Aug 24, 2018 Stars are not born out of frigid emptiness. Gravity is a weak force compared to electromagnetism. When objects fall in Earth’s gravitational field, they accelerate with a sluggish 9 meters-per-second, squared. However, when they encounter the electromagnetic fields of some substance, like a sidewalk, they decelerate instantly;…
Aug 22, 2018 Ice on the Moon? “The angel had told me in my dream that if I wanted to acquire the perfect knowledge I desired, I would have to go to the Moon. There I would find Adam’s paradise and the Tree of Knowledge. As soon as I had…
Aug 21, 2018 Electrical discharges in plasma are a better model for solar activity than the models derived from gravity and turbulence. About 100 years ago, Kristian Birkeland led the Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition to a mountain inside the arctic circle, where he and his colleagues discovered that Earth’s…
Aug 20, 2018 Gas and dust in space are not heated by gravity. Picture of the Day articles note that astronomers persistently identify electromagnetic formations as gravitationally induced phenomena. For example, particles surging out from stars like the Sun are called a “wind”, instead of electric charge flow. Streams of…
Aug 17, 2018 Where did we come from? Generally, there are two competing views about how the Universe is evolving. In the first instance, the Universe was born in a Big Bang: an intrusion from another reality that provided the impetus for all matter and energy. The components of this…
Aug 16, 2018 Sunspots are declining, over all, but they continue to occur. The total sunspot number peaked in 2014, so the Sun is entering what should be a quiet phase, as discussed in a recent Picture of the Day. However, in early September 2017 the Sun erupted with…
Aug 15, 2018 Electricity is stronger than gravity. Electricity is really just organized lightning. — George Carlin Cosmic rays are ions from deep space traveling at high velocities. Most cosmic rays are single protons, followed by 5% helium nuclei, with the rest comprising all other elements in the periodic table….
Aug 14, 2018 Neutron stars do not exist. “The neutron star is simply yet another fantasy….A proton-free nucleus or ‘charge free’ atom made up of only neutrons has never been synthesized in any laboratory nor can it ever be…Lone neutrons decay into proton – electron pairs in less than…
Aug 13, 2018 Some galactic jets emit radio broadcasts. It is not the consensus opinion, but Electric Universe proponents think that galactic evolution occurs when large-scale plasma discharges form coherent, electrodynamic filaments. In that view, the Universe is an electrical system that is ever charging and discharging. Rather than gravity, electricity…
Aug 10, 2018 Jupiter dissipates so much electromagnetic energy that it could be thought of as a star. Jupiter’s magnetosphere is so powerful that it reaches beyond Saturn’s orbit, over 600 million kilometers away. Zones of extreme radiation, similar to the Van Allen radiation belts, surround the planet, except that the radiation…
