Jun 3, 2019 There are regular reports in the scientific press about the filamentary structure of the Universe. According to consensus astrophysics, galaxies are embedded in a diffuse cloud of gas and dust known as “baryonic matter”. Baryons are commonly referred to as “normal matter”, or “luminous” matter. However, along…
In the first two parts of this presentation, Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall laid a theoretical foundation for a new understanding of the spectacular atmospheric and weather phenomena seen throughout the solar system. The electromagnetic nature of countless of these phenomena is no longer debated, but the underlying mechanisms are. In…
May 31, 2019 What drives energetic galactic events? Previous Pictures of the Day discuss X-ray jets from galactic cores. It was determined that they are accelerated by electric fields. According to a recent press release, data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) identified “strong winds” racing outward from the core of…
May 30, 2019 What causes astronomers to think that space is expanding? “The greatest mistake in my opinion, and the one we continually make, is to let the theory guide the model. After a ridiculously long time it has finally dawned on me that establishment scientists actually proceed on the…
May 29, 2019 Space is filled with various plasmas. “Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It’s somewhat like liquid water–unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at…
In the 21st century, with increasing frequency astronomical literature recognizes a long-taboo subject — the existence of electric currents in space: from the electrical Earth-Sun connection, to the electric currents connecting the gas giant planets to their respective moons, to the vast cosmic jets of active galactic nuclei. Yet these…
May 28, 2019 A NASA spacecraft slammed into the surface of Mercury on April 30, 2015. NASA launched the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) experiment from Cape Canaveral on August 3, 2004. After traveling nearly eight billion kilometers, the 485 kilogram spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury on…
May 27, 2019 Throughout the visible Universe there are features described as twisted and “stringy”. Previous Picture of the Day articles discuss formations cut in stone or puffed-out in clouds of ionized gas. Two such examples are solar prominences and the so-called volcanic eruptions on Jupiter’s moon, Io. How do…
A new scientific study based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope was recently published which affirms what many other papers have reported in recent years: the so-called expansion of the Universe appears to be accelerating much too quickly to explain through any kind of known physics. However, plasma cosmology…
May 24, 2019 Was Mars resurfaced by electric arcs? Evidence for powerful electric arcs discharging to the surface of Mars was discussed in previous Pictures of the Day. That evidence can be seen in sinuous rilles, terraced craters, ripples in canyons, giant mesas with Lichtenberg “whiskers” and steep-sided ravines wending…
