September 14, 2020 The Seventh Planet is mysterious. Uranus takes 84.3 Earth years to revolve around the Sun. Since telescopes, such as Keck in Hawaii, are relatively new (Keck achieved first light on November 24, 1990. Its first use of adaptive optics did not take place until October 2003), detailed…
September 11, 2020 Electricity can create structures that are hard to identify. Venus underwent some kind of cataclysmic event (or events) in the recent past. Giant cracks extend for hundreds of kilometers, for example. Those fractures are accompanied by “coronae”, with deep channels branching out like carved lightning bolts. Vast…
September 10, 2020 The idea that electricity flows through the Universe is commonly met with resistance in today’s consensus. According to a recent press release, two galaxy clusters are connected by a “…peculiar ridge of radio waves linking those clusters, like a thread strung between galactic beads.” Astrophysicists believe that…
September 9, 2020 Double layers can accelerate charged particles, as well. “We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.”— Hannes Alfvén A recent press release from the European Space Agency (ESA) provides information about…
September 8, 2020 There are regular reports in the scientific press about the filamentary structure of the Universe. According to consensus astrophysics, galaxies are embedded in a diffuse cloud of gas and dust known as “baryonic matter”. Baryons are commonly referred to as “normal matter”, or “luminous” matter. However, along…
September 7, 2020 Editor’s note: The Picture of the Day will take a short recess today. Meanwhile, please enjoy this article from the archives. Plasma does not obey the laws of kinetic energy. “The plasma exhibited striations and double-layers, the electron distribution was non-Maxwellian, there were all sorts of oscillations…
September 4, 2020 Editor’s note: The Picture of the Day will take a short recess today. Meanwhile, please enjoy this article from the archives. There are many carbon-based molecules in space and on rocky bodies. Tholins are large organic molecules found off the Earth, sometimes in space and sometimes in…
September 3, 2020 The Moon is a “dead body” that is billions of years old, according to theory. It has no intrinsic magnetic field and it does not radiate, except to reflect the light that it receives from the Sun. But could electrical forces have recently shaped the lunar surface?…
September 2, 2020 How does the Sun work? “In a low density plasma, localized space charge regions may build up large potential drops…Such regions have been called electric double layers…In the laboratory, double layers have been studied for half a century, but their importance in cosmic plasmas has not been…
September 1, 2020 The Crab is 25 kilometers wide, with a mass of 1.5 times that of the Sun, and is said to rotate at 30 times per second. Previous Pictures of the Day discuss the problems associated with neutron stars. The most important contradiction in the theory is that…
