Apr 5, 2016 Electric lace. Electric Universe theory postulates that currents of electric charge flow through a galaxy along its spiral arms. A bridge across the galactic disk divides into upward and downward currents that flow back out of the poles and into the arms, again. This circuit is…
Apr 1, 2016 Too much trash in the Solar System? According to a recent announcement from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, there is growing concern among engineers and astrophysicists about the amount of junk that is cluttering-up the Solar System. “We’re all involved,” said senior researcher and lead…
Mar 31, 2016 Are you noisy with quiet times? — Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic Earth is an electrically active body because it has a plasmasphere. As described elsewhere, it is plugged into circuits that are part of a relationship that it has with the Sun and…
Mar 30, 2016 What makes the Sun a variable star? A recently published animation illustrates the Sun’s electromagnetic field as it twists and folds through its ionized plasma. The “Sun in a bottle” was created in order to understand how an apparently chaotic solar environment forms a stable electromagnetic…
Mar 28, 2016 The tallest mountain on Titan. The Cassini spacecraft was launched October 15, 1997 on a mission to explore Saturn and Titan, the gas giant’s largest moon. With the Huygens lander included, Cassini was the largest interplanetary space probe ever launched. It is 6.7 meters high, four…
Mar 25, 2016 What force created and sustains Saturn’s rings? Saturn’s main rings, including gaps, are approximately 416,000 kilometers wide, but are estimated to be a mere 50 meters thick, possibly as little as 10 meters. This means that even the most powerful Earth-based telescopes can detect only a…
Mar 24, 2016 It is an electronic Sun. Various components coupled to and driven by electric circuits in space comprise the heart of Electric Universe theory. Charged particles accelerating through powerful electric fields radiate energy in many bandwidths. Glowing, braided filaments are sometimes visible in “jets” that blast out from…
Mar 23, 2016 Back hole physics in the news again. A NASA press release announced that the “most luminous galaxy” ever observed is being consumed by the black hole at its heart. The rapid motion of gas and dust revolving around W2246-0526’s so-called “event horizon” is generating extreme turbulence throughout the…
Mar 22, 2016 Massive electric weather phenomena. Previous Picture of the Day articles describe Earth as an electrically charged object: it maintains an electric field at its surface of between 50 and 200 volts per meter. In other words, for every meter of altitude the voltage increases. Electromagnetic fields…
Mar 21, 2016 Cometary electromagnetic fields are influenced by the Sun. According to a recent press release, the Rosetta Cometary Probe found what appears to be a “magnetic free region” around the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This observation fits with previous data from the Philae lander, which found that…
