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For decades, astronomers have told us that comets that enter our region of the solar system come from two major areas: the Kuiper Belt and a hypothetical shell of icy bodies called the Oort Cloud. However, new observations of so-called “Oort Cloud comets” call into question all of the astronomers’…
Dr. Donald Scott gave a presentation at Case Western University on October 17, 2017, at the invitation of Dr. Roberto Galan, Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, on a transistor analogy of the Sun’s surface with references to the SAFIRE Project. EU2017: Future Science — Rebroadcast…
One of the strangest hypothetical astrophysical objects is called a neutron star. Scientists tell us that the material leftover from a supernova explosion of a massive star collapses gravitationally, forming an incredibly small yet massively dense star mostly composed of tightly packed neutrons. A rotating neutron star is said to…
Recently, scientists reported in the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society the discovery of a theory-shattering exoplanet — one of countless such discoveries in the last two decades. As reported on phys.org on October 31, the hot Jupiter “should not exist according to planet formation theory.” In this episode,…
A new image released in the last week by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta team underscores the desperate need for new theoretical pathways in comet science. In the picture, we see one of the clearest, perhaps undeniable images to date of an electrical arc discharging on a comet nucleus. In…
In the Space News series, a clear picture of cosmic scale phenomena has emerged: networks of filaments pervade space and are closely linked to the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. The electric universe and plasma cosmology have always predicted that the filaments are in fact electrical Birkeland currents…
In Number 4 of our ongoing series, “The Top Ten Reasons in the Universe is Electric,” we explore an ongoing astrophysical enigma — the Fermi Bubbles, giant gamma ray structures which scientists have dubbed “incandescent bulbs screwed into the center of the galaxy.” In this episode, we explore why such…
For several years, astrophysicists have observed in unprecedented detail the largest scale lightning in the cosmos. Nevertheless, consensus astrophysical theory tells us that mechanical and kinetic process produce the detected stupendous electromagnetic effects. In this episode, we explore the dire need for astrophysicists to explore the alternative explanations offered in…
In Part 1 of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill began his analysis of the recent award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to scientists for their contributions to the so-called detection of gravitational waves. While science media has shown exactly zero skepticism of the gravitational waves pronouncements, Thornhill discussed some…
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their contributions to the so-called observation of gravitational waves. In February of last year, a team working with the LIGO gravitational wave detector announced their discovery. We are told that the instruments detected “ripples in space-time,” which…
