A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
September 22, 2020 Previous Pictures of the Day discuss the possibility that there is frozen water on the Moon, although the idea was not given much credence. The Moon is thought to result from a collision between a planet the size of Mars and Earth. It was torn-out of Earth…
September 21, 2020 Kuhn’s 1962 essay (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) exploring the nature of changes in scientific theories, and a plethora of commentaries since, have made it out to be a Big Deal and to be also somewhat mysterious: “revolution”, “incommensurability of paradigms”, “new world”, etc. It seems to…
September 18, 2020 How do mountains form on frozen moons? Titan is the fifth largest rocky body in the Solar System, with a diameter of 5150 kilometers. It is larger than Mercury (4878 kilometers), the Moon (3474 kilometers) and Pluto (2274 kilometers). Of all the planetary moons, Ganymede is only…
September 17, 2020 X-rays from cold nebulae? “Nothing burns like the cold.”― George R.R. Martin Conventional theories rely upon gravity and acceleration to create gamma rays, X-rays and extreme ultraviolet in space. Compressing gas and dust is supposed to make temperatures greater than the cores of some stars. As a…
September 16, 2020 Sunspot Cycle 25 is beginning. It is known that sunspots are an electromagnetic phenomenon, because gigantic loops of plasma can often be seen connecting two or more of them. How magnetism works on the Sun remains unclear to the mainstream. The filaments and “fibrils” seen with high…
September 15, 2020 Dark matter theory is problematic, yet astrophysicists continue using it to explain distance, age, and structure in the Universe. “Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.”— Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén Astronomers maintain their commonly held beliefs about the origin of the Universe, as well as…
September 14, 2020 The Seventh Planet is mysterious. Uranus takes 84.3 Earth years to revolve around the Sun. Since telescopes, such as Keck in Hawaii, are relatively new (Keck achieved first light on November 24, 1990. Its first use of adaptive optics did not take place until October 2003), detailed…
September 11, 2020 Electricity can create structures that are hard to identify. Venus underwent some kind of cataclysmic event (or events) in the recent past. Giant cracks extend for hundreds of kilometers, for example. Those fractures are accompanied by “coronae”, with deep channels branching out like carved lightning bolts. Vast…
September 10, 2020 The idea that electricity flows through the Universe is commonly met with resistance in today’s consensus. According to a recent press release, two galaxy clusters are connected by a “…peculiar ridge of radio waves linking those clusters, like a thread strung between galactic beads.” Astrophysicists believe that…
September 9, 2020 Double layers can accelerate charged particles, as well. “We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.”— Hannes Alfvén A recent press release from the European Space Agency (ESA) provides information about…
