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For the last five years, on this series, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall has presented an extraordinary reconstruction of catastrophic events on Earth, exploring the telltale clues these events imprinted on our planet’s surface. As Andy has explained, many of the fractal patterns we see on Earth cannot be explained through…
New contributor and Electric Universe advocate, Gareth Samuel, creator of “See the Pattern”, introduces his investigation into a striking evidentiary connection between the Birkeland currents in our celestial neighborhood and a true motion of the stars through the heavens. To understand this linkage, Gareth offers a groundbreaking analysis with vivid…
In the 21st century, the technological wonders of the Space Age bring unprecedented data within astronomers’ reach. However, as Thunderbolts contributor Mel Acheson notes, scientific blindness can lead to loss of potential data, and of new understanding. A profound such example was offered by renowned astrophysicist Thomas Gold in his…
What does the future hold for education in the space sciences? More than half a century ago, inspired interest in space exploration was remarkably high among the general public, as humanity’s attention was held rapt by the race to the Moon. However, in the 21st century, the public face of…
It may be the greatest surprise for mainstream cosmologists since the dawn of the Space Age: the detection of powerful magnetic fields at all scales throughout the Universe. In recent years, with the ever finer detection of cosmic magnetism, astrophysicists have increasingly sought an answer to the problem — an…
It’s one of the great enduring mysteries of solar physics — why is the sun’s lower corona hundreds of times hotter than the Sun’s photosphere? For many decades, scientists on Earth have sought an answer to the puzzle, though only doing so within the confines of the standard, thermonuclear model…
A new scientific paper describes an unprecedented and “mind boggling” event around a so-called black hole – an event so rapid, energetic and completely unexpected to astronomers, it challenges the very bedrock of black hole theory. A team of scientists studying an active galactic nucleus observed the brightness of a…
Today, in mainstream astronomical literature we hear more and more about the “Magnetic Universe.” Thanks to great technological leaps, scientists have learned that vast magnetic fields pervade the cosmos, and increasingly, cosmologists view magnetism as important in the formation and evolution of structures at all cosmic scales. However, gravity-centric cosmology…
Through eight installments of this series, Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric, we have highlighted some of the most powerful signs of evidence for a fundamentally new way of seeing the cosmos. Our early episodes explored the vast electromagnetic phenomena in deep space, including cosmic jets, networks of star-forming…
Cepheid variables are stars whose rates of pulsation vary with their luminosities: the brighter the star the longer it takes to complete a cycle of variability. It’s called the period–luminosity relationship. When Cepheids are used as indicators for the distances to nearby galaxies, a necessary assumption is that mass is…
