April 22, 2020 “So cold that if the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death.”— Samuel Clemens The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 18, 1989 from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, entering orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995. After eight years in orbit, Galileo…
April 21, 2020 The Sun is not a ball of (con)fusion. “In a low density plasma, localized space charge regions may build up large potential drops over distances of the order of some tens of the Debye lengths. Such regions have been called electric double layers. An electric double layer…
April 20, 2020 A visit to Saturn might require not only a spacesuit, but one that is armored against hard radiation. Not all light frequencies are harmless. Everyone knows that looking directly into an arc welder should be avoided, since the plasma is so hot that it emits extreme ultraviolet…
SAFIRE astrophysicist Michael Clarage, PhD, searches for pants in Amsterdam…and then gives The Big Picture. Scenes from SAFIRE’s November 2019 presentation at the GlobalBEM Conference (Global Breakthrough Energy Movement) held in Breukelen, the Netherlands. The SAFIRE Project • For more information visit: aureon.ca NOTE: Prior to becoming a commercial venture…
April 17, 2020 In an Electric Universe, the answer is not what is commonly presented in science journals. Astronomers are fitted with spectacles that can see distances only in terms of redshift when dealing with celestial bodies father away than a few light-years. Measurements become more and more unreliable as…
April 16, 2020 What are magnetars? As conventional understanding suggests, neutron stars are created when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycles. Gravity in those stars is said to be is so intense that they cannot resist the collapse, so electrons are squeezed into the nuclei that…
April 15, 2020 Halton Christian “Chip” Arp (March 21, 1927 – December 28, 2013) When our son was 2 and 3 and 4, he liked to climb up on high objects-the table, the refrigerator, the roof-and jump into our arms. When we weren’t available to “play catch”, he would climb…
For many years, one of the “great mysteries” in planetary science has been the high temperatures in the upper atmospheres of gas giant planets. The apparent anomaly cannot be explained due to simple solar heating given the planets’ tremendous distance from the Sun. Recently, a team of scientists reported that…
April 14, 2020 Gamma-rays from electric particle accelerators in space. Gamma-rays are the highest energy wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum, according to physicists. They are “electromagnetic particles” called photons. Since matter is thought to exist as both waves and particles, and photons are a class of particle called “bosons”, they…
April 13, 2020 More proof that the Sun is an electric star. One of the goals for the Picture of the Day is to demonstrate how Electric Universe theory about plasma discharge behavior is a better model for solar activity than conventional theories. Experiments with a positively charged sphere reveal that…
