Lunar Graben

A portion of the Rimae Burg graben on the Moon

New editions of The Picture of the Day are now available at electric-forces.com, independently owned and operated by Steve Smith. Featuring exclusive content by Mel Acheson, Wal Thornhill, Don Scott, and guest contributors. Subscribe now! Original Post February 22, 2012 Did tectonic and volcanic forces create the wide, parallel trenches…

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The Filamentary Firmament

Plasma "tornadoes" on the Sun

New editions of The Picture of the Day are now available at electric-forces.com, independently owned and operated by Steve Smith. Featuring exclusive content by Mel Acheson, Wal Thornhill, Don Scott, and guest contributors. Subscribe now! Original Post February 20, 2012 Strands of magnetically confined plasma can be seen throughout the…

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Plasma Clusters

Globular star cluster NGC 2808

Original Post February 17, 2012 In an Electric Universe, plasma structures in space exhibit similar morphology regardless of scale. From galaxy clusters to individual stars, spheres and filaments predominate. Spherical clusters of stars, otherwise known as globular clusters, are another example of how plasma is organized and confined into coherent…

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Cosmic Blobs

Galaxy clusters and Lyman-Alpha Blobs

Original Post February 16, 2012 Immense clouds of ionized plasma as large as galaxies have been seen in deep space. A recent press release from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) discusses a vast cloud of gas and dust originally discovered in 2000, conventionally measured to be over 300,000 light years…

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Painted Into a Corner?

Dr. Anthony Peratt with (inset) Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola

Original Post February 2, 2012 History repeats itself – and that includes the history of science. Back in 1879, the very notion of ‘prehistoric cave art’ was unheard of. The famous Palaeolithic art galleries inside such caves as at Altamira, Trois Frères and Lascaux still lay undiscovered in the womb…

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Mountains of Evidence

Jean-Jaques D'Ortous de Mairan (1678-1771)

Original Post February 9, 2012 ‘Plasma mythology’ may be defined as the study of plasmas, specifically near-earth plasmas, in human traditions, such as mythology and proto-scientific records. If this is a discipline, one of its most notable pioneers must be the French savant, Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan (1678-1771). De Mairan…

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