A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
June 30, 2020 Many celestial bodies display multi-ringed formations. Mare Orientale can be found near the western rim of the Moon, making it difficult to see from Earth. It has a nearly complete concentric ring structure with a surrounding basin of mare material. The mare is bounded inwardly by steep…
June 29, 2020 If the star, Betelgeuse occupied the Sun’s position, its outer envelope would exceed Jupiter’s mean orbital diameter. Red giants are old, as astronomers measure age, since the so-called “main sequence” theory states that stars go through a well-established evolution. That evolution is said to follow a path…
June 27, 2020 Black holes continue to elude detection by the most powerful telescopes. It is assumed that matter falling into a black hole is accelerated and subsequently compressed until it is ultimately destroyed inside the so-called “event horizon”. It is that process that is said to create quasars: conventionally…
June 25, 2020 The Herschel space observatory operated between 2009 and 2013. The Herschel Space Observatory was launched on May 14, 2009 into an orbit around LaGrange point L2 (behind Earth in relation to the Sun). Herschel’s supercooled infrared detectors were built to last only three years, so its cooling system has long…
June 24, 2020 What keeps dusty clumps from bouncing off each other? In 1756, Immanuel Kant suggested that the Solar System was born from a cloud of dusty gas floating in space. Known as the “Nebular Hypothesis”, the theory states that the cloud contracted because gravitational attraction between particles caused…
June 23, 2020 Earth’s surface is not what it was a short time ago. That Earth and the Solar System experienced catastrophic events, perhaps as little as 5000 years ago, is one of the major presumptions of Electric Universe theory. Most adherents to the theory consider 10,000 years ago to…
June 22, 2020 Gamma-ray bursts are said to come from the edge of the Universe. Nobel laureate, Hannes Alfven, described a double layer as, “… a plasma formation by which a plasma—in the physical meaning of this word—protects itself from the environment. It is analogous to a cell wall by…
June 19, 2020 Astronomers believe that solar flares are caused by “magnetic reconnection events”. “We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the Sun…”― John Lennon A recent press release illustrates another of the more common ideas about the Sun. Using the thermonuclear fusion model of solar activity,…
June 18, 2020 Lightning phenomena vary in magnitude. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”— Mark Twain Lightning, along with other electrical manifestations, includes a phenomenon called, “transverse electric currents” with the main discharge channel. Slow-motion videos of lightning reveal multiple leader strokes…
June 17, 2020 According to a recent journal publication, “A team of researchers…has found evidence that suggests the bright patches spotted on Titan’s surface 20 years ago are dry lake beds.” The formerly named Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral on October 15, 1997. Few now remember the public…
