A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Mar 11, 2015 Imagine a rock. Now, imagine breaking it into pieces. Break the pieces into smaller pieces. Continue breaking until your eyes can no longer resolve the pieces. Get a microscope. Now you can distinguish the pieces. Break them until the microscope can no longer resolve the parts….
Mar 10, 2015 A recent coronal mass ejection could be headed toward Earth. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin According to the Electric Sun hypothesis, the Sun is a positively charged electrode within a vast, galactic electric circuit. As previously written, the negative electrode…
Mar 9, 2015 The Dawn spacecraft achieves another historical first. Ceres captured the Dawn spacecraft in its gravity field at a distance of 61,000 kilometers at 7:39 AM EST on Friday, March 6, 2015, after spending several months in orbits around asteroid Vesta. Three ion propulsion engines enabled Dawn…
Mar 5, 2015 The Ring Nebula could be called the “Tube Nebula”. “Bipolar outflow” is a term often used to describe the nebular structure seen above, although the cause of the effect remains baffling to consensus astronomers. The prevailing opinion is that nebular structures form “knots” because gases and dust…
Mar 4, 2015 Homer’s Odyssey narrates the chaotic homeward journey from the devastated battlefield of ancient Troy. The hero, the resourceful and cunning king Odysseus, leaves a Troy shattered not only by war but by the vindictive gods of the Greek pantheon. Although the heroes of the Trojans and…
Mar 03, 2015 Could two dynamos made of hydrogen create Jupiter’s magnetosphere? Jupiter is the largest of all the planets. At 142,984 kilometers in diameter at its equator, it is so large that all the other planets could fit within its volume. Jupiter rotates so fast that a day lasts…
Mar 2, 2015 An image of the Helix Nebula in the constellation Aquarius exposes more details of its electrical structure. The infrared image shows radial Birkeland currents (called “strands” in the press release) crossing the concentric rings and converging on the central star. (Will “strands” now replace the former…
Feb 27, 2015 Electric currents create magnetic fields in the Sun. “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Asking this question always gets a chuckle from a group of kids who haven’t been asked that before. For adults, it confirms their conviction that unanswerable questions must be laughably…
Aug 25, 2014 Can shockwaves create X-rays? Many Picture of the Day articles point out that stars are not simplistic globes of hot gas under pressure, they are composed of plasma. Plasma is electrically charged. Since it is ionized, it does not behave like a pressurized gas, so shockwaves…
Feb 25, 2015 Enceladus shares characteristics with comets. Proponents of mainstream viewpoints are slowly beginning to realize that asteroids and comets exist in a continuum: neither are strictly identical nor completely different from the other. For example, when the Stardust mission returned to Earth with samples from the coma…
