November 10, 2020 Are there thousands of exoplanets? Exoplanets are thought to be in orbit around various stars in the Milky Way. In the past, it was impossible to see them, because starlight is so bright that it obscures dim, reflecting bodies like planets. Twenty years ago, astronomer Geoff Marcy,…
November 9, 2020 The mainstream theory of magnetic reconnection is a common “explanation” for celestial phenomena. As the consensus view states, Earth’s magnetosphere stretches and deforms like a teardrop, because it is being bombarded by a powerful stream of charged particles from the Sun. As it is pushed on the…
Since the dawn of the Space Age, perhaps no celestial body in the solar system has proved more surprising to astronomers than the planet Venus. Before the arrival of the earliest space probes, some noted scientists believed that Venus would be earthlike, with water clouds, oceans and abundant vegetation. However,…
November 6, 2020 Electricity “grips”. Volcanoes on Earth are said to form when tectonic plates move over upwelling magma plumes. Conventional theories state that rising magma naturally erupts from the weakest fractures in the plates, building up lava deposits and creating steep-sided mountains. As discussed in a previous Picture of…
November 5, 2020 Oceanic microstructures. Seawater is not very exciting when you look at it. It is, presumably, just water with salt and other minerals. To most of the denizens of Earth’s oceans, the sea is something quite different, a web of gel. According to an article from New Scientist…
November 4, 2020 Transient optical phenomena dominate Jupiter’s environment. The Juno spacecraft was launched on August 5, 2011. After a five-year flight, it entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. As most readers know, Jupiter is the largest planet, with an equatorial diameter of 142,984 kilometers. it is so…
November 3, 2020 Conventional redshift observations seems to indicate that the Universe is expanding faster today than it did in the past. As written in a previous Picture of the Day, “dark energy” is a force that is thought to drive the expansion of the Universe. However, like “dark matter”…
November 2, 2020 In other Pictures of the Day articles, it was noted that dark energy is primarily an ad-hoc theory, so that the current gravitational model of the Universe can be preserved. The lack of matter that can be observed in the Universe presents problems for the underlying concept…
Dragon Rules by Andrew Hall According to consensus science, ancient cultures across the planet — with no communication between them — independently and spontaneously invented dragons. Remarkably, they all invented the same physical description and modus operandi: a fire breathing serpent, origin in the sea, havoc across the land, and…
Author and Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall continues his remarkable “Eye of the Storm” series investigating the groundbreaking field of Electric Universe geology. In this episode, sourced from his Eye of the Storm – Part 8 essay, Andy examines proof of the dragon’s passage are not random and coincidental anomalies. They…
