Jun 28, 2018 Is the Universe expanding? “As a general scientific principle, it is undesirable to depend crucially on what is unobservable to explain what is observable, as happens frequently in Big Bang cosmology.” — Halton Arp Electric Universe theory states that stars are born where regions of space…
Jun 27, 2018 Why are stars so unalike? “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” — George S. Patton It is a mystery to astronomers why stars exhibit such distinctive characteristics, because the stars, including the Sun, are thought to form from the same mix of elements in…
: A scientific paper published this year in Nature Astronomy deepens the many mysteries that the planet Venus presents. The authors were surprised to find chaotic cloud movements on the night-side of Venus’s super-rotating upper atmosphere. The greatest surprise was the discovery of distinct filamentary structures in clouds which appear…
Jun 26, 2018 Lightning-like electric discharges occur above the clouds. Capacitors accumulate and store electric charge in two conductive plates separated by a dielectric insulator. Charge on one plate attracts opposite charge to the other, creating an electric field that forms an electrical energy reserve. The electric field between…
Jun 25, 2018 Dust storms occasionally engulf Mars. On Mars, dust storms are not diffuse and separated like those on Earth, they are caused by tornado-like whirlwinds whose tops reach higher than Mt. Everest. They appear to draw surface dust up through thousands of sky-high funnels and carry it for…
Here we take up the widespread ancient link between sacred cities and creation mythology. Historical evidence suggests that both themes arose as reflections of celestial events yet to be recognized. But what did the ancient myth-makers mean by the ideal “land” or “city,” celebrated as their own place of origin…
: Here we take up the widespread ancient link between sacred cities and creation mythology. Historical evidence suggests that both themes arose as reflections of celestial events yet to be recognized. But what did the ancient myth-makers mean by the ideal “land” or “city,” celebrated as their own place of…
Jun 22, 2018 Kristian Birkeland (December 13, 1867 — Jun 15, 1917) “According to our manner of looking at the matter, every star in the universe would be the seat and field of activity of electric forces of a strength that no one could imagine.” A previous Picture of…
Jun 21, 2018 Electricity moves the Universe. “To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.” — Hannes Alfvén The movement of electric charge through plasma-state material generates electromagnetic…
Jun 20, 2018 Did volcanic eruptions create fractures on Mars? When electricity makes contact with a solid body, such as a planet, electric currents pull charged material from the surface. This results in circular craters, because electromagnetism causes the arcs to maintain right angles to the impact zone. In…
