A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
June 2, 2020 A new mission to Europa. The Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter in December 1995. When it ran out of maneuvering fuel, the 320 kilogram probe was incinerated by the Jovian atmosphere, so that it would not crash into one of Jupiter’s moons, particularly Europa. Planetary scientists were surprised…
June 1, 2020 Electricity lights the stars and energizes a web of galaxy clusters. But what is it? “Electricity” is a catchall term, describing several phenomena: piezoelectric, thermoelectric, and even bioelectric activity are all forms of electricity—just like “heat” has many faces: radiant heat, contact heat, convective heat, etc. However,…
May 29, 2020 Earth is part of a coherent “cosmic ecology”. In an Electric Universe, what is observed on other planets, within galaxies, or in free space should be used to model the Universe, rather than using Earth-based examples. Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum compiled a catalog of nebulae before…
May 28, 2020 This small moon is said to be covered with powdery snow. The Cassini mission is now over. However, more data continues to be analyzed, particularly those observations of various moons, including Enceladus. Enceladus was named after one of the Gigantes, or Titans, in Greek mythology. Its name…
May 27, 2020 Mars is a mysterious world. NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) on November 18, 2014 on a year-long investigation of Mars’ upper atmosphere, its ionosphere, and how it interacts with the solar wind. The spacecraft is fitted with instruments that measure various phenomena,…
May 26, 2020 The Seven Sisters, or M45, is a misty cluster of stars. Commonly known as the Pleiades, modern astronomers believe that constellation’s stars were born in the same nebular cloud about 100 million years ago. The cluster contains more than 1000 stars, although only 14 are visible to…
May 22, 2020 Comets are often called “dirty snowballs” by astronomers. Various space missions, such as Giotto and Deep Impact, revealed that comets are blackened, cratered, and fractured. No ice fields, reflective crust, or watery clouds. The Giotto spacecraft’s close approach to Halley’s comet, for example, discovered the blackest object…
May 21, 2020 Earth is affected by solar emissions. Electrical connection between charged bodies in space is a basic tenet of Electric Universe theory. The ionosphere is connected to the Sun by streamers of electric charge. Earth is connected to circuits in the Sun that drive electric forces between the…
May 20, 2020 Astronomers measure the Universe using ideas that are based on its expansion out of a primordial explosion. “They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn’t anything…
May 19, 2020 Mineral compounds form in electric fires. “I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”— Jack London Meteorites are thought to be “relics” of the Solar System’s earliest epochs,…
