A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
May 13, 2015 Dark matter used as an excuse—again. Gravitational theory demands that the tidal forces acting on globular clusters in their orbits as they pass through the plane of a galaxy would disrupt the spheres, leaving a collection of stars that is more open or chaotic than…
May 12, 2015 Could Mercury and the Moon be more closely related than previously thought? On March 18, 2011 the MESSENGER spacecraft (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) entered orbit around the planet Mercury. The last time a spacecraft explored Mercury was Mariner 10 during its tour of it…
May 11, 2015 Ignorance is not bliss. In discussing the question of progress in scientific revolutions, Kuhn noted: “There are losses as well as gains [in a paradigm shift]…, and scientists tend to be peculiarly blind to the former.” In a footnote, he elaborates: “Because science students ‘know the…
May 7, 2015 Solar plasma phenomena are governed by electricity flowing through space. The conventional view of the Sun is illustrated by a popular science website: “Our Sun is made up of elements left over from the Big Bang, elements formed from dying stars, and elements created in supernovae.”…
May 6, 2015 The house of cards which is modern astronomy contains two jokers. Both lie in the foundation; both are being played; and the house is doomed to collapse. The first joker is the assumption that redshift is entirely a doppler effect. Upon this card is founded the…
May 5, 2015 INTEGRAL has observed intense gamma-ray emissions from the Cygnus X-1 star system. Cygnus X-1 is thought to be a stellar binary with one companion object a black hole and the other a blue supergiant known as HDE 226868: one of the strongest X-ray sources ever detected. The…
May 1, 2015 Pluto is just ahead. The Nebular Hypothesis suggests that the Solar System condensed out of a cloud of molecular gases and dust billions of years ago. Eventually, the dust and gas shrank to the point where compression started a nuclear chain reaction in the dense ball…
Apr 29, 2015 Birkeland current interaction is probably the best large-scale structure model for the Universe. A recent article in the astronomical journals and popular press identifies an area of space as a “huge hole” completely empty of matter and energy; “colder” than any other region previously observed….
Apr 28, 2015 Are there billions of rocky planets in the galaxy? “Are we alone in the Universe?” That is probably one of the earliest questions that people ask, after “where do we come from?” According to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), there could be planets galore in our galaxy…
Apr 27, 2015 Earth and Jupiter reveal their common connections to the Sun. As previous Picture of the Day articles mention, Earth possesses a complex electrically active structure called a magnetotail (or plasma tail) that extends for millions of kilometers, always pointed away from the Sun. Streams of…
