A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
December 4, 2020 Transverse electric charges accompany main discharge channels. On Earth, the main discharge channel is experienced as a terrestrial lighting bolt. Slow-motion studies reveal that each flash is a complex episode. Multiple leader strokes descend from the clouds, while similar, less visible potential contacts rise from the ground….
December 3, 2020 Is the Universe expanding? Modern astronomers believe that galaxies are receding from each other because they received “inflationary energy” imparted by the Big Bang. They estimate the recession to be about 71 kilometers per second for every 3.3 million light-years of spatial distance. This “dilation of space-time”…
December 2, 2020 Solar phenomena come from 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.” The basic premise…
December 1, 2020 BepiColombo continues its long journey. The BepiColombo mission was launched October 20, 2018 on a joint mission to Mercury. The mission will consist of two satellites: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). MPO is designed to study Mercury’s composition, while MMO will…
November 30, 2020 During the big bang, an irruption of energy from some other realm replaced “nothingness” with the present Universe. The “Big Bang” theory was proposed because Edwin Hubble, using the recently completed 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson observatory, believed that he observed galaxies receding from the Milky Way….
November 25, 2020 Jet-like structures from PSRJ1135–6055. The standard model of stellar evolution proposes that pulsars are neutron stars rotating at incredible speed. For example, PSRJ1135–6055, is reported to be spinning at almost 43,000 revolutions per minute (RPM). To put that rotational rate in perspective, the blades of a typical…
November 24, 2020 Quasars are not gravitational entities, they are electrical. According to a recent press release, Lizelke Klindt, a PhD researcher in Durham University’s Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, said: “How quasars develop has been the cause of significant uncertainty. What our results suggest is that quasars undergo a brief…
November 23, 2020 Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) report a “fossil galaxy” buried within the Milky Way. The primitive galaxy could have collided with the Milky Way about ten billion years ago, in the earliest stages of development. Called Heracles, it…
November 20, 2020 Water features? A recent Picture of the Day discussed what planetary scientists referred to as fossilized mineral springs on Mars. The structures were compared by NASA to dried-up Australian geological features, suggesting that they both are born of similar circumstances. In the image at the top of…
November 19, 2020 What causes waves in Io’s lava lakes? Jupiter’s electromagnetic field, recently measured by the Juno space probe, is twice as strong as consensus models predicted: 7.766 Gauss, compared to 0.66 Gauss at Earth’s South Pole. As previously written, Jupiter’s toroidal magnetosphere is approximately 650 million kilometers wide, extending even…
