. It is sometimes difficult to see the differences between plasma and a gas. Plasma’s similarities to gas are overshadowed by its failure to correspond with gas kinetics. Since the light frequencies…
Jul 17, 2018 Plasma does not obey the laws of kinetic energy. “The plasma exhibited striations and double-layers, the electron distribution was non-Maxwellian, there were all sorts of oscillations and instabilities. In short, it was a field which was not at all suited for mathematically elegant theories.” — Hannes…
Jul 13, 2018 Enceladus reveals an electric circuit with Saturn. Recently, the Picture of the Day discussed the discovery of heavy molecules in the geyser eruptions from the south pole of Enceladus. Similar to those found elsewhere, such as the dwarf planet, Ceres, the molecules are probably the result…
Jul 12, 2018 Cosmic rays are poorly understood. “…plasma is so silly that it does not understand the sophisticated mathematics, or it is that the plasma is so clever that it finds other ways of behaving, ways which the theoreticians were not clever enough to anticipate.” — Hannes Alfvén…
A new paper published in the Journal Nature Astronomy offers a further breakthrough for proponents of planetary catastrophe. The study suggests that the large majority of asteroids in the inner asteroid belt are pieces of 5 annihilated worlds, called planetesimals. The clue the team followed was the unusual inclined or…
