A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Apr 10, 2019 Holes in space and time? “We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.”— Hannes Alfvén…
April 9, 2019 Kristian Birkeland’s work is often overlooked. Oh, it was wild and weird and wan, and ever in camp o’ nightsWe would watch and watch the silver dance of the mystic Northern Lights.And soft they danced from the Polar sky and swept in primrose haze;And swift they pranced…
Apr 8, 2019 Scientific theories, which, at best, are only assumptions, can always be gazumped by observable facts. Down the east coast of Australia runs a 3500-kilometre-long mountain chain.The Great Dividing Range, as it is known, peaks at just over 1200 metres. Wollangambe Plateau is an area North of Katoomba…
Apr 5, 2019 Astronomical phenomena are better understood using an electrical perspective. Previous Pictures of the Day reported that there are twin lobes of gamma rays extending beyond the Milky Way’s core. The formations are about 65,000 light-years in diameter, and are thought to indicate that Birkeland currents are creating…
Apr 4, 2019 What causes the cloud bands and high winds on Jupiter? NASA launched the Juno mission on August 5, 2011. Its primary science goals include analysis of Jupiter’s massive plasmasphere, along with electromagnetic influences throughout the Jovian system. Jupiter radiates more energy than it receives from the Sun,…
Apr 3, 2019 According to a recent press release, the electromagnetic field of the Sun is ten times stronger than previously reported. Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, using the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands, analyzed the magnetic field strength of a…
Apr 1, 2019 Are we trashing the Solar System? According to a recent announcement from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), there is growing concern among engineers and astrophysicists about the amount of junk that is cluttering-up the Solar System. “We’re all involved,” said senior researcher and lead author…
Mar 29, 2019 Supernovae illustrate the same old problems. Type 1A class supernovae are important to consensus astronomers for two reasons: their light-curves, or graphs of their intensity over time, are considered to be so predictable that they can be used as cosmic measuring rods. Since redshift equals distance in…
Mar 28, 2019 Does gravity bind the edges of galaxies into a disk? Galaxies should be denser in their nuclei and gradually fade into hazy boundaries, yet many of them exhibit rims of tightly knit stars. Some galaxies possess coherent structures like arms or bars that are almost solid-looking. How…
Mar 27, 2019 What ionizes the intergalactic medium? According to a recent press release, astrophysicists are puzzled by the extent of ionization in distant regions of the Universe. As the announcement states, after the newborn Universe cooled, hydrogen nuclei (protons) recombined with electrons into neutral atoms. Then, extreme ultraviolet light…
