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Misconception #7: Electricity in Space | Thunderbolts April 27, 2025 by Scott Douglass Narrated by David Drew. Seventh episode in the Misconception series on the EU Model. For much of the 20th century, space was considered a near-perfect vacuum—cold, empty, and electrically neutral. However, this view has changed dramatically in recent decades. Advances in radio astronomy and plasma physics enable us to understand... |
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Balanced Water January 14, 2021 by sschirott Original Post January 14, 2012 Balanced rock formations are common. But how to explain balanced water? At first thought, one would not expect water to run down the hip ridge of a hill. The gravitational condition is unstable equilibrium: any deviation from the exact locus of highest points will perpetuate... |
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Arceology April 9, 2025 by Rens van der Sluijs Original Post April 9, 2015 What did the ancient people think of the axis mundi (world axis)? In the footsteps of Mircea Eliade, mythologists and anthropologists tend to think of the axis mundi or ‘world axis’ as a straight object running through the cosmos vertically. While this is, of course, correct... |
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The Vortex Atom, a Forgotten Theory? March 30, 2025 by sschirott The Vortex Atom, a Forgotten Theory? by Mathias Hüfner The Thunderbolts Project is now a quarter of a century old, since the unforgotten Wal Thornhill dedicated himself to a new cosmology with his essay “Gravity vs. Plasma.” He defined it as follows: The Electric Universe Model of Cosmology is new... |
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The Thunderbolts Project Patreon Campaign Continues! July 24, 2015 by sschirott Today, we ask for your financial support to continue and expand our video outreach. With the current level of contributions, we have been able to sustain a level of two videos a week–we would like to do more. The Thunderbolts Project supports independent research into the electrical nature of the universe.... |
Essential Guide to the Electric Universe
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Contents August 18, 2011 by davesmith_au The Essential Guide to the Electric Universe (EG2EU) Written by Bob Johnson Edited by Jim Johnson This Guide is intended for anyone who wonders how our Universe really works, and who might be interested in an intriguing and somewhat different point of view. Readers may be surprised to discover that... |
Two Full-Length Documentaries – FREE on YouTube
[one_half padding=”0 5px 0 0″]Thunderbolts—The Tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of the Electric Universe and its key themes. Includes interviews with the principal figures in Electric Universe research, including Wal Thornhill, Don Scott, David Tabott, Rens van der Sluijs, and Mel Acheson.
View video[/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 0 0 5px”]Symbols of an Alien Sky will introduce you to celestial spectacles and earth-shaking events once remembered around the world. Archaic symbols of these events still surround us, some as icons of the world’s great religions, though the origins of the symbols appear to be lost in obscurity.
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DVDs
Stars in an Electric Universe. This exceptional lecture by Wallace Thornhill was delivered as the John Chappell Memorial Lecture at the Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference in 2011.
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The Lightning-Scarred Planet Mars. In this second episode of SYMBOLS OF AN ALIEN SKY, David Talbott takes the viewer on an odyssey across the surface of Mars, finding that only electric arcs can produce the observed features.
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Seeking the Third Story. David Talbott’s two groundbreaking lectures at the first annual conference of The Thunderbolts ProjectTM—EU2012 Conference: The Human Story.
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The Electronic Sun and Returning Science to Real Physics. These two lectures by Donald Scott and Wallace Thornhill were high points of the EU2012 conference.
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Books
Thunderbolts of the Gods by David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill introduces the reader to an age of planetary instability and earthshaking electrical events in ancient times. If their hypothesis is correct, it could not fail to alter many paths of scientific investigation.
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The Electric Sky. Dr. Donald Scott systematically unravels the myths of “Big Bang” cosmology, and he does so without resorting to black holes, dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, or magnetic “reconnection.”
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The Electric Universe. In language designed for scientists and non-scientists alike, authors Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott show that even the greatest surprises of the space age are predictable patterns in an electric universe.
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