Article 5 : Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; How I Wonder What You Are.
A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE (A VIEW FROM THE CAYMAN ISLANDS) - by Rev Nicholas Sykes David Talbott points out that the Ancients spoke of the thunderbolt ruling the universe. When we transpose their conceptual language into our own, the Ancients seem to have got ...
Article 4 : “No” to Magnetic Reconnection and “Yes” to Electrified Plasma
A VIEW OF THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE FROM THE CAYMAN ISLANDS A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE - by Rev Nicholas Sykes A concept that has gained increasing acceptance in current Physics is the idea of “magnetic reconnection”, which was referred to at the end of my ...
Article 3 : RESTORING THE EXPERIMENTAL BASIS – by Rev Nicholas Sykes
A VIEW OF THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE FROM THE CAYMAN ISLANDS A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE In the last article a fundamental problem with the Theory of Relativity was cited: it does not cohere adequately with another foundation theory of modern Physics, namely Quantum Mechanics. We ...
Article 2 : Questioning the Recent Course Taken by Physics
A VIEW OF THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE FROM THE CAYMAN ISLANDS A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE In my last article there were two statements on the topic of areas of the existing mainstream paradigms of science coming under increasingly critical analysis. These are: 1. That there ...
Electric Sun Answers Longstanding Puzzles
(Discovering the Electric Sun - Part 3) The Sun's PNP Transistor The three plots below, provided by Don Scott, show the energy, electric field strength, and charge density as a function of radial distance from the Sun’s surface. Scott draws our attention to the fact that the three plots provide ...
A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT – THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE – Article 1
A VIEW OF THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE FROM THE CAYMAN ISLANDS A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE - Article 1 - by Rev Nicholas Sykes It was a great experience for me to attend a four day science conference in early July on the University of Maryland ...
Our Mysterious and Variable Sun
(Discovering the Electric Sun - Part 2) Quantification It is the general agreement between theory and observation that provides the foundation for quantification. Specialized inquiry can then test the rigor and precision of the qualitative argument with equations and numbers. In a successful test, the quantitative results will correlate well ...
Voyager 1 Updates Solar Electron Flux
Seems Voyager 1 has been able to supply us with more accurate data to enable new calculations of the Solar Electron Flux[1]. In the late 1970’s Ralph Juergens investigated how (or whether) the Sun could be obtaining its energy via an externally supplied flow of electrical power[2]. Now, in late ...
Discovering the Electric Sun – Part 1
In the twentieth century, pioneers of plasma cosmology began to identify the crucial role of electric currents in interstellar and intergalactic space. The “electric universe” hypothesis extends plasma cosmology into domains that were, at best, only partially touched by its pioneers. This paper will present a brief summary of the ...
Toward a Real Cosmology in the 21st Century
Editors Note: The Bentham Open Astronomy Journal has now published a “Special Edition” with a focus on Plasma Cosmology. A peer-reviewed journal, its goal is to publish quality papers rapidly and to make them freely available to researchers worldwide. The following article by Wallace Thornhill, chief science advisor of the ...
The Plasma Universe of Hannes Alfvén
Editor's note: the following article has just been published in the October-December issue of Edge Science. In the 20th century no scientist added more to our knowledge of electromagnetism in space than Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995). His insights changed the picture of the universe, revealing the profound effects of charged particle ...
On Gravity-centric Cosmology and the Implications of a Universe Awash with Plasma
Editors Note: The Bentham Open Astronomy Journal has now published a “Special Edition” with a focus on Plasma Cosmology. A peer-reviewed journal, its goal is to publish quality papers rapidly and to make them freely available to researchers worldwide. The following article by Thunderbolts Project principal Dave Smith offers an introduction ...
A Nobel Prize for the Dark Side
"Science today is about getting some results, framing those results in an attention-grabbing media release and basking in the glory." —Kerry Cue, Canberra Times, 5 October 2011 On October 4, 2011 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astrophysicists for “THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE.” Prof. Perlmutter of the University of California, ...
Comet Elenin—the Debate that Never Happened
by David Talbott The comet Elenin, a subject of intense Internet discussion for several months, seems to have disappointed everyone. I speak here not just of the doomsayers, who were awaiting a frightful specter in recent weeks. You might think these folks would be happy that the celebrated intruder faded ...
Peer-review of Plasma Cosmology
The Bentham Open Astronomy Journal has now published a "Special Edition" ([Special Issue #002] [Pp. 162-210]) with a focus on Plasma Cosmology. The issue titled "Some Initial Thoughts on Plasma Cosmology" features an editorial of the same title by Jeremy Duning-Davies. The Open Astronomy Journal is an Open Access online ...
Introducing the Essential Guide to the Electric Universe
After months of anticipation, with the launch of our new site format comes also the long-awaited Essential Guide to the Electric Universe. Originally authored by Bob Johnson and edited by a team led by Jim Johnson, the Guide (EG2EU for short) will be released chapter by chapter over the coming ...
Thunderbolts set to Impress with WordPress
Some visitors will likely notice a difference in both site appearance and functionality if they've been coming to thunderbolts for a while. We are now using WordPress software to manage site content. This means we have relatively static pages, like the "home" page, which will deliver material of an on-going ...
Gravity Probe B and Related Matters
September 05, 2011 By Jeremy Dunning-Davies, Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Hull and member of the Royal Astronomical Society and Natural Philosophy Alliance. In a posting on the Thunderbolts web site on June 6th, Mel Acheson commented on the recent claims of finding a spiral galaxy in ...
Science Needs Natural Philosophers
29 August, 2011 “Those who regard philosophy as a ‘soft’ and unscientific discipline, in contrast to the ‘hard’ and scientific fields of mathematics and physics, have accepted a Big Lie. The ideas of mathematicians and physicists can be no more objective or certain than the philosophic ideas on which they ...
