Original Post June 5, 2015 What force creates energetic beams that span distances measured in light-years? What confines them into narrow jets? Explaining the jets of ionized particles and X-rays often seen erupting from various galaxies and quasars ranks as one of the most difficult tasks facing modern astronomers….
Original Post May 28, 2015 The definition of “life” can be ambiguous. The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 18, 1989 from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, and subsequently entered orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995. After eight years in orbit, Galileo was deliberately incinerated by sending into the…
Is the Cosmos Static or Is It Expanding? On the hundred-year-old dispute over the interpretation of the redshift of galaxy spectra by Mathias Hüfner ABSTRACT: For the Standard Model of Cosmology, which sees the act of creation in a Big Bang 13.5 billion years ago, the interpretation of the redshift…
Original Post May 20, 2015 A new supernova illustrates the same old problems. In January 2014 astronomers discovered the first type 1A supernova seen in a decade. Type 1A class stellar explosions (or, implosions) are important to how astronomers view the Universe for two reasons: their light-curves, or graphs…
Original Post May 13, 2015 Dark matter used as an excuse—again. Gravitational theory demands that the tidal forces acting on globular clusters in their orbits as they pass through the plane of a galaxy would disrupt the spheres, leaving a collection of stars that is more open or…
The Vortex Atom, a Forgotten Theory? by Mathias Hüfner The Thunderbolts Project is now a quarter of a century old, since the unforgotten Wal Thornhill dedicated himself to a new cosmology with his essay “Gravity vs. Plasma.” He defined it as follows: The Electric Universe Model of Cosmology is new…
Original Post March 27, 2015 Hot gas or streams of charged particles? Complex rings, knots, and twisted streamers are often ejected from stars (and other celestial objects). The overall shape of so-called “planetary nebulae” sometimes reveal gigantic, bifurcated jets emerging from their central stars, indicating the beginnings of helical…
Original Post March 19, 2015 Electric Universe theory assumes Earth and the Sun are electrically connected. Previous Picture of the Day articles discuss the linkages between the flow of electric charge through the galaxy, solar electric currents, and terrestrial electric currents. Earth’s environment is also driven by those cosmic electrical…
Original Post February 17, 2015 Charged plasma surrounds the Solar System. Electric Sun theory presupposes that the Sun is a glowing anode, or positively charged electrode. Its oppositely charged cathode is invisible, a “virtual cathode,” called the heliosphere that exists billions of kilometers from its surface, where a “double…
Original Post February 11, 2015 Rather than clouds of frigid dust and gas, twisted filaments suggest electric currents in space. Temperatures near absolute zero show up in the infrared image in blue false color in the image at the top of the page. The Eagle nebula is an active…
