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…
Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Many are familiar with this adage, but such ideas were already commonplace by the time of Homer. A famous passage in the Odyssey describes the illicit affair between Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus) entrapped in flagrante delicto much to the…
The atomic model has remained unchanged for a long time. Yet, there are mysteries it has been unable to solve such as why certain elements are more stable than others, and predicting how large atoms split. In the Structured Atom Model (SAM) the nucleus is constructed using protons which…
While we may not think of science when we think about revolution, surprisingly, scientific progress is a far more revolutionary process than political change. Writer, poet, and discourse analyst, Ghada Chehade, continues her exploration of Kuhn’s paradigm shift model and the present state of cosmology, looking at how the…
Not If, But When: Cosmology in Crisis& The Coming Paradigm Shift, Part 3 by Ghada Chehade, PhD In the previous two articles, I explored cosmology’s broader cultural impact and Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shift, as it pertains to cosmology and the present cosmological crisis. In this final article of…
Star clusters are large groups of stars. Globular clusters are tightly bound together and can consist of hundreds of millions of stars. Open clusters are loose groups of a few hundred stars and are mostly found within the spiral arms of the galactic plane. Contributor and Electric Universe advocate,…
