A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Sep 16, 2014 Protoplanetary disks are said to be accreted around infant stars. A recent press release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory reports the possibility that collisions between comets and a large planet might be occurring around the star, beta Pictoris. A cloud of carbon monoxide (CO) and dust…
Sep 15, 2014 Particle jets are not caused by black holes. How jets of ionized particles erupt from various objects in space is one of the most difficult problems facing modern astronomers. What force creates energetic particle emissions that can sometimes span distances measured in light-years, or even thousands…
Sep 13, 2014 Lakes are supposed to exist on Titan. Could that be a misinterpretation of electrical effects? The then named Cassini-Huygens mission was launched October 15, 1997 on a mission to explore Saturn and titan, its largest moon. With the Huygens lander included, Cassini was the largest interplanetary…
Sep 11, 2014 Many cultures recalled a period of unbearable cold, which they associated with a distant mythical age of ‘creation’, when the sun did not yet shine or fire had not yet been obtained. Such tales are hardly surprising for higher latitudes, such as the Viking sagas of…
Sep 10, 2014 Electric Universe theory assumes Earth and the Sun are electrically connected. Previous Picture of the Day articles discuss the linkages between the flow of electric charge through the galaxy, solar electric currents, and terrestrial electric currents. Earth’s environment is also driven by those cosmic electrical circuits,…
Sep 09, 2014 Things may be carved in stone and still be nebulous. Petroglyphs come without captions; clues of their intended meanings are more often missing than not. Yet though certainty is rarely to be had, the quest for the meaning of rock art is as legitimate as any…
Sep 8, 2014 Previously detected “plumes” on Europa are no longer visible. When Voyager 1 flew by Europa on March 1979, planetary scientists were surprised to see that the moon seemed to be completely encased in water ice. Another surprise was that Europa exhibited few craters. Instead, its surface…
Sep 5, 2014 So far, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s water ice remains hidden. According to a recent press release, one of Rosetta’s onboard instruments is detecting oxygen and hydrogen surrounding comet 67P/C-G. “ALICE” is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer built to examine the comet’s coma, as well as study the surface. There is,…
Sep 04, 2014 In the study of myth, the question of metaphors presents many a challenge. When does a ‘sun’ literally refer to the quotidian sun and when is it a metaphor for some other bright sky light? Hard-and-fast rules are risky; every tradition is best examined in its own…
Sep 3, 2014 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…
