Some storms suck and others blow…By Andrew Hall On Earth, hurricanes and typhoons are called cyclones and occur over the oceans. The cyclonic storm develops an eye in the center of rotation, where high altitude, dry air is drawn down the center. The thing to know is that the eye…
May 23, 2019 How much energy in a supernova? A previous Picture of the Day discussed cosmic filaments that connect celestial formations with bridges of luminous material. Those structures could mean that the visible Universe is a braided filament of electric charge that reaches from the Virgo supercluster to the…
May 22, 2019 The Moon is a “dead body” that is billions of years old, according to theory. It has no intrinsic magnetic field and it does not radiate, except to reflect the light that it receives from the Sun. But could electrical forces have recently shaped the lunar surface?…
Coherent patterns exist in nature at all scales, and electricity seems to have an important role in the evolution of all things. Have you ever wondered how species-specific pollination occurs or how certain creatures can exhibit seemingly instantaneous collective coherent movements at high speeds? This presentation will introduce a company…
May 21, 2019 What is lightning’s source? Electric discharges in plasma create electromagnetic sheaths along their axes. If the charge flow is high enough, sheaths will glow, sometimes creating a number of other sheaths. The sheaths are called “double layers”, and powerful electric fields appear between regions, which can accelerate…
May 20, 2019 The Crab is 25 kilometers wide, with a mass of 1.5 times that of the Sun, and is said to rotate at 30 times per second. Previous Pictures of the Day discuss the problems associated with neutron stars. The most important contradiction in the theory is that…
In recent years, one of the great shocks in space science has been the discovery of just how incredible the electromagnetic energies are at the gas giant Jupiter. Astronomers had long known that Jupiter possesses an extensive and powerful magnetic field, as well as tremendous x-ray aurorae, super-fast winds, and…
May 17, 2019 New Horizons continues its voyage into deep space. Many Pictures of the Day discuss the way that conventional science views the world, and how Electric Universe theory provides a paradigm that allows consistent applications of its concepts to various phenomena. Comets, in particular, are so completely different…
May 16, 2019 More reified abstractions. “There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole.”— Traditional folk song. Almost twenty years ago, astronomers believe they discovered that the Universe is expanding. Redshift observations of distant galaxies appeared to indicate that…
For many decades, in the standard story of our solar system, we have been told that asteroids, as well as comets and meteoroids are the so-called left-overs of the early solar system. In this view, comets and asteroids have been proposed as the possible source of our planet’s oceans. Of…
