The Norse Thundergod Thor was celebrated for his prodigious powers of fertility. In parts of Norway and Sweden, Thor himself was invoked at weddings as it was custom for the bridegroom to bear an axe long after Thor was forgotten. Interesting to note Thor’s thunderbolt was here conceptualized as…
Magnetohydrodynamics is the branch of physics that studies behavior of electrically conducting fluids in the presence of magnetic fields. Examples of such magneto fluids include plasmas, liquid metals, salt water, and electrolytes. To understand the predictive analytics of the Dougherty set and how it applies to the Electric Universe…
Pulsars are mysterious objects that emit electromagnetic radiation in a clockwork-like fashion. The period of this pulsing can be extremely short such as every 1.33 seconds or a staggering 1.4 milliseconds. The pulsar may simply be no different than a normal star behaving like a malfunctioning electric star. In…
At our fourth conference EU2015: Paths of Discovery, Stephen Crothers re-examined the renown General Theory of Relativity. This is his complete talk, presented on Monday, June 29, 2015. Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity lies hidden behind an impenetrable wall of complicated mathematics, superposed upon the widespread misconception that…
One distinguishing difference between gravity-and-gas of the Standard Model of Cosmology vs the electricity-and-plasma thinking of the EU Model, is the matter of power. In physics, power is the rate of change of energy. With mechanisms that provide greater power, larger events can happen faster. If conditions in a…
Throughout history, in every significant philosopher, astronomer or scientist lies a geometer. First principles of geometry taught atomic material is formed out of nested platonic solid spinning and the spiral is a core structure. Witness the whirlpool—part of worldwide folklore and symbol for origins of life and energy. For…
Life emits light. There is even proof our eyes emit light. To a physicist this is possible since all receivers are also transmitters—a radio antenna can send or receive the same signal. The rhodopsin molecules in the retinal cells absorb and emit the same visible light. Michael Clarage, PhD,…
Energy, Mass, and Light by Mathias Hüfner I always felt that science as the domain of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities — and not for mere mortals — was a very bad idea. — Benoit Mandelbrot A Brief History of Physics The social requirement on physics is to…
Original Post May 9, 2012 Is this Algerian crater the result of an asteroid impact? Previous Picture of the Day articles have taken up the question of cratering on planets and moons. In the larger sense, that of the Solar System as a whole, it has been argued that craters…
Our Sun sits in the middle of an enormous void called the local bubble containing million degree, ionised hydrogen gas, surrounded by a wall of colder denser neutral gas. Mainstream astronomers keep describing it as neutral gas deficient rather than simply stating that it is highly ionised. Galaxies are…
