Explosive Power

  May 25, 2018 Gamma-ray Bursters (GRB), and Fast Radio Bursters (FRB) are thought by astronomers to be the most powerful energy sources in the Universe. The problems associated with GRB observations are partially addressed in previous Pictures of the Day. GRBs are characterized by intense electromagnetic emissions, particularly rapid…

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An Electrifying Assembly

  May 24, 2018 Jupiter’s moons exhibit electrical activity. On October 18, 1989 NASA launched the Galileo Jupiter orbiter (the pre-cursor to the current Juno mission) onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, as part of the STS-34 mission. After gravitational assistance from flybys of Venus and Earth, Galileo arrived at Jupiter…

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The Paradigm Shoppe

  May 23, 2018 Electric Universe theory illustrates what has been called the “incommensurability” of paradigms, a scholarly term for what is actually a rather mundane occurrence: the difficulties-and benefits-of communication when words have more than one meaning. The difficulties arise from the listener’s assumption that the speaker means what…

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Spot Free

  May 22, 2018 Sunspot activity is unusually low. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Buddha The Sun fluctuates in output strength and visible sunspots across its surface in a cycle that lasts about 22 years. During the past 11 or 12…

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Far and Away

May 18, 2018 The most distant encounter with a Solar System object will take place on New Year’s Day 2019. “To infinity and beyond!” — Buzz Lightyear NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft on January 19, 2006 on a mission to explore the outer Solar System, including Pluto, Charon and many Kuiper Belt…

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Wal Thornhill: Future Science | EU2017

EU2017 -- Wal Thornhill

Goodbye big bang and the mathematical nonsense masquerading as modern science. The future is a different universe — an Electric Universe — and The Thunderbolts Project is the key to that future. The Thunderbolts Project follows the Renaissance model of inventors, philosophers, engineers, and artists being funded by private visionaries….

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Anode Glow

  May 17, 2018 Stars are electrodes. The red giant star, Betelgeuse is among the largest stars. As the image above illustrates, if it occupied the Sun’s position, it would exceed Jupiter’s mean orbital diameter. Although it is large, its substance is so diffuse that the orbits of the inner…

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Plasma Flares

May 16, 2018 The Sun supplies enormous quantities of electric charge to the Solar System. As written many times over the years, sunspots, flares, coronal heating, and coronal mass ejections are due to changes in the Sun’s galactic electrical supply. Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Donald Scott’s Electronic Sun…

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