Physicist Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor of The Thunderbolts Project, joins us to discuss a number of recent scientific discoveries relating to the nature of stars. These discoveries confound or are irreconcilable with standard ideas about how stars form, where their energy comes from and why they go supernova. In…
February 27, 2020 The solar wind is an electrical phenomenon. Plasma discharges are a better model for solar activity than the gravity community likes to accept. Experiments using a positively charged sphere show that a plasma torus forms above the sphere’s circumference. Charged particles couple the sphere’s middle and lower…
February 26, 2020 What’s “reality”? For science, for the past century or more, it’s “what’s out there”, “the given”. And we get to know it by looking at it. (I say “looking” to mean all sensation.) To get to know it better, we need only to look closer. To that…
It may be the most underreported scientific controversy of the modern age. The overwhelming scientific consensus on the Universe’s origins tells us that it all began 13.7 billion years ago, with a Big Bang. Of course, for many decades scientists have told us that the Universe is expanding, and the…
February 25, 2020 Most celestial objects exhibit some kind of filamentation. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”— Theodore Roosevelt Every science journal describes the formation of nebulae in terms of “blowing winds” created by shock waves from exploding stars. Nebulae are thought to be…
February 24, 2020 What causes stars to expel large quantities of matter? “The lonely sunsets flare forlornDown valleys dreadly desolate;The lonely mountains soar in scornAs still as death, as stern as fate.”— Robert W. Service XMM-Newton was launched on December 10, 1999 from Kourou, French Guiana. At the time, it…
All popular theories about the origins of objects in our solar system are based on the solar nebula hypothesis. First proposed in the mid-18th century by the Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg, the hypothesis proposes that four and a half billion years ago, a primordial cloud called a nebula collapsed gravitationally,…
February 21, 2020 The Sombrero galaxy is larger than expected. A significant contribution to plasma cosmology came from Dr. Anthony L. Peratt, a plasma physicist and protégé of the Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén. Dr. Peratt studied plasma formations in the laboratory for many years, monitoring short-duration z-pinch effects, as well…
February 20, 2020 Energetic tails are common features in the Universe. Celestial objects such as Centaurus A; hot-bright stars, planets, and comets, exhibit collimated jets or trailing emissions that are difficult to explain. Every new observation requires a new theoretical revision, or an admission of complete bafflement. A group of…
February 19, 2020 Spiral galaxies are everywhere in the Universe. They make up over 70% of all observed galaxies. Recently, astronomers studying galaxy M83 with the Hubble Space Telescope discovered stars bursting into ignition far from the “normally” active regions where such events should occur. Stars are said to evolve…
