Mohenjo Daro

  Original Post October 22, 2013 Some have suggested ancient technology glassified these Indus Valley ruins but electricity is a more plausible explanation. Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent region are thought to be the “birthplace” of civilization and the central focus for human culture dating back to the beginning of…

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Electric Devils

Original Post October 16, 2013 Martian dust devils exhibit electrical characteristics. There are also electric whirlwinds on Earth. As long ago as March 2005, Electric Universe advocates wrote about the surprising discovery of dust devils spinning across the Martian deserts. Cameras in space, as well as on the Martian surface returned many images…

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Mired in Slush

  Original Post October 10, 2013 Do the centers of planets and moons contain rocky slush or molten magma? A gravity map of Titan, created by monitoring changes in the Cassini orbiter’s speed as it flew by the giant moon between February 2006 and July 2008, indicates that its interior…

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Blast of Gas

  Original Post September 20, 2013 The large ALMA radio telescope in Chile has discovered that “billowing columns” of “gas” are “fleeing” from gravitational forces that would snare them into new stars. The size of the Sculptor Galaxy depends on the outcome. Unless, of course, star formation is not so…

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Butterflies on a String

  Original Post September 11, 2013 Modern astronomy has a planetary nebula (PN) problem: Gravity can’t do what PNs do. Astronomers invent a kind of pseudo-magnetism to fill the explanatory holes. This pseudo-magnetism is a reified presumption that’s unplugged from the electric currents that generate real magnetic forces. Consensus theory…

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Magnetic Mystery

  Original Post September 6, 2013 Radio-wave observations of a Herbig-Haro (jetted) star at the edge of an opaque plasma cell reveal the wiring harness that drives it. In visible light, a spiraling filament jets toward the upper left of the image. It ends in a bright double layer. Surrounding…

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