Category: Picture of the Day
A picture and essay from the perspective of the Electric Universe.
Does Recession Exist?

Original Post August 19, 2013 Cosmologists still have no idea what dark energy is. In 1998, two astronomical research teams independently discovered what is now called “dark energy.” Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brian Schmidt from the Australian National University projects each led the two…
Confronting the Dragon
Antarctica — Once a Tropical Paradise
Plasma Twisting and Rock Banging

Original Post March 19, 2013 This recent image of the Pencil Nebula from La Silla Observatory showcases a cosmic counterpart to “hair” discharges from Tesla coils. Electric forces separate the plasma into parallel filaments. Magnetic forces further constrict them (the “z pinch”) and induce them to twist around each other, producing…
Out in the Cold
Confronting the Dragon
Iapetus

Original Post February 4, 2013 The Cassini space probe’s flyby of Iapetus confirms its electrical attributes. The closest images of Iapetus ever taken came from the Cassini spacecraft as it flew to within 5000 kilometers of its target, resolving features as small as ten meters. In a previous Picture…
Mars in the Laboratory

Original Post January 28, 2013 Plasma discharge experiments replicate Martian features. On Mars, craters, canyons, dunes and many other features do not readily correspond to contemporary theories about their evolution. Dunes that do not align with the direction of the prevailing winds and they do not show any movement…