Discovered in 1802 by Heinrich Olbers, Vesta has a diameter of 326 miles second only behind Ceres as one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt. It constitutes a staggering 9% of the mass of the belt and is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth. Contributor and EU…
Final episode of a four-arc special exploring the Polar Configuration. Ev Cochrane began his quest into comparative mythology scrutinizing ancient literary and astronomical texts mentioning Mars. He identified over 200 Martian motifs including dragon-slayer, eclipse agent, fire-god, and warrior. It emerged that Mars represented an awe-inspiring celestial form—prone to…
Independent researcher, Stuart Talbott, deconstructs the standard model of gravitational collapse and mass accretion to create stars over eons of time—versus—the EU model of the electromagnetic phenomenon called the Z-pinch, also known as the Bennett pinch, as the force governing the rapid formation of stars. Hannes Alfvén, who predicted…
Third of a special four-episode arc to explore the Polar Configuration. The Sumerians witnessed the appearance of Venus that saw the planet depart from its axial alignment within the polar configuration and wander about the axis. And so it is that comets are associated with the end of a…
Second of a special four-episode arc to explore certain unique aspects of the Polar Configuration. Especially telling are traditions reporting that Zeus launched lightning-like fire from his ‘eye’. Aeschylus described the Greek Thundergod as “The jealous eye of God hurls the lightning down.” Comparative mythologist, Ev Cochrane, dissects the…
Ears ring, windows rattle, the dog hides under the bed. It’s thunder from an arc of electric discharge, or from a passing supersonic jet. Rub your feet on the carpet then touch a doorknob. You get a spark and hear a snap. Same thing—tiny scale. Think of the power…
First of a special four-episode arc to explore certain unique aspects of the Polar Configuration. Beginning with ‘As Above, So Below’—the well-known phrase of legend and myth—this episode analyzes the planetary origins of the king and the bizarre rituals of kingship. To achieve a fact-based history of our solar…
Most binary systems are hard to detect and may contain more than two stars. In January 2021 the discovery of a new and bizarre sextuple system was reported where all the stars aligned perfectly creating a sextuple eclipsing star system. More strange is that the system seems to consist…
We examine three fundamental questions in the second episode of this two-part presentation. Is matter even capable of organizing itself? Where do form and shape come from? Can form exist without matter? Researching the origin of forms in Nature for several decades, Astrophysicist and Lead Scientist of The SAFIRE…
In this first episode of a two-part presentation, we begin with an open question in biology—how do the shapes of creatures come about? How does a certain frog species obtain its particular shape and not some other? How do its legs and toes and claws always get their particular…
