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Matt Finn: Hypotheses of Everything | Thunderbolts March 16, 2024 by Scott Douglass An examination of why the Theory of Everything may be out of reach for humanity. In the EU Model of Cosmology it may only be able to rise to a strong Hypothesis. When we inspect the Universe with our senses—augmented by modern technology—uncovering the fabric of reality doesn’t seem so... |
Matt Finn: An Observation of Everything | Thunderbolts March 9, 2024 by Scott Douglass This is the first episode of a three-arc narrative. It is not realistic to have an actual Theory of Everything until we know everything about the Universe. In mainstream cosmology, space is full of constant surprises especially with new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope that defenestrate broken theories... |
Stuart Talbott: JWST Keeps Busting Big Bang | Thunderbolts March 2, 2024 by Scott Douglass Second episode of a two-arc narrative. Since 2022 there have been reports of the discovery of galaxies in the so-called early Universe which are not merely problematic, but ‘impossible’ in standard Big Bang cosmology. The overabundance of mature galaxies at the so-called dawn of time has one scientific paper proposing... |
Ev Cochrane: Mars in Ancient Myths & Religion | EU2017 February 24, 2024 by Scott Douglass Ev Cochrane details the origin of the myths of MARS, including its role in the polar configuration and why the red planet is seen as the paramour and husband of Inanna, the Queen of Heaven. This is a re-release of his conference presentation at EU2017. The name for Mars comes... |
Stuart Talbott: Star Explodes Stellar Theory | Thunderbolts February 17, 2024 by Scott Douglass First episode of a two-arc narrative. Surprises in stellar science continue. A team of scientists working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey discovered a star whose chemical composition is completely inexplicable, challenging standard theory on the origins and end of a star’s life, the early Big Bang universe, and the... |
Matt Finn: Electric Earthquakes | Thunderbolts February 10, 2024 by Scott Douglass In 2003, the Journal of Scientific Exploration published “Rocks that Crackle and Sparkle and Glow: Strange Pre-Earthquake Phenomena” by Friedemann T. Freund, PhD. It’s a ground-breaking testament of strange phenomena that precede large earthquakes. It’s a long and diverse list: bulging of the Earth’s surface, changing well water levels, ground-hugging... |
Gareth Samuel: The Star That Nearly Wiped-Out Humanity | Thunderbolts February 3, 2024 by Scott Douglass This is the story of the Star that nearly wiped-out humanity! Scholz star is a dim binary stellar system about 22 light years from Earth. Thousands of years ago this star system was an awful lot closer and it has been determined it passed within a mere 52,000 astronomical units... |
David Drew: Einstein and the Cult of Celebrity | Thunderbolts January 27, 2024 by Scott Douglass “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”― ALBERT EINSTEIN 1879-1955Address to the Prussian Academy of SciencesBerlin, January 27, 1921 Albert Einstein is a cultural phenomenon. His face is still regularly... |
Stuart Talbott: Impossible Objects Stun Scientists | Thunderbolts January 20, 2024 by Scott Douglass How do celestial objects form in the cosmos? At all cosmological scales in standard cosmology—from condensation of dirty snowball comets in a primordial nebular cloud; to gradual accretion of planets forming in a disc around a star; to gravitational collapse and compression of gas and dust in molecular clouds forming... |
Buddy James: The Sounds of Light | Thunderbolts January 13, 2024 by Scott Douglass Light makes different sounds which are dynamic, gorgeous, and mimic living creatures and other sounds of nature. When most people think about light it’s what our eyes can see, visible light—the single octave from red-to-violet light in the electromagnetic spectrum—although, in the scientific lexicon “light” is defined as the EM... |
Andrew Hall: Lightning and its Fractal Domain | Thunderbolts January 6, 2024 by Scott Douglass Lightning is an electrical discharge observed as vertical cloud-to-ground lightning strikes—but electrical discharges also occur cloud-to-cloud -or- ground-to-ground with a different return path in the circuit. Landforms can be identified with an understanding of energy, frequency and vibration. In a holographic Electric Universe, everything is an interference pattern, including matter—it’s... |
Matt Finn: Analysis of Valles Marineris | Thunderbolts December 30, 2023 by Scott Douglass There is evidence of widespread sedimentary layering along the canyon walls of Mars’ Valles Marineris. Where did it come from? It isn’t in a basin—in fact its near the top of a bulge over 6 miles above the datum. For sedimentation of this kind to exist, it would have needed... |
Matt Finn: Enigma of the Grand Canyon | Thunderbolts December 24, 2023 by Scott Douglass Would you be surprised if the origin story of the Grand Canyon still confounds the experts? Problem with the standard theory is that the Colorado River—even before the Glen Canyon dam stemmed its awesome desert floods—was never big enough to explain the size of the Grand Canyon. Also, it flows... |
Stephen Crothers: The Parallax Effect on Short Hair | EU2014 December 16, 2023 by Stephen J. Crothers “I’m not a proponent of astro math-e-magic. My purpose today is to reveal to you some of the methods of this very secret craft.” So said Stephen Crothers in the opening of his talk at EU2014. Did you know that there are alleged to be four types of Black Holes... |
Mel Acheson: Charge Separation in the Mind | Thunderbolts December 9, 2023 by Mel Acheson An electric star wouldn’t begin with a molecular cloud. It would begin with charge separation. Everything we see in the universe, with the possible exception of a few specks of planets and reflection nebulas, is ionized to some degree. It’s a PLASMA, the fourth and dominant state of matter. Positive... |
Edwin Kaal: Proposal for the Structured Atom Model | EU2017 December 2, 2023 by Scott Douglass In this re-release of his EU2017 Conference presentation, Edwin Kaal proposed a new model for the atom based upon principles of densest packing, balancing of electrostatic forces, symmetry, and the stable geometry of Platonic solids. It’s called the Structured Atom Model (SAM). In his model, the sacrosanct strong force of... |
Stuart Talbott: Filamentary Discharge on Asteroid Dimorphos | Thunderbolts November 18, 2023 by Scott Douglass Further analysis of the seemingly anomalous phenomena associated with NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in September 2022. The 1,300 pound spacecraft crashed into asteroid Dimorphus at approximately 14,000 miles per hour. It’s been found that the eruption of material from Dimorphus—which continued for weeks after the kinetic impact—was... |
Matt Finn: Set the Record Straight WF? | Thunderbolts November 11, 2023 by Scott Douglass In October 2023, The Why Files [WF?] came up with some surprisingly fair evaluations on the EU Model of Cosmology. They also claimed Wal Thornhill made a lot of predictions, and that his followers talk about the predictions he got right…but WF? couldn’t think of any. If predictive success is... |
Stuart Talbott: ‘Devil Comet’ Shocks Scientists | Thunderbolts November 4, 2023 by Scott Douglass Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks has been dubbed the ‘Devil Comet’ because its two bright tails resemble horns. This enormous comet, whose nucleus is about 12.4 miles across, has produced two dramatic outbursts, most recently in October 2023. This unexpected activity has puzzled astronomers being so distant from the Sun. As described in... |
Wal Thornhill: Electric Comets & Asteroids | EU Workshop 2014 October 29, 2023 by Wal Thornhill In November 2014 a comprehensive review of the Electric Universe Model of Cosmology, with a special emphasis on recent discoveries, was held in Phoenix, Arizona. More than any other individual, Wal Thornhill spearheaded the EU movement with an emphasis on direct observation and experiment, in contrast to conventional modeling of... |
Matt Finn: Seeing Circuits in the Cosmos | Thunderbolts October 21, 2023 by Scott Douglass We know that an electric current in plasma generates its own magnetic field and can self-constrict the current channel. This is called a Bennett pinch (or Z-pinch) effect—and is able to produce filaments of current that maintain their shape over vast distances. Multiple filaments tend to spiral around each other,... |
Michael Clarage: Is There an EU Model of Time? | Thunderbolts October 14, 2023 by Scott Douglass Is there an Electric Universe perspective on time? Rather than to convince you that time has dimensions, the goal here is to convince you that our ancestors thought so. If you believe an ancient Japanese text which says that a new planet, Venus, entered our solar system, perhaps you will... |
Stuart Talbott: DART Strikes Electric Asteroid | Thunderbolts October 7, 2023 by Scott Douglass NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission was a test of asteroid deflection and demonstration of kinetic impactor technology—impacting an asteroid to adjust its speed and path. In September 2022, a 1,300 pound impactor spacecraft struck the asteroid Dimorphos at approximately 14,000 mph. The after effects observed were completely unexpected,... |
Matt Finn: Electric Dust Devils on Mars | Thunderbolts September 30, 2023 by Scott Douglass Dust devils on Earth have always been treated as trivial compared to tornados. Here we take a look at the monster whirlwinds of Mars. Compared to our planet’s biggest tornados, Martian dust devils are enormous—stretching upwards of five miles in the nearly airless Martian atmosphere which is less than 1%... |
Andrew Hall: Mt. Origami – More Proof of Plasma Winds | Thunderbolts September 23, 2023 by Scott Douglass More proof of plasma winds is shown by examining a mountain Andy fondly refers to as Mount Origami. It’s actual name is Innerer Fisistock and it’s located in the Bernese Alps, about forty miles south of Bern, Switzerland. Innerer Fisistock is very complex—demonstrating the actions of electric circuitry and plasma... |
Dr. Jerry Tennant: Healing as Voltage | EU2017 September 16, 2023 by Scott Douglass In this re-release of his EU2017 Conference presentation, Dr. Jerry Tennant explains how the cells in our body require a proper level of voltage to function optimally for a healthy mind/body connection and balanced physiological state. Cells possess a resting membrane potential—an electrical voltage measured in millivolts (mV) that spans... |
Stuart Talbott: Alignments in the Cosmos | Thunderbolts September 9, 2023 by Scott Douglass One of the most beautiful words in the English language is…”Alignment”…it denotes a sense of connection, agreement, unity and oneness. Alignments occur between celestial objects separated by unfathomable cosmic distances which prove there is a communication among these objects—while there is NO explanation of alignment relationships in the Standard Model... |
Matt Finn: Tunguska Mystery of 1908 | Thunderbolts September 2, 2023 by Scott Douglass On the morning of June 30, 1908 in remote Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River, a blue-white fireball exploded with the force of a 10-to-15 megaton H-bomb. The explosion flattened 60 million trees and devastated 2,000 square kilometers. The shockwave knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundred’s of... |
Andrew Hall: Electricity in Ancient Egypt | Thunderbolts August 26, 2023 by Scott Douglass Andy begins with a focus on the tools being used by the characters in certain hieroglyphs such as the Was Scepter, the Djed, the Ankh, the Crook, and the Flail. The common attire of the headgear and collar are protruding antennas, usually in the form of cobras at the forehead.... |
Gary Schwartz: The Five-Finger Test | EU2015 August 19, 2023 by Scott Douglass Gary Schwartz takes up the acid test of extraordinary claims—he calls it the “Five Finger Test” (FFT)—with an emphasis on original and groundbreaking experiments. He critically applies the FFT to the EU Model in this re-release of his conference presentation at EU2015: Paths of Discovery on June 29, 2015. Many... |
Michael Steinbacher: Catastrophist Geology | EU2014 August 12, 2023 by Scott Douglass Michael Steinbacher evaluates geological formations generated during transient catastrophic episodes—some within the memory of human witnesses—in this re-release of his EU2014 Conference talk of March 22, 2014. Plasma is electrically active and employs forces far stronger than mechanical erosion or tectonics. Was material from space and surface erosion suddenly sorted... |
Michael Armstrong: Night Linguistic = No + Eight | Thunderbolts August 5, 2023 by Michael Armstrong During the end-phase of the Golden Age mankind lived under the glory of the Saturnian polar configuration. Looking north one could see the reddish Mars in front of the larger blue-green eight-spoked Venus in front of the golden orb of Saturn. In the EU Model of the Saturnian Reconstruction, the... |
Wal Thornhill: JWST – Cosmic Dust Proves Arp Invariably Right | Thunderbolts March 25, 2023 by Scott Douglass Presented posthumously, the second excerpt from the JWST VALIDATION Series written by Wal Thornhill. Narrated by Stuart Talbott. After the James Webb Space Telescope became fully operational in July 2022, Wal Thornhill meticulously studied its discoveries that validated his predictions until his death in February 2023. Wal analyzes the Webb... |
Wal Thornhill: JWST – Maverick Quasars & Redshift Values | Thunderbolts March 18, 2023 by Scott Douglass Presented posthumously, this is the initial excerpt from the completed transcript of the JWST VALIDATION Series penned by Wal Thornhill. It is narrated by Stuart Talbott. After the James Webb Space Telescope became fully operational in July 2022, Wal Thornhill meticulously studied its discoveries that validated his predictions until his... |
Gareth Samuel: Forgotten Scientist Who Dared To See Electric—C.E.R. Bruce | Thunderbolts March 11, 2023 by Scott Douglass “The surfaces of stars can be explained as lightning discharges which are observed in the atmosphere of the Earth.”— Charles Edward Rhodes Bruce, 1902–1979 In 1941 C.E.R. Bruce attended a lecture in Edinburgh where he learned of a solar prominence that reached a height of 1 million km in one... |
Michael Armstrong: Enigmatic Globular Clusters | Thunderbolts March 4, 2023 by Michael Armstrong “A globular cluster is a spheroidal conglomeration of stars bound together by gravity—containing anywhere from tens of thousands to many millions of stars…their origin…their role in galactic evolution, unclear.” — Wikipedia Globular clusters are particularly enigmatic in a gravity-only cosmology. They should not be where we see them, and their... |
Andrew Hall: Shine On You Crazy Diamond | Thunderbolts February 25, 2023 by Scott Douglass Dedicated to Wal Thornhill, a mentor to us all in the most important field of all—the true nature of our universe. This is about truth seekers in the Electric Universe. An ode to garage experimenters, theorists, scientists and deep-thinkers everywhere who are grounded and harmonized with natural frequencies—and Wal is... |
Kongpop U-yen: Disaster Forecasting Using Space Weather Data | EU2016 February 18, 2023 by Scott Douglass Re-release of a EU2016 Conference presentation. Kongpop U-yen details natural disaster forecasting techniques using space weather data on Sunday, June 19, 2016. With this technique, natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and storm formations can be forecasted. Several practical case studies verify the theory. Dr. U-yen conducts independent research... |
Wal Thornhill: Webb Space Telescope & Fundamental Change | Thunderbolts February 11, 2023 by sschirott A salute to Wal Thornhill—the re-release of episode one in his three-part prediction series on the James Webb Space Telescope. Verification in the historical record of Wal’s perseverance for eventual embrace of the Electric Universe Model of Cosmology. “Soldier on.” Wallace William Thornhill May 2, 1942 – February 7, 2023... |
Gareth Samuel: James Webb Images Question the Beginning | Thunderbolts February 4, 2023 by Scott Douglass The initial data release from the James Webb Space Telescope caused a worldwide stir within the Standard Model of Cosmology. James Webb images question the beginning of the universe formed by a Big Bang. For instance: the further back in time we look the more galaxies we see; galactic mergers... |
Hannes Täger: History of the Electric Comet | Interview January 28, 2023 by Scott Douglass In this re-release of an interview podcast on December 19, 2016, Hannes Täger recounts hundreds of years of history on the evolution of electrical concepts of comets. Remarkable facts on the origins of electric comet theory are revealed. Also, discussed are his insights on the culture of science—why certain scientific... |
Walter Alter: Webb Telescope Big Bangs Experts | Thunderbolts January 21, 2023 by Scott Douglass Since July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered stunning news: it’s seeing galaxies orders of magnitude brighter in the early universe then what science anticipated. It’s an undeniable crossroads for astronomers, cosmologists and physicists—requiring a rewrite of the Standard Model of Cosmology which relies upon the Big Bang,... |
Michael Armstrong: Aether is Squidgy | Thunderbolts January 14, 2023 by Michael Armstrong A universe of three dimensions will have only two regular polyhedrons—to fill or tessellate volume without having voids of nothingness—those being tetrahedrons and cubes. The shape of aether particles is likely one of these two forms. As other substantial particles and objects apparently move without significant friction, the particles of... |
Andrew Hall: Cosmic Resonance | Thunderbolts January 7, 2023 by Scott Douglass Proponents of the EU Model of Cosmology run into an infinite wall of resistance: false preconceptions by consensus science. The EU does not see the cosmos the same way materialists do. Fundamentally, the cosmos is energy. Energy is kinetic motion, or potential motion of matter over a distance. But matter... |
Michael Clarage: Function in the Cosmos | Thunderbolts December 31, 2022 by Scott Douglass Our atmosphere has seven or eight distinct layers before it meets the magnetosphere—which itself has seven or eight layers. The function of these layers complete our connection to the solar wind. Otherwise, it would crash onto the surface of the Earth creating a mix of ceramic and molten glass. If... |
Stuart Talbott: Electric Quakes on Mars | Thunderbolts December 24, 2022 by sschirott Mars is alive with geophysical activity. Geophysics means the study of Earth’s physical processes. For planetary scientists, the idea of such processes occurring on Mars was once highly improbable, if not unthinkable. Mars has no coherent global magnetic field, an atmosphere one half of one percent as dense as Earth’s,... |
Mel Acheson: What’s the Deal with Matter? | Thunderbolts December 17, 2022 by Mel Acheson So, what’s the deal with matter? At the human scale, matter is something like a rock: You can hold it in your hand, feel its weight, and see something solid with sharp boundaries. It is there. However, when you look at it with an electron microscope, the solidity is mostly... |
Ron Hatch: Relativity in the Light of GPS | EU2013 December 10, 2022 by Scott Douglass Many are aware of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by the very fact that it WORKS and confirms Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity—but the latter is a popular fiction according to distinguished GPS expert Ron Hatch. In this re-release of his EU2013 Conference talk presented on Friday, January 4,... |
Michael Armstrong: Wings of a Butterfly | Thunderbolts December 3, 2022 by Michael Armstrong In the EU Model of Cosmology, plasma phenomena discharges come in three levels of intensity—dark mode, glow mode, and arc mode. In beautiful and intricate structures such as the Butterfly Nebula, the stars-throwing-off-gas theory is REPLACED by normal Birkeland currents in glow mode where the currents are necking down on... |
Mel Acheson: Deconstructing Stephan’s Quintet | Thunderbolts November 26, 2022 by Mel Acheson Stephan’s Quintet is a close group of five distorted galaxies that appear to be interacting. Their arms are stretched, twisted, intertwined—and the two galaxies closest to each other seem to be mashed together. Apparently the larger galaxy is 250 million light-years closer than the others. Two that appear mashed together... |
Ev Cochrane: EU Mythology – In the Beginning | Thunderbolts November 19, 2022 by Scott Douglass A walk down memory lane and a bit of history from comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane. In 1979, Ev wrote an article arguing that Inanna, as the planet Venus, was best understood as a comet-like phenomenon. Shortly thereafter, finding a kindred spirit in Dave Talbott, they jointly authored a series of... |
Wal Thornhill: Reinterpreting the MAVEN Mission to Mars | EU2014 November 5, 2022 by Wal Thornhill The Thunderbolts Project’s Chief Science Advisor, Wal Thornhill, gave a critical examination of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission in this re-release of his EU2014 Conference talk presented on Saturday, March 22, 2014. MAVEN launched in November 2013 to explore the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and... |
Gerald Pollack: Electrically Structured Water | EU2013 October 29, 2022 by Scott Douglass In this re-release of his EU2013 Conference talk, Gerald H. Pollack, PhD, gave this one-hour presentation about the historical research and recent discovery of the electric charge within water on Saturday, January 5, 2013. We are taught water has three phases: solid, liquid, vapor. In 2003, Dr. Pollack and... |
Michael Armstrong: Big Bang NEVER Made Sense | Thunderbolts October 22, 2022 by Michael Armstrong In the beginning, a long time ago, and far, far away there was nothing, which manifested a singularity, which exploded, and over billions of years produced not only our vast material universe, but also life and the entire spectrum of the non-material or spiritual realm. So goes the Big... |
Stuart Talbott: Electric Jupiter Baffles Astronomers | Thunderbolts October 15, 2022 by Scott Douglass Another baffling surprise has been revealed by NASA’s Juno space probe since it entered Jupiter’s orbit in 2016. It’s the discovery of multiple cyclones which appear fixed and unmoving at each of Jupiter’s poles. Nothing in the standard theoretical toolkits of atmospheric and planetary science predicted nor can explain... |
Mel Acheson: Gravitating Toward Plasma | Thunderbolts October 8, 2022 by Mel Acheson Plasma encompasses a larger domain of evidence compared to gravity, and explains more phenomena with a comprehensive and unitary theory. It sees more landscape, more features of that landscape, and more relationships among those features. Gravity, in contrast, sees fewer features and sees them as disparate events, each requiring... |
Gareth Samuel: Super Strange Novae | Thunderbolts October 1, 2022 by Scott Douglass Supernova are more energetic and are alleged to leave little or nothing behind unlike a nova. In 2012, Supernova SN 2012Z was spotted in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC1309. The event should have been the final swan song of the star. The galaxy has been observed for a long... |
Rupert Sheldrake: Science Set Free | EU2013 September 24, 2022 by Scott Douglass In this re-release of his EU2013 Conference talk, Rupert Sheldrake describes how science is being constricted by assumptions hardened into dogmas—all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the... |
Wal Thornhill: The Long Path to Understanding Gravity | EU2015 September 17, 2022 by Wal Thornhill In the theoretical sciences, it is commonly assumed that the role of gravity is settled—although acclaimed theoretical physicist Richard Feynman observed, “There is no model of the theory of gravitation today, other than the mathematical form.” The problem is that mathematics will not account for the essential force in... |
Buddy James: Doughnuts | Thunderbolts September 10, 2022 by Scott Douglass Interdisciplinary Geometer Buddy James describes how prevalent the torus is on all scales in our modern day world—and—how throughout history this ring-shaped object has been masterfully depicted through art, biology, cymatics, mathematics, philosophy, science, spirituality, and something as simple and delightful as the doughnut. Subscribe to Thunderbolts eNewsletter. |
Donald E. Scott: Quintessence of Solar Winds | Thunderbolts September 3, 2022 by Scott Douglass In 1962, the Mariner II space probe travelling toward Venus detected electrically charged particles moving through interplanetary space. Then the Ulysses solar probe, launched in 1990, discovered the solar wind came in two varieties—an irregular slow flow of 400 km/sec, and a fast one up to 800 km/sec. The... |
Mel Acheson: Playing w/Time Thinking | Thunderbolts August 27, 2022 by Mel Acheson Final episode in a seven-arc series on the art of critical thinking. Ancient history is based on present interpretations of texts written by the rulers to justify and glorify such rulers. It’s more propaganda than records, and contain paradoxes such as the stratigraphy of ancient ruins that repeat themselves... |
Wal Thornhill: JWST – Twisted Pairs & Braids Everywhere | Thunderbolts August 20, 2022 by Wal Thornhill Wal Thornhill, Thunderbolts Chief Science Advisor, presented a three-episode JWST PREDICTION Series prior to its launch, detailing the telescope’s significance to the Electric Universe Model of Cosmology—and made several predictions of what the JWST would reveal. In September 2021, Wal stated, “I predict that the JWST with its vast... |
Stuart Talbott: Lightning-Scarred Mars – the Evidence Mounts | Thunderbolts August 13, 2022 by Scott Douglass Several years ago on the planet Mars, NASA’s rover Curiosity discovered something so strange, it forced planetary scientists to begin rewriting Martian history—a process that continues today. The anomaly was found in the 150 kilometer-wide Gale Crater. At the center is Mount Sharp, a central 18,000 foot peak. In... |
Peter Mungo Jupp: Instant Fossilization | EU2017 August 7, 2022 by Peter Mungo Jupp At our sixth conference EU2017: Future Science, Archaeologist Peter Mungo Jupp presented his case for instantaneous fossilization on Sunday, August 20, 2017. Examples of instant fossil evidence found on Earth: A forest of giant trees turned to solid rock; Soft-bodied crab petrified to rock and enclosed in the center... |
Gerald Pollack: Beyond Water—What Makes the World Go Round? | EU2015 July 30, 2022 by Scott Douglass At our fourth conference EU2015: Paths of Discovery, Gerald H. Pollack, PhD, opened the event with this keynote presentation on Thursday, June 25, 2015. He describes how water contains a fourth phase, which bears negative charge. When water evaporates, that fourth phase rises in the form of negatively charged... |
Mel Acheson: Playing w/Key Thinking | Thunderbolts July 23, 2022 by Mel Acheson Sixth episode in a seven-arc series on the art of critical thinking. With a different presumption and metaphysical key, the interpretation of an observation is different. The evidence is different with each key. The possibility of different keys is what allows for a paradigm shift. The focus here is... |
Ev Cochrane: Thor – Love and Thunderbolt | Thunderbolts July 16, 2022 by Scott Douglass The Norse Thundergod Thor was celebrated for his prodigious powers of fertility. In parts of Norway and Sweden, Thor himself was invoked at weddings as it was custom for the bridegroom to bear an axe long after Thor was forgotten. Interesting to note Thor’s thunderbolt was here conceptualized as... |
Buddy James: Magnetohydrodynamics | Thunderbolts July 9, 2022 by Scott Douglass Magnetohydrodynamics is the branch of physics that studies behavior of electrically conducting fluids in the presence of magnetic fields. Examples of such magneto fluids include plasmas, liquid metals, salt water, and electrolytes. To understand the predictive analytics of the Dougherty set and how it applies to the Electric Universe... |
Gareth Samuel: Malfunctioning Electric Stars | Thunderbolts July 2, 2022 by Scott Douglass Pulsars are mysterious objects that emit electromagnetic radiation in a clockwork-like fashion. The period of this pulsing can be extremely short such as every 1.33 seconds or a staggering 1.4 milliseconds. The pulsar may simply be no different than a normal star behaving like a malfunctioning electric star. In... |
Mel Acheson: Playing w/Intricacy Thinking | Thunderbolts June 25, 2022 by Mel Acheson Fifth episode in a seven-arc series on the art of critical thinking. Our universe composed of plasma is extremely intricate. Biological systems are also intricate. Irving Langmuir, who coined the term ‘plasma’ in 1923, noted the equilibrium of an electrical discharge acting as a layer carrying high-velocity electrons, molecules... |
Donald E. Scott: Dark Matter Debunked | Thunderbolts June 18, 2022 by Prof. Donald E. Scott It’s time to put to bed the fairytale of Dark Matter. Something so dark and mysterious that it remains undetected after decades of searching with sophisticated instruments. In 2014, a vast network of plasma filaments—the Intergalactic Web—was discovered that connects many if not all the galaxies in the universe.... |
Stephen Crothers: General Relativity – a Case Study in Numerology | EU2015 June 11, 2022 by Scott Douglass At our fourth conference EU2015: Paths of Discovery, Stephen Crothers re-examined the renown General Theory of Relativity. This is his complete talk, presented on Monday, June 29, 2015. Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity lies hidden behind an impenetrable wall of complicated mathematics, superposed upon the widespread misconception that... |
Gareth Samuel: Electrically Stressed Stars | Thunderbolts June 4, 2022 by sschirott Conventional science says the largest stars are near the end of their life—and will expel vast amounts of material to form a planetary nebula. In an Electric Universe, these stars are deprived of electrons which forces their outer plasma sheath to expand. A planetary nebula is not the remnants... |
Mel Acheson: Playing w/Power Thinking | Thunderbolts May 28, 2022 by Scott Douglass One distinguishing difference between gravity-and-gas of the Standard Model of Cosmology vs the electricity-and-plasma thinking of the EU Model, is the matter of power. In physics, power is the rate of change of energy. With mechanisms that provide greater power, larger events can happen faster. If conditions in a... |
Buddy James: Geometry of the Electric Universe | Thunderbolts May 21, 2022 by Scott Douglass Throughout history, in every significant philosopher, astronomer or scientist lies a geometer. First principles of geometry taught atomic material is formed out of nested platonic solid spinning and the spiral is a core structure. Witness the whirlpool—part of worldwide folklore and symbol for origins of life and energy. For... |
Michael Clarage: The Light of Life | Thunderbolts May 14, 2022 by Scott Douglass Life emits light. There is even proof our eyes emit light. To a physicist this is possible since all receivers are also transmitters—a radio antenna can send or receive the same signal. The rhodopsin molecules in the retinal cells absorb and emit the same visible light. Michael Clarage, PhD,... |
Gareth Samuel: Milky Way’s Plasma Bubble Network | Thunderbolts May 7, 2022 by Scott Douglass Our Sun sits in the middle of an enormous void called the local bubble containing million degree, ionised hydrogen gas, surrounded by a wall of colder denser neutral gas. Mainstream astronomers keep describing it as neutral gas deficient rather than simply stating that it is highly ionised. Galaxies are... |
Mel Acheson: Playing w/Dogmatic Thinking | Thunderbolts April 30, 2022 by Mel Acheson Third episode in a seven-arc series on the art of creative thinking. Over one-hundred years ago, after Einstein’s “rubber space-time” model replaced Newton’s dynamic model, gravity as a force was abandoned in favor of gravity as a warped coordinate system—although some people still think of gravity as a force.... |
Dwardu Cardona: Earth’s Primordial Stellar Host | EU2014 Conference April 23, 2022 by Scott Douglass At our third conference, EU2014: All About Evidence, Dwardu Cardona presented a reconstruction of Earth’s cosmic history distilled from the universal mytho-historical record. He describes how the strongest scientific validation comes from space itself, as new instruments display extraordinary electromagnetic detail across the cosmos, confirming that this is indeed... |
Andrew Hall: The Keystone Pattern | Thunderbolts April 16, 2022 by Scott Douglass Author and engineer Andrew Hall introduces a new geological moniker, The Keystone Pattern. Found in “key” locations across the globe, these patterns written in stone, are the result of electrical discharges. For example, the Richat Structure, known as the Eye of the Sahara in Mauritania, was created by a... |
Gareth Samuel: Red Sky Paradox In An Electric Universe | Thunderbolts April 9, 2022 by Scott Douglass Our Solar System is highly unusual and our Sun is a yellow dwarf star—which together with white dwarf stars should be common elsewhere—but instead red dwarf stars are by far the most common stars in the Milky Way by a factor of five. This presents rather an interesting problem... |
Donald E. Scott: Birkeland Currents & Weather | Thunderbolts April 2, 2022 by Prof. Donald E. Scott Our planet’s polar wind patterns are driven from the outside and not by any surface or internal Earthbound processes or “dynamos”. The main outside source of these polar winds is quite obviously the varying strength and direction of the Birkeland Current stream of electrically charged particles that it delivers... |
Mel Acheson: Playing w/Historical Thinking | Thunderbolts March 26, 2022 by Mel Acheson Second episode in a seven-arc series on the art of creative thinking. Knowledge tends to progress incrementally for long periods as popular theories are developed and adjusted to fit discrepant evidence. Eventually, entirely fresh foundational ideas become necessary. To explain new evidence, the gravity-and-gas theories are patched with hypothetical,... |
Ev Cochrane: Venus + Mars = Lamat Symbol | Thunderbolts March 19, 2022 by Scott Douglass Does the Lamat symbol depict a grand conjunction between Venus and Mars when the two planets were briefly aligned along a shared polar axis? The electrical discharge events that characterized this union would have been a memorable and dangerous chapter in Earth history. Comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane studies the... |
Gareth Samuel: At the Heart of the Milky Way | Thunderbolts March 12, 2022 by Scott Douglass At the heart of the Milky Way lies a vast bulge and in its core is an object connected to how the galaxy functions. The Standard Model of Cosmology says it’s a massive black hole, although the Electric Universe Model sees it as a plasmoid with intense electric and... |
Ghada Chehade: Path To the Next Model of Cosmology | Thunderbolts March 5, 2022 by Scott Douglass Second of a two-episode arc to explore current and future models of cosmology. We take a deep look at the distinctions between the Standard Model and the Electric Universe Model, evaluating the differences in worldview and how mainstream cosmology responds to new ideas. Accredited discourse analyst, Ghada Chehade, PhD,... |
Ghada Chehade: Criteria for a New Model of Cosmology | Thunderbolts February 26, 2022 by Scott Douglass First of a two-episode arc to explore current and future models of cosmology. Given the current crisis in the Standard Model of Cosmology—plagued by mounting anomalies and contradictions this model cannot resolve—it is no longer a reliable guide to problem-solving. Eventually it will be replaced by a different model... |
Stuart Talbott: Undeniable Evidence for Electric Comets | Thunderbolts February 19, 2022 by Scott Douglass A predictive milestone for the electric comet model. In her November 2021 doctoral thesis, Sofia Bergman, PhD student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, used SPIS (Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Software) to measure low-energy ions around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A large amount of positive ions were measured flowing inward towards... |
Mel Acheson: Playing w/New Thinking | Thunderbolts February 12, 2022 by Mel Acheson First episode in a seven-arc series on the art of creative thinking. Science is in the midst of an accelerated changing of paradigms—a set of metaphysical assumptions or a worldview by which all subsequent observations and reasonings are interpreted. Physics is what we think about—metaphysics is how we think... |
Gareth Samuel: Milky Way’s Largest Juvenile Filament | Thunderbolts February 5, 2022 by Scott Douglass A massive structure recently observed in our galaxy is located about 55,000 light-years away on the other side of the Milky Way. This filament, called Maggie, is just shy of 4,000 light-years long and 130 light-years wide, extending about 1,600 light-years below the galactic plane. The diffuse nature of... |
Stuart Talbott: Cosmic Lightning On the Moon | Thunderbolts January 29, 2022 by Scott Douglass For well over half a century, most astronomers have assumed that the Moon’s heavily cratered surface is a result of periodic impacts over countless eons of time. However, a new scientific foundation exists for a radical reassessment of almost everything mainstream science believe about the Moon’s origins and history.... |
Peter Mungo Jupp: Mass Extinction Thru Cosmic Force | Thunderbolts January 22, 2022 by Peter Mungo Jupp Siberia, Alaska, and Malta are three examples of mass slaughter sites littered with carcasses and skeletons either petrified in rock, invaded in limestone, entombed in bitumen, buried in ice or mummified in peat bogs. Their instantaneous end was horrific. What agent of destruction rendered them extinct? Archaeologist Peter Mungo... |
Donald E. Scott: Probing Parker’s Solar Probe Data | Thunderbolts January 15, 2022 by Scott Douglass Electric Sun predictions are being verified by the latest data from the Parker Solar Probe. However, NASA invents phrases such as ‘pseudo-streamers’, ‘funnel structures’ and ‘switchbacks’ to describe what they see and find everything new to be “enigmatic.” It’s not enigmatic. It is what the Electric Universe Model has... |
David Talbott: Seeking the Third Story | EU2012 Conference January 8, 2022 by David Talbott At our first conference EU2012: The Human Story, the keynote by the legendary David Talbott was presented to a standing-room-only audience on January 6, 2012. In his talk, Dave describes that all of human history can be seen as just two stories. First, came the story of ancient mythology... |
Wal Thornhill: JWST & L-Type Brown Dwarf Stars | Thunderbolts January 1, 2022 by Wal Thornhill What will the JWST tell us about the origins of life, newborn planets, and subsequent formation of planetary systems? The L-Type Brown Dwarf is a class of faint star bridging the gap between stars and Jupiter-sized planets, and the most numerous stellar object in the galaxy. Life may be... |
Michael Clarage: Solar Gamma Rays—Not So Much | Thunderbolts December 25, 2021 by Scott Douglass The Sun puts out very few gamma rays as detailed in “The Sun Is Spitting Out Strange Patterns of Gamma Rays—and No One Knows Why” posted on Scientific American. It seems there are very few gamma rays in the entire Universe, at least in comparison to the number of... |
Donald E. Scott: Revisiting NASA’s Parker Solar Probe | Thunderbolts December 18, 2021 by Scott Douglass Originally Released in 2-Parts on December 14th and 21st, 2019 The first scientific papers were published on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe earliest findings in December 2019. They suggest a number of “surprising” discoveries, including the speed of the solar wind rotating around the Sun, behaviors of dust particles the... |
Michael Armstrong: Contact Structure of Force Fields | Thunderbolts December 11, 2021 by Michael Armstrong The EU Model starts with the fundamentals, which include particles, charge and force. The current thinking is that there are two kinds of particles or packets that can be filled to various degrees with mass/energy. Two types of charge—positive : negative; and two kinds of force—attraction : repulsion. What... |
Gareth Samuel: The Strangest Comet in the Solar System | Thunderbolts December 4, 2021 by Scott Douglass Comet 29P is part of a group of comets called the Centaurs which orbit between Saturn and Jupiter. Besides being one of the largest known comets at 37 miles across, it’s the second most active body in our Solar System after Jupiter’s mighty moon Io. The eruptions on Comet... |
Andrew Hall: Cracks in Theory | Thunderbolts November 20, 2021 by Scott Douglass Whether they make lovely geometric shapes, or chaotic mangles, a study of cracks is essential Electric Universe science. Cracks are interfaces—boundary layers—and electrically, that’s where the action is. To understand any geology, the first thing to look for is boundary layers. Charge collects at boundary layers where it displays... |
Stuart Talbott: Predictions of Thornhill and the EU Model | Thunderbolts November 13, 2021 by Scott Douglass Space discovery has served as the ideal testing ground for the theoretical predictions of Wal Thornhill and the Electric Universe Model, as well as the discipline of plasma cosmology. These predictions become more powerful when juxtaposed against failed predictions and endless surprises of the gravity-centric Standard Model. Independent researcher,... |
Gareth Samuel: The Filaments of Our Neighborhood | Thunderbolts November 6, 2021 by Scott Douglass When we look up at the sky, if we could see in Radio, we would see a tunnel-like structure in just about every direction we looked. The North Polar Spur and the Fan Region are by far the two brightest and most dramatic extended features in the large scale... |
Stuart Talbott: Herbig-Haro Phenomenon | Thunderbolts October 30, 2021 by Scott Douglass We’re taught that space is a perfect vacuum where gravity predominates the Universe—and told that simple thermal heating, mechanical shock, and magical magnetic ‘dynamo’ models are required to explain explosive jets seen blasting from objects of all sizes. Nowhere does this standard model reasoning become more problematic than with... |
Donald E. Scott: IBEX—Breaking News | Thunderbolts October 23, 2021 by Prof. Donald E. Scott A joint project between NASA and Lockheed Martin resulted in the mission called IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) launched in 2008. Its purpose was to seek out and measure Energetic Neutral Atoms in the solar system. It did exactly that and as with many NASA projects it has been a... |
Stuart Talbott: The Cosmic Fireball | Thunderbolts October 16, 2021 by Scott Douglass The iconic image of astronomy—a giant rock hurtles through space and crashes violently into a planet. However, laboratory experiments into electrical discharge have reproduced common planetary surface features which defy conventional meteor impact theory. In 1994, when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 approached Jupiter, and when Comet Siding Spring approached Mars... |
Ghada Chehade: Cosmology Beyond Science | Thunderbolts October 9, 2021 by Scott Douglass Writer, poet, and discourse analyst, Ghada Chehade, illustrates why cosmology matters beyond science—and how it has precipitated tectonic cultural and ideological shifts that have shaped and defined the course of history. Cosmological shifts are a product of their time, and often grow out of and/or reinforce philosophical and socio-political... |
Gareth Samuel: Electrical Secrets of Vesta | Thunderbolts October 2, 2021 by Scott Douglass Discovered in 1802 by Heinrich Olbers, Vesta has a diameter of 326 miles second only behind Ceres as one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt. It constitutes a staggering 9% of the mass of the belt and is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth. Contributor and EU... |
Ev Cochrane: Polar Configuration – Martian Fury | Thunderbolts September 25, 2021 by Scott Douglass Final episode of a four-arc special exploring the Polar Configuration. Ev Cochrane began his quest into comparative mythology scrutinizing ancient literary and astronomical texts mentioning Mars. He identified over 200 Martian motifs including dragon-slayer, eclipse agent, fire-god, and warrior. It emerged that Mars represented an awe-inspiring celestial form—prone to... |
Stuart Talbott: Stars Are Born In Z-pinch | Thunderbolts September 18, 2021 by Scott Douglass Independent researcher, Stuart Talbott, deconstructs the standard model of gravitational collapse and mass accretion to create stars over eons of time—versus—the EU model of the electromagnetic phenomenon called the Z-pinch, also known as the Bennett pinch, as the force governing the rapid formation of stars. Hannes Alfvén, who predicted... |
Ev Cochrane: Polar Configuration – Venus Devastatrix | Thunderbolts September 11, 2021 by Scott Douglass Third of a special four-episode arc to explore the Polar Configuration. The Sumerians witnessed the appearance of Venus that saw the planet depart from its axial alignment within the polar configuration and wander about the axis. And so it is that comets are associated with the end of a... |
Wal Thornhill: Webb Space Telescope & Stellar Discovery | Thunderbolts September 5, 2021 by Wal Thornhill In his previous show, Wal Thornhill, Thunderbolts Chief Science Advisor, predicted JWST discoveries that will fundamentally change the view of the big bang creation myth and the failed gravitational model of galaxies. For this second episode on the JWST, Wal describes the wide gulf between thermonuclear and electric star... |
Ev Cochrane: Polar Configuration – Eye in the Sky | Thunderbolts August 28, 2021 by Scott Douglass Second of a special four-episode arc to explore certain unique aspects of the Polar Configuration. Especially telling are traditions reporting that Zeus launched lightning-like fire from his ‘eye’. Aeschylus described the Greek Thundergod as “The jealous eye of God hurls the lightning down.” Comparative mythologist, Ev Cochrane, dissects the... |
Andrew Hall: The Shocking Truth | Thunderbolts August 21, 2021 by Scott Douglass Ears ring, windows rattle, the dog hides under the bed. It’s thunder from an arc of electric discharge, or from a passing supersonic jet. Rub your feet on the carpet then touch a doorknob. You get a spark and hear a snap. Same thing—tiny scale. Think of the power... |
Ev Cochrane: Polar Configuration – As Above, So Below | Thunderbolts August 14, 2021 by Scott Douglass First of a special four-episode arc to explore certain unique aspects of the Polar Configuration. Beginning with ‘As Above, So Below’—the well-known phrase of legend and myth—this episode analyzes the planetary origins of the king and the bizarre rituals of kingship. To achieve a fact-based history of our solar... |
Gareth Samuel: Electrifying Sextuple Star System | Thunderbolts August 7, 2021 by Scott Douglass Most binary systems are hard to detect and may contain more than two stars. In January 2021 the discovery of a new and bizarre sextuple system was reported where all the stars aligned perfectly creating a sextuple eclipsing star system. More strange is that the system seems to consist... |
Michael Armstrong: Intellectual Responsibility | Thunderbolts July 31, 2021 by Michael Armstrong The word science means knowledge, but knowledge comes in two types: true and false. Any scientific thinking that violates axiomatic on Metaphysical principles CANNOT be true. For example, ‘sequence’ Is one of the most foundational aspects of reality, and HAS to be Inviolate. Violating sequence of events would destroy... |
Michael Clarage: Electrical Form and Function | Thunderbolts July 24, 2021 by Scott Douglass We examine three fundamental questions in the second episode of this two-part presentation. Is matter even capable of organizing itself? Where do form and shape come from? Can form exist without matter? Researching the origin of forms in Nature for several decades, Astrophysicist and Lead Scientist of The SAFIRE... |
Michael Clarage: Electrical Shaping of Biology | Thunderbolts July 17, 2021 by Scott Douglass In this first episode of a two-part presentation, we begin with an open question in biology—how do the shapes of creatures come about? How does a certain frog species obtain its particular shape and not some other? How do its legs and toes and claws always get their particular... |
Ev Cochrane: Men Mars. Women Venus. | Thunderbolts July 10, 2021 by Scott Douglass Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Many are familiar with this adage, but such ideas were already commonplace by the time of Homer. A famous passage in the Odyssey describes the illicit affair between Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus) entrapped in flagrante delicto much to the... |
Gareth Samuel: The Structured Atom Model | Thunderbolts July 3, 2021 by Scott Douglass The atomic model has remained unchanged for a long time. Yet, there are mysteries it has been unable to solve such as why certain elements are more stable than others, and predicting how large atoms split. In the Structured Atom Model (SAM) the nucleus is constructed using protons which... |
Ghada Chehade: Revolutionary Cosmology | Thunderbolts June 27, 2021 by Scott Douglass While we may not think of science when we think about revolution, surprisingly, scientific progress is a far more revolutionary process than political change. Writer, poet, and discourse analyst, Ghada Chehade, continues her exploration of Kuhn’s paradigm shift model and the present state of cosmology, looking at how the... |
Wal Thornhill: Webb Space Telescope & Fundamental Change | Thunderbolts June 19, 2021 by Wal Thornhill There has been no substantial change in our understanding of the universe since the middle of the 20th century. The narrative has become complicated as barnacles of ad hoc theory are encrusted in a Titanic of institutionalised science. Fundamental changes will eventually sink the standard model. Thunderbolts Chief Science... |
Gareth Samuel: Star Clusters Map the Galaxy Electric | Thunderbolts June 6, 2021 by Scott Douglass Star clusters are large groups of stars. Globular clusters are tightly bound together and can consist of hundreds of millions of stars. Open clusters are loose groups of a few hundred stars and are mostly found within the spiral arms of the galactic plane. Contributor and Electric Universe advocate,... |
Andrew Hall: The Cross from Laramie | Thunderbolts May 29, 2021 by Scott Douglass Natural philosopher Andrew Hall analyzes the wind cut valleys around the near perfect cross of canyons made by two out-of-phase circuits coming together from induced electric winds in the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming. Andy details exactly what geologic researcher Michael Steinbacher theorized on landscapes formed by electric winds that... |
Andrew Hall: Easter Egg Hunt | Thunderbolts May 22, 2021 by Scott Douglass In Andrew Hall’s finale of his “Eye of the Storm” series he presented Easter Eggs—surprise geologic findings that confirm a theory, or present astonishing new information about Earth’s electric circuitry. Exploring the Electric Earth is a perpetual egg hunt, because every rock confirms the Bunny is REAL. Electrical discharges... |
Michael Clarage: Supernova | Thunderbolts May 15, 2021 by Scott Douglass A supernova begins as a star then undergoes a very rapid transformation which, for an instant, puts out as much energy as the entire galaxy where it lives. This brief, all-encompassing flash is called a ‘supernova’. The star is gone and we see something very different. The center pulses... |
Peter Mungo Jupp: UFO or Plasmoid? | Thunderbolts May 8, 2021 by Scott Douglass In 1956, Winston Harper Bostick demonstrated that an amorphous mass of high-velocity plasma has a natural ability to convert a large proportion of its kinetic energy into magnetic energy, contained in an organised toroidal structure. He called this structure a ‘plasmoid’. Archaeologist and Thunderbolts colleague Peter Mungo Jupp details... |
Gareth Samuel: Muon Data Breaks Particle Physics | Thunderbolts May 1, 2021 by Scott Douglass Evidence from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago points to a subatomic particle called a MUON behaving in a way it should not. It’s believed every particle has a magnetic moment—essentially a sort of wobble—and each particle has a very precise value. Fermi’s experiment discovered the muon wobbling... |
Ghada Chehade: Cosmology Crisis 2021 | Thunderbolts April 24, 2021 by Scott Douglass For over 100 years the cosmological story has been the story of the Big Bang, gravity and relativity. Although, what if that story is wrong and a new cosmological story is emerging? How might a change in the cosmological narrative impact society and contemporary culture? There is a growing... |
Ev Cochrane: Warrior. Goddess. Venus. | Thunderbolts April 17, 2021 by Scott Douglass A scientific theory of mythology should be able to explain the genesis and specific content of ancient myth. The earliest mythological traditions of Mesopotamia describe the planet Venus as the warrior goddess ‘Inanna’. Analogous behavior is reported of the Akkadian ‘Ishtar’, Canaanite ‘Astarte’, Egyptian ‘Hathor’, Ugaritic ‘Anat’, and the... |
Peter Mungo Jupp: The Black Death & Cosmic Chaos | Thunderbolts April 10, 2021 by Peter Mungo Jupp Archaeologist and Thunderbolts colleague Peter Mungo Jupp presents a radical idea that civilization destroying plagues may be governed by electromagnetism such as cosmic rays. Nature often uses triggers based on hard to pinpoint factors when losing its newest progeny. For example, we see a rise of inexplicable mice plagues,... |
Gareth Samuel: Halton Arp Quasar Model Verified | Thunderbolts April 3, 2021 by Scott Douglass Contributor and Electric Universe advocate, Gareth Samuel, creator of “See the Pattern”, examines a new study those data verifies quasars embedded within filaments connected to a host galaxy. This discovery is in line with Halton Arp’s model where he found examples of quasars that were clearly embedded in plasma... |
Michael Clarage: Cosmology of the EU, Part 2 | Thunderbolts March 20, 2021 by Scott Douglass Cosmology of the Electric Universe, Part 2 – Body of the Galaxy. Previously we looked at how the electrical systems of the Earth and planets exist in the larger electrical body of the Sun. Now we shift up in scale to describe the relationship of each star to the... |
Ev Cochrane: Persevering Mars | Thunderbolts March 13, 2021 by Scott Douglass A recent book by NASA astronomers begins, “Enigmas wrapped in paradoxes shrouded in mystery: Mars.” Such frank confessions of bewilderment and despair are a familiar refrain in astronomical circles. For the first time in human history, the Perseverance rover now investigating Mars offers the very real possibility of finding... |
Gareth Samuel: Mystery of Oldest Recorded Nova | Thunderbolts March 5, 2021 by Scott Douglass Contributor and Electric Universe advocate, Gareth Samuel, creator of “See the Pattern”, deconstructs the mystery of CK Vulpeculae (the little fox), the oldest nova reliably documented in 1670. Some powerful force caused the star to go from invisible to naked eye viewing, then caused the formation of a nebula... |
Michael Clarage: Cosmology of the EU, Part 1 | Thunderbolts February 27, 2021 by Scott Douglass Cosmology of the Electric Universe, Part 1 – Body of the Sun. Whether in geology, or biology, or planetary science, we find a consensus in the EU community that we all live in a connected Universe, a Universe of worlds within worlds. Hierarchy is a real idea: a cell... |
Ev Cochrane: Anatomy of a Thunderbolt | Thunderbolts February 20, 2021 by Scott Douglass Many leading scholars believed that Zeus’s thunderbolt was a mental construct and did not exist in the real world. Author Ken Dowden is representative of this belief: “There is no such thing as a thunderbolt because lightning is not an object that is thrown. . . “ Given such... |
Wal Thornhill: Understanding Human Nature | Thunderbolts February 13, 2021 by Wal Thornhill Fear and division are being whipped up globally through a compliant media and the internet as if it were wartime. The difference now is that the war is against Nature on two fronts—a pandemic and a human-triggered planetary heat death. And as usual in wartime, truth is the first... |
Gareth Samuel: So What Exactly Is a Blazar? | Thunderbolts February 5, 2021 by Scott Douglass Contributor and Electric Universe advocate, Gareth Samuel, creator of “See the Pattern” examines what Blazars are and questions the idea that they are old relics left over from the early universe. By examining high redshift blazars, which are far more rare than they should be, Gareth offers an alternative... |
Andrew Hall: Handbag of the Gods | Space News January 30, 2021 by Scott Douglass We present the finale of the “Eye of the Storm” series. In his concluding episode, author and Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall brings to light the handbag depicted all over the world in ancient stonework. The earliest know depictions are in petroglyphs that can’t all be dated, but are believed to... |
Andrew Hall: Reverse Engineering the Earth | Space News January 22, 2021 by Scott Douglass In this penultimate episode of the “Eye of the Storm” series, author and Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall describes his approach to reverse engineer the Earth, starting with outside layers and peeling inward, always following the patterns of electrical scarring. Abstract theories for cause and effect aren’t needed when the patterns... |
Ev Cochrane: The Eye of Zeus | Space News January 15, 2021 by Scott Douglass Comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane, author of “Martian Metamorphoses”, continues his lifelong research into the themes and archetypes of world mythology with this deconstruction of Zeus. “And he (Zeus) was reigning in Heaven, himself holding lightning and shining thunderbolt.” Ev describes how the model developed by David Talbott and himself differs... |
Andrew Hall: Subsurface Birkeland Currents – How the Earth Thinks? | Space News December 25, 2020 by Scott Douglass Author and Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall continues his remarkable “Eye of the Storm” series investigating the groundbreaking field of Electric Universe geology. In this episode, Andy explores the North American and Caribbean current loops. The Earth works as a coherent circuit. It’s a circuit within a bigger circuit centered on... |
Andrew Hall: San Andreas Fault – A Dragon in Action? | Space News December 18, 2020 by Scott Douglass In keeping with the “Eye of the Storm” (EOS) series protocol, author and Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall uses Earth’s geology, the planet Jupiter, and the fractal self similarities of charge diffusion as our living laboratory for evidence. This episode’s focus is the San Andreas Fault. As discussed in the previous... |
Michael Clarage: RIP Arecibo Radio Telescope | Space News December 11, 2020 by Scott Douglass CBSNews December 1, 2020: A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has long played a key role in astronomical discoveries collapsed on Tuesday, officials said. The Arecibo Observatory, made famous as the backdrop for a pivotal scene in the James Bond film “GoldenEye” and other Hollywood hits, had been... |
Wal Thornhill: Proto-Saturn & Comet Venus | Space News November 14, 2020 by Scott Douglass In Part One of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor, The Thunderbolts Project, introduced evidence for the extraordinary, recent origins of our planetary neighbor Venus. In myth and folklore around the entire globe, Venus was remembered as the great comet, as a dragon-like serpent breathing fire about the... |
Wal Thornhill: Venus and Forgotten History | Space News November 7, 2020 by Scott Douglass Since the dawn of the Space Age, perhaps no celestial body in the solar system has proved more surprising to astronomers than the planet Venus. Before the arrival of the earliest space probes, some noted scientists believed that Venus would be earthlike, with water clouds, oceans and abundant vegetation. However,... |
Andrew Hall: Proving the Passage of the Dragon | Space News October 30, 2020 by Scott Douglass Author and Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall continues his remarkable “Eye of the Storm” series investigating the groundbreaking field of Electric Universe geology. In this episode, sourced from his Eye of the Storm – Part 8 essay, Andy examines proof of the dragon’s passage are not random and coincidental anomalies. They... |
Andrew Hall: Electric Earth & the Cosmic Dragon | Space News September 26, 2020 by Scott Douglass Previously, in Part One of this presentation, our guest Andrew Hall began his Seventh Episode of “Eye of the Storm” – a series devoted to exploring some of the most dramatic and puzzling geological features on planet Earth. In Part 2 of his visual essay for “Eye of the Storm”... |
Andrew Hall: Scars of Plasma Dragons | Space News September 19, 2020 by Scott Douglass For the last five years, on this series, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall has presented an extraordinary reconstruction of catastrophic events on Earth, exploring the telltale clues these events imprinted on our planet’s surface. As Andy has explained, many of the fractal patterns we see on Earth cannot be explained through... |
Gareth Samuel: Seeing Precession Differently | Space News September 11, 2020 by Scott Douglass New contributor and Electric Universe advocate, Gareth Samuel, creator of “See the Pattern”, introduces his investigation into a striking evidentiary connection between the Birkeland currents in our celestial neighborhood and a true motion of the stars through the heavens. To understand this linkage, Gareth offers a groundbreaking analysis with vivid... |
Scientific “Ignore-ance” is Not Bliss | Space News August 26, 2020 by Scott Douglass In the 21st century, the technological wonders of the Space Age bring unprecedented data within astronomers’ reach. However, as Thunderbolts contributor Mel Acheson notes, scientific blindness can lead to loss of potential data, and of new understanding. A profound such example was offered by renowned astrophysicist Thomas Gold in his... |
Ben Hyde: Electric Universe Inspiring Gen Z | Space News August 21, 2020 by Scott Douglass What does the future hold for education in the space sciences? More than half a century ago, inspired interest in space exploration was remarkably high among the general public, as humanity’s attention was held rapt by the race to the Moon. However, in the 21st century, the public face of... |
Donald Scott: No Magnetic Universe w/o Electric Currents | Space News August 14, 2020 by Prof. Donald E. Scott It may be the greatest surprise for mainstream cosmologists since the dawn of the Space Age: the detection of powerful magnetic fields at all scales throughout the Universe. In recent years, with the ever finer detection of cosmic magnetism, astrophysicists have increasingly sought an answer to the problem — an... |
Donald Scott: Campfires on the Sun? | Space News August 8, 2020 by Prof. Donald E. Scott It’s one of the great enduring mysteries of solar physics — why is the sun’s lower corona hundreds of times hotter than the Sun’s photosphere? For many decades, scientists on Earth have sought an answer to the puzzle, though only doing so within the confines of the standard, thermonuclear model... |
Black Hole or Cosmic Light Switch? | Space News July 31, 2020 by Scott Douglass A new scientific paper describes an unprecedented and “mind boggling” event around a so-called black hole – an event so rapid, energetic and completely unexpected to astronomers, it challenges the very bedrock of black hole theory. A team of scientists studying an active galactic nucleus observed the brightness of a... |
The Magnetic Universe — it’s Electric! | Space News July 25, 2020 by Scott Douglass Today, in mainstream astronomical literature we hear more and more about the “Magnetic Universe.” Thanks to great technological leaps, scientists have learned that vast magnetic fields pervade the cosmos, and increasingly, cosmologists view magnetism as important in the formation and evolution of structures at all cosmic scales. However, gravity-centric cosmology... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric #9: Electric Comets | Space News July 16, 2020 by Scott Douglass Through eight installments of this series, Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric, we have highlighted some of the most powerful signs of evidence for a fundamentally new way of seeing the cosmos. Our early episodes explored the vast electromagnetic phenomena in deep space, including cosmic jets, networks of star-forming... |
Stellar Evolution Theory Falsified | Space News July 4, 2020 by Scott Douglass Cepheid variables are stars whose rates of pulsation vary with their luminosities: the brighter the star the longer it takes to complete a cycle of variability. It’s called the period–luminosity relationship. When Cepheids are used as indicators for the distances to nearby galaxies, a necessary assumption is that mass is... |
Dr. Jerry Tennant: Recharge & Regenerate | Electricity of Life June 30, 2020 by Scott Douglass Please visit Senergy Medical Group to explore our protocols, charts, videos and studies from Dr. Jerry Tennant, as well as the Biomodulator. In part one of this series, Dr. Tennant began his first in a series of lectures on the intrinsic connection between physical health and wellbeing, and the complex... |
Electrical Star & Planet Birth – Cosmic Z-pinch in Action | Space News June 25, 2020 by Scott Douglass How do stars and planets form? The solar nebular hypothesis of standard cosmology tells us that gravitational collapse and accretion are the processes that lead to the creation of planets and stars—formative processes that occur over countless eons of time. In contrast, the Electric Universe model and plasma cosmology propose... |
Dr. Jerry Tennant: Voltage and Regeneration | Electricity of Life June 16, 2020 by Scott Douglass CAUTION: Graphic images of injury appear between 14:37 to 16:48 to demonstrate healing process. Please visit Senergy Medical Group to explore our protocols, charts, videos and studies from Dr. Jerry Tennant, as well as the Biomodulator. One of the leading pioneers in integrative health is Dr. Jerry Tennant, a renowned... |
Robert Hawthorne: Upheaval Dome & the Obsession Stone | Space News June 10, 2020 by Scott Douglass In his previous presentation, electric geology investigator Robert Hawthorne explored the stupendous geological feature in the American Southwest known as Upheaval Dome. As Robert explained, while standard geology favors the interpretation that Upheaval Dome was created by a kinetic impact, the hypothesis that the feature was created by interplanetary lightning... |
Robert Hawthorne: Upheaval Dome & Lightning-Scarred Earth | Space News June 5, 2020 by Scott Douglass For more than a decade, among the individuals exploring the concepts of an Electric Universe, a community has arisen which is devoted to exploring the surface of planet Earth. The geological processes of an Electric Universe go well beyond the theoretical toolkit in standard geology. Laboratory experiments involving electrical discharge... |
Does Gravity Make Light Bulbs Glow? | Space News May 29, 2020 by Scott Douglass One of the strangest cosmic phenomena ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy is the Fermi Bubbles. In 2010, astronomers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered the so-called bubbles — giant structures, mostly composed of gamma-rays, that stretch for tens of thousands of lightyears above and below the Milky... |
Electric Asteroid Breaks the Rules | Space News May 23, 2020 by Scott Douglass A team of scientists has observed an object which is again blurring the line between asteroids and comets. Scientists using the University of Hawaii’s ATLAS telescope have observed a cometary display from a type of asteroid known as a Jupiter Trojan asteroid. Dubbed 2019 LD2, it is the first such... |
Standard Theory of Moon’s Origins Shattered | Space News May 15, 2020 by Scott Douglass New scientific reports throw into disarray the standard theory of the origins of our planet’s moon. A decade ago, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s spacecraft Kaguya spent a year and a half orbiting the moon and collecting data. The spacecraft was equipped with an ion mass spectrometer, and it detected... |
Mars Quakes Jolt Planetary Science | Space News May 8, 2020 by Scott Douglass New scientific reports from scientists with NASA’s Insight mission reveal startling data about the planet Mars – data which challenges some fundamental ideas in planetary science. In late November of 2016, the InSight lander touched down on the red planet’s surface. One of the most surprising discoveries for investigators came... |
What Science Says is Two Things | Space News May 1, 2020 by Scott Douglass It’s common to hear people refer to “what science says.” But the term ‘science’ has two conflicting senses: science as currently-accepted theory and science as method. In fact, in pursuing the questions raised by currently-accepted theory, method is likely to overturn currently-accepted theory. As Thunderbolts contributor Mel Acheson explains in... |
Ev Cochrane: Celestial Lotus-Flower & Primeval Sun | Space News April 28, 2020 by Scott Douglass Comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane, author of “Martian Metamorphoses”, continues his series on his lifelong research into the themes and archetypes of world mythology. Previously, Ev presented his investigation into ancient Egyptian traditions which describe the Sun appearing atop a lotus-flower at the time of Creation. According to both David Talbott... |
Donald Scott: Electric Sun & the Mystery of “Hot” Solar Wind | Space News April 22, 2020 by Prof. Donald E. Scott One of the enduring mysteries in solar physics is the unexpectedly hot temperature of the solar wind as it extends away from the Sun. Recently, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison performed a study to try to find an answer to the puzzle. And their search led... |
Special Feature: SAFIRE – THE BIG PICTURE April 18, 2020 by Ben Ged Low SAFIRE astrophysicist Michael Clarage, PhD, searches for pants in Amsterdam…and then gives The Big Picture. Scenes from SAFIRE’s November 2019 presentation at the GlobalBEM Conference (Global Breakthrough Energy Movement) held in Breukelen, the Netherlands. The SAFIRE Project • For more information visit: aureon.ca NOTE: Prior to becoming a commercial venture... |
How Electric Currents Heat Saturn’s Atmosphere | Space News April 14, 2020 by Scott Douglass For many years, one of the “great mysteries” in planetary science has been the high temperatures in the upper atmospheres of gas giant planets. The apparent anomaly cannot be explained due to simple solar heating given the planets’ tremendous distance from the Sun. Recently, a team of scientists reported that... |
Andrew Hall: Earth’s Cyclone-Sheared Surface | Space News April 10, 2020 by Scott Douglass The geological features of our planet tell an astonishing story – a story that defies explanation based on standard theoretical processes. Natural philosopher, engineer and Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall explores theoretical pathways which draw analogs between Earth geology, and some of the most powerful atmospheric phenomena seen in the solar... |
Special Feature: ORIGIN OF THE SAFIRE SUN April 3, 2020 by Scott Douglass It was in 2013 that The SAFIRE Project began. Watch as Ben Ged Low presents the path of this historical experiment of the Electric Sun model from its origins to the present. After years of research, SAFIRE has emerged as a ‘Transformative Technology’ which doesn’t produce toxic waste, isn’t antithetical... |
Geomagnetic Effects on Earth’s Biology | Electricity of Life March 31, 2020 by Scott Douglass Scientific research into the Sun’s effects on life on Earth has yielded results that may surprise you. Over a century ago, the Soviet-era scientist Alexander Chizhevsky conducted exhaustive studies demonstrating an apparent correlation between solar activity and prominent historical events and societal changes. Today, geomagnetic effects on Earth’s biology, and... |
What is Reality? | Space News March 27, 2020 by Scott Douglass The philosophical branch of epistemology explores the limits of human knowledge — not just the quality of “facts” and data, but our very ABILITY to know. Thunderbolts contributor Mel Acheson leads us on another epistemological adventure, this time asking the most fundamental question of all: What is Reality? SOURCE ARTICLE... |
Andrew Hall: Large Scale Wind Structures | Space News March 25, 2020 by Scott Douglass The groundbreaking field of electric universe geology is vibrant with new possibilities. Standard geology proposes that the primary forces that have shaped planetary surfaces are periodic impacts, volcanism, and wind and water erosion over eons of time. However, on every rocky body in the solar system, from our planet all... |
Special Feature: HOW STARS ARE FORMED March 21, 2020 by Scott Douglass This is a brief excerpt from The SAFIRE Project presentation at the November 2019 GlobalBEM Conference in the Netherlands. Dr. Michael Clarage presents a simple overview of two possible models for the formation of stars. For more information please visit… https://www.aureon.ca PLEASE NOTE: Prior to becoming a commercial venture of... |
Ev Cochrane: The Flowering of Creation | Space News March 17, 2020 by Scott Douglass For many decades, the comparative mythologists David Talbott and Ev Cochrane have worked to reconstruct an epoch of celestial catastrophe on Earth. To date, this forensic reconstruction is the only scholarly effort that has successfully explained the global mythical archetypes. In previous interviews, Ev has outlined the evidence that the... |
Ray Gallucci: The Plausibility of Quantized Redshift | Space News March 13, 2020 by Scott Douglass This is the second interview of a two-part presentation with Dr. Raymond Gallucci describing his independent analysis of alternatives to standard interpretations of cosmic redshift. For many decades, astronomers have believed that cosmological redshift indicates the “stretching” of light in an expanding Universe. The higher an object’s redshift, the farther... |
Special Feature: THE SAFIRE SUN March 10, 2020 by Scott Douglass THE SAFIRE PROJECT has become a commercial venture. Based on the discoveries of the last six years, the SAFIRE team is currently developing a nuclear-plasma reactor which will have the capacity to both generate electrical power and to remediate radioactive waste. THE SAFIRE SUN is an 11-minute film designed to... |
Wal Thornhill: Supernovas, Neutron Stars and Black Holes “Break the Rules” | Space News March 6, 2020 by Wal Thornhill In Part Two of our interview with Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor of The Thunderbolts Project, we explore a number of intriguing space science discoveries, including supernovae, “neutron stars,” “black holes” and “white dwarf” stars which appear to break the expected rules of standard cosmology. Are these “weird” objects really... |
Wal Thornhill: “Impossible” Stars or Electric Stars? | Space News February 29, 2020 by Wal Thornhill Physicist Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor of The Thunderbolts Project, joins us to discuss a number of recent scientific discoveries relating to the nature of stars. These discoveries confound or are irreconcilable with standard ideas about how stars form, where their energy comes from and why they go supernova. In... |
Ray Gallucci: Do Quasars and Redshift Break Big Bang Theory? | Space News February 26, 2020 by Scott Douglass It may be the most underreported scientific controversy of the modern age. The overwhelming scientific consensus on the Universe’s origins tells us that it all began 13.7 billion years ago, with a Big Bang. Of course, for many decades scientists have told us that the Universe is expanding, and the... |
Solar Nebula Hypothesis Ready for History’s Dustbin? | Space News February 21, 2020 by Scott Douglass All popular theories about the origins of objects in our solar system are based on the solar nebula hypothesis. First proposed in the mid-18th century by the Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg, the hypothesis proposes that four and a half billion years ago, a primordial cloud called a nebula collapsed gravitationally,... |
No Dark Matter – Again the EU is Ahead of the Curve | Space News February 12, 2020 by Scott Douglass Scientists from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have published a paper which reported the successful formation of galaxies without the hypothetical influence of dark matter. As reported by phys.org, “For the first time, researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have simulated the formation of galaxies in a... |
Allende Meteorite Shatters Solar System Myths | Space News February 7, 2020 by Scott Douglass A meteorite that crashed to Earth half a century ago has provided a jolt of surprise to astronomical theory. The object, called the Allende meteorite, exploded over the desert in Mexico in 1969. Scientists studying meteorite fragments have made a shocking discovery. Material in the fragments, which the scientists have... |
Ray Gallucci: The Electrical Birth of the Asteroid Belt – An Analysis | Space News January 31, 2020 by Scott Douglass How and when did the asteroids and comets in our solar system form? For countless decades, astronomers have embraced the story that these small rocky bodies are the primordial leftovers of our solar system’s formation, supposedly from a nebular cloud four and a half billion years ago. Of course, as... |
Concept or Reality? A Thought Experiment | Space News January 29, 2020 by Scott Douglass In this adaptation of Mel Acheson’s Thunderbolts Picture of the Day (TPOD) “Conceptual Chromatography” Mel leads us on a fascinating thought experiment which scrutinizes some of the foundational tenets of modern science and cosmology. An excerpt from the TPOD… This is fun. Let’s play the game with plate tectonics: Instead... |
Ev Cochrane: Memories of an “Alien” Sun | Space News January 24, 2020 by Scott Douglass In previous episodes, we have introduced the strange and special role of our planet’s parent star in ancient world traditions. In global myth, folklore, religion and rock art, the celestial body identified as the Sun bares no resemblance at all to the Sun as it appears in our sky today.... |
Ray Gallucci: Strobe Star or Neutron Star? | Space News January 18, 2020 by Scott Douglass One of the most mysterious astrophysical phenomena ever observed is called a pulsar. First discovered more than half a century ago, a pulsar is a source of regular pulses of radiation. Astronomers believe that the source of the emissions is a massively dense, highly magnetized and rapidly rotating star mostly... |
Ray Gallucci: Electric Gravity – A Mathematical Analysis | Space News January 10, 2020 by Scott Douglass The Electric Universe theory proposes that electromagnetism, not gravity, is the predominant organizational force in the cosmos. In the Space Age, countless discoveries, from the networks of filaments connecting objects across vast cosmic distances, to the pervasive magnetism seen at all scales in the Universe, to the structure and motions... |
Donald Scott: Birkeland Currents and the Parker Solar Probe | Space News December 21, 2019 by Scott Douglass We continue our exploration of the early scientific data from NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe mission to the Sun. In part one, retired professor of Electrical Engineering Dr. Donald Scott began his analysis some of the most intriguing early findings, including the probe’s “unexpected” detection of magnetic reversals as it... |
Donald Scott: Parker Solar Probe and the Electric Sun | Space News December 14, 2019 by Scott Douglass In December of 2019, the first scientific papers were published on the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission’s earliest findings. The first four papers have suggested a number of “surprising” discoveries, including the speed of the solar wind rotating around the Sun, and the behaviors of dust particles that the probe... |
Gravity vs Plasma – Matter, Charge and Conjecture | Space News December 6, 2019 by Scott Douglass In this adaptation of the Mel Acheson TPOD of the same name, Mel explores why the preference of one cosmology over another can sometimes boil down to a simple matter of familiarity. TPOD original article: “Matter, Charge and Conjecture” Previous Mel Acheson on Space News: “What is Light?” Join us... |
Wal Thornhill: No Islands in Our Electric Universe | Space News November 29, 2019 by Scott Douglass In part two of our discussion with physicist Wal Thornhill, we continue to explore the ongoing “crisis in cosmology.” We ask Wal for his thoughts on a number of recent discoveries which stunningly affirm a core tenet of the electric cosmology – no “islands” exist in a Universe where the... |
Wal Thornhill: Big Bang – Time to Wipe the Chalkboard Clean | Space News November 22, 2019 by Scott Douglass Scientists generally use the term “crisis in cosmology” to describe the numerous and growing evidences that contradict or undermine the Big Bang theory. For decades, numerous scientific papers have been published on the discordancy between the so-called expansion rate in the “early universe,” and the expansion rate in the “later... |
Donald Scott: Voyager 2 and our Solar System’s Birkeland Current | Space News November 15, 2019 by Scott Douglass Scientists recently reported that the Voyager 2 spacecraft is now the second man-made object to cross the boundary into interstellar space. And as with Voyager 1, the theoretical predictions based on standard solar physics do not match discovery. Of course, the predictions of the Electric Universe theory about the interstellar... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #45 | Archetype & Symbol: Is a Unified Approach Possible? November 12, 2019 by David Talbott Here we offer a brief preview of our directions in 2020 and beyond, supporting a revolutionary interpretation of the mythic and symbolic archetypes. Our purpose is to demonstrate that the documented archetypes are explicitly and inseparably connected to the themes we’ve repeatedly affirmed in these Discourses. Our claim is that... |
Gigantic Jets and the Electric Earth | Space News November 8, 2019 by Scott Douglass A recently released video clip provides stunning support for the Electric Universe interpretation of one of the most dramatic atmospheric phenomena on Earth — above clouds lightning. The clip reveals the top of the cloud from which a “gigantic jet” emerges, affording an opportunity for groundbreaking insights into the phenomenon.... |
Ev Cochrane: Did Ancient Man See a Different Sun? | Space News November 1, 2019 by Scott Douglass The parent star of planet Earth holds a strange and special place in countless ancient traditions around the world. The celestial body identified as the Sun in myth, religion, ancient astronomies and rock art routinely bares no resemblance at all to our familiar Sun. For decades, comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane,... |
Donald Scott: Breakthrough – Counter-Rotation at Center of Galaxy | Space News October 26, 2019 by Scott Douglass A team of scientists using the ALMA telescope to study the doughnut-shaped cloud of gas and dust at the center of the galaxy NGC 1068 recently made a shocking discovery — two separate disks of gas and dust are rotating in opposite directions. Phys.org reports on the team’s discovery: “Unexpectedly,... |
Our Lightning-Scarred Moon – The Evidence Grows | Space News October 15, 2019 by Scott Douglass A striking example of so-called settled science which was settled prematurely is the question of how the moon got its craters. As we entered the Space Age, the debate among geologists and astronomers only considered two hypotheses — impacts, and volcanism. After Apollo astronauts returned lunar samples to Earth, analysis... |
Ev Cochrane: Venus, Mars and Catastrophism – The Reconstruction | Space News October 11, 2019 by Scott Douglass In his recent Space News interviews, comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane introduced his extraordinary decades long research into ancient testimony of catastrophic celestial events witnessed on earth. As Cochrane explained, in countless ancient cultures, the identities of planets in myth, including Mars and Venus, cannot be explained in terms of anything... |
Donald Scott: SAFIRE and the Electric Sun | Space News October 8, 2019 by Scott Douglass We continue our exploration of the recent update shared by the team behind the groundbreaking scientific experiment, the SAFIRE Project. As described in our recent interviews with physicist Wal Thornhill, the SAFIRE Project is an independent audit of the electric sun model, first proposed by engineer Ralph Juergens in the... |
Ev Cochrane: The Many Faces of Venus | Space News October 4, 2019 by Scott Douglass Why did ancient cultures around the world identify the planet Venus as a great comet? One of the leading comparative mythologists to explore this question is Ev Cochrane, a colleague for several decades of David Talbott and the late Dwardu Cardona. As Cochrane exhaustively outlined in his books Martian Metamorphoses... |
Wal Thornhill: SAFIRE and the Future of Science, Part Two | Space News September 27, 2019 by Scott Douglass In part one of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill began his analysis of the recent remarkable update by the team behind the groundbreaking scientific experiment, the SAFIRE Project. For the first time, an independent experiment has been conducted to audit the Electric Sun model, first proposed by the engineer Ralph... |
Wal Thornhill: SAFIRE and the Future of Science, Part One | Space News September 21, 2019 by Scott Douglass It is generally not known that an alternative Electric Sun model was proposed in 1979 by the engineer Ralph Juergens. It explains simply the critical longevity of all electric lights — it is plugged into a galactic circuit. And galactic circuits are the basis of Plasma Cosmology, which is ignored... |
Electric Universe: An Invitation to Progress in Science | Space News September 17, 2019 by Scott Douglass This year, human beings around the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic images in our history — the first footsteps on the moon. In 2019, astounding technological leaps propel space exploration, making possible unprecedented feats such as landing a probe on a comet. However, the... |
Donald Scott: Solving the Mystery of Coronal Heating | Space News September 6, 2019 by Scott Douglass It’s one the great enduring mysteries of solar physics — why is the sun’s lower corona hundreds of times hotter than the Sun’s photosphere? For many decades, scientists on Earth have sought an answer to the puzzle, though doing so exclusively within the confines of the standard model of the... |
Special Feature: SAFIRE PROJECT 2019 UPDATE September 2, 2019 by Scott Douglass For three years the SAFIRE Project team has been holding back so as not to overstate what has been happening in the SAFIRE lab. The SAFIRE Project is now able to make a number of definitive statements supported by concrete evidence, statements about: energy production; transmutation/creation of elements; remediation of... |
Ev Cochrane: Mars Catastrophes in Myth and Language | Space News August 30, 2019 by Scott Douglass The Planet Mars — our closest planetary neighbor, and a source of enormous mystery for space science and academia. In our previous episode, our guest Ev Cochrane summarized some of the incredible identities given Mars in ancient myth, astronomical traditions and religion. For decades, Cochrane and his colleagues, including David... |
Wal Thornhill: The Electric Asteroid Bennu | Space News August 27, 2019 by Scott Douglass Earlier this month, investigators with NASA’s historic Osiris-REx mission held a press conference reporting some of their initial findings at the asteroid Bennu. Like all of the recent space missions to comets, planets as well as asteroids, the findings have provided surprise after surprise to investigators. In this interview with... |
Ev Cochrane: Mars the Warrior-Hero | Space News August 20, 2019 by Scott Douglass It’s perhaps one of the great unresolved yet overlooked mysteries facing academia and science — the extraordinary identities of planets in myth and tradition. Nothing in the familiar ideas about our history can explain the incredible patterns, found in extensive cross-cultural comparison, of words, phrases, imagery and storytelling describing a... |
Mars Geology Gets Even “Weirder” | Space News August 13, 2019 by Scott Douglass In recent months, according to a number of scientific reports, the dusty winds and sand dune formations on the planet Mars have grown even more mysteries. In this episode, we explore why Electric Universe geology may hold the key to resolving both the mysterious processes in Mars’ past, and those... |
Stephan’s Quintet: Halton Arp Vindicated Again | Space News August 6, 2019 by Scott Douglass For many years, images of the the clustered galaxies of Stephan’s Quintet have suggested interactions that should not be taking place, at least not according to the assumptions of standard cosmology. As Thunderbolts colleague Mel Acheson explains, Stephan’s Quintet invalidates the cornerstone of Big Bang and expanding-universe cosmology: the assumption... |
Jacob Gable: Ceres’ Formation in the Electric Universe | Space News August 2, 2019 by Scott Douglass NASA’s Dawn mission at the dwarf planet Ceres has revealed many unresolved mysteries. These include why the heavily cratered surface of Ceres features a surprising absence of large craters; why we have never found any meteorites from Ceres on Earth; and it’s a puzzle where exactly Ceres might have formed,... |
Asteroid Impact – How Big a Threat to Earth? | Space News July 30, 2019 by Scott Douglass June 30th marked the annual celebration of Asteroid Day, and science media used the occasion to suggest the need for greater funding for planetary defense against such an intruder. But just how real is the danger to Earth from kinetic impacts from asteroids, comets and meteors? In this episode, we... |
Donald Scott: Breakthrough – New Evidence of Birkeland Currents in Earth’s Atmosphere | Space News July 19, 2019 by Scott Douglass A new investigation into the wind patterns in Earth’s upper atmosphere may provide critical insight into our planet’s electrical environment, and its relationship to the Sun. In numerous past episodes, retired professor of electrical engineering Dr. Donald Scott has outlined his mathematical modeling of a Birkeland current’s structure, and its... |
Andrew Hall: Ionic Winds Shaped the Earth | Space News July 12, 2019 by Scott Douglass In the first three parts of this presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall has explored the electrical nature of wind and powerful storms on Earth, and on planets throughout the solar system. Of course, geologists tell us that winds played a significant role in shaping the landscape of our planet, supposedly... |
CJ Ransom: Why So Surprising? | EU2017 July 9, 2019 by Scott Douglass Since the start of the Space Age in the late 1950s, scientists were often surprised about what was found by space probes and remote detection devices. Probe results were often described as “surprising” or “unexpected”. In 1950 there were four major assumptions that were directly or indirectly used in developing... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #42 | The Labyrinth – The Crane Dance of Theseus July 5, 2019 by Scott Douglass It seems that the labyrinthine dance of the hero Theseus, as cited in our previous Discourse, gives us some powerful clues as to the extraordinary celestial events from which the underlying mythic archetype emerged. The “dance” had its own unique and awkward form called the Crane Dance, made famous by... |
Donald Scott: What Causes the Sun’s Magnetic Loops? | Space News July 2, 2019 by Scott Douglass A team of scientists on Earth has made a surprising and perhaps very significant discovery on the Sun’s magnetic field. The scientists were utilizing a solar telescope to study the Sun’s corona, and through good fortune were able to observe and analyze an exceptionally powerful solar flare. The team focused... |
Plasma vs Gravity | Space News June 28, 2019 by Scott Douglass In this adaptation of the Mel Acheson TPOD “Gravity vs Plasma,” Mel explains why the essence of momentous paradigm shifts in science is simply a matter of different viewpoints. Just as the landscape looks different when viewed from different locations, the facts and theories of the sciences appear different when... |
Eugene Bagashov: Our Solar System’s Birkeland Currents | Space News June 25, 2019 by Scott Douglass In the first three parts of this presentation, physicist Eugene Bagashov has presented the ongoing analysis he and several colleagues are conducting into the presence of Birkeland currents within the Milky Way galaxy, and close to our solar system. This includes evidence that the Local Interstellar Chimney, where our solar... |
Are Transient Lunar Phenomena Electric? | Space News June 21, 2019 by Scott Douglass Recent scientific reports have highlighted increased scientific interest in a long-enduring mystery on the Moon. For well over a half a century, scientists on Earth have puzzled over the cause of occasional mysterious flashes of light seen on the lunar surface, or what is called Transient Lunar Phenomena. In fact,... |
Eugene Bagashov: Local Birkeland Currents – A Closer Look | Space News June 18, 2019 by Scott Douglass In recent years, an incredible development has transpired in the space sciences — mainstream astronomical literature now rather routinely acknowledges the existence of electric currents in space. But the question is, how significant a role do these electric currents play in the dynamics of the Universe? In our most recent... |
Stupendous Electric Currents Connect Galaxy Clusters | Space News June 14, 2019 by Scott Douglass A new scientific discovery provides stunning confirmation of a foundational tenet of the Electric Universe and plasma cosmology. A team of scientists has discovered a vast radio-emitting filament of plasma which stretches across 10 million light-years, connecting two clusters of galaxies, called Abell 0399 and 0401. The filament also marks... |
Eugene Bagashov: Birkeland Currents – Cosmic Distance and other Puzzles | Space News June 11, 2019 by Scott Douglass In this episode we delve more deeply into a highly promising ongoing investigation in the Electric Universe community. Previously, physicist Eugene Bagashov introduced the analysis he and several others in the EU community have conducted into the evidence for the pervasiveness of a type of electric current, called a Birkeland... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #41 | The Labyrinth and the Gordian Knot June 7, 2019 by Scott Douglass In this Discourse David Talbott extends his review of the ancient “labyrinth” theme, suggesting that a concrete explanation could lie within our reach: “It should go without saying that, in the absence of a concrete referent, such storytelling will appear to have no believable interpretation. But if we tentatively grant... |
Andrew Hall: Ring Currents – Nature’s Storm Generators | Space News May 31, 2019 by Scott Douglass In the first two parts of this presentation, Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall laid a theoretical foundation for a new understanding of the spectacular atmospheric and weather phenomena seen throughout the solar system. The electromagnetic nature of countless of these phenomena is no longer debated, but the underlying mechanisms are. In... |
Eugene Bagashov: Birkeland Currents in Space – An Analysis | Space News May 28, 2019 by Scott Douglass In the 21st century, with increasing frequency astronomical literature recognizes a long-taboo subject — the existence of electric currents in space: from the electrical Earth-Sun connection, to the electric currents connecting the gas giant planets to their respective moons, to the vast cosmic jets of active galactic nuclei. Yet these... |
Wal Thornhill: Big Bang Busted Again | Space News May 24, 2019 by Scott Douglass A new scientific study based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope was recently published which affirms what many other papers have reported in recent years: the so-called expansion of the Universe appears to be accelerating much too quickly to explain through any kind of known physics. However, plasma cosmology... |
Garrett Hill: Laboratory Investigations into Nature | EU2017 May 22, 2019 by Scott Douglass Coherent patterns exist in nature at all scales, and electricity seems to have an important role in the evolution of all things. Have you ever wondered how species-specific pollination occurs or how certain creatures can exhibit seemingly instantaneous collective coherent movements at high speeds? This presentation will introduce a company... |
Andrew Hall: The Electric Winds of Jupiter | Space News May 17, 2019 by Scott Douglass In recent years, one of the great shocks in space science has been the discovery of just how incredible the electromagnetic energies are at the gas giant Jupiter. Astronomers had long known that Jupiter possesses an extensive and powerful magnetic field, as well as tremendous x-ray aurorae, super-fast winds, and... |
Eugene Bagashov: Where Did Asteroids Come From? | Space News May 14, 2019 by Scott Douglass For many decades, in the standard story of our solar system, we have been told that asteroids, as well as comets and meteoroids are the so-called left-overs of the early solar system. In this view, comets and asteroids have been proposed as the possible source of our planet’s oceans. Of... |
Donald Scott: Tracking Birkeland Currents in Earth’s Atmosphere | Space News May 10, 2019 by Scott Douglass Our planet’s atmosphere is home to extraordinary electrical activity. As we’ve noted, retired professor of electrical engineering Dr. Donald Scott developed a mathematical model of the structure of a Birkeland current, which can be identified visually as counterrotating cylinders. We have suggested that the counterrotation clearly seen at the poles... |
Eugene Bagashov: Planet Nine and Solar System Myths | Space News May 8, 2019 by Scott Douglass Today, physicist Eugene Bagashov explores a longstanding, highly controversial hypothesis in astronomy — the alleged existence of the so-called planet nine in our solar system. Some astronomers have proposed that the gravitational influence of such a planet outside the orbit of Neptune could explain some anomalies, including the odd clustering... |
Peter Moddel: What Can Matter Be? A philosophical approach | EU2017 May 3, 2019 by Scott Douglass The Electric Universe emphasizes that mass is not to be confused with matter, and it suggests a way of understanding the observed effects of mass. This leaves the question: what then is matter? To recognize matter is to attribute presence to an object. Understanding this process can loosen our grip... |
Stephen Smith: Electrical Craters on Earth | Space News May 1, 2019 by Scott Douglass That the planet Earth has been subject to catastrophic events is beyond dispute – but the nature and timing of these events is not. One of the clearest testimonies to these ancient upheavals is our planet’s craters, which consensus scientific theory proposes are the result of meteoritic impacts. But we... |
Andrew Hall: Eye of the Electric Storm | Space News April 26, 2019 by Scott Douglass Today, author Andrew Hall continue his remarkable series of presentations on the promising new geology the electric universe offers. Like every rocky body in our solar system, our planet’s landscape demands a radical shift in perception. The standard geological toolkit, limited to the processes of plate tectonics, wind and water... |
Eugene Bagashov: Spinning Asteroids Present Mysteries | Space News April 23, 2019 by Scott Douglass Today, physicist Eugene Bagashov continues his analysis of the scientific missions to the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu, respectively. As Eugene explained in the previous episode, one of the hypotheses scientists have proposed to explain a number of asteroid anomalies is that many asteroids are essentially “rubble piles.” In fact, when... |
Wal Thornhill: On the Black Hole’s Non-existence | Space News April 19, 2019 by Scott Douglass Listen to PART TWO of the interview recorded on April 8, 2019, with physicist Wal Thornhill. He sheds light on the fact that the recent so-called “first picture of a black hole” actually affirms the plasma cosmology hypothesis that the object at a galactic core is a Plasmoid. Find out... |
Wal Thornhill: Black Hole or Plasmoid? | Space News April 16, 2019 by Scott Douglass In this interview recorded on April 8, 2019, physicist Wal Thornhill discusses why the recent so-called “first picture of a black hole” actually affirms the plasma cosmology hypothesis that the object at a galactic core is not a black hole at all but an ultra-high density energy storage phenomena called... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #40 | The Labyrinth — Dancing Ground of the Goddess and Warrior April 13, 2019 by Scott Douglass The myths and symbols of the labyrinth offer one of the richest sources of information on the “original provocation” from which the most powerful archetypes–mother goddess, warrior-hero, and chaos monster–arose in ancient times. Introducing the labyrinth, Discourse #40 will be followed by a further Discourse bringing to light additional nuances... |
Irving Wolfe: Introduction to Velikovsky’s Ideas | EU2017 April 9, 2019 by Scott Douglass Dr. Irving Wolfe will review Immanuel Velikovsky’s contributions to a broad-ranging discourse in the sciences. Why did Velikovsky’s best-selling Worlds in Collision provoke one of most heated scientific controversies of the 20th century? Why did the gatekeepers of “acceptable” theory feel compelled to mobilize a boycott of the original publisher?... |
Dawson Church: The Role of Consciousness in Health and Healing | Electricity of Life April 5, 2019 by Scott Douglass In part one of this presentation, our guest Dawson Church discussed his remarkable investigation into the role of consciousness in one’s physical wellbeing. In his book Mind to Matter, Dawson cites voluminous scientific research which suggests that our minds can profoundly affect our bodies and even the external world. Emotions... |
Eugene Bagashov: Asteroid Missions and Crumbling Theories | Space News March 31, 2019 by sschirott Today, two spacecraft exploring two separate asteroids may provide critical data that could change scientists’ thoughts about these mysterious, rocky worlds. Since June of 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has surveyed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, and recently Japan’s space agency performed a touchdown on the object to collect... |
Eugene Bagashov: Martian Geology, Past and Present | Space News March 26, 2019 by sschirott In part one of this presentation, physicist Eugene Bagashov began his examination of some of the enduring geological mysteries on Mars. Of course, geologists examining the surface of Mars project familiar earthly processes onto the Red Planet — they imagine volcanic eruptions, flowing water and impacts from space as dominant... |
Eugene Bagashov: Mars Mysteries Reopened | Space News March 22, 2019 by sschirott Of all the planets in the inner solar system, the planet Mars may pose the most tantalizing mysteries. Since the early 1970’s, when the Mariner 9 spacecraft captured the most detailed images of the planet to that time, scientists’ ideas about Mars have needed constant revision. For decades, the chief... |
Dawson Church: “Mind to Matter” and the Mind/Body Connection | Electricity of Life March 16, 2019 by sschirott The connection of the mind to the body is an arena of constantly growing scientific investigation. To an unprecedented degree, mainstream medicine today acknowledges that the mind has a profound effect on one’s physical well-being. The mind affects matter, whether it’s the so-called placebo effect or the increasingly evident physical... |
Scientific “Correctness” vs. Scientific Progress | Space News March 9, 2019 by sschirott In this adaptation of a recent Thunderbolts Picture of the Day article, author Mel Acheson explores how a phenomenon he calls “scientific correctness” can ultimately impede scientific progress. Become a Producer through the PATREON Rewards program. Subscribe to Thunderbolts Update weekly newsletter! Catch all the weekly happenings in one place. |
Stephen Smith: Juno’s Findings at Electric Jupiter | Space News March 2, 2019 by sschirott NASA’s Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter has provided data that could rewrite much of planetary science. According to NASA scientists, the conventional theoretical models on the planet’s auroras, its atmosphere, its interior and its magnetic field have found no support at all in the mission’s findings. The consistent... |
Dr. Jerry Tennant: Recharge Your Battery and Heal | Electricity of Life February 27, 2019 by sschirott In part one of this presentation, Dr. Jerry Tennant introduced us to his extraordinary research into the complex electrical circuitry of the human body. Since his own remarkable battle with debilitating ailments, Dr. Tennant has worked to develop a kind of map of this circuitry, to understand its essential connection... |
Dr. Jerry Tennant: Healing the Body’s Electrical Circuitry | Electricity of Life February 23, 2019 by sschirott Today, various electromagnetic therapies have gained unprecedented acceptance and use, and scientific studies continue to affirm the influence of electromagnetic fields on life. One of the leading pioneers in this rapidly growing field has been Dr. Jerry Tennant, an ophthalmologist whose book series Healing is Voltage describes his groundbreaking research... |
Donald Scott: Why Do Planets Have Magnetic Fields? | Space News February 16, 2019 by sschirott The Earth’s north magnetic pole is on the move. According to a recent update to the World Magnetic Model, the movement of the north magnetic pole, which has been erratic yet accelerating for about 40 years, has recently accelerated more dramatically. Of course, planetary scientists attribute changes to our planet’s... |
David Talbott: The Electric Universe in 2019 & Beyond February 9, 2019 by sschirott David Talbott, the founder of The Thunderbolts Project, offers his thoughts on the recent developments and progress of the Electric Universe movement. Many viewers may be unaware that David experienced a stroke in September of 2018 from which he is still recovering. Happily, he has been able to resume his... |
Cosmic Magnetic Fields – The Ultimate Challenge to Gravity-Centric Cosmology | Space News February 6, 2019 by sschirott It has been one of the greatest surprises of the Space Age – powerful magnetic fields pervade the cosmos. Mainstream astronomers and astrophysicists do indeed acknowledge pervasive cosmic magnetism, but they did NOT predict it, and the realization has come begrudgingly. In this episode, we explore why powerful magnetic fields... |
Wal Thornhill: Ultima Thule Update — Another Electrically Scarred World? | Space News February 2, 2019 by sschirott The latest image released by NASA’s New Horizons mission of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule reveals several intriguing features. These include what appears to be an improbably huge crater, which likely would have destroyed the object if it was caused by an impacting object. In this episode, Wal... |
David Talbott: The Electric Universe in 2019 & Beyond January 26, 2019 by sschirott David Talbott, the founder of The Thunderbolts Project, offers his thoughts on the recent developments and progress of the Electric Universe movement. Many viewers may be unaware that David experienced a stroke in September of 2018 from which he is still recovering. Happily, he has been able to resume his... |
Wal Thornhill: Ultima Thule – Another Victory for the Electric Universe | Space News January 16, 2019 by sschirott NASA’s New Horizons team has recently received pictures of the most distant object in our solar system ever imaged by a spacecraft. It’s nicknamed Ultima Thule, a relatively tiny body, just 19-miles long, located more than 4 billion miles from Earth in the so-called Kuiper Belt. As we see, like... |
Cosmological Tool Time | Space News January 12, 2019 by sschirott Have you ever seen a carpenter try to cut a 2×4 with a hammer? Probably not. Carpenters usually carry a saw as well as a hammer in their toolboxes, and they know to use the proper tool for the task at hand. Astrophysicists have only one tool in their kit–the... |
Eugene Bagashov: Oumuamua Data Reveals Intriguing Possibilities | Space News January 5, 2019 by sschirott Today, physicist Eugene Bagashov concludes his remarkable three-part analysis of Oumuamua, the mysterious object which is thought to be our solar system’s first interstellar traveler. In previous episodes, Eugene has explored several enigmas, including the puzzle of the object’s mysterious acceleration as it moved away from the Sun. While this... |
Wal Thornhill: The Saturn/Earth Connection and Our Place in the Universe | Space News December 30, 2018 by sschirott In part one of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill began his analysis of one of the most significant space discoveries in recent memory. The history and origin of the gas giant Saturn, and indeed the entire solar system, including our own planet is not what we’ve been told. Planetary scientists... |
Eugene Bagashov: Oumuamua’s Strange Acceleration and Other Anomalies | Space News December 22, 2018 by sschirott In part one of this presentation, physicist Eugene Bagashov began his analysis of the ongoing mysteries surrounding the first ever so-called interstellar asteroid, Oumuamua. Eugene scrutinized the rather surprising hypothesis that the object is not natural, but rather a kind of extraterrestrial technology. That hypothesis arose primarily from ‘Oumuamua’s peculiar... |
Wal Thornhill: Blockbuster – Saturn/Earth Connection Confirmed | Space News December 19, 2018 by sschirott A new scientific paper provides stunning affirmation of one of the most striking predictions of the Electric Universe/catastrophist hypothesis. The paper, published in the Journal Icarus, reports that the water on Saturn’s moons and in its rings is remarkably similar to water on our own planet, a completely unexpected finding... |
Eugene Bagashov: Oumuamua — Surprising Data Leads to Strange Theories | Space News December 15, 2018 by sschirott 2018 has witnessed the deepening of an ongoing astronomical mystery. Last year, we reported on the discovery of the first asteroid which is believed to have originated from outside the solar system. The possible interstellar traveler called Oumuamua has challenged astronomers to explain its origins and nature. Debates have raged... |
Donald Scott: Is Mysterious South Polar Heating Electrical? | Space News December 8, 2018 by sschirott A new scientific paper attempts to explain a mystery at our planet’s South Pole. A team of investigators from the British Antarctic Survey discovered a localized area where the Antarctic Ice sheet is melting “unexpectedly quickly.” Using radar, they found that some of the ice in a three kilometer thick... |
Stephen Crothers: LIGO — Its Claims for Black Holes and Gravitational Waves | EU2017 December 5, 2018 by sschirott The LIGO-Virgo Scientific Collaboration has announced that on 14 September 2015, LIGO detected an Einstein gravitational wave directly for the first time, with the first concomitant observation of a binary black hole merger. The announcement was made with much media attention. Not so long ago similar media excitement surrounded the... |
Special Feature: SAFIRE PROJECT 2018 REPORT December 1, 2018 by sschirott The SAFIRE PROJECT at the Electric Universe – United Kingdom International Conference & Symposium 7th – 11th July 2018, Somerset, UK Montgomery Childs and Dr. Michael Clarage present a review of The SAFIRE PROJECT to date, which includes some new discoveries of the past year. Please note: we will NOT... |
Special Feature: NEW VIEWS OF THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM — Michael Clarage November 28, 2018 by sschirott The SAFIRE PROJECT at the Electric Universe – United Kingdom International Conference & Symposium 7th – 11th July 2018, Somerset, UK Dr. Michael Clarage talks about his work with SAFIRE from a more philosophical perspective – what an empiricist might ponder outside the lab. He offers some intriguing if not... |
Special Feature: COLLABORATION & SCIENCE — Montgomery Childs November 24, 2018 by sschirott The SAFIRE PROJECT at the Electric Universe – United Kingdom International Conference & Symposium 7th – 11th July 2018, Somerset, UK Montgomery Childs explores the idea of ‘two worlds’, the theoretical and the empirical, and how the SAFIRE PROJECT maintains a sharp eye on the line between. He also offers... |
Scientific Evidence of PSI and Survival of Consciousness | Electricity of Life November 21, 2018 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, our guest Mark Gober began an exploration of the unresolved scientific puzzle: how and why does consciousness exist? In Mark’s book “An End to Upside Down Thinking,” he summarizes some of the voluminous scientific evidence which suggests that consciousness is not generated by nor... |
An End to Upside Down Thinking on Consciousness | Electricity of Life November 17, 2018 by sschirott For human beings on planet Earth, the ultimate mystery of life may be: how and why does consciousness exist? The unanswered question is characterized as “the hard problem,” which is essentially the mystery of why any physical state is experienced consciously. Of course, the neurosciences have provided extraordinary understandings of... |
Franklin Anariba: Electrochemistry of Comets — An Update | EU 2017 November 14, 2018 by sschirott Dr. Franklin Anariba will update a general electrochemical model by exploring conditions in comets that are amenable to electrochemical processes. Particular attention will be given to recent observations of physical and chemical phenomena that point to a paradigm shift in the science of cometary bodies. He presented the first outline... |
Confirmed: Comet Dust Tail is Electrically Charged | Space News November 11, 2018 by sschirott New scientific reports are again confirming the electrical nature of one of the most mysterious phenomena in the cosmos, the comet. For more than a decade, scientists have puzzled over the spectacular display of Comet McNaught, C/2006 P1. Utilizing a new image processing technique, scientists studying the comet’s extraordinary dust... |
Wal Thornhill: Velikovsky’s Astrophysics | EU2017 November 7, 2018 by sschirott In 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky threw down a gauntlet to astronomers in his sensational best-selling book, Worlds in Collision, where he proposed, on the basis of documentary evidence, that gravitation is an electromagnetic phenomenon. Leading American astronomers were enraged and behaved like medieval priests whose sanctified gravitational cosmology was being violated.... |
Beyond the Dark and Empty Universe | Space News November 3, 2018 by sschirott Before the space age, astronomers looked up at the night sky and saw points and patches of light. With the aid of telescopes they could see more points and patches, and with the aid of spectroscopes they could discover what the points and patches were made of and how they... |
Ev Cochrane: Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion | EU2017 October 27, 2018 by sschirott Ev Cochrane will show that the name for the red planet Mars comes from the cult of the Latin god Mars as well as document that the characteristics of the Latin god are closely paralleled in the earliest Babylonian descriptions of the red planet. Far from being confined to the... |
Donald Scott: How Many “Impossible” Neutron Stars? | Space News October 24, 2018 by sschirott Scientists are again puzzling over the behaviors of a so-called neutron star which completely confounds conventional models. The object is producing relativistic jets and has a magnetic field that astrophysicists have estimated to be 10 trillion times stronger than that of our Sun. However, standard theory has held that such... |
Peter Mungo Jupp: Instant Fossilization | EU2017 October 20, 2018 by sschirott Peter Jupp will discuss petrification as instantaneous and under the control of dynamic Earth-shaking events. What have we found on Earth to demonstrate this hypothesis? A forest of giant trees turned to solid rock. A soft-bodied crab petrified to rock and enclosed in the center of a basalt Thunderegg. Dinosaur... |
Wal Thornhill: Seeing Double – Electric Cosmology | Space News October 17, 2018 by sschirott How do objects in our Universe form? In the unimaginably vast cosmos, at all scales, from comets and asteroids in our solar system to the vastest superclusters of galaxies stretching for hundreds of millions of light years, astronomers and astrophysicists imagine gravitational processes, and only gravitational processes governing these objects’... |
Dave Talbott: Mythology as Undiscovered History | EU2017 October 13, 2018 by sschirott David Talbott will examine the protocol for cross-cultural investigation, bringing an objective standard to a field of study that scholars have long assumed to be hopelessly subjective. Is it really possible to identify extraordinary natural events hidden within a carnival of ancient myths and symbols? Our claim is that world... |
Wal Thornhill: Gravitational Accretion Bites the Dust | Space News October 10, 2018 by sschirott New scientific research into the planet-forming conditions in so-called young star systems has delivered a shocking blow to gravitational accretion theory. In a paper published in the journal Astronomy Astrophysics, scientists described their attempts to determine how much material is present in the disks around stars that are thought to... |
The Evolution of Life on the Electric Earth | Space News October 7, 2018 by sschirott In part one of this presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Peter Mungo Jupp began a provocative reassessment of the standard geological and anthropological timetables on planet Earth. We have proposed a radically alternative history for our planet, and indeed our entire solar system. In relatively recent times, there was a chaotic period... |
Upheaval: How Old Is the Earth and Its Species? | Space News October 3, 2018 by sschirott Earlier this year, scientists from New York and Sweden published the results of their sweeping study of 5 million DNA barcodes from about 100,000 different animal species. As reported by phys.org on May 28, 2018, the results are “sure to jostle, if not overturn, more than one settled idea about... |
Jerry Tennant: Healing is Voltage — The Physics of Emotions | EU2017 September 29, 2018 by sschirott Most people have heard of the “mind/body connection” and are aware that emotions affect the way people act. However, few can describe how that works. What is relatively new is our understanding that emotions are stored in and around the body as magnetic fields. Not only do these magnetic fields... |
Saturn’s Electric Hexagon | Space News September 22, 2018 by sschirott The famous hexagon at Saturn’s north pole has perplexed scientists since its discovery since the form is not seen in any other planetary atmosphere. In recent years, simple fluidic experiments on Earth have succeeded in producing a hexagonal structure, providing an explanation that planetary scientists have heretofore favored. However, recent... |
Donald Scott: The Next Step — New Evidence of Birkeland Current Activity | EU2017 September 19, 2018 by sschirott Since 1908 when Kristian Birkeland proposed that Earth’s “Northern and Southern Lights” (aurorae Borealis and Australis) are powered by electric currents coming from the Sun, scientists have wondered what exact shape these currents have and whether there are any other examples of these kinds of electrical currents in our universe.... |
Electric Comets and Plasma Serpents in the Lab | Space News September 15, 2018 by sschirott In this episode, we again explore the remarkable contributions of a new member of the electric universe experimentalist community. In a previous Space News, we introduced the research of Jacob Gable, whose simple demonstrations of electrical discharge in a homemade vacuum chamber have produced extraordinary analogs to the craters commonly... |
Astronomy Headed Toward Collision with Reality? | Space News September 6, 2018 by sschirott Space is a big place. One might think that within that unfathomable vastness, for objects to suffer the same fate as automobiles in busy traffic would be an exceedingly rare occurrence. Nevertheless, a cosmic collision is a process that astronomers and astrophysicists routinely propose to try to explain countless data... |
Stephen Crothers: The Logical Inconsistency of the Special Theory of Relativity | EU2017 September 5, 2018 by sschirott Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity requires systems of clock-synchronized stationary observers and the Lorentz Transformation. Without both, the Theory of Relativity fails. A system of clock-synchronized stationary observers is, however, inconsistent with the Lorentz Transformation because it is Galilean. The Special Theory of Relativity insists that systems of Galilean observers... |
Error Probes, Truth Probes, and Space Probes | Space News August 29, 2018 by sschirott Can you learn anything new if you limit yourself to verifying what you think you already know? This question reaches to the very heart of scientific reliability, and today is perhaps more relevant in cosmology than any other scientific endeavor. Gravitational theory has been verified many, many times – but... |
Andrew Hall: Electric Earth | EU2017 August 25, 2018 by sschirott The surface of the Earth is a canvas that portrays the artistry and power of the forces that created it. Electric Earth presents a theory of the mechanisms of past cataclysm and how they relate to the forces we see at work in nature today. Through the unfiltered lens of... |
Rogue Planet or Rogue Science? | Space News August 22, 2018 by sschirott Astronomers recently reported what is being hailed as the “first radio telescope detection of a planetary mass object beyond our solar system.” The object, which is being described as a possible “rogue planet,” is challenging some of the astronomers’ bedrock ideas about, among other things, the assumed differences between gas... |
Electrical Experimentalists: Our Community Grows | Space News August 18, 2018 by sschirott One of the great appeals of the electric universe community is its hands-on, experimental approach to testing new ideas. Our rapidly growing community includes many members who have conducted simple experiments to test the role that powerful lightning and other forms of electrical discharge may have played in shaping rocky... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #39 | Invitation to Jordan Peterson August 15, 2018 by sschirott It’s not surprising that we’ve been asked to comment on the YouTube presence of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. It seems his star rose spectacularly after a record-setting interview with Britain’s “Channel 4” host Cathy Newman. Posted on YouTube in January, the interview attracted over 11 million views in about six... |
Eileen McKusick: Human Bioelectricity and the EU Model | EU2017 August 11, 2018 by sschirott Electric Universe theory shows us that the Universe we inhabit is electrical in nature. But what about us as humans? Medical science has been entrenched in the chemical/mechanical nature of the human body, yet we too are electrical in nature. In this talk, we will consider research on the bioelectric... |
The Comet Venus and Its Missing Craters | Space News August 8, 2018 by sschirott Since the dawn of the Space Age, the planet Venus has been a proving ground for competing hypotheses in planetary science. From the 1950s to 1970s, Venus was at the center of a blazing scientific controversy. In 1950, in the bestselling book Worlds in Collision, the scientific heretic Immanuel Velikovsky... |
NASA Probes Our Electric Sun | Space News August 8, 2018 by sschirott NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft that will approach the sun more closely than any manmade technology in history. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a robotic spacecraft intended to explore, among other things, the mysteries of the solar wind, and the enduring puzzle of coronal heating, will approach within less... |
Gerald Pollack: Weather and EZ Water — An Intimate Role of Separated Charge | EU2017 July 29, 2018 by sschirott Among atmospheric scientists, two central features of weather dynamics remain mechanistically uncertain: evaporation and cloud formation. Absent proper understanding, predicting weather patterns remains challenging. Even simple weather-related phenomena elude understanding. For example: (i) Why can clouds suspend themselves above the earth? From the weight of the constituent water droplets, the... |
Electric Circuits Drive Enceladus Plumes | Space News July 21, 2018 by sschirott The electric currents that connect the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter to their respective moons are now recognized in the scientific literature. However, like the spectacular electromagnetic cosmic jets seen exploding from active galactic nuclei, space scientists heretofore have always proposed that the electric currents are the result of strange... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #38 | The Ancient Polar Configuration: Reviewing Essential Conclusions July 18, 2018 by sschirott In this Discourse, we pause to review ground previously covered, with an emphasis on predictive ability. How well does the proposed history of the Polar Configuration predict and explain the multitude of mythic archetypes? Among the many dozens of archetypes we’ve reviewed in recent years, how many would be expected... |
Solar System’s History in Disarray | Space News July 11, 2018 by sschirott A new paper published in the Journal Nature Astronomy offers a further breakthrough for proponents of planetary catastrophe. The study suggests that the large majority of asteroids in the inner asteroid belt are pieces of 5 annihilated worlds, called planetesimals. The clue the team followed was the unusual inclined or... |
Bruce Leybourne: Geometry of Earth’s Endogenous Electrical Energy — Geophysical Evidence | EU2016 July 7, 2018 by sschirott : Bruce Leybourne’s presentation will examine the geometries of Earth’s electrical stellar transformer circuits. Both statistical data and geometric correlations suggest geophysical relationships between lightning and earthquakes. The basic “Delta-Y” electrical circuit geometry of the tetrahedron “fire element” is expanded to a little known geometric form that unifies the five... |
“The End of Science” – Back to Basics | Space News July 3, 2018 by sschirott : The accepted description of reality in astronomy asserts that only the law of gravity applies in space. Yet nearly every discovery of the space age, from the Van Allen radiation belts around the Earth to the high-velocity winds around Neptune, has been announced as a surprise. And the surprises... |
Electric Dust Storms Engulf Mars | Space News June 30, 2018 by sschirott : Scientists on Earth are again being reminded of the awesome power of dust storms on Mars. The first stirrings of what has become a globe-encompassing phenomenon began on June 17, when a dust storm touched down on the famous Gale Crater. For many years, the Thunderbolts Project has offered... |
Electric Venus Continues to Confound | Space News June 26, 2018 by sschirott : A scientific paper published this year in Nature Astronomy deepens the many mysteries that the planet Venus presents. The authors were surprised to find chaotic cloud movements on the night-side of Venus’s super-rotating upper atmosphere. The greatest surprise was the discovery of distinct filamentary structures in clouds which appear... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #37 | The City of Heaven June 23, 2018 by sschirott : Here we take up the widespread ancient link between sacred cities and creation mythology. Historical evidence suggests that both themes arose as reflections of celestial events yet to be recognized. But what did the ancient myth-makers mean by the ideal “land” or “city,” celebrated as their own place of... |
Big Bang Dead – Electric Dark Matter to the Rescue? | Space News June 12, 2018 by sschirott : Astrophysicists today are resorting to new conjectures to try to preserve the big bang story. The latest irreconcilable data comes from scientists’ attempt to analyze the so-called Cosmic Dawn, a period about 200 million years after the Universe’s hypothetical beginning when the earliest stars are thought to have started... |
Comet Jets are Electric | Space News June 6, 2018 by sschirott : One of the most puzzling cometary phenomena is the spectacular, collimated jets seen exploding at tremendous velocities from comet nuclei. Standard comet theory states that the jets erupt due to sublimating volatiles and trapped gases that explode from underneath the comet’s surface. But this strange vision of comet jets... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric #8: Electrical Planetary Scarring | Space News May 31, 2018 by sschirott : We have created this special top-ten series to highlight the most compelling evidence for the dominant role of electromagnetism at all scales throughout the cosmos. The experimentally proven ability of high energy electrical discharges to produce craters and countless other planetary features offers an entirely new perspective on planetary... |
Electricity, Water, Life, and the Cosmos | Space News May 28, 2018 by sschirott In the previous episode, physicist Eugene Bagashov introduced us to potentially groundbreaking scientific research into the influence of electrical charge on the properties and behaviors of water. The recently published paper states that the electric charge of water influences: its ultraviolet absorption spectrum; its mechanical behavior; the behavior of water... |
Electricity and Water’s Changing Properties | Space News May 24, 2018 by sschirott Within the electric universe community, water’s electrical properties and their relationship to the structure of water is a subject of great interest and growing research. At past Thunderbolts project conferences, Dr. Gerald Pollack has presented his thesis on structured water, and the apparent relationship between water’s electrical charge, its intermolecular... |
The Craters are Electric | Space News May 21, 2018 by sschirott The ravaged surfaces of solid bodies in space tell stories, stories that demand valid interpretations in order to decipher. A dramatic type of feature observed on every solid body is a crater, a depression that seems to speak to some violent event in the distant past. The so-called debate in... |
Wal Thornhill: Future Science | EU2017 May 17, 2018 by sschirott Goodbye big bang and the mathematical nonsense masquerading as modern science. The future is a different universe — an Electric Universe — and The Thunderbolts Project is the key to that future. The Thunderbolts Project follows the Renaissance model of inventors, philosophers, engineers, and artists being funded by private visionaries.... |
Richard Moore: The Pulsating Universe and Planet Earth | EU2015 May 10, 2018 by sschirott The electric universe is a noisy universe. Discharge events are happening all the time, over a wide range of intensities and time scales, and every such event sends a voltage spike up and down its current filament. The current that comes into the Earth at the poles is a spiky... |
What is Light? | Space News May 7, 2018 by sschirott The notion that light is something that travels from one point to another is an assumption few people today ever question. Yet in this thought-provoking Space News, Thunderbolts contributor Mel Acheson explores the query, What else could light be? – a query that lies at the heart of reliability and... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky #36 | Atlantis — The Disappearing Homeland May 3, 2018 by sschirott In the case of the Atlantis myth, what can be substantiated is the archetype, and that archetype reaches far beyond any local legend. The archetype reflected in the Atlantis myth is the story of a far-famed city, island, kingdom, or continent in primeval times—either forgotten or subsequently destroyed by water... |
Birkeland Currents and Our Electric Solar System | Space News April 30, 2018 by sschirott In this series, we have reported on the increasing frequency with which astrophysical literature acknowledge a fact which was long verboten in the space-sciences: the existence of electric currents that flow through the so-called vacuum of space. At the vastest cosmic scales, many astrophysicists recognize the “fundamentally electromagnetic structure” of... |
Electric Winds and Earth Geology | Space News April 26, 2018 by sschirott In the conclusion of this three-part presentation, Andrew Hall continues his meticulous analysis of compelling evidence for electrical scarring throughout the American Southwest. In parts one and two, Hall explored the complex electrical discharge process called a sputtering discharge, and how this process might have shaped the breathtaking features on... |
Electrical Scarring of the Colorado Plateau | Space News April 23, 2018 by sschirott Throughout our solar system, on rocky planets, moons, asteroids, and comets we see evidence for events never discussed in standard geological textbooks. We see carpets of highly circular, cleanly cut craters and crater chains, in defiance of the notion of periodic bombardments shaping these rocky topographies. We have suggested that... |
Electrical Discharges Carved the American Southwest | Space News April 19, 2018 by sschirott The American southwest is an ideal testing ground for the hypotheses of Electric Universe geology. Laboratory experiments with electrical discharges have opened new theoretical pathways that inquirers in increasing numbers around the world are following. A remarkable contributor to the burgeoning field of EU geology is Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall,... |
The Bridge Between Sound and Light | Space News April 12, 2018 by sschirott As we’ve described in numerous episodes, anecdotal accounts dating back centuries describe puzzling sounds associated with electromagnetic phenomena such as the northern lights and other auroras. But what about the ability of sound to produce in matter phenomena that may be fundamentally electrical? Sonoluminescence, or the emission of light flashes... |
Did Cometary Catastrophes Cause the Justinian Plague? | Space News April 9, 2018 by sschirott For nearly half-a-century, the chief principles of The Thunderbolts Project have been presenting a scientific case for relatively recent celestial catastrophes in the inner solar system, within human memory. These events were recorded in the myths and storytelling of ancient man in pre-history, the dramas reverberating through generations and shaping... |
Who Still Denies Electric Currents in Space? | Space News April 2, 2018 by sschirott As we’ve reported recently, new papers in peer-reviewed astrophysical journals propose that powerful electric currents flow in extra-galactic jets and that the jets themselves are “fundamentally electromagnetic structures.” However, if you follow science media, it’s likely that you’ve not noticed any attempt to contextualize the development as significant for astrophysics.... |
Electric Comets in an Electric Universe | Space News March 29, 2018 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, Thunderbolts contributor archaeologist Peter Mungo Jupp began his comprehensive analysis of the nature of comets, including the electric universe perspective that comets are not four-and-half billion-year-old icy leftovers of the early solar system. Included in his analysis, Jupp presented outtakes of his interview with... |
Electric Comets: Born From Fire | Space News March 22, 2018 by sschirott Of all the entrenched beliefs that took hold in 20th-century science, few have proved less successful than the dirty snowball hypothesis of comets. The discovery of rocky and complex comet nuclei was an explicit prediction of the electric comet theory, which has proposed for decades that comets are neither dirty... |
Is the Mysterious Hum Real? | Space News March 18, 2018 by sschirott Since at least the mid 20th century, witnesses around the world have reported hearing a puzzling, consistent humming sound with no identifiable physical source. For decades, a majority of media attention has focused on the so-called Taos Hum, the mysterious buzzing sound heard by many in the desert of Taos,... |
The SAFIRE Project 2017 – 2018 Update March 15, 2018 by sschirott We have made major discoveries that contemporary science cannot explain at this time. Go to www.safireproject.com and we invite your constructive comments and thoughts as we journey through some of the most profound plasma phenomena ever seen before. To all who have contributed – a most sincere thanks. The SAFIRE... |
Edwin Kaal: The Proton-Electron Atom — A Proposal for a Structured Atomic Model | EU2017 March 11, 2018 by sschirott Edwin Kaal presented a new model for the atom based upon the principles of densest packing, balancing of electrostatic forces, symmetry, and the stable geometry of Platonic solids. Using this model, the sacrosanct “strong force” of the modern theory is not required. In addition, neutrons are redefined as a connection... |
Did a Cosmic Thunderbolt Create the Hypatia Stone? | Space News March 5, 2018 by sschirott Today, we continue our examination of arguably the most perplexing meteorite ever discovered on planet Earth. As science headlines have announced in recent weeks, the so-called Hypatia stone, a tiny rock fragment found in a Libyan Desert Glass field, is “rattling the solar system status quo,” challenging astronomers’ fundamental ideas... |
Hypatia Stone Shatters Solar System Myths | Space News February 28, 2018 by sschirott Today, scientific research into arguably the most perplexing meteorite ever found on Earth is “rattling the solar system status quo,” challenging astronomers’ fundamental ideas about our solar system’s formation and history. Since 2013, scientists on Earth have been studying the Hypatia stone, a rock fragment found in a Libyan Desert... |
Dark Matter? No. Birkeland Currents? Yes! | Space News February 22, 2018 by sschirott In our previous episode, we introduced a potential scientific breakthrough that could have profound implications for all of cosmology, eliminating the perceived need for dark matter. In a new scientific paper entitled Birkeland Currents and Dark Matter, scheduled for publication in April of this year, Dr. Donald E. Scott proposes... |
Our View of the Universe Could Change Forever | Space News February 18, 2018 by sschirott For the last 85 years, scientists have hypothesized many different types of dark matter, and the search continues in earnest today, with astronomical sums invested in the technological quest to prove dark matter’s existence. Yet rather than finding any confirmation of dark matter, space scientists have been left empty-handed, with... |
Electric Currents in Space Mean an Electric Universe | Space News February 8, 2018 by sschirott As we’ve reported in several recent episodes, astronomers and astrophysicists today are increasingly recognizing the existence of electric currents in space, at all scales throughout the cosmos. Yet curiously, this recognition has done little to change the gravity-centric nature of modern cosmology. In this episode, we explain why electric currents... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric #7: Charged Planets (Outer Solar System) | Space News February 1, 2018 by sschirott In this series, we have presented evidence for a dramatically new way of viewing all celestial bodies. In an Electric Universe, nowhere can one find an “island in space.” Across vast cosmic distances, electric currents flow through the conductive medium of plasma, electromagnetically pinching gas and dust to form stars... |
Wal Thornhill: Electric Comets & Asteroids | EU Workshop January 29, 2018 by sschirott Enjoy Wal Thornhill’s presentation from the EU Workshop, November 14-16, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona. More than any other individual, Wal has given the EU movement its emphasis on direct observation and experiment, in contrast to today’s “modeling” of the physical world through extravagant mathematics. Wal’s six presentations provided a compendium of... |
Wal Thornhill: Blinded by the Sun | EU Workshop January 25, 2018 by sschirott Enjoy Wal Thornhill’s presentation from the EU Workshop, November 14-16, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona. More than any other individual, Wal has given the EU movement its emphasis on direct observation and experiment, in contrast to today’s “modeling” of the physical world through extravagant mathematics. Wal’s six presentations provided a compendium of... |
Wal Thornhill: Lightning-Scarred Mars and Venus | EU Workshop January 21, 2018 by sschirott Enjoy Wal Thornhill’s presentation from the EU Workshop, November 14-16, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona. More than any other individual, Wal has given the EU movement its emphasis on direct observation and experiment, in contrast to today’s “modeling” of the physical world through extravagant mathematics. Wal’s six presentations provided a compendium of... |
Cosmic Electric Currents Becoming Accepted Science | Space News January 18, 2018 by sschirott In recent years, a profound development has been unfolding in astrophysics: the inevitable recognition of tremendous electric currents at the largest cosmic scales. In this episode, retired professor of electrical engineering Dr. Donald Scott analyzes two recent scientific papers that propose galactic jets are electromagnetic in nature. Dr. Scott’s 2015... |
“Interstellar” Asteroid Continues to Puzzle | Space News January 15, 2018 by sschirott In a recent Space News episode, Thunderbolts Project colleague physicist Eugene Bagashov offered his analysis of what is thought to be the first ever observed interstellar asteroid. As Eugene explained, the object’s origin and behavior appear to offer no easy answers either for standard astronomy, or the Electric Universe. Today,... |
Supernova & Neutron Star Theory Exploding — Electric Star Model Offers Solution | Space News January 11, 2018 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill began his discussion on the electrical nature of stars with an examination of pulsars – electromagnetic, pulsing signals in space which astronomers attribute to so-called neutron stars. In this episode, Thornhill offers an in-depth juxtaposition of the standard theory of stars... |
Electric Stars in Focus | Space News January 4, 2018 by sschirott In Part 1 of this three-part presentation, the chief science advisor to The Thunderbolts Project, physicist Wal Thornhill, begins our discussion on the nature of stars with an examination of so-called neutron stars, a hypothetical entity, which was invented in 1960’s after the unexpected discovery of pulsing electromagnetic emissions in... |
Our Galaxy’s Plasmoid Puzzles Scientists | Space News December 31, 2017 by sschirott In the Electric Universe and plasma cosmology, at a galaxy’s core is not a supermassive black hole but rather an ultrahigh-density energy storage phenomena called a plasmoid. In this episode, we discuss several significant recent developments that lend further credence to the galactic plasmoid model. EU2017: Future Science — Rebroadcast... |
Lightning-Scarred Planet Earth, Part 2 | Space News December 28, 2017 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall began exploring some of the best case studies of electrical scarring on planet Earth. The features do not seem to fit with any known geological process, but as Hall explained, they do show the known characteristics produced by electrical discharges.... |
Lightning-Scarred Planet Earth, Part 1 | Space News December 23, 2017 by sschirott Within the Electric Universe community, a growing number of inquirers are exploring the surface of our planet, identifying the indelible marks left by high-energy electrical discharges. In this episode, Thunderbolts colleague Andy Hall continues his remarkable series of presentations with this two-part exploration of the lightning-scarred Earth. EU2017: Future Science... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric #6: Charged Planets (Inner Solar System) | Space News December 18, 2017 by sschirott In the first five installments of this series, we outlined some of the most compelling evidence that the role of electromagnetism throughout the cosmos is vastly more significant than modern space science has ever entertained. So far, we have explored this question through an examination of the highest energy electromagnetic... |
Black Holes Behaving Badly | Space News December 10, 2017 by sschirott Astrophysicists tell us that at the core of 98% of galaxies is a supermassive black hole, a hypothetical “region of spacetime” whose gravitational effects are so colossal that nothing — not even light — can escape. For many years, scientific and educational literature has presented the existence of black holes... |
“Interstellar” Asteroid Raises Mysteries | Space News December 6, 2017 by sschirott Astronomers recently reported the first ever observation of what is believed to be an “interstellar” asteroid. Today, our guest physicist Eugene Bagashov explores why this object appears to present mysteries with no obvious answers. EU2017: Future Science — Rebroadcast — only $29! “Changing the world through the understanding of the... |
Oort Cloud Myth Continues to Crumble | Space News November 26, 2017 by sschirott For decades, astronomers have told us that comets that enter our region of the solar system come from two major areas: the Kuiper Belt and a hypothetical shell of icy bodies called the Oort Cloud. However, new observations of so-called “Oort Cloud comets” call into question all of the astronomers’... |
Don Scott: A Transistor Analogy of THE SUN’S SURFACE | Lecture November 21, 2017 by sschirott Dr. Donald Scott gave a presentation at Case Western University on October 17, 2017, at the invitation of Dr. Roberto Galan, Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, on a transistor analogy of the Sun’s surface with references to the SAFIRE Project. EU2017: Future Science — Rebroadcast... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric #5: Pulsars | Space News November 17, 2017 by sschirott One of the strangest hypothetical astrophysical objects is called a neutron star. Scientists tell us that the material leftover from a supernova explosion of a massive star collapses gravitationally, forming an incredibly small yet massively dense star mostly composed of tightly packed neutrons. A rotating neutron star is said to... |
Another “Impossible” Exoplanet | Space News November 9, 2017 by sschirott Recently, scientists reported in the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society the discovery of a theory-shattering exoplanet — one of countless such discoveries in the last two decades. As reported on phys.org on October 31, the hot Jupiter “should not exist according to planet formation theory.” In this episode,... |
Electric Discharge Clearly Seen on Comet 67P | Space News November 5, 2017 by sschirott A new image released in the last week by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta team underscores the desperate need for new theoretical pathways in comet science. In the picture, we see one of the clearest, perhaps undeniable images to date of an electrical arc discharging on a comet nucleus. In... |
Intergalactic Plasma Filaments Confirmed? | Space News November 2, 2017 by sschirott In the Space News series, a clear picture of cosmic scale phenomena has emerged: networks of filaments pervade space and are closely linked to the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. The electric universe and plasma cosmology have always predicted that the filaments are in fact electrical Birkeland currents... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric #4: Light Bulbs in Space | Space News October 29, 2017 by sschirott In Number 4 of our ongoing series, “The Top Ten Reasons in the Universe is Electric,” we explore an ongoing astrophysical enigma — the Fermi Bubbles, giant gamma ray structures which scientists have dubbed “incandescent bulbs screwed into the center of the galaxy.” In this episode, we explore why such... |
Does Gravity Cause Lightning in Space? | Space News October 26, 2017 by sschirott For several years, astrophysicists have observed in unprecedented detail the largest scale lightning in the cosmos. Nevertheless, consensus astrophysical theory tells us that mechanical and kinetic process produce the detected stupendous electromagnetic effects. In this episode, we explore the dire need for astrophysicists to explore the alternative explanations offered in... |
Big Science and the Impossibility of Gravitational Waves | Space News October 23, 2017 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill began his analysis of the recent award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to scientists for their contributions to the so-called detection of gravitational waves. While science media has shown exactly zero skepticism of the gravitational waves pronouncements, Thornhill discussed some... |
No — Gravitational Waves Have Not Been Observed | Space News October 16, 2017 by sschirott The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their contributions to the so-called observation of gravitational waves. In February of last year, a team working with the LIGO gravitational wave detector announced their discovery. We are told that the instruments detected “ripples in space-time,” which... |
Comets: Discovery vs. Belief | Space News October 13, 2017 by sschirott Today, we continue our discussion of recent devastating discoveries for the standard dirty snowball hypothesis of comets, including the recently released amazing images of stratified rock on Comet 67P. And we delve much deeper into the electric universe predictions and explanations of comet origins and comet activity. EU2017: Future Science... |
Dirty Snowballs Falsified – NASA Fails to Notice | Space News October 8, 2017 by sschirott Today, we explore stunning new developments in comet science that provide remarkable affirmation of the electric comet theory. Scientists using the Hubble telescope recently spotted the most distant active comet ever observed, at the incredible distance of 1.5 billion miles away, or about 16 Astronomical Units. In the same week,... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric: #3 Cosmic Jets | Space News October 1, 2017 by sschirott It is a mystery that space science must confront: What force is capable of producing high-energy jets spanning not millions of miles, but many light-years across the cosmos? What confines the jets to narrow streams across cosmic distances, and what prevents the so-called streams of gas from dispersing in the... |
Are Quakes and Other Disasters Predictable? | Space News September 28, 2017 by sschirott In the previous episode, Ben Davidson (Suspicous0bservers.org) began explaining why the electromagnetic Sun/Earth connection may be the key to a new understanding of natural disasters on Earth. Today Ben elaborates the space weather connection to earthly catastrophes, particularly earthquakes, and why such events may indeed be predictable. EU2017: Future Science... |
The Sun/Natural Disaster Connection | Space News September 24, 2017 by sschirott In this episode, Thunderbolts Project colleague Ben Davidson, the founder of Suspicious0bservers.org, discusses the possible connection between intense solar activity and natural disasters on Earth, including the recent Mexico quakes, powerful hurricanes, and other dramatic natural events. EU2017: Future Science — Rebroadcast — only $29! “Changing the world through the... |
Electric Jupiter Shocks Astronomers | Space News September 21, 2017 by sschirott Scientists with NASA’s Juno Mission to the gas giant Jupiter are again reporting findings that upend standard scientific theory while affirming key tenets of the Electric Universe theory. A team of investigators studying the Jovian aurora have made the “shocking” discovery of a seemingly inexplicable electron acceleration process that appears... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric: #2 Filaments in Space | Space News September 14, 2017 by sschirott Electric currents flowing through space plasmas can be recognized through their distinct filamentary shape. With remarkable advances in space telescopes, we see today in unprecedented detail filamentary structures that pervade the visible universe at all scales. The appearances of these unique structures have proved puzzling far more often than not... |
Deflating the Theory of Cosmic Inflation | Space News September 8, 2017 by sschirott In the 20th century, the story of our Universe’s origins was a shifting and incredibly strange tale. Around 1980, the physicist Alan Guth developed the idea of cosmic inflation or the notion that physical space experienced an exponential expansion immediately after the Big Bang. But in this series, we have... |
Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric: #1 Cosmic Magnetic Fields | Space News August 31, 2017 by sschirott This episode marks the beginning of a special 10-part series, “Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric.” In this first chapter, we explore the significance of the astrophysical enigma of pervasive cosmic magnetic fields. Basic physics classes teach that electric currents produce magnetic fields. But why is this law of... |
Electric Comets: The Most Dramatic Displays | Space News August 24, 2017 by sschirott In our previous episode, we began a commemoration of the 5-year anniversary of Space News from the Electric Universe with a comprehensive summary of the most significant findings to date from comet missions. Today, we continue our commemoration with a review of the some of the most dramatic and “surprising”... |
Space News Anniversary: Comet Missions | Space News August 16, 2017 by sschirott August 26 2017, will mark the 5 year anniversary of the inaugural episode of the science video series, Space News from the Electric Universe. The Thunderbolts Project created this series as an opportunity for its chief principles and many contributors to offer analysis and explanation of space science discoveries in... |
Electrical Planetary Scarring in the Lab | Space News August 6, 2017 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Garrett Hill introduced his experimental research into the electrical scarring of planets and moons. Within a growing community of investigators, a conceptual foundation has been laid for an entirely new understanding of planetary geology. Electrical processes have been shown to routinely reproduce... |
New Lab Frontiers in EU Geology | Space News August 1, 2017 by sschirott Planetary science tells a tale of our solar system’s origins and evolution, over the course of billions of years. Random impacts from space, wind and water erosion, earthquakes and volcanism are thought to have shaped planets and moons over eons of time. But do these processes fully explain what we... |
Peter Mungo Jupp: Electric Transmutation | Space News July 29, 2017 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, Australian archaeologist Peter Jupp begin outlining his case for the sudden fossilization of organisms on Earth. As Peter explained, many examples exist of lifeforms that were not fossilized over geologic ages but rather through the instantaneous process of petrification. But what natural mechanism could... |
Gummy Bear Discovers the Electric Universe | EU2017 July 25, 2017 by sschirott In recent years a popular animated character—”Gummy Bear”—has attracted billions of views on YouTube. But few viewers would know that the Gummy Bear’s creator was enchanted with the Polar Configuration, a long-time subject of research and discussion within the Electric Universe community, The result is a pretty good demonstration of... |
Peter Mungo Jupp: Electric Fossilization | Space News July 22, 2017 by sschirott Standard geology tells us that the Earth and the life that inhabits it has changed incrementally over eons of time for many millions of years. The processes thought to have shaped our planet’s landscape are wind and water erosion, volcanism, earthquakes, and random bombardments from space. Of course, a guide... |
Bioelectricity, Morphology, & Electroceuticals | Electricity of Life July 19, 2017 by sschirott What if there is a “bioelectric code” along with the genetic code? Thanks to determined work at the Levin Lab, some ideas in biology that were culturally disbelieved are now beginning to dawn on the mainstream consciousness in academia… with surprising displays of what is possible. Electric frontiers in biology... |
Why Do Stars and Planets Have Magnetic Fields? | Space News July 15, 2017 by sschirott A major tenet of Electric Universe theory is that electrical currents flowing through the conductive medium of plasma induce powerful magnetic fields at all scales throughout the cosmos. Of course, on our own Earth, the Norwegian experimentalist Kristian Birkeland postulated more than a century ago that electrical current systems produce... |
Saturn’s Electric Surprises | Space News July 12, 2017 by sschirott On October 15th, 1997, the NASA Space Agency Launched its Cassini spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A seven-year journey followed until Cassini finally arrived in the orbit of the gas giant Saturn. For over a decade, the mission has gathered unprecedented data on Saturn and its moons, and... |
Jupiter’s Formation in the Electric Universe | Space News July 8, 2017 by sschirott Today, physicist Wal Thornhill concludes his three-part presentation on the early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter. As previously noted, like countless other recent space discoveries, the mission findings are challenging not only long-held assumptions about Jupiter, but also consensus theories of planet and star... |
What’s Inside Jupiter? | Space News July 5, 2017 by sschirott In Part 1 of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill began his analysis of the extraordinary revelations from NASA’s Juno Mission to the gas giant Jupiter. Like every other recent space mission, what scientists are finding is not what they expected. In the previous episode, Thornhill focused on Jupiter’s remarkable, electrified... |
Peter Moddel: What Can Matter Be? | Space News July 1, 2017 by sschirott At the forthcoming Thunderbolts Project conference, EU2017 – Future Science, in Phoenix Arizona, experts from a variety of disciplines will present their unique contributions to the Electric Universe cosmology. More and more inquirers are exploring this cosmology to find solutions to lingering scientific puzzles, including such questions as what is... |
Garrett Hill: Electric Fields in Nature and the Lab | Space News June 28, 2017 by sschirott At the forthcoming The Thunderbolts Project Conference, EU2017 – Future Science in Phoenix, Arizona, experts in a variety of disciplines will present groundbreaking evidence for the role of electricity in nature. In the Electric Universe community, many contributors have come from a background in engineering, where applied technologies and industrial... |
Tornadoes – The Electric Model | Space News June 20, 2017 by sschirott The most violent type of weather storm on planet Earth is a tornado. Meteorologists tell us that the unstable air in a thunderstorm produces updrafts and downdrafts, which interacts with a wind shear to ultimately create a tornado vortex. But many scientists acknowledge that the exact processes that cause a... |
Invitation to the EU2017 Conference: Future Science June 17, 2017 by sschirott The EU2017 Conference: Future Science — Aug 17 – 20, Phoenix FUTURE SCIENCE: that’s the theme of our sixth annual conference, EU2017. But don’t confuse this theme with science fiction. Speakers will not be projecting popular ideas and mathematical contrivances into an imagined future. EU2017 will call for science minus... |
Donald Scott: New Evidence for Cosmic Birkeland Currents | Space News June 17, 2017 by sschirott On August 17, 2017, The Thunderbolts ProjectTM will begin its international event, EU2017 Conference: Future Science, in Phoenix, Arizona. At the conference, speakers from a variety of disciplines, including engineering, physics, mathematics, and the life sciences will present new, groundbreaking research on the role of electricity in nature. An important... |
Electric Jupiter and Its Many Surprises | Space News June 13, 2017 by sschirott Scientists working on NASA’s historic Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter have recently presented their early findings for the first time. Like so many other recent space missions, what they have discovered is not what they expected. As reported by Newscientist.com, “… the findings are already challenging assumptions about... |
More Big Problems for Big Bang | Space News June 6, 2017 by sschirott A recent Scientific American article aroused a letter of protest from some prominent cosmologists, including renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who dispute the article’s challenge to the Big Bang theory. In this episode, we explore the many theoretical problems for the Big Bang, and we highlight alternatives available in the Electric... |
JACQUELINE GREENFIELD: Startling New Frontiers | Thunderbolts Podcast June 3, 2017 by sschirott Avidly studying and seeking health applications for the work of Gerald Pollack, Jacqueline Greenfield hails from a diverse professional background of healthcare and science education. As she learned more about the Electric Universe theories, her passion to understand new frontiers of microbiology led her to also notice many parallels. In... |
Extreme Earthly Weather in an Electric Universe | Space News June 2, 2017 by sschirott In his previous Space News interview, Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall offered his insights on a new model for lightning on Earth, based on the understanding that our planet’s atmosphere is a giant electric circuit. While mainstream science certainly recognizes extraordinary electrical phenomena on Earth, the consensus notion is that mechanical... |
Asteroid’s Improbable Rings Still Mystify | Space News May 20, 2017 by sschirott Astronomers are still puzzling over the unprecedented discovery of an asteroid with its own ring system. The asteroid Chariklo, which is 250 kilometers in diameter, and orbits between Saturn and Uranus, displays two rings that are said to be similar in nature to those of Saturn. The leader of a... |
Nature’s Electrode | Space News May 16, 2017 by sschirott In this episode, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall explores the evidence that lightning is the product of the electromagnetic circuitry connecting the earth and the Sun. On planet Earth, the most obvious and dramatic display of electricity in nature is lightning. But what causes lightning? Although there currently is a consensus... |
The Filamentary Universe | Space News May 14, 2017 by sschirott According to a recent press release, “. . . supermassive black holes in a region of the distant universe are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction.” As Professor Romeel Dave from the University of the Western Cape wrote: “This is not obviously expected based on our current... |
Claim: Stone Carvings Reveal Comet Catastrophe | Space News May 9, 2017 by sschirott New scientific reports suggest that ancient stone carvings confirm that a great comet struck the earth over ten thousand years ago. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have studied the perplexing symbols carved on stone pillars at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. They have concluded that the markings in... |
The Thunderbolt and Electrically Scarred Mars | Space News May 2, 2017 by sschirott New scientific reports may provide insights into catastrophic events that once occurred on the planet Mars. Scientists at an observatory in Northern Ireland have conducted an analysis of nine asteroids that orbit Mars, called Trojans, and they have come to the conclusion that the asteroids are the remains of a... |
Electric Comets — The Evidence Grows | Space News April 29, 2017 by sschirott Dr. Franklin Anariba returns to offer his analysis on the Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2. In recent years, Dr. Anariba has developed concepts of electrochemical processes on comets which may account for much comet activity, including the production of comet water molecules. Recently, scientists have reported findings that may affirm these... |
Electric Dunes of Titan | Space News April 25, 2017 by sschirott New scientific reports are offering further confirmation of the importance of electrical processes in planetary geology. Scientists studying the mysterious sand dunes of the Saturnian moon Titan are reporting that electrostatic forces may play a significant role in configuring the dunes’ puzzling shapes. A Scientific American article reports the team’s... |
Catastrophism: A New History for Planet Earth | Space News April 22, 2017 by sschirott We have recently presented reports that challenge some of the bedrock beliefs about the history of our planet, our solar system, and the Universe as a whole. When it comes to our own world, the fundamental belief system shaping all of modern geology and astronomy is uniformitarianism or the notion... |
Plasma Jets and the Electric Earth | Space News April 18, 2017 by sschirott In this episode of Space News, Professor Donald Scott explains his own, original modeling of a Birkeland current’s structure, and he explores the significance of this new discovery from the Electric Universe perspective. In fact, in recent years, the term Birkeland current has appeared with increasing regularity in mainstream scientific... |
Stars: Electrically Connected and Externally Powered | Space News April 11, 2017 by sschirott In Part One of this presentation, Dr. Michael Clarage began his analysis of a recent landmark discovery which shows a “surprising” relationship between sunspots and solar flares. As Dr. Clarage explained, the discovery that solar flares seem to have a powerful influence on sunspots is highly problematic for standard solar... |
Could Dinosaurs Have Existed ‘Recently’? | Space News April 8, 2017 by sschirott In Part One of this presentation, author Ted Holden explored the evidence for fundamental differences in our world’s environment since the time when dinosaurs walked the earth. In Holden’s analysis, the most obvious explanation for the enormous size of the largest dinosaurs is that the earth’s gravity was once considerably... |
Cryovolcanoes or Electrical Discharges? | Space News April 4, 2017 by sschirott New scientific reports propose that volcanism on various bodies throughout the solar is more pervasive than scientists ever previously believed, supposedly occurring even on comets. One form of volcanism that scientists have proposed for icy moons and dwarf planets is cryovolcanism, or ice volcanoes. However, as we discuss in this... |
Twinkle, Twinkle Electric Star | Space News March 31, 2017 by sschirott In a recent Space News episode, we began the first of a series of reports that challenge the very underpinnings of consensus scientific theories about the nature of stars, including our own Sun. Ever finer technological data continues to provide increasing opportunities to test the respective predictions of the Electric... |
Do Impacts Really Cause Mass Extinctions? | Space News March 31, 2017 by sschirott For decades, many scientists have believed that asteroid bombardments, such as that which is thought to have killed the dinosaurs, occur on our planet at regular intervals of about every 26 million years. A popular theory was that a dim companion star called Nemesis would approach our Sun at 26... |
Solar Flares’ Shocking Influence on Sunspots | Space News March 25, 2017 by sschirott In the past, we have reported on many recent discoveries that call into question the foundational theories about our sun, and all stars. For the better part of a century, institutional science has told us that stars are powered by nuclear fusion at their cores. However, on our own Sun,... |
Do Dinosaurs Pose a Gravity Problem? | Space News March 21, 2017 by sschirott In today’s episode, we ask author Ted Holden (“Cosmos in Collision”) to explore the controversial question: Do dinosaurs pose a gravity problem? Scientists tell us that for about 165 million years on planet Earth, fantastic and often giant creatures called dinosaurs ruled our world. Of course, the largest of the... |
Another “Impossible” Neutron Star | Space News March 18, 2017 by sschirott What is a so-called neutron star? Scientists tell us that the material left over from a supernova explosion of a massive star collapses gravitationally, forming an incredibly small yet massively dense star mostly composed of tightly packed neutrons. A rotating neutron star is said to emit regular pulses of radio... |
Comet 67P’s Dunes Continue to Mystify | Space News March 14, 2017 by sschirott The ESA’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P has shattered consensus theories about the origin and nature of comets. One of the most surprising discoveries was the appearance of “sand dunes” on the comet nucleus — a planetary feature that has no business on a body with insufficient atmosphere to produce... |
Global Warming and Our Electric Sun | Space News March 11, 2017 by sschirott In Part One of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill explored the many obstacles that institutional science and academia face in attempting to understand climate change on Earth. As Thornhill explained, no climate models can succeed that rely on outdated and unproven assumptions, such as the belief that Earth and Venus... |
Global Warming in a Climate of Ignorance | Space News March 4, 2017 by sschirott It’s one of the greatest controversies in modern times: the question of whether human activity is the cause of changes in Earth’s climate. Today, we are told that institutional science and academia unite in consensus that the hypothesis of manmade global warming is no longer a hypothesis, but a science... |
Electric Sun, Electric Volcanoes | Space News February 28, 2017 by sschirott In Part One of this presentation, Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall explored the role of electrical discharges in Earthly volcanism. Hall compared the physical characteristics of volcanic fields, called the Maars of Pinacate, with strikingly similar features on the Moon, and found in both evidence for high-energy electrical discharges. In this... |
Kongpop U-yen: A Natural Disaster Forecasting Technique Based on Space Weather Data | EU2016 February 25, 2017 by sschirott A natural disaster forecasting technique was presented by Dr. Kongpop U-yen. It is based on the understanding of physical and electrical interactions between Earth and its surrounding space. Using this technique, natural disasters, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and storm formations, can be forecasted. Several practical case studies will be presented... |
Gravity in the Electric Universe | Space News February 21, 2017 by sschirott Where does gravity fit in the electric universe? Contrary to a fairly common misperception, the electric universe does not deny gravity’s existence, nor its role in the cosmos and our own world. Rather, the electric universe theory, as proposed by physicist Wal Thornhill, suggests that the fundamental mysteries of gravity... |
Ev Cochrane: Turquoise Skies — Echoes of Creation | EU2016 February 18, 2017 by sschirott Ev Cochrane offered a systematic analysis of the earliest pictographs of ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica in order to document a universal tradition of a “green” or turquoise-colored sun in former times. The evidence showed that the Turquoise Sun stood at the very heart of ancient accounts of Creation. If such... |
Electrical Volcanoes | Space News February 14, 2017 by sschirott In previous Space News episodes, Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall presented his groundbreaking thesis on new aspects of Electric Universe geology. In his arc blast theory, Hall has attempted to explain the formation of mountains and other features on earth through the principles of plasma physics and electrical engineering. In this... |
Life-like Plasma and Ball Lightning? | Electricity of Life February 11, 2017 by sschirott From Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania and elsewhere, these scientists would like to highlight the life-like traits of anode tufts. As discussed briefly in the Newscientist, their research team even thinks that such plasma phenomena were a vector for patterns we associate with the earliest forms of life. Don’t... |
Forecast Gets Darker for Dark Matter | Space News February 7, 2017 by sschirott In this episode, physicist Eugene Bagashov analyzes additional recent studies that raise even further doubt of the dark matter hypothesis, and he explores the growing scientific case for dark matter alternatives. In a recent Space News episode, we reported on two 2016 scientific studies that each serve potentially fatal blows... |
Plasmoids are the Power | Space News February 4, 2017 by sschirott Mainstream astrophysics tells us that more than 95% of all galaxies are home to one or more black holes — regions of space where matter said is to be collapsed to “near infinite density.” However, there is no experiment that can provide evidence for matter collapsed to “near infinite density”.... |
Mysterious Sounds from Space | Space News January 31, 2017 by sschirott In this episode, we explore the causes of such mysterious sounds, which originate from the Earth/Sun electrical connection. Observers of the spectacular Northern Lights are offering new testimony on the amazing sounds produced from electromagnetic phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Witnesses in Sweden reported hearing sounds similar to so-called laser... |
Eugene Bagashov: ‘Elec-centricities’ of Cometary Orbits | EU2016 January 28, 2017 by sschirott The electric comet is one of the key areas of the scope of Electric Universe ideas that might have a significant impact on science. In order to develop the theory further, there is a need to study various parameters of the cometary population of the Solar System. What is the... |
Ben Davidson: Disaster Prediction | Space News January 24, 2017 by sschirott A scientific case is now being made for the role of solar activity and changes in the Earth’s geomagnetic environment in earthquakes and other natural disasters. If solar activity and other factors do contribute to earthquakes, then one of the most important question scientists can ask is, can the likelihood... |
Dark Matter Falsified — Again? | Space News January 22, 2017 by sschirott 2016 may be remembered as the year that the hypothesis of dark matter was finally, officially falsified. Two recent scientific studies report findings that may raise fatal objections to dark matter’s existence. In the first of this two-part episode, our guest Barry Setterfield begins our analysis with an overview of... |
A Model of Crystal Abiogenesis | Electricity of Life January 18, 2017 by sschirott Here is a little-discussed idea about the origins of physical life. It hails from an esteemed electrophysiologist who truly explored the far-reaching parameters of bioelectrics in his exciting multidisciplinary career. With this accessible presentation of his theory, let’s broaden our thoughts on how the chemicals & forces on a planet... |
Andrew Hall: The Arc-Blasted Earth | EU2016 January 14, 2017 by sschirott In a well-received presentation, Andrew Hall showed the audience a new geological idea about mountain formation based on the Electric Universe model. His new concept includes the following: 1) Triangular buttresses form on the sides of mountains in the shape of reflected supersonic shock waves. 2) They are layered onto... |
Happy 2017, Electric Universe! | Space News January 11, 2017 by sschirott 2016 was another exciting year in space discovery. Like every other year in recent memory, major surprises dominated science headlines, from the detection of X-rays from Pluto to the possible falsification of the hypothesis of dark matter. However, science media also declared some victories for the standard cosmology, most notably... |
Ben Davidson: The Path Forward Is Clear | EU2016 January 6, 2017 by sschirott From an obscure and outlandish idea has come the driving force behind much of the discovery in modern science. Electricity, electromagnetism, electrostatic forces – these are the under appreciated elements of our universe, underpinning the interactions and phenomena we are yet to fully understand. Puzzling observations that confound modern understanding... |
Shockingly Powerful Lightning on Earth | Space News December 31, 2016 by sschirott A new scientific paper suggests that lightning on Earth may be vastly more powerful than conventional science has ever suggested. Investigators sought to answer how much energy is in a terrestrial bolt of lightning through the study of fulgurites, which are hollow glass tubes that form when lightning strikes soil,... |
Impact Craters vs. Electrical Discharge Craters | Space News December 27, 2016 by sschirott The Electric Universe theory has laid the foundations for an entirely new understanding of planetary geology. For decades, experimentalists using electrical discharges have reproduced many familiar geological features, including types of crater forms that have long proved puzzling to standard geology. These experiments may provide clues to past events that... |
Michael Clarage: SAFIRE as Astrophysical Laboratory | EU2016 December 24, 2016 by sschirott The SAFIRE chamber is a tool to understand how electricity manifests in solar systems. Sometimes we will start with something observed in nature, “out there”, then see if we can replicate that in the chamber. At other times we will take what we are seeing in the chamber to guide... |
HANNES TAGER: History of the Electric Comet Theory | Thunderbolts Podcast December 20, 2016 by sschirott Our guest today is Dr. Hannes Tager, who has done significant historical research into the origins and the evolution of the electrical concepts of comets, going back hundreds of years. Hannes’ investigation has not only revealed remarkable facts on the origins of the electric comet theory, but it offers insights... |
Remembering the American Hero John Glenn December 18, 2016 by sschirott On December 8, 2016, the American astronaut-hero John Glenn died. The occasion drew international attention not just to a remarkable personality but a life lived with determination, infectious optimism, and devotion to service. Long before his death at age 95, Glenn had not just fulfilled his childhood dreams, but left... |
Starburst Galaxy Surprises Astronomers | Space News December 14, 2016 by sschirott According to a recent press release, galaxy NGC 1222 is a “peculiar example” of lenticular galaxy. It is peculiar because lenticular galaxies are supposed to have used up the material available for new stars to form. NGC 1222, on the other hand, is described as a “starburst” galaxy, since new... |
Electric Arcs on Jupiter’s Moon Io | Space News December 6, 2016 by sschirott Planetary scientists tell us that Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Yet world-renowned scientists, including astrophysicist Thomas Gold and plasma physicist Anthony Peratt, proposed decades ago that Io’s so-called volcanic plumes are actually focused, high-energy electrical discharges. In this episode of Space News,... |
Wal Thornhill: Stars in an Electric Universe | NPA/EU 2011 December 3, 2016 by sschirott In this John Chappell Memorial Lecture, Wal Thornhill sets forth a unified paradigm where plasma is the dominant, universal medium and the electric force rules the cosmos. Wal’s message to conventional theorists is simple and direct: give up all mathematical contrivances and return to the solid ground of observation, deduction,... |
Water on Asteroid Baffles Astronomers | Space News November 29, 2016 by sschirott Scientists today are expressing their astonishment over the detection of water-deposits on an asteroid that is thought to be pure metal. The asteroid is called 16 Psyche, and it’s described as the largest metallic asteroid in the solar system. In previous episodes, Dr. Franklin Anariba has proposed that electrochemical processes... |
Cosmological Redshift – How Old and Far Away? | Space News November 26, 2016 by sschirott This episode of Space News is an adaptation of the Stephen Smith TPOD, “Old and Far Away,” published October 27, 2016 on Thunderbolts.info. As Steve writes, “High redshift objects, like quasars, are often found in axial alignment with galaxies that possess substantially lower redshift. Indeed, they are sometimes connected to... |
Tom Wilson: Ptolemy, Belief Systems, and Other Dark Matters | EU 2016 November 23, 2016 by sschirott Tom Wilson examined the geocentric Ptolemaic system as a case study for the dynamics of belief systems and certainty, and also analyzed some interesting philosophical parallels between the old and the new, Ptolemy and Gravity, quintessence and dark matter. For well over 1000 years, the Ptolemaic cosmological system held sway... |
What is the Speed of Gravity? | Space News November 16, 2016 by sschirott Quantum experiments have long demonstrated that subatomic particles somehow “know” about each other instantly, and at great distances. Institutional science utilizes terms such as quantum entanglement and spooky action to describe the phenomena. But the Electric Universe theory offers a very different perspective. The speed of light limit to communication... |
Remembering the End of the World (Full Documentary) November 11, 2016 by sschirott Produced in 1996, Remembering the End of the World was the first documentary covering David Talbott’s labors to reconstruct celestial events in ancient times. The Ben Ged Low film traces Talbott’s work back to its beginning in the early 70s. By following an original inspiration in the work of Immanuel... |
Pluto’s Mysterious Moons | Space News November 8, 2016 by sschirott Physicist Eugene Bagashov concludes his presentation on the most compelling findings to date of NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. In this fourth and final episode, Eugene shifts his focus to the Plutonian system’s mysterious moons. The surprisingly chaotic system has been characterized as “pandemonium,” and the... |
Scientific Studies of Cosmic Effects on the Heart | Electricity of Life November 5, 2016 by sschirott Let’s take a further look at the link between geomagnetic perturbation and heart-rate variability, briefly mentioned in the previous video. Here is a glance at a few of the different types of experiments building off of each other in the research community, contributing to the global scientific knowledge pool on... |
Pluto’s X-Rays Baffle Scientists | Space News November 1, 2016 by sschirott In Part 3 of this four-part presentation, physicist Eugene Bagashov continues his analysis of the New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. In the Plutonian system, one of the great surprises for planetary scientists was the Chandra observatory’s detection of X-rays from Pluto. This is only one of several... |
CJ Ransom: Close Encounter of the Star Kind and The Conehead Connection | EU2015 November 1, 2016 by sschirott The idea of uniformity was used to support the claim that mythology was only created in the minds of the writers. Dr. Ransom will take the audience on a short journey through these ideas. He does not endorse any particular scientist’s theory about collisions but demonstrates that it is now... |
New Lunar Craters Mystery | Space News October 26, 2016 by sschirott New scientific reports are once again forcing planetary scientists to rewrite the history of our own moon. A new study into the lunar surface contradicts the notion that cratering on the moon occurs incrementally over vast eons of time. A team of scientists studied several thousands of before and after... |
Pluto’s Origins in the Electric Universe | Space News October 22, 2016 by sschirott Physicist Eugene Bagashov explores the question of Pluto’s composition and origins and contrasts the predictions of the standard theory versus those of the Electric Universe. In the previous episode, he began his four-part presentation on the latest discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. The mission... |
Pluto Grows More Mysterious | Space News October 19, 2016 by sschirott NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto has provided scientists on Earth with countless puzzles and mysteries. From impossible “sand dunes,” which were never expected on the tiny planet’s frozen surface, to equally unexpected giant mountains, to a surprising absence of so-called impact craters, and selective regional cratering,... |
Alexander Fournier: Electricity of Life | EU2016 October 15, 2016 by sschirott There is a truly staggering complexity to reality. Yet the case can also be made for a fresh view of organic lifeforms that is in some ways elegantly simple. Learn to see organic life with new eyes. Through a ground-up view of lifeforms that emphasizes their electrical organizing physics and... |
Donald Scott: Electric Solar Wind | EU2016 October 11, 2016 by sschirott The stream of particles radiating from the Sun is called the ‘Solar Wind’. It is observed to exhibit two different forms: the fast solar wind and the slow solar wind. In this talk, Dr. Donald Scott presents his new interpretation of the reasons why the densities and velocities of these... |
The Sun’s Influence on Consciousness | Electricity of Life October 4, 2016 by sschirott Alexander Chizevsky was likely the first to catalog a cyclical relationship between solar activity and cultural “upsets” or advancements. Outbursts of both creative or destructive excitement, depending on the socio-cultural conditions which had been building, appeared to facilitate artistic revolutions and bloody revolutions from tyranny alike. This episode introduces the... |
Are the Dominoes Falling for Standard Cosmology? | Space News September 30, 2016 by sschirott Science headlines today show signs that elements of the electric universe paradigm are becoming increasingly mainstream. With leaps in technology and data have come the definitive refutation of the notion of an electrically sterile universe. However, the basic premise of a cosmos dominated by the gravitational force remains the backbone... |
EILEEN MCKUSICK: Biofield Science in the Electric Universe | Thunderbolts Podcast September 25, 2016 by sschirott Eileen Day McKusick is the originator of an innovative therapeutic method called Biofield Tuning. This practice is based on the concept that the body is surrounded by a “bio-magnetic field” which produces sound waves. These sound waves can act as indicators of physical dysfunction, injury or illness. Today Eileen shares... |
Wallace Thornhill: The Elegant Simplicity of the Electric Universe | EU2016 September 20, 2016 by sschirott The Electric Universe is simple to understand—simple enough to begin teaching it in primary school, according to Wal Thornhill. In his Keynote presentation at EU2016, Wal applied “the test of simplicity” to popular ideas in astronomy. How well do these ideas fare by comparison to the Electric Universe paradigm? Progress... |
Mysterious Outburst from Comet 67P | Space News September 19, 2016 by sschirott New scientific reports are describing a surprising outburst of activity from the comet 67P, measured by instruments on the European Space Agency Rosetta probe in February of this year. The explanation that ESA investigators have offered is “we think the outburst must have been triggered by a landslide at the... |
Juno Arrives at Electric Jupiter | Space News September 13, 2016 by sschirott In this episode, physicist Wal Thornhill begins his analysis of the Juno mission with a comprehensive juxtaposition of the electric universe theory of planet and star formation, versus that of institutional science. NASA’s Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter is again putting to the test the standard theory of... |
How Does the Sun Work? | Space News September 7, 2016 by sschirott For the better part of a century, the scientific consensus has been that a nuclear reaction within the Sun causes the Sun’s light, heat, and radiation. But rather than confirming this model, modern space discovery has only provided seemingly endless riddles and anomalies. Nevertheless, today, institutional science gives no indication... |
Mindfulness of Microbial Electronics | Electricity of Life September 7, 2016 by sschirott This Electricity of Life episode points out the range of interactions microscopic lifeforms have with physical matter, which goes beyond our normal schemas for what constitute “critical biological necessities.” Alex also hopes to assist the viewer in visualizing this tiny scale of our familiar world. SUPPORT OUR PATREON CAMPAIGN: “Changing... |
Sungrazing Comets and CME’s | Space News August 31, 2016 by sschirott On August 1st, 2016, NASA’s SOHO satellite spotted a comet from the so-called Kreutz family, a collection of comets that scientists believe broke off from a giant comet centuries ago. The sungrazing comet met its demise on August 3rd and 4th, and subsequent news reports have remarked on a so-called... |
A New Way of Seeing the Solar System | Space News August 26, 2016 by sschirott In Part One of this presentation, Dr. Michael Clarage, a scientist on the SAFIRE Project team, proposed an entirely new way of seeing our solar system, based on the principles of electrical engineering. In Part Two, Dr. Clarage further elaborates the idea of the solar system as a center-core electrical... |
Solar System as an Electrical Transformer | Space News August 23, 2016 by sschirott Of the many mysteries we’ve explored on this series, perhaps those in our own celestial neighborhood stand out the greatest. From consistently surprising atmospheric phenomena on planets, including the Earth, to the enigmatic behaviors of comets, to the ongoing puzzles of the Sun, the evidence for the electrical connectedness throughout... |
BEN DAVIDSON: Promising Electric Universe Investigations | Thunderbolts Podcast August 20, 2016 by sschirott At the EU2016 conference in Phoenix, Arizona, members of the Electric Universe community joined to explore new paths of discovery. A featured speaker at the conference was Ben Davidson, the founder of the online research community, Suspicious0bservers, which primarily focuses on space weather, including the Earth/Sun connection. Recently, Ben co-authored... |
In Memoriam: Dwardu Cardona August 10, 2016 by sschirott Some of you reading this will have already heard of the passing of Dwardu Cardona on July 27. Many of us were aware of Dwardu’s illness, but somehow we imagined things just continuing as they have for so many years. The Electric Universe community has lost one of its most... |
The Missing Ceres Craters Mystery | Space News August 9, 2016 by sschirott Scientists studying the surface features of the dwarf planet Ceres are proposing a new theory for its geologic history. One problem facing NASA investigators is the absence of exceptionally large so-called impact basins from collisions, which planetary scientists believe must have occurred over the dwarf planet’s supposedly ancient geologic age.... |
Electric Winds on Electric Worlds, Part 2 | Space News August 6, 2016 by sschirott A new scientific study provides powerful testimony to the extraordinary influences of electrical forces at the planetary scale. An electric wind recently measured at the planet Venus is said to be sufficiently strong that it can strip an entire planet of all its water components. The co-author of the study,... |
Electric Asteroid’s Dust Emissions | Space News August 3, 2016 by sschirott This month on Space News, we reported on a recent study that confirms electrostatic dust transportation occurs on airless bodies in space, including comets, asteroids and moons. Nevertheless, few astronomers today consider electrical effects on comets or asteroids when attempting to explain the still mysterious behaviors of these bodies. This... |
Electric Winds on Electric Worlds, Part 1 | Space News July 27, 2016 by sschirott A new scientific study provides powerful testimony to the extraordinary influences of electrical forces at the planetary scale. An electric wind recently measured at the planet Venus is said to be sufficiently strong that it can strip an entire planet of all its water components. The co-author of the study,... |
Lightning-Generated Minerals on Mars | Space News July 23, 2016 by sschirott New discoveries today are forcing planetary scientists to consider completely rewriting the history of the planet Mars. NASA scientists today are expressing their amazement over the completely unexpected discovery of a mineral in a Martian crater. Within the Marias Pass region of Gale Crater, a Mars rover has discovered a mineral... |
DAVID TALBOTT: Stickman on Stone | Thunderbolts Podcast July 19, 2016 by sschirott Evidence gathered from around the world has made abundantly clear that intense electrical activity above observers on earth was the subject of massive collective endeavors to record the forms on stone. Especially compelling is the rock art theme called the “stickman.” In the illustrations above, a well-documented electric discharge form... |
Confirmed: Electrical Dust Transport in Space | Space News July 15, 2016 by sschirott In an electric universe, all bodies that move within the Sun’s electrical influence are charged bodies. Electric fields produce ionic winds on planets, moons, and even comets, which can transport dust material more efficiently than mechanical wind. A new paper from NASA-funded scientists affirms this tenet of Electric Universe concept.... |
Montgomery Childs: SAFIRE Project Update | EU2016 July 6, 2016 by sschirott Building on the past year of experimentation and analysis, the SAFIRE Project is moving into Phase 2, which takes the lessons from the Phase 1 Proof of Concept Prototype into a much larger chamber. Phase 1 ended on a cliff-hanger with indications of fusion and transient million-fold CME-like eruptions. Monty... |
What is Time? | Space News July 2, 2016 by sschirott Modern cosmology fuses the concepts of space and time into a thing, called a four-dimensional continuum. Albert Einstein predicted and recently scientists have claimed to observe ripples in the so-called fabric of space-time. But is it valid to define time in such a way as to reify it, and does... |
Electric Stars, Electric Universe | Space News June 28, 2016 by sschirott The fundamental difference between the Electric Universe and standard cosmology can probably be summarized as follows: The electric universe is a connected universe, where nothing is born or exists in isolation. Filamentary networks of electric currents pervade space, producing the magnetic fields that are now detected at virtually all scales... |
Bees and Electric Charge | Electricity of Life June 25, 2016 by sschirott An easy-to-follow video by Alex Fournier discussing new views from modern biology of the electrical interactions between bees and flowers. For both the pollen-harvesting process and the efficiency of foraging behavior, static electricity makes a bee’s life easier. SUPPORT US ON PATREON AND WATCH OUR INFLUENCE GROW: “Changing the world... |
DAVID TALBOTT: Backbone of the Sky | Thunderbolts Podcast June 23, 2016 by sschirott Recent episodes of Space News from the Electric Universe have provided a groundbreaking foundation for a new beginning In the previous podcast, David Talbott, the director of the Thunderbolts Project, began his discussion of his working relationship with one of the world’s leading experts on space plasma, renowned plasma physicist... |
An Electrical Engineer’s Take on “Magnetic Reconnection” | Space News June 7, 2016 by sschirott On the Sun, conventional science says that magnetic field lines move or merge, and frequently break and reconnect. This is called magnetic reconnection, a mechanism that many solar physicists claim to be responsible for enormous, energetic solar outbursts. Recently, scientists using data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft have published a... |
Magnetic Reconnection-No, Electrified Plasma-Yes | Space News June 3, 2016 by sschirott A recent NASA press release describes the so-called direct observation of a process called “magnetic reconnection.” A total of four spacecraft, which NASA’s calls the Magnetospheric Multiscale, have made several thousand trips through Earth’s magnetic field. In a new scientific paper, mission scientists report the first observation inside a so-called... |
Extraordinary Evidence of EU Geology | Space News June 3, 2016 by sschirott Recent episodes of Space News from the Electric Universe have provided a groundbreaking foundation for a new beginning in Earth geology. Thunderbolts contributor Andrew Hall has introduced his hypothesis for the formation of familiar geological features, not from incremental processes over eons of time, but rather, due to high-energy electrical... |
Confirmed – Mars Plumes are Electric | Space News May 27, 2016 by sschirott In 2015, Space News From the Electric Universe reported on a so-called baffling mystery on the planet Mars. Science news headlines reported on seemingly inexplicable plumes which amateur astronomers spotted rising hundreds of kilometers above the surface of Mars. Recently, a team of scientists using data from the Mars Express... |
The Arc Blasted Earth | Space News May 24, 2016 by sschirott In the recent Space News episode, Electric Universe Geology: A New Beginning, Thunderbolts contributor Andy Hall began the laying the foundations for new, revolutionary concepts in Earth geology. Hall introduced his hypothesis based on the principles of plasma physics and electrical engineering for the formation of mountains and other landforms... |
Wallace Thornhill: The Long Path to Understanding Gravity | EU2015 May 20, 2016 by sschirott In this talk at the EU2015 conference, Wal Thornhill takes us on a forty-year personal journey to understand the role of gravity in the Electric Universe. In the theoretical sciences, it is commonly assumed that the role of gravity is settled. But as Richard Feynman observed, “There is no model... |
Eugene Bagashov: ‘Elec-centricities’ of Cometary Orbits | EU2016 Preview May 20, 2016 by sschirott At the forthcoming EU2016 Conference: Elegant Simplicity, June 17 – 19 in Phoenix, Arizona, physicist Eugene Bagashov will present a new analysis of cometary orbits that may provide further support to the electric comet hypothesis. In recent years, some of the most intriguing and surprising discoveries in the space sciences... |
More Baffling Pluto Geology | Space News May 19, 2016 by sschirott A spectacular recently released image of the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto is yet again sending planetary scientists back to the drawing board. In the informally named Vega Terra region is a dramatic field of craters with bright rims and blackened floors. Investigators with NASA’s New Horizons team have... |
Breakthrough – Meteorite Formed From Planet | Space News May 14, 2016 by sschirott For many decades, scientists have believed that meteorites, as well as comets and asteroids, are the so-called leftovers from the solar system’s formation. Meteorites have long been thought to have formed in a primordial dust cloud billions of years ago. Nevertheless, a recent scientific paper proposes that a meteorite was violently... |
Electric Universe Geology: A New Beginning | Space News May 12, 2016 by sschirott Earth geology is primarily a study of incremental processes over eons of time. Volcanoes, earthquakes, weathering and erosion are the forces that geologists theorize as having shaped our planet’s land forms and surfaces. But the Electric Universe is opening new theoretical pathways for understanding our Earth, and all planets and... |
Michael Armstrong: The ‘Culture Shock’ of Planetary Catastrophe | EU2015 talk May 11, 2016 by sschirott The two most prominent themes in Electric Universe research are the growing knowledge of the role played by the electric force in nature, from microcosm to macrocosm and the global impact of ancient planetary catastrophe on humankind, affecting every culture on earth. In this presentation, Michael Armstrong will review the... |
DAVID TALBOTT: Carved on Stone — New Light on the Electric Universe | Thunderbolts Podcast May 6, 2016 by sschirott For several years, The Thunderbolts Project has been continuously developing new relationships with scientists in varieties of disciplines. Of all these relationships, one stands out as the most significant and the most telling. Significant in terms of the new understanding this person brought to the scientific issues, and telling in... |
Ben Davidson: The Sun/Earthquake Connection | Space News May 5, 2016 by sschirott The question of the Sun’s possible role in triggering large earthquakes is a subject of growing scientific interest. For decades, some have noted apparent correlations between dramatic solar phenomena and seismic activity. Yet definitive scientific proof of a connection has remained elusive. Recently, the founder of Suspicious0bservers, Ben Davidson, and... |
Michael Clarage: SAFIRE and the Electric Sun Model | EU2015 May 3, 2016 by sschirott SAFIRE is an experiment to explore possible electrical attributes of the Sun. Though there are thousands of papers published every year about our Sun, making a direct connection between satellite data and a small chamber in a laboratory is extremely difficult. Michael will help us understand why a profusion of... |
Oops! Universe Expanding “Too Quickly” | Space News April 27, 2016 by sschirott As Wal Thornhill explains, the standard cosmology’s increasingly strange interpretations and conjectures become unnecessary in an Electric Universe. Conventional science tell us that mysterious dark energy makes up 73% of the total mass and energy in the Universe. The concept of dark energy was invented in the 1990’s, when scientists... |
Paul Anderson: Statistics To Save Us From Data Overload | EU2015 April 25, 2016 by sschirott The amount of data collected from the Sun is overwhelming. The amount of data potentially collected from the SAFIRE Project will also be overwhelming unless clever ways are found to slice through the many factors and quickly find those that most directly create the analogs to solar physics. “Why does... |
Historical Foundations for an Electric Universe | Space News April 23, 2016 by sschirott In this Space News episode, Thunderbolts colleague Bishop Nicholas Sykes explores the foundations that early experimentalists laid for the Electric Universe theory of today. Throughout our culture, certain figures stand as iconic symbols of scientific genius. Long after their lives have ended, the respective works of these icons continue to... |
Mass Extinctions in the Electric Universe | Space News April 21, 2016 by sschirott A recently published scientific paper is creating a firestorm of media coverage around the world. The paper’s lead author, Daniel Whitmire, proposes that the hypothesized Planet X, a never-discovered body believed by some to exist in the outer solar system, is responsible for mass extinctions on Earth approximately every 27... |
Comet Siding Spring: Electrical Chaos on Mars | Space News April 18, 2016 by sschirott New scientific reports are providing spectacular details on the Comet Siding Spring’s close encounter with the planet Mars. According to NASA investigators, the effects of the encounter on the Martian magnetosphere were as dramatic as they were surprising. In October of 2014, the comet passed within 87,000 miles of the... |
DNA in the Electric Universe | Electricity of Life April 15, 2016 by sschirott As we will reiterate in this video, the cosmos we inhabit is filled with electromagnetic principals at all scales of life. We all know what DNA is, right? Well, you’d be surprised. Not only do chromosomes conduct electrons to various effects, they also exist at a layer of reality which... |
The Comet Venus — Past and Present | Space News April 13, 2016 by sschirott The planet Venus presents many unresolved mysteries to planetary scientists. However, equally mysterious is Venus’ extraordinary role in the world’s ancient astronomies. In this Space News episode, we explore the remarkable electrical environment of Venus today and the evidence for its dramatic impact on human history. JOIN US ON PATREON... |
Cj Ransom: Surprising Solar System | EU2015 April 11, 2016 by sschirott In 1950, it was expected that space probes would confirm existing concepts about the origin of the solar system, the atmospheres and surfaces of planets as well as the space between the planets. Instead, the subsequent reports announced “surprises,” “unexpected findings,” and things “not well understood.” Numerous examples will be... |
Exposing the Myth of Gravitational Lensing | Space News April 9, 2016 by sschirott A principle of modern cosmology is that so-called space-time is a physically real entity. In Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, light will follow the so-called curvature of space time. For decades, astronomers have claimed to observe the bending of light passing around massive objects, an effect called gravitational lensing.... |
Blue Jet Above the Electric Earth | Space News April 6, 2016 by sschirott For the first time ever, an image has been captured of an elusive electrical phenomenon above the Earth. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station imaged a kind of electrical discharge in the upper atmosphere known as a blue jet. In this Space News, we explore why this type of... |
AP David: The Metaphysics of Michael Faraday | EU2015 April 4, 2016 by sschirott Faraday is best known as one of the great experimentalists. Although he corresponded lucidly with James Clerk Maxwell, he was notoriously suspicious of the use of mathematics in physics. But in a couple of brief papers, Faraday took on what could be called ‘metaphysics’. The term, which came from a... |
Comets as Water Factories | Space News April 2, 2016 by sschirott In a recent 5-part video compilation, Dr. Franklin Anariba, a specialist in electrochemistry, offered his extensive analysis of several papers from the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P. Among the findings Dr. Anariba discussed was the discovery of electric fields and fast moving electrons close to the comet nucleus, and the... |
Theoretical Alternatives in an Electric Universe | Space News March 30, 2016 by sschirott In the 20th century, institutionalized science embraced the concept of a Universe dominated by invisible forces and entities. We are told that at the core of every large galaxy is a supermassive black hole, a region which is said to have such an intense gravitational field that nothing can escape,... |
Gary Schwartz: Extraordinary Ideas and Evidence — The Five-Finger Test | EU2015 March 28, 2016 by sschirott It seems that almost everyone today holds claim to a secret idea or “new theory.” But when is a theoretical novelty really worth exploring? Many aspiring innovators feel they have been unfairly ignored or cheated in some way, and no doubt one could find many instances justifying this perception. But... |
RICHARD MOORE: Pulsating Universe and Planet Earth | Thunderbolts Podcast March 23, 2016 by sschirott Guest Richard Moore (author, “Escaping the Matrix”) discuss his thesis that climate change on Earth is a natural phenomenon resulting from semi-regular “pulses” of electromagnetic energy from the galactic core. Richard Moore received a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1964, with distinction, and then spent thirty years in... |
Eugene Bagashov: Creator’s Second Hand | EU2015 March 21, 2016 by sschirott This presentation is dedicated by Eugene to the late, great Dr. Pavel Mantashyan, who died last week just prior to his 65th birthday. The observed movements in the Universe cannot be created with only the gravitational force: there should necessarily be a force acting orthogonal to it. It is this... |
Magnetoreception Mysteries | Electricity of Life March 18, 2016 by sschirott Continuing an inquiry into the electromagnetic sensitivity of various organisms, we take an accessible look at the biology involved. We consider some interactions with EMF from the scale of cow herds down to the nucleotides of DNA. Extensive resources are listed in the YouTube text box. JOIN US ON PATREON... |
Dwardu Cardona: Order Out of Chaos | EU2015 March 15, 2016 by sschirott Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dwardu Cardona could not attend the conference and Wal Thornhill gave his presentation. During this talk, it will be demonstrated that what became known as the Creation of what was said to be the world did not proceed out of nothing, but out of a pre-existing... |
Arthur Ramthun: Plant Electrotropism | EU2015 March 9, 2016 by sschirott Plant electrotropism is plant response to natural internal and external electrical forces. Voltage recordings done on a variety of trees and plants show very large numbers of electrons continuously flowing towards branch tips, with or without leaves. Using voltage recordings, ohm measurements, the strength of Earth’s electric field from references,... |
TOM WILSON: Change Parable | Thunderbolts Podcast March 7, 2016 by sschirott Thunderbolts colleague Dr. Tom Wilson addresses some of the responses to the most viewed episode to date of Space News from the Electric Universe, entitled “Impossible Neutron Star Shatters Theory” through an entertaining parable about change. This Space News has garnered close to 200,000 views in 18 months. JOIN US... |
Andreas Otte: Plasma Catastrophist Geology | EU2015 March 2, 2016 by sschirott Due to Illness, the late Michael Steinbacher could not present at the EU2015 conference. Andreas Otte gave the presentation Michael had intended to present. For several years, Michael Steinbacher has studied the geological formations of the American Southwest in the field. He has compared the standard explanations and alternative explanations... |
The Invention of the Neutron Star | Space News February 29, 2016 by sschirott What is a neutron star? Standard Model scientists tell us that the material leftover from a supernova explosion of a massive star collapses gravitationally, forming a very a small and incredibly dense star mostly composed of tightly packed neutrons. Supposedly, a rotating neutron star will emit regular pulses of radio... |
The Electromagnetic Sense | Electricity of Life February 25, 2016 by sschirott Part 1 of our exploration of the awareness organisms have of the electromagnetic forces in their environment. Starting with our own species, we will examine some experiments in bioelectromagnetics which will likely come as a surprise to most viewers. This episode will focus on behavioral research, while part 2 will... |
Ben Davidson: An Introduction to Earthspots | EU2015 February 24, 2016 by sschirott The sun has sunspots. The earth has earthspots. The two systems are not merely similar, but nearly identical. The physical and energetic characteristics of each of these phenomena suggest a deeper, electrical connection between the earth and sun. Tropical storms, tornadoes, atmospheric pressure, earthquakes, volcanoes – all are related to... |
HILTON RATCLIFFE: “Discovery” of Gravitational Waves | Thunderbolts Podcast February 23, 2016 by sschirott On February 19, 2016, The Thunderbolts Project posted the much-anticipated analysis of its chief science advisor, Wal Thornhill, on the purported discovery of gravitational waves. Within science media and the popular press, there has been very little if any skepticism of this so-called discovery. Given the mathematical and technical complexities... |
Wal Thornhill: An Examination of “Gravitational Waves” | Space News February 19, 2016 by sschirott On February 11, 2016, a team of scientists announced the “discovery” of gravitational waves, or so-called ripples in space/time. Science media have proclaimed the purported discovery a confirmation of a prediction of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. In this Space News, physicist Wal Thornhill begins our coverage of the issue... |
Ev Cochrane: Planetary Catastrophe, Ancient Myths & Modern Science | EU2015 February 15, 2016 by sschirott The preponderance of evidence from the earliest written texts testifies to a radically different solar system in relatively recent times. In fact, it is possible to document that globally attested traditions of previous World Ages, lost “suns,” and planetary-induced catastrophes typically follow a consistent pattern and time-line, an impossibility if... |
Impossible Quasars Shatter Theory | Space News February 13, 2016 by sschirott A team of astronomers using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey observed quasars behaving in manner that completely upends conventional theory. Using images from the Pan-STARRS survey, the scientists identified 1000 objects that appeared to vary in brightness over a period of just 10 years. Among these objects were a total... |
Stellar Evolution in an Electric Universe | Space News February 11, 2016 by sschirott In recent months, a mysterious star has created a firestorm of media speculation. In October, news headlines around the world suggested that the star might be surrounded by a so-called alien megastructure. The nature of the mystery is the seemingly impossibly rapid dimming of the star — impossible under standard... |
Donald Scott: Cosmic Power Lines Part 2 | EU2015 February 9, 2016 by sschirott In his last appearance at our EU events, Dr. Donald Scott showed evidence of counter-rotating clouds at the north pole of the planet Saturn. Since that time he has been investigating whether similar phenomena occur at the poles of other planets. Such counter-rotating bands, wherever they occur, are strong evidence... |
Quasars in an Electric Universe | Space News February 6, 2016 by sschirott A team working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has announced that a so-called distant quasar has mysteriously dimmed in a shockingly short period of time, not over millions of years as required by theory but only 12 years after its discovery. The best explanation the team can offer is... |
Electric Universe: A Collision-Free Zone | Space News February 4, 2016 by sschirott Since the early 20th-century, telescopes have enabled human beings to discover the unimaginable vastness of the physical universe. Space is indeed a big place. Yet in the world of astronomy, it seems that celestial objects frequently suffer the same fate as automobiles in busy traffic. However, with advancements in technology... |
Donald Scott: Cosmic Power Lines Part 1 | EU2015 February 3, 2016 by sschirott In his last appearance at our EU events, Dr. Donald Scott showed evidence of counter-rotating clouds at the north pole of the planet Saturn. Since that time he has been investigating whether similar phenomena occur at the poles of other planets. Such counter-rotating bands, wherever they occur, are strong evidence... |
Charge Separation in Space | Space News January 30, 2016 by sschirott Dr. Michael Clarage continues his discussion of Earth’s electrical environment and his ongoing role as a scientist on the SAFIRE project. In episode one, Dr. Clarage offered his thoughts on a recent Space.com report on mysterious fluctuations of electrons in Earth’s atmosphere. We asked Dr. Clarage to further explain his... |
Electric Crater Chains | Space News January 28, 2016 by sschirott Of the many puzzling crater forms seen on rocky bodies throughout the solar system, the recurring pattern of crater chains on planets, moons, and asteroids is a puzzle that demands a willingness to explore new, theoretical possibilities. The standard story of craters formed either by impacts or by volcanism will... |
Electric Resonance in Microtubules | Electricity of Life January 26, 2016 by sschirott As we seek to upgrade our understanding of the outer world around us, it would be wise to similarly update our notions about our inner world. Research groups attempting to generate better models of the mammalian brain have found many surprises, such as the staggering diversity of neuron types. Among... |
The Case of the Missing Electrons | Space News January 23, 2016 by sschirott A new scientific study has proposed a new hypothesis for a long-standing mystery in atmospheric science. For many years, scientists have wondered why the concentration of electrons in Earth’s atmosphere suddenly drops in a region dozens of miles above the Earth, which some call the “D-Region Ledge.” According to a... |
Polygonous Mars | Space News January 21, 2016 by sschirott The HIRISE Camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance orbiter has captured an intriguing image of polygonal patterns within a crater at the Martian north pole. A Space.com report states of these features: “The entire crater is around 3 miles (5 km) across and its ancient interior has undergone countless millennia of... |
Annis Scott: The Paths to Discovering Our Universe, Past and Present | EU2015 January 19, 2016 by sschirott The Electric Universe proponents, representing a variety of disciplines, are aware of how vastly different fields from the present day to the earliest of time can intertwine. In her talk, Annis will demonstrate how members of the EU, who specialize in the areas of planetary history, mythology, electricity, plasma, geology,... |
Ben Davidson: Does the Sun Trigger Large Earthquakes? | EU2015 January 15, 2016 by sschirott Using more than 35 years of data from the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University and from the United States Geological Survey, a model was constructed using patterns discerned in the polar magnetic fields of the sun. These patterns in solar magnetism were informally observed to match with the occurrence... |
Piers Corbyn: Electrical Weather | Space News January 13, 2016 by sschirott Among the top science news stories of 2015, dramatic affirmations of the electromagnetic connection between the Earth and the Sun have been demonstrated. With each new discovery, the Sun’s profound influence on Earth’s climate and weather becomes more self-evident. However, it seems that the electrical nature of the Earth/Sun connection,... |
Introducing Alex Fournier | Electricity of Life January 11, 2016 by sschirott There are many frontiers at smaller scales of life in which old theories are being renovated with new findings that paint an electrical picture. In an interesting parallel to the inadequate discussion and application of plasma physics findings in astronomy, the biological sciences have long seen a similar failure to... |
Kongpop U-Yen: Solar System Formation, Quantum Vibration and Natural Disasters | EU2015 January 9, 2016 by sschirott A theory of solar system formation based on quantum vibration will be presented. Through quantum vibration, the compression and expansion of plasma in space is used to explain solar system formation and solar activity cycles. This theory also helps explain how plasma density in space is the key indicator that... |
The Electric Comet II — Mysteries Deepen January 7, 2016 by sschirott This is the second segment of Episode 4, Symbol of an Alien Sky: The Electric Comet II documentary series. It provides an update of comet science, starting where our earlier documentary The Electric Comet left off. Our objective in both comet documentaries is to contrast two perspectives—the Electric Comet Model... |
Tom Wilson: The Siren Song of Certainty | EU2015 January 5, 2016 by sschirott Over recent years, there has been an ever-increasing series of announcements from astronomers stating genuine surprise about findings ranging from the planetary sciences to large-scale galactic structures. The announcements quite frequently admit that not only does the current explanatory model at hand not predict the observations, but in fact, there... |
MONTY CHILDS: SAFIRE Project I | Thunderbolts Podcast January 2, 2016 by sschirott This will begin a series of interviews with Monty Childs, Project Director of the SAFIRE Project. Building on the past year of experimentation and analysis, the SAFIRE Project has moved into Phase 2, which takes the lessons from the Phase 1 Proof of Concept Prototype into a much larger chamber.... |
WAL THORNHILL: 2015 A Year of Surprises | Thunderbolts Podcast December 31, 2015 by sschirott 2015 was a year of major surprises in the space sciences, and a year of remarkable triumphs for the Electric Universe. In today’s podcast, physicist Wal Thornhill offers his analysis of the top stories we’ve covered on Space News in 2015, including the ESA’s Rosetta comet mission, NASA’s New Horizons... |
Magnetic Reconnection Alternative | Space News December 29, 2015 by sschirott A fundamental theoretical difference between traditional solar physics/astronomy and plasma physics is introduced. The Standard Model holds that magnetic field lines move or merge and frequently break and reconnect. Many solar physicists claim magnetic reconnection is responsible for enormous energetic outbursts like solar flares. Conventional astronomers also state that magnetic... |
Getting Serious About Ceres | Space News December 26, 2015 by sschirott Recent science news headlines have proclaimed that the intriguing mystery of the bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres has been resolved. According to a paper recently published in the journal Nature, investigators with NASA’s DAWN mission have ruled out that the source of the bright spots is ice, and... |
Evidence for Electrical Comet Activity | Space News December 23, 2015 by sschirott In recent years, Dr. Franklin Anariba, a specialist in electrochemistry at Singapore Universe of Technology and Design, has investigated the evidence for electrochemical reactions on comets. In this video compilation of 5 recent interviews, Dr. Anariba analyzes the latest papers from the Rosetta mission, which provide stunning, direct evidence for... |
Einstein: The Mythology of Celebrity | Space News December 19, 2015 by sschirott In part two of this presentation, physicist Wal Thornhill continues his exploration of the cultural phenomena surrounding the life and career of Albert Einstein. With the passage of time, it seems that both the popular culture and much of institutionalized science have only grown more certain that Einstein was right.... |
EUGENE BAGASHOV | Thunderbolts Podcast December 16, 2015 by sschirott With this video presentation, we begin the re-launch of the Thunderbolts Podcast, a feature which will offer in-depth discussions with the chief principals of the Electric Universe community and The Thunderbolts Project. In this discussion, physicist Eugene Bagashov joins us to talk about his contributions to the EU community and... |
“I Am No Einstein!” | Space News December 13, 2015 by sschirott In modern times, no figure has better represented the title of genius than theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein, Time Magazine’s Man of the Century. Einstein’s theories of Special and General Relativity continues to shape much of cosmologies theoretical framework. However, contrary to popular claims, not all experiments have confirmed his theories.... |
Bruce Leybourne: Earth as a Stellar Transformer — Climate Change Revealed | EU2015 December 11, 2015 by sschirott In this presentation, Bruce Leybourne will present climate as the interplay between Field Aligned Currents in the ionosphere and Induction Currents charging Earth’s core. He will show that climate change is driven by a transformer effect between plasma ring currents coupled to solar winds, which induce telluric currents in upper... |
Pierre-Marie Robitaille: Kirchhoff’s Claims | EU2015 December 3, 2015 by sschirott Over the past 15 years, Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille has raised considerable doubt relative to Kirchhoff’s formulation of his Law of Thermal Emission. In this regard, the equivalence between emitted and absorbed radiation under conditions of thermal equilibrium, properly known as Stewart’s law, has not been questioned. However, the German scientist’s... |
Pluto ‘Pandemonium’ | Space News November 26, 2015 by sschirott At a recent NASA news conference, investigators on the New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto announced some astonishing findings. The moons in the Plutonian system behave in an extremely chaotic manner that planetary scientists admit is both unexpected and inexplicable. The term investigators have used to describe the... |
Electrons and Electric Fields at Comet 67P | Space News November 24, 2015 by sschirott In the Space News last week, Dr. Franklin Anariba, a specialist in electrochemistry, discussed the direct measurements of electrical activity near the comet nucleus – data which may prove to be a game-changer in comet science. In this Space News, Dr. Anariba continues his analysis, which suggests that electrochemical reactions... |
The Electric Comet II — Best Evidence November 21, 2015 by sschirott This video is the first segment of Episode 4 Symbol of an Alien Sky documentary series. It provides an update of comet science, starting where our earlier documentary The Electric Comet left off. Our objective in both comet documentaries is to contrast two perspectives—the Electric Comet Model and the “dirty... |
Electric Comets in Action | Space News November 15, 2015 by sschirott Today, we begin a series of reports on groundbreaking scientific data from the ESA Rosetta mission to Comet 67P. In previous Space News’, Dr. Franklin Anariba, a lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design, has presented a scientific argument for electrochemical processes on comets. Dr. Anariba begins his analysis... |
Michael Shermer Meets the Electric Universe November 4, 2015 by sschirott Earlier this year we extended an invitation to “skeptic” Michael Shermer, a Scientific American columnist, to speak at our EU2015 conference held in Phoenix Arizona June 25-29. We did so in confidence that Shermer would provide Scientific American with a retrospective on the Electric Universe gathering. He endorsed the idea... |
Montgomery Childs: SAFIRE Project Update | EU2015 November 1, 2015 by sschirott Building on the past year of experimentation and analysis, the SAFIRE Project is moving into Phase 2, which takes the lessons from the Phase 1 Proof of Concept Prototype into a much larger chamber. Phase 1 ended on a cliff-hanger with indications of fusion and transient million-fold CME-like eruptions. Montgomery... |
Does Dark Matter Actually Exist? | Space News October 22, 2015 by sschirott Scientists working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are proposing a radical new theory about the nature of invisible, theoretical dark matter particles. The scientists have developed what they call a “stealth dark matter” model, which suggests that dark matter is composed of electrically charged particles and which are bound... |
Comet 67P’s Mysterious Form | Space News October 19, 2015 by sschirott Today, we begin a series of reports that will discuss the latest scientific papers on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P. In addition to countless unresolved puzzles facing comet scientists, we have discussed in previous episodes the problem of comet’s double-lobed shape. Indeed, that particular form of... |
Out & About with Steve Smith October 15, 2015 by sschirott Stephen Smith is the managing editor and principal writer for the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day (TPOD) feature. His archive contains over 1000 articles about nearly every topic addressed by the Electric Universe movement. Based on a 40-year interest in the electrical nature of the cosmos, his work reflects the... |
Panel: When Radical Ideas Challenge Conventional Science | EU2015 October 8, 2015 by sschirott At the EU2015 conference this past June, the well known “skeptic” Michael Shermer participated in a panel discussion on the topic, “When Radical Ideas Challenge Conventional Science.” Wal Thornhill and I also participated, along with Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona. Subsequently, Dr. Shermer’s dismissive review of the... |
Pluto Continues to Surprise | Space News October 3, 2015 by sschirott In the previous Space News episode, we discussed recent, astonishing images of the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. Many other surprises have already been revealed in the data thus far released from NASA’s New Horizons mission. Today, physicist Eugene Bagashov discusses what we have learned thus far about Pluto’s... |
Electrical Geology of Pluto and Comet 67P | Space News September 28, 2015 by sschirott NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto continues to provide planetary scientists with new challenges and deepening mysteries. Likewise, the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P has revealed startling cometary phenomena that conventional theory cannot begin to explain. See the Thunderblog below for the text of this Space News.... |
Elegant Math and Failed Theory | Space News September 23, 2015 by sschirott Physicist Wal Thornhill continues his discussion of some of the foundational theories of modern physics and cosmology. As Thornhill explains, the aesthetics of mathematical theories may often have little or no relationship to physical reality. JOIN US ON PATREON AND WATCH OUR INFLUENCE GROW: “Changing the world through understanding of... |
Rubbery Measuring Sticks & Clocks | Space News September 19, 2015 by sschirott A new scientific experiment has reportedly confirmed one of the most startling concepts in quantum theory — so-called “spooky action at a distance,” or the discovery that simply measuring one object appears to affect another far away object. Today, physicist Wal Thornhill begins the first of a two-part discussion on... |
Out & About with David Novak September 17, 2015 by sschirott In this new video series, Out & About, you will meet members of the EU community who are making a difference in the world. David Novak was the Master of Ceremony for the Electric Universe 2014 and 2015 conferences plus the EU Workshop. He is a performance storyteller and arts... |
Chaotic Solar System with Ben Davidson | Space News September 11, 2015 by sschirott For several decades now, electrical experts and other EU community researchers have investigated issues relating to ancient planetary catastrophe in a solar system presumed to be fully stable in our own time. In the latest Space News episode, Ben Davidson of Suspicious0bservers.org offered an engaging personal perspective on the the... |
Out & About with Philip Francis September 2, 2015 by sschirott In this new video series, Out & About, you will meet members of the EU community who are making a difference in the world. Philip Francis, the founder of the Electric Cosmology Facebook group, introduces himself and his varied background that includes visual arts, acting and horticulture as well as... |
Man-on-the-Street Interview with Ben Davidson | EU2015 August 22, 2015 by sschirott Ben Davidson of Suspicious0bservers.org was interviewed at the EU2015 conference in Phoenix, Arizona USA, June 25-29. He was also a featured speaker. Be sure to check out www.suspicious0bservers.org for information on S0’s first regional conference in Pittsburgh, Oct 17-18. JOIN US ON PATREON AND WATCH OUR INFLUENCE GROW: “Changing the... |
Wallace Thornhill: The Long Path to Understanding Gravity | EU2015 August 16, 2015 by sschirott In the theoretical sciences, it is commonly assumed that the role of gravity is settled. But as Richard Feynman observed, “There is no model of the theory of gravitation today, other than the mathematical form.” The problem is that mathematics will not account for the essential force in question. And... |
Filamentary Networks of Electric Currents Pervade Space | Space News August 9, 2015 by sschirott In recent months, numerous scientific discoveries have confirmed a foundational theory of the electric universe — that is the theory that filamentary networks of electric currents pervade space and are intimately connected to the formation of stars and galaxies. As the space sciences provide greater data across the entire electromagnetic... |
Pluto and Its Moons Refute Nebular Hypothesis | Space News August 4, 2015 by sschirott Today, Wal Thornhill concludes his initial reports on the New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. A fundamental question is, must scientists now reconsider the idea that Pluto and its moons, like comets, are primordial bodies? Previous Space News on New Horizons mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVBVg6vzqA T-Bolts Patreon Campaign: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=180095&ty=p |
The Theoretical Foundation for Confronting Science’s Immunity to Change | Space News August 2, 2015 by sschirott The Electric Universe community consists of individuals who seem to share a common trait — that is the tendency to question ideas and beliefs that academia and society at large accept as true. It’s easy to recognize the obstinacy or close-mindedness of others, but do we recognize these tendencies in... |
The Effect of Ancient Catastrophe on Humankind | Space News July 30, 2015 by sschirott It is the hypothesis of many members of the Electric Universe community that within human memory, perhaps a mere four or five thousand years ago, the Earth’s sky and the inner solar system underwent profound changes. An epoch of planetary instability produced extraordinary electromagnetic events and global catastrophes that were... |
Pluto Sends Planetary Scientists Back to the Drawing Board | Space News July 26, 2015 by sschirott Today, physicist Wal Thornhill continues his discussion of NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. The mission has already provided a number of surprises for planetary scientists. The tiny planet’s geological activity, its apparent age, the stunning features on its moons and more all defy many fundamental ideas... |
New Horizons Update: Pluto and Planetary Origins| Space News July 24, 2015 by sschirott NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto is attracting international attention to planetary science. And like all recent missions to planets, moons, comets and asteroids, surprising discoveries already abound for scientists on Earth. Giant mountains on the Plutonian surface, and enormous, deep chasms on the Moon Charon, a... |
The Thunderbolts Project Patreon Campaign Starts Today! July 21, 2015 by sschirott Our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/tboltsproject Today, we ask for your support to continue and to expand our outreach through our highly successful YouTube Channel and other tools in development through a newly established Patreon campaign. This could mean the addition of special podcasts and video presentations featuring a wider range of... |
Pluto Flyby Marks New Milestone | Space News July 14, 2015 by sschirott On July 14, 2015, the NASA Spacecraft New Horizons will achieve the first ever flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto. The much anticipated mission is receiving international attention, and early images of the Plutonian system are already sparking some scientific discussion. Like the scientific world at large, the Electric Universe... |
Our Electrically Scarred Moon | Space News July 8, 2015 by sschirott Half-a-century ago, at the height of the Cold War, the Space Race between two competing superpowers set mankind on an accelerated path toward placing a man on the moon. In addition to its geopolitical significance, the moon was central in the evolution of planetary science. The discoveries of the Apollo... |
Mysterious Electric Mercury | Space News June 27, 2015 by sschirott In April 2015, the NASA spacecraft MESSENGER completed its more than four year journey in the orbit of the planet Mercury. New discoveries in the mission have emphasized just how mysterious Mercury is for planetary scientists. Recurring features across the entire planet have recently left planetary scientists searching for answers. |
Electrochemistry on Comet 67P | Space News June 19, 2015 by sschirott At the forthcoming Thunderbolts EU2015 Conference: Paths of Discovery in Phoenix, AZ, Dr. Franklin Anariba will be a featured speaker. He is a specialist in electrochemistry and a lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Today, we asked Dr. Anariba to offer his analysis of the evidence for electrochemical... |
Rosetta Continues to Shatter Dirty Snowball Myth | Space News June 16, 2015 by sschirott In the last two Space News episodes, Wal Thornhill has reported on recent discoveries that provide stunning, foundational affirmation of the electric universe theory. We now turn our attention to the latest science reports from the ESA’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P. The comparative predictive success of the electric comet... |
Electric Star Formation Confirmed | Space News June 9, 2015 by sschirott Today, physicist Wal Thornhill begins a series of reports on some remarkably significant recent discoveries in the space sciences. Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have observed in unprecedented detail filamentary structures throughout the Milky Way galaxy. A recent phys.org report states, “…ESA’s Herschel space observatory has been a true... |
Preview with Monty Childs: SAFIRE Project Update | EU2015 June 7, 2015 by sschirott The SAFIRE Project is the first ever laboratory experiment to test a theory of the Sun. In this audio interview, Monty Childs, the director of the SAFIRE Project, offers a brief outline of progress and look ahead to the SAFIRE Team’s forthcoming report at the EU2015 Conference: Paths of Discovery.... |
Electrical Planetary Scarring in the Lab | Space News June 5, 2015 by sschirott When one gazes at our celestial neighborhood, the planets, moons, comets and asteroids we see defy the speculative history we learned in school. These bodies testify to events not included in any geology textbook. The evidence seem undeniable — high-energy electromagnetic events have indelibly scarred, and in some cases devastated... |
The Grand Canyon in the Lab? | Space News June 2, 2015 by sschirott Processes thought to occur over millions of years are thought to have created our planet’s most wondrous geological features. However, within the electric universe community, scientists and independent investigators have explored the evidence that high-energy electromagnetic events have dramatically reshaped the Earth, and many other planets. The indelible mark of... |
Preview with Dr. Tom Wilson: The Siren Song of Certainty | EU2015 May 29, 2015 by sschirott At the forthcoming EU2015 Conference: Paths of Discovery, June 25 – 29, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Dr. Tom Wilson will explore the psychological behavior revealed at the highest level of organized science. Today, Tom offers a brief introduction and overview of his talk, including a review of some of the most... |
Ceres: An Electrically Scarred World | Space News May 27, 2015 by sschirott In April of 2015, the NASA Dawn Spacecraft began transmitting new, close-up images of the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres. The images to date have only deepened the mystery surrounding the puzzling bright spots on the planet’s surface. However, in addition to this ongoing puzzle, questions remain about Ceres that planetary... |
Pluto: New Horizons in the Electric Universe | Space News May 18, 2015 by sschirott In July of this year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to achieve the first ever close-up fly by of Pluto, which is more than 4.5 billion miles from Earth. Like the scientific world at large, the electric universe community eagerly awaits the mission’s findings. We note that the changing... |
Electric Currents Create Cosmic Magnetic Fields | Space News May 15, 2015 by sschirott Scientists in Germany using the Hubble space telescope have detected extremely strong magnetic fields in a quasar which is said to be about 4 billion light years from Earth. The magnetic fields were measured at 200 million Gauss. In comparison, the strength of the magnetic field at Earth’s surface is... |
Valles Marineris in the Laboratory? | Space News May 9, 2015 by sschirott The most stupendous feature on Mars is Valles Marineris, the great trench stretching more than 3000 miles across the Martian surface. In the 1970’s the engineer Ralph Juergens first proposed that Valles Marineris is the scar left by a giant, interplanetary lightning bolt. If these events did occur, can they... |
The Completely Unexpected Reason People Call Others ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ | Space News May 4, 2015 by sschirott A surprising tactic against the Electric Universe is the characterization of its proponents as “conspiracy theorists.” Let us lay aside for the moment the question of the prevalence of actual “conspiracies” throughout history and in the world today. Let us explore instead, why is this accusation made specifically against proponents... |
Google’s Plan to “Estimate Web Sources’ Trustworthiness” | Space News April 24, 2015 by sschirott Many disturbing examples demonstrate that scientific debate and inquiry on the Internet is not always free nor open. One such example may be Google’s recently announced plan to begin manipulating search engine results to reward websites based on their apparent factual soundness. The stated purpose of the plan is to... |
Preview with Michael Steinbacher | EU2015 April 18, 2015 by sschirott A growing community of scientists and independent investigators are exploring the effects of electrical discharges on planetary surfaces. A key figure in this blossoming field is Michael Steinbacher, a professional photographer who has studied the geological formations in the American Southwest. He is scheduled to speak at the forthcoming EU2015 Conference:... |
Does Gravity Alone Rule the Cosmos? | Space News April 11, 2015 by sschirott For nearly three years, we have reported on countless discoveries that challenge the foundations of modern cosmology and astrophysics. Today we routinely hear of celestial objects ranging in scale from stars, galaxies and quasar groups that should not exist if the standard astrophysical models are correct. However, it seems that... |
Are Bright Spots on Ceres Electric? | Space News April 7, 2015 by sschirott In March, the NASA Dawn Spacecraft entered the orbit of the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres, with the craft scheduled to begin sending images to Earth later this month. For several weeks, surprising and unexplained bright spots within a crater on the planet’s surface have generated enormous buzz in popular media.... |
The Electrochemistry of Comets with Dr. Franklin Anariba | Space News April 1, 2015 by sschirott It is a great paradox in comet science: We are told that a comet nucleus is a ball of ice, or dirty snowball, or icy fluff ball that accreted billions of year ago in the solar system’s infancy. Comets are said to sublimate ices as they move toward the sun,... |
Ben Davidson: The Variable Sun and Its Effects on Earth | EU2014 March 29, 2015 by sschirott The message has been loud and clear for many years—a community of scientists insisting that human activity is warming our planet, taking humanity to the edge of a precipice. But now, as science begins to understand earth’s place in the electric solar system, the meaning of the present warming plateau... |
Dr. Michael Clarage: Earth’s Electric Environment | EU2014 March 20, 2015 by sschirott Dr. Michael Clarage shares new observations of some of the complexities of the Earth’s electrical environment. The Sun and Earth are connected in ways very similar to how man-made electrical equipment is connected. These similarities are examined in light of the idea of the entire solar system behaving as a... |
How is Mars Rover Opportunity Still Alive? | Space News March 20, 2015 by sschirott Today, we review one of the great ongoing mysteries in the history of Mars exploration. In January of 2004, the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity arrived at the red planet about three weeks apart. Due to the extreme dustiness of the Martian environment, it was believed that the rovers would... |
“Baffling” Mars Plumes are Electric | Space News March 14, 2015 by sschirott Science news headlines around the world tell of a baffling mystery on the planet Mars. In March of 2012, amateur astronomers spotted enormous plumes jetting from the Martian surface. The plumes were more than 250 KM high and several hundreds of kilometers in length. Similar bright, enormous plumes have occasionally... |
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille: On the Validity of Kirchhoff’s Law | EU2014 March 8, 2015 by sschirott Kirchhoff’s law of thermal emission (formulated in 1860) is presented and demonstrated to be invalid. This law is crucial to our understanding of radiation within arbitrary cavities. Kirchhoff’s law rests at the heart of condensed matter physics and astrophysics. Its collapse can be directly associated with 1) the loss of... |
Mysterious Lovejoy Comets | Space News March 8, 2015 by sschirott In the last few years, several of the comets discovered by astronomer Terry Lovejoy have provided astronomers on Earth with dramatic and unexpected displays. From the astonishing 2011 journey of comet c/2011 W3, which survived perihelion just 140,000 km above the Sun’s surface, to the recent observation of rapid changes... |
Why Don’t Comets Melt in the Sun? | Space News March 3, 2015 by sschirott Sungrazer comets that survive perihelion extremely close to the Sun is a longstanding puzzle for comet science. In reality, observations going back centuries reveals that a comet’s activity has little or nothing to do with solar warming. Comets sometimes flare or even explode at impossibly vast distances from the Sun.... |
The Mystery of Consciousness | Interview with Dr. Michael Clarage February 25, 2015 by sschirott Perhaps the greatest mystery of human experience is consciousness itself. Today, the fields of neuroscience and neurotechnology provide astounding insights into the electrical and chemical processes of the brain. Consequently, institutional science proposes with confidence that the brain alone creates conscious experience. Yet despite all that science has learned, the... |
The “Impossible” Dunes of Comet 67P | Space News February 22, 2015 by sschirott The comet 67P has provided an avalanche of astonishing discoveries that may puzzle scientists for years to come. And one problem that will simply not go away is the seemingly impossible dunes, or dune-like ripples at the comet’s neck. At its first observation, the feature drew virtual gasps of disbelief... |
Rosetta Mission Update | 67P’s Mysterious Water Production February 17, 2015 by sschirott Today we continue our report on the first scientific papers on the Rosetta mission to comet 67P. As noted in the previous episode, comet scientists and the science media continue to hold to the traditional story of comets. One basis for the scientists’ purported confidence is the discovery of evidence... |
Discourses on an Alien Sky | Cosmic Catastrophe & Cultural Obsession February 15, 2015 by sschirott In this third of the Discourses on an Alien Sky series, Dave Talbott offers a few glimpses of the mythic subject matter and the reasoning protocol for drawing reliable conclusions from ancient witnesses. See the three full documentaries in the Symbols of an Alien Sky series: Episode 1, Symbols of... |
WHAT IF? Asking the Dangerous Questions | Following the Evidence February 12, 2015 by sschirott This is the second in a series by Dr.Tom Wilson looking at critical issues in the theoretical sciences. These discourse will give special attention to themes highlighted by the science of the Electric Universe. Now that you have heard Episode #2, check out Episode #1 in the WHAT IF? Asking the Dangerous... |
Donald Scott: Modeling Birkeland Currents, Part 1 | EU Workshop February 11, 2015 by sschirott Don Scott, author of Electric Sky, made two major presentations at the EU Workshop, Nov 14-16, 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona. The first detailed how “polar configurations” are formed in space. Lacking familiarity with electrical phenomena in plasma, astronomers typically list these Herbig-Haro objects as “poorly understood.” Don’s second talk will... |
Rosetta Mission Update | First Science Papers February 7, 2015 by sschirott Scientists with the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission are writing a new chapter in the history of comet science. However, institutional science’s understanding of comets is less certain today than at any time before. Recently, the Rosetta team published their first scientific papers following their successful landing on the comet... |
Rosetta Mission Update | 67P—The Violent Birth of a Comet January 28, 2015 by sschirott The electric comet idea forces us to consult the astronomical testimony of our earlier forebears, where independent accounts told with different words and different symbols in different parts of the world, convey a story of planetary catastrophe. |
Discourses on an Alien Sky | When Planets Were the Gods January 24, 2015 by sschirott With this introduction, David Talbott begins a series of video presentations exploring the profound celestial events that shaped early cultures the world over. It’s a vast subject with radical implications—a new perspective on planetary history and the human past. See the three full documentaries in the Symbols of an Alien Sky... |
Donald Scott: Modeling Birkeland Currents, Part 2 | EU Workshop January 23, 2015 by sschirott Dr. Donald Scott, author of The Electric Sky, made two major presentations at the EU Workshop, Nov 14-16, 2014, in Phoenix, Arizona. The first detailed how “polar configurations” are formed in space. Lacking familiarity with electrical phenomena in plasma, astronomers typically list these Herbig-Haro objects as “poorly understood.” Don’s second... |
Wal Thornhill: An Electric Cosmology for the 21st Century | EU Workshop January 17, 2015 by sschirott This talk by Wal Thornhill at the EU Workshop Nov 14-16, 2014 offers a compendium of the things that scientifically curious people need to know in order to see the electric force in its dynamic role from microcosm to macrocosm. See Wal’s first workshop presentation Breaking News. ... |
WHAT IF? Asking the Dangerous Questions with Tom Wilson January 3, 2015 by sschirott With this video, Dr.Tom Wilson begins a series of discourses looking at critical issues in the theoretical sciences. The series will give special attention to themes highlighted by the science of the Electric Universe. |
Rosetta Mission Update | Comet 67P — Electrical Sculpting of Surface Dust December 30, 2014 by sschirott For several months now, the Rosetta Mission has followed the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko around the sun. And as we’ve expected, direct observation continues to add one mystery to another. How are we to understand the weird configurations of dust on the comet’s surface? Watch Update #1: The Rocky Comet Watch Update... |
Rosetta Mission Update | Jets of Comet 67P — Failed “Explanations” Continue December 25, 2014 by sschirott It seems that the puzzle of cometary jets continues to haunt comet science. The mystery has been stated and re-stated for decades. But it’s possible that a resolution is now within reach, through the Rosetta Mission to comet 67P?Churyumov Gerasimenko? This video is the fourth in a series of reports... |
Rosetta Mission Update | Rubble on 67P Defies Current Comet Theory December 21, 2014 by sschirott On the surface of today’s most well-studied comet, we see fields of rubble everywhere. From great boulders down to gravel, sand and dust, a surface littered with debris. Why would an evaporating clump of ice and dust look more like the debris-strewn surface of Mars than any comet that scientist... |
Rosetta Mission Update | Comets May Not Be What We Thought December 14, 2014 by sschirott The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Perhaps the strangest solar system object ever observed up close in the course of the space age. It was the target of the Rosetta probe, whose 10-year journey began in March 2004, under the sponsorship of the European Space Agency. The probe is now orbiting the nucleus... |
Wal Thornhill: Breaking News | EU Workshop December 12, 2014 by sschirott Wal Thornhill presents his opening talk on the first night of the EU Workshop November 14, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona,including a segment on the descent of the Philae lander from the Rosetta probe. More than any other individual, Wal Thornhill has given the EU movement its emphasis on direct observation... |
Rosetta Mission Update | The Rocky Comet December 12, 2014 by sschirott This is first in a series of Rosetta Mission Updates with Wal Thornhill and Dave Talbott. In this brief video, Wal offers a preliminary assessment of the Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P. Look for timely updates to follow. |
Wal Thornhill and David Talbott on Rosetta | Space News October 27, 2014 by B Talbott Today, the chief principals of the Thunderbolts Project, Wal Thornhill and David Talbott, take a closer look at the latest information from the Rosetta mission to comet 67P. The Thunderbolts Rosetta predictions page: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/08/16/rosetta-mission-predictions/ Steve Smith September TPOD on the Rosetta mission: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/09/05/water-water-nonexistent/ |
Impossible “Neutron Star” Shatters Theory | Space News October 26, 2014 by B Talbott What is a neutron star? Astronomers tell us that these tiny yet massively dense objects form by gravitational collapse from the remnants of a massive star that has exploded. The theoretical neutron star was invented to try to explain highly intense bursts of energy from tiny regions of space. However,... |
Let us See…(Comet 67P) October 22, 2014 by B Talbott What do you see? The images on your screen are of a dirty snowball. At least, that is the story that scientists and educators have promoted to our youngsters for roughly half a century. Do you believe what you’ve been taught, or do you believe what you see? PDF of... |
Rosetta Could Change Science Forever | Space News October 16, 2014 by B Talbott Human beings around the world may be witnessing one of the most significant dramas in the modern history of the space sciences. The ESA’s Rosetta mission to the comet 67P has shattered the theoretical predictions of standard comet science. For many decades, we were told that comets are dirty snowballs,... |
“Interstellar” – Science Fiction or Pure Fantasy? | Space News October 14, 2014 by B Talbott In November of this year, movie theaters around the world will begin showing perhaps the year’s most anticipated film, the science-fiction blockbuster, “Interstellar.” The plot of the film features scientists on Earth devising a plan to send human beings through a wormhole, in a desperate effort to find a new,... |
Are Human Beings Robots? | Interview with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake October 8, 2014 by B Talbott What is a human being? It is the ultimate question, to which institutional science offers surprising answers. The materialistic paradigm, which has dominated institutional science for well over a century, states that the essence of consciousness can be reduced to the physical components of the brain. However, does an alternative... |
Is Consciousness More than the Brain? | Interview with Dr. Gary Schwartz October 2, 2014 by B Talbott Today, perhaps the ultimate unsolved mystery of human life is: how and why does consciousness exist? Although some scientific literature still acknowledges that the question remains open, the overwhelming consensus among neuroscientists today is that the brain alone creates conscious experience. However, for decades, acclaimed scientists around the world have conducted... |
Rosetta Update: Dirty Snowball is “Dry like Hell” | Space News September 27, 2014 by B Talbott The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission to the comet 67/P may be rewriting everything astronomers thought they knew about the nature of comets. The latest high-resolution images of the comet nucleus have astonished scientists around the world, revealing a remarkably jagged, pitted, black as coal surface. It is nothing like... |
Giant “Light Bulbs” in Space? | Space News September 17, 2014 by B Talbott For more than four years, NASA scientists has puzzled over mysterious structures in the Milky Way galaxy called Fermi Bubbles. The so-called bubbles reach for ten of thousands of light years above and below the galaxy. Both the structures enormous size and their emissions are presenting huge theoretical puzzles for... |
Scientists Claim Discovery “Confirms” Standard Solar Model | Space News September 13, 2014 by B Talbott On this series Space News from the Electric Universe, we have presented numerous recent findings that challenge the underpinnings of solar physics and the nature of the sun and all stars. However, based on a new scientific study, some science media are proclaiming a confirmation of the standard solar model,... |
Dr. Donald Scott : A New Model of Magnetic Structure in Space | EU2014 September 9, 2014 by sschirott Dr. Donald Scott described his investigation of the inherent properties of Birkeland currents and subsequent discovery that they produce unexpectedly far-reaching magnetic fields in cosmic space. These fields collect matter and compress it into concentric hollow cylinders. They also produce a long-range attractive force on other such currents. Without involving... |
Martian Geology Continues to Baffle Scientists | Space News September 1, 2014 by B Talbott The official geological history of the planet Mars is a confused and murky tale filled with contradictions and shifting narratives. Astonishing scientific data obtained in the last decade has only deepened the storyteller’s confusion. At the recent 8th International Conference on Mars, leading scientists discussed the possible solutions to the... |
Kongpop U-yen, PhD: Evidence of Space Weather Induced Natural Disasters | EU2014 August 30, 2014 by sschirott Strong solar activities have long been known to cause damages to electrical grids and global communication systems. However, there exist evidence that solar activities have strong correlation with abrupt weather conditions and tectonic activities, including storm formations, flash floods, volcanic activities and earthquakes. In this presentation, case studies of such... |
Michael Steinbacher: Catastrophist Geology | EU2014 August 25, 2014 by sschirott The modern awareness that plasma composes most of the universe, requiring a reevaluation of theories dating from earlier times, was the thesis of Michael Steinbacher’s presentation. Plasma is electrically active and employs forces that can be many times stronger than those of mechanical erosion and tectonics. One possible model envisions... |
Rosetta Mission Findings: No Room for Dirty Snowballs | Space News August 16, 2014 by sschirott The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to the Comet 67P is attracting worldwide attention to comet science. While months remain until the team attempts to land a probe on the comet’s surface, astonishing revelations are already confronting scientists on Earth. Story, Three Surprising Facts About Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/3-surprising-comet-facts-weve-already-learned-from-rosetta-17066196 Previous Space... |
David Talbott: Symbols of an Alien Sky — Evidence That Matters | EU2014 July 31, 2014 by sschirott This talk was given by David Talbott on the opening night of EU2014 conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was an introduction to his two Sunday presentations that previewed Episodes 4 and 5 of the Symbols of an Alien Sky series. Looking for a fast track to comprehensive education on... |
Asteroid Vesta Shatters Planet Formation Theory | Space News July 29, 2014 by B Talbott In the previous Space News, we discussed astronomer’s recent admission that they now need a whole new theory to explain how planets form. Today yet another discovery has shattered conventional ideas about planet formation and the so-called early solar system. Scientists studying data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have learned some... |
Dwardu Cardona: Earth’s Primordial Stellar Host | EU2014 July 26, 2014 by sschirott Dwardu Cardona showed that a reconstruction of Earth’s cosmic history can be distilled from the universal “mytho-historical record,” complemented by studies in earth history and space science. Most recently, the strongest scientific validation comes from space, as new instruments enable the viewer to see extraordinary electro-magnetic detail across the cosmos,... |
Astronomers Have No Idea How Planets Form | Space News July 19, 2014 by B Talbott According to a paper in the journal Nature, astronomers are now looking for a whole new theory to explain how planets form. The standard model of planet formation says that planets and stars form gravitationally in a contracting disk of gas and dust called the core accretion theory. Since astronomers... |
Confirmed: Magnetic Waves Cannot Accelerate Solar Wind | Space News July 13, 2014 by B Talbott A new scientific study has further deepened one of the longstanding mysteries of solar physics. For decades scientists have struggled to explain why the solar wind accelerates as it moves away from the Sun in defiance of gravity. In more recent years, theorists have suggested that so-called transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)... |
Mel Acheson: How Science Can Lose Its Way | EU2014 July 10, 2014 by sschirott Mel Acheson has contributed numerous insights to the Electric Universe movement for more than 15 years, giving readers both a chuckle and something to think about. His editorials were a regular feature in the electronic newsletter Thoth. Mel is now a frequent contributor to the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day... |
NASA Warns Astronauts of Electric Asteroids | Space News July 6, 2014 by B Talbott A new NASA report describes the potential dangers that electrical environments of asteroids could pose for astronauts in future space missions. NASA scientists are now attempting to create models that will successfully predict dangerous electrical interactions between an approaching spacecraft and an asteroid. The report begins with a brief, surprising... |
“Neutron Star” Refutes Its Own Existence | Space News June 28, 2014 by B Talbott A team of scientists studying the x-ray emissions of a so-called neutron star tell us that the existing theoretical models cannot explain what they’re seeing. Astronomers say that neutron stars are very small, yet massively dense objects that spin at incredibly fast speeds, with rotation periods no more than hundreds... |
Steve Smith: Mars — The Great Desert in 3-D | EU2014 June 27, 2014 by sschirott Martian areography tells a story of incredibly violent events. It appears from the many images sent to Earth that it once experienced powerful plasma discharges on a massive scale. Burned and blasted craters, piles of scorched dust covering almost an entire hemisphere, and great trenches that wend across its scarred... |
Solar Neutrinos in the Electric Universe | Space News June 22, 2014 by B Talbott Today, we delve into the very core of one of the great controveries in solar physics. In the 1960’s, scientists first discovered that the number of solar neutrinos detected on Earth did not fit the predictions of the standard model of the Sun. In this model, the sun is powered... |
Dr. Bill Mullen: Hieroglyphics and the Ancient Sky | EU2014 June 21, 2014 by sschirott Many catastrophist theories use hieroglyphics from around the world for clues about shapes in the ancient sky that are no longer visible. Dr. Bill Mullen’s talk focused on Egyptian hieroglyphics as relevant to the Saturn and polar configuration theory. By studying those hieroglyphs, which bear no obvious resemblance to things... |
Dr. Ed Dowdye: Solar Gravitation and Solar Plasma Wave Propagation on Interaction | EU2014 June 6, 2014 by sschirott Dr. Edward Dowdye is a laser optics engineer and former NASA physicist who argues the case for classical mechanics in attempting to explain observational quandaries that had hitherto remained the province of abstract theories like Einstein’s Relativity. In his presentation this year, Dr. Dowdye tackled one of the most widely... |
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille: Sun on Trial | EU2014 June 3, 2014 by sschirott For nearly 150 years despite the lack of observational evidence, the Sun has been considered to be a ball of gaseous material. Such a postulate rests on mathematical arguments. Nonetheless, observations, not mathematics, properly determine the phases of matter. In this light, a systematic review of 40 solar findings provides... |
A Shocker: Solar Wind Provokes Lightning on Earth | Space News May 31, 2014 by Stephen Smith Scientists in the United Kingdom have reported findings that could change our understanding of lightning. Researchers have discovered a link between charged particles on the Sun and increased lightning on Earth. Wal Thornhill explains why this is not a surprise to the Electric Universe community. For a background discussion on... |
Dr. Michael Clarage: Understanding the Electric Sun Model | EU2014 May 30, 2014 by sschirott The Electric Sun (ES) model suggests: 1) That all stars, the Sun included, are electrical in nature and exist in a galactic electrical environment; 2) Some of the physical attributes of the Sun and its Corona are not explicable through the standard fusion model originated by Hans Bethe in 1938;... |
David Novak: Chain of Arrows and the Shoulder of Giants | EU2014 May 24, 2014 by sschirott From the first arrow shot toward the heavens to the most recent space probe, we are reaching for the sky. David Novak shares a key piece of story evidence and the moment it all came together. David Novak was the Master of Ceremony for EU2014 to rave reviews. He... |
Dr. Jonathan Wolfe: Fractals — Changing Paradigms in Science and Education | EU2014 May 22, 2014 by sschirott Fractals are the strikingly beautiful images of complex and chaotic systems. While they have existed in nature for billions of years, only in the last few decades has modern mathematics and science started to acknowledge their importance. Indeed, fractals have recently transformed our understanding of a wide range of natural... |
Gamma-Ray Burst Shatters Old Theories May 22, 2014 by B Talbott A team of scientists studying the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst tell us that their findings will re-write scientific theories. Using the Very Large Array Telescope, the team examined the afterglow of a gamma ray burst which mainstream astronomers assume is formed by a so-called shockwave. What they observed does... |
Steve Crothers on Failures of Big Bang Cosmology | Space News May 6, 2014 by B Talbott Scientists using the BICEP2 telescope recently pronounced that they had discovered direct evidence of Einstein gravitational waves and cosmic inflation. The team describes having detected polarizations in the so-called Cosmic Microwave Background, which is described as the afterglow of the theoretical Big Bang explosion. Science media declared the discovery a victory... |
Hale-Bopp: the Electric Comet | Space News April 26, 2014 by B Talbott A team of scientists analyzing the coma and tail of Comet Hale- Bopp have published their observations in a landmark paper. What they discovered cannot be explained by the standard model of comets. The scientists analyzed the comet’s surprising coma and tail at distances up to 27 times the average... |
Tremors of the Big Bang? | Space News April 17, 2014 by B Talbott Scientists working with the BICEP2 telescope have claimed to discover the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation, a process of radical expansion believed to have occurred after the theoretical Big Bang explosion. Based on data from the cosmic microwave background the team also claims to have confirmed the existence of... |
Ringed Asteroid Stuns Astronomers | Space News April 5, 2014 by sschirott A team of astronomers is puzzling over an unprecedented discovery–the first ever observed asteroid with its own ring system. The asteroid Chariklo, which is 250 km in diameter and orbits between Saturn and Uranus, displays two rings which are said to be similar in nature to those of Saturn. Wal... |
“Cosmic Seeds” Shatter Star Formation Theory | Space News March 6, 2014 by B Talbott Astrophysicists using the Submillimeter Array Telepscope have made an astonishing discovery on the formation of stars. The scientists obtained the most detailed images yet of a stellar nursery within the Snake Nebula. What they have discovered is not what they had expected. For background on the electric universe theory of... |
Hydrogen River Between Galaxies Breaks the Rules | Space News March 1, 2014 by B Talbott Scientists using the Green Bank Telescope have observed what they describe as a river of neutral hydrogen streaming into the Galaxy NGC 6946. The researchers conclude that this tenuous filament of gas is providing the necessary fuel for the high rate of star formation in the spiral galaxy. Subscribe to... |
Water and the Electricity of Life | Dr. Jerry Pollack Interview February 26, 2014 by B Talbott Dr. Jerry Pollack will speak at EU2014 along with Wal Thornhill and Dave Talbott and a whole roster of speakers. Check outhttps://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/… In this interview with Kim Gifford, Dr. Jerry Pollack, a professor in the bio-engineering department of the University of Washington, discusses new insights into structured water garnered in... |
IBEX—Plasma Ribbon Confirms Electric Sun | Space News February 21, 2014 by B Talbott NASA’s IBEX and Voyager 1 missions have shattered all conventional ideas about the heliospheric boundary, the region separating our solar system from interstellar space. In 2009, the IBEX spacecraft created the first all-sky map of the boundary revealing an astonishing ribbon of energetic neutral atoms. According to scientists, it’s still... |
Hawking Still in the Dark on Black Holes | Space News February 5, 2014 by B Talbott Listen as mathematician Stephen Crothers tells us why not much has changed since Stephen Hawking’s recent “revelation” in his 4-page paper in Nature. Crothers will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Electric Universe 2014 Conference : All About Evidence, March 20-24 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information, click... |
TPOD Week in Review, 1-27 to 1-31 February 4, 2014 by B Talbott Our weekly review of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day, with new articles every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and “best of” every Tuesday and Thursday. Monday — Black Flares: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Wednesday — Solar Bursts: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Friday — Knot so Fast!: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… |
Our Changing Climate and the Variable Sun | Space News February 1, 2014 by B Talbott Solar physicists around the world today are wondering: has the Sun fallen silent? In 2013, the Sun began the peak phase of its 11-year sun spot cycle called the Solar Maximum when sun spot production should be at its highest. However, the lack of sun spot activity has left solar... |
TPOD Week in Review, 1-20 to 1-24 January 27, 2014 by B Talbott Our weekly review of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day, with new articles every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and “best of” every Tuesday and Thursday. Monday, Stars in the Plasma Focus: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Wednesday, Does Recession Exist? https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Friday, The Galilean Moons: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… |
TPOD Week in Review 1-13 to 1-17 January 22, 2014 by B Talbott Our weekly review of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day, with new articles every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and “best of” every Tuesday and Thursday. Monday: Touching Ground, by Rens van der Sluijs: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Wednesday: Star Forces, by Stephen Smith: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/… Friday: Why the Lower Corona of the Sun is Hotter than... |
Halton Arp and the Electric Universe | Space News January 16, 2014 by B Talbott We continue the discussion of late Dr. Halton Arp’s contributions to science and astronomy, this time with an explanation of redshift. |
Remembering Halton Arp | Space News January 12, 2014 by B Talbott On December 28, 2013, the acclaimed astronomer Halton Arp passed away at the age of 86 in Munich, Germany. Dr. Arp posed a challenge to the very foundation of modern cosmology; a challenge that grows only more relevant with new and astonishing discoveries in the cosmos. We present Wal Thornhill... |
The Electric Comet—”Water” from Deep Impact January 6, 2014 by B Talbott For context, see “The Electric Comet | Full Documentary”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wtt2… This added segment addresses the strongest critical comment we’ve received on the documentary: we failed to mention the infrared readings of “water” in the Deep Impact ejecta. As usually happens on matters of good criticism, it proved to be invaluable,... |
When Mind Games Masquerade as Physics | Space News January 5, 2014 by B Talbott Physicist Wal Thornhill will give two thought-provoking presentations at EU2014 Conference: All About Evidence, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, March 20 – 24, 2014. For more information see https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/… Here, Wal continues his discussion of the growing confusion in theoretical physics. While sensational news headlines sometimes laud definitive breakthroughs such as the... |
Quantum Craziness | Space News December 29, 2013 by B Talbott A new paper published by an MIT physicist claims to theoretically prove that so-called “quantum entanglement” — two particles seemingly occupying more than one state simultaneously — gives rise to a wormhole that allows particles to communicate through a “gravitational tunnel”. This theory follows from a paper published earlier this... |
The “Impossible” Exoplanet | Space News December 17, 2013 by B Talbott A newly discovered exoplanet poses a radical challenge to the consensus theory of planet and star formation. The massive exoplanet is eleven times the size of Jupiter yet it circles its parent star at a distance that is 650X the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. In the... |
Comet ISON Mysteries Continue | Space News December 8, 2013 by B Talbott In November 2013, skywatchers around the world eagerly awaited the approach of Comet ISON. Dubbed the “Comet of the Century” by several in the media, some astronomers had predicted a stupendous cometary display as Comet ISON approached its perihelion. The comet was also the subject of countless bizarre speculations. However,... |
Gamma Ray Burst Stuns Astronomers | Space News December 6, 2013 by B Talbott The most intense electromagnetic event known to occur in the heavens is the gamma ray burst. For many years, scientists have claimed that most gamma ray burst occur when stars run out of nuclear fuel then collapse to form a black hole, neutron star or quark star. However, a recently... |
Do “Magnetic Waves” Heat the Solar Corona? | Space News December 2, 2013 by B Talbott It’s one of the great mysteries of solar physics. Why is the temperature of the Sun’s Corona exponentially greater than the temperature of the Sun’s surface? For nearly 75 years, this question has haunted solar physicists, who have attempted to reconcile the anomaly with the thermonuclear model of the Sun. |
Astonishing Asteroid Becomes a Comet | Space News November 21, 2013 by B Talbott Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope are expressing their complete bafflement over a recently observed asteroid, P2013/P5, which has astonished scientists with its unprecedented display of six cometary-like tails. Adding further surprise, the astronomers watched as the object’s tail structures dramatically changed over just 13 days. |
Comet X1 LINEAR Brightening | Space News November 6, 2013 by B Talbott Astronomers today are puzzling over the unexpected brightening of a recently discovered comet. On October 20, an observer in Japan noted that the brightness of Comet X1 LINEAR was over 100 times greater than astronomers had expected, which they explain by vaporization of ice from solar heating. But does this... |
Exploding Star Mystifies Astronomers | Space News October 23, 2013 by B Talbott Between May and December of 2002 a remarkable event occurred in the heavens. A previously unknown star named V838 Mon brightened spectacularly–then faded–then leaped back to life. At its brightest, it was about a million times brighter than the sun. Listen to Dr. Donald Scott’s thoughts regarding this mystery. Dr.... |
The Electric Universe—The Essential Role of Plasma October 23, 2013 by B Talbott What does it mean to say we live in a plasma universe? And why is the plasma universe an electric universe? Listen here for a brief explanation by David Talbott. This video clip is scheduled for inclusion soon in Chapter 5 of the Beginner’s Guide to the Electric Universe. Check... |
The Electric Universe—A Study in Contrasts October 16, 2013 by B Talbott This brief video is scheduled for inclusion soon in Chapter 3 of the Beginner’s Guide to the Electric Universe. Check out Chapters 1 and 2 of the Beginner’s Guide in development at: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/begin… Contrasting viewpoints are the fuel for progress in all human inquiry. Vive la difference! A contrast can... |
Electrical “Plasma Arms” of the Coma Galaxy Cluster | Space News October 1, 2013 by B Talbott Recently discovered X-ray emitting plasma arms of the Coma Galaxy Cluster, stretching almost half a million light-years, have left astronomers scratching their heads. The expected turbulence, predicted by their gravitational models, was not found. |
The Electric Universe—Why Should I Care? October 1, 2013 by B Talbott This video clip will be included in Chapter 2 of the Beginner’s Guide to the Electric Universe, now in development. |
Mature Galaxies Defy Big Bang | Space News September 19, 2013 by B Talbott It’s said that our universe is filled with billions of galaxies. But how far away are they? Astronomers calculate galaxies’ distances by measuring their redshift. The most redshifted galaxies are said to be the most ancient and remote. But recently astronomers using the Hubble Telescope have observed galaxies that are... |
New Surprises at the Heliospheric Boundary, Part 2 | Space News September 19, 2013 by B Talbott Here we continue the discussion of the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s astonishing discoveries at the boundary of the heliosphere, revealing more surprises about the Sun’s magnetic field. Do charged particles from the Sun carry the Sun’s magnetic field out to remote regions as present solar theory claims? |
New Surprises at the Heliospheric Boundary, Part 1 | Space News August 21, 2013 by B Talbott The NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 has provided scientists on earth with a series of theory-shattering surprises. The probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are now exploring the outer boundary of the Sun’s domain, called the heliosphere. What the probes have encountered are not what the astronomers expected. Through a series... |
Wallace Thornhill | The Interdisciplinary Story of the Electric Universe August 17, 2013 by B Talbott At the 20th annual meeting of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, Australian physicist Wallace Thornhill recounted his personal odyssey, starting with inspiration from Immanuel Velikovsky and culminating in an interdisciplinary perspective on the “Electric Universe.” Also at this meeting, Wal received the distinguished Sagnac Award for his lifelong contribution to science.... |
David Talbott | Exposing the Myths of “Settled Science” August 17, 2013 by B Talbott Is it possible that the foundational assumptions of the theoretical sciences all express a common misunderstanding? From cosmology, the “queen of the sciences,” a core dogma of the 20th century filtered down through every discipline, constraining our ideas about galaxy and star formation and ultimately (from the same underlying assumptions)... |
Gerald Pollack | The Fourth Phase of Water August 17, 2013 by B Talbott Dr. Gerald Pollack talks about the Fourth Phase of Water, which is also the title of his newly released book. Other Electric Universe presentations at the NPA20 conference included Wallace Thornhill’s talk “The Interdisciplinary Story of the Electric Unvierse” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxaP91FdijU Also posted from the NPA20 conference is the talk of... |
The Sun-Earth Connection | Space News July 26, 2013 by B Talbott Our reporter Cameron Mercer continues his interview with Steve Smith, managing editor of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day. The Earth-Sun connection, as part of the electrified heliosphere, makes clear that the Sun will never be properly understood apart from the electric currents through which planets and their satellites continually... |
Our Electric Sun and Its Environment | Space News July 7, 2013 by B Talbott For many decades few scientists have challenged the standard model of the Sun. But in truth countless unresolved mysteries of the Sun continue to haunt scientists. Is the Electric Universe the key to a new and better understanding of our local star? This interview provides a general introduction to the... |
The Accelerating Winds of Venus | Space News July 7, 2013 by B Talbott The astronomers studying the atmosphere of Venus are facing a new mystery. The Venusian winds have been steadily accelerating for the last 6 years. Scientists monitoring the Venus Express orbiter since 2006 noted the stunning increase in the already super fast winds, from 186 mph to 249 mph. The astronomers... |
The Electric Comet—Full Documentary June 20, 2013 by B Talbott We believe that this critical review of textbook comet theory can have a major impact on human understanding of these remarkable bodies. It can also reach well beyond the specialized science of comets to provoke a reconsideration of the Sun, planetary history, and a good deal more. We live in... |
Inconstant Radioactive Decay Startles Physicists | Space News June 20, 2013 by B Talbott For many years a scientific controversy has been brewing far from the spotlight of mainstream media. How constant are physical constants? For decades the scientific consensus has been that “true constants”, such as the speed of light and the gravitational force, remain unchanged over time. But in recent years more... |
Supernova “Too Bright” For Standard Theory | Space News June 4, 2013 by B Talbott Astronomers using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope recently observed a supernova that they say is “way too bright” for conventional theory to explain. |
Solar Outbursts Could Wreck Civilization | Space News May 27, 2013 by B Talbott Thunderbolts colleague Michael Armstrong, the manager of Mikamar Publishing, discusses the potential threat a powerful solar storm might pose to modern civilization. A frightening historical precedent for such a potential disaster can be found in the Carrington event of 1859. |
Electrical Origins of Chondritic Meteorites | Space News May 19, 2013 by B Talbott Wal Thornhill discusses the mystery of abundant millimeter-sized, roughly spherical “chondrules” in chondritic meteorites. What was the source of the enigmatic heating and rapid cooling of these embedded materials? |
Rupert Sheldrake on the TED controversy May 19, 2013 by B Talbott Dr. Rupert Sheldrake discusses TED’s controversial decision to remove his talk from their YouTube channel. Rupert’s response to TED and its anonymous scientific board may be read on the official TED blog: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-f… On his website, in the “Controversies” section, Rupert has documented many instances when he’s been forced to publicly... |
Panel: Electricity of Life – Part 2 | EU 2013 May 19, 2013 by B Talbott A lively panel at the EU 2013 conference featured Gerald Pollack, Maewan Ho, Rupert Sheldrake, Dean Radin, Craig Holdridge, and Wal Thornhill. Panel moderated by Jim Ryder. |
Panel: Electricity of Life – Part 1 | EU 2013 May 12, 2013 by B Talbott A lively panel at the EU 2013 conference featured Gerald Pollack, Maewan Ho, Rupert Sheldrake, Dean Radin, Craig Holdridge, and Wal Thornhill. Panel moderated by Jim Ryder. |
The Electrical “Volcanoes” of Jupiter’s Moon Io | Space News May 12, 2013 by B Talbott The so-called “volcanoes” on Jupiter’s moon Io have long been conventionally interpreted as the effect of tidal forces acting on the moon. But a recent scientific paper has announced that this longstanding explanation does not fit with the actual location of the plumes. Is it possible that this failure of... |
A P DAVID: Troy Towns, Homer’s Iliad and Labyrinths | EU 2013 April 28, 2013 by B Talbott In this fascinating discussion of cup-and-ring engravings, or rock art known as “‘Caerdroia” or “Troy-Towns,” A P David connects these forms to the symbolism of ancient labyrinths as possible reflections of electrical formations in the ancient sky. |
The Electrical “Volcanoes” of Jupiter’s Moon Io April 28, 2013 by B Talbott The so-called “volcanoes” on Jupiter’s moon Io have long been conventionally interpreted as the effect of tidal forces acting on the moon. But a recent scientific paper has announced that this longstanding explanation does not fit with the actual location of the plumes. Is it possible that this failure of... |
MEL ACHESON: “Show Me the Math!” | EU 2013 April 19, 2013 by B Talbott Our resident epistemologist explains why the displacement of observational and experimental science with mathematics is a formula for disaster. |
PAUL ANDERSON: Electrical Discharge on Earth’s Surface | EU 2013 April 19, 2013 by B Talbott Here Paul Anderson, PhD., presents new evidence for an electrical interpretation of unique ravine formations on the Earth. |
Saturn’s Electric Moon Enceladus, Part Two | Space News April 14, 2013 by B Talbott The Saturnian moon Enceladus may be one of the most enigmatic bodies in the solar system. For nearly a decade, NASA scientists have faced a series of puzzles that continue to challenge conventional theory. The electrical nature of these puzzling phenomena has grown increasingly evident. |
RON HATCH: Relativity in the Light of GPS | EU 2013 April 10, 2013 by B Talbott Perhaps you’ve already heard that GPS, by the very fact that it WORKS, confirms Einstein’s relativity; also that Black Holes must be real. But these are little more than popular fictions, according to the distinguished GPS expert Ron Hatch. Here Ron describes GPS data that refute fundamental tenets of both... |
MEL ACHESON: What’s the Matter with Matter? | EU 2013 April 5, 2013 by B Talbott Mel Acheson: What’s the Matter with Matter? |
An Impossibly Young Supernova? | Space News March 30, 2013 by B Talbott It seems that Supernova 2005gl in the barred spiral galalxy NGC 266 demolished standard theories of stellar evolution by exploding before it had shed its hydrogen envelope—a possibility denied by the commonly accepted model of supernovae explosions. |
BILL NICHOLS: Electric Earth, Electric Weather | EU 2013 March 19, 2013 by B Talbott Atmospheric scientist Bill Nichols offers a refreshing reconsideration of climate issues, with emphasis on the electrodynamic environment of the Earth, largely overlooked in the polarized debates on climate change. |
Supernova Defies Astronomical Theory | Space News March 19, 2013 by B Talbott A recently discovered supernova has left astronomers scratching their heads. It’s in the wrong cosmic neighborhood, and from the vantage point of conventional theory is behaving quite badly. |
Saturn’s Electric Moon Enceladus, Part One | Space News March 18, 2013 by B Talbott The Saturnian moon Enceladus may be one of the most enigmatic bodies in the solar system. For nearly a decade, NASA scientists have faced a series of puzzles that continue to challenge conventional theory. The electrical nature of these puzzling phenomena has grown increasingly evident. |
STEPHEN CROTHERS: Black Holes & Relativity, Part One | EU 2013 March 4, 2013 by B Talbott Yes, it’s an exotic subject, but Stephen Crothers has delivered a resounding critique of the most popular dogma in the theoretical sciences, all given at a level of common sense, free from mathematical elaborations. Download a PDF of Crothers’ powerpoint presentation here. Link to Part Two on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZ5O0jTH8A |
Electrical Scarring of Planets & Moons w/Stephen Smith, Pt. Two February 26, 2013 by B Talbott Thunderbolts Picture of the Day Managing Editor Stephen Smith continues his review of electrical scars on rocky bodies of the solar system, here concentrating on the planet Mars, perhaps the best laboratory in space for exploring the violent electrical history of our planetary neighbors and of earth itself. See also on... |
JAMES SORENSEN: Halton Arp & the Big Bang | EU 2013 February 25, 2013 by B Talbott Here is an introduction to challenges posed by the 20th century’s leading expert on peculiar galaxies. Halton Arp’s life’s work led him to discern a fundamental error in today’s cosmological assumptions: the common use of redshift to calculate galactic distances does not fit with systematic observations. |
Russian Meteor—Another Shock to the System February 25, 2013 by B Talbott The recent explosion of a large meteor over Russia caused hundreds of injuries and considerable damage to local buildings—the most destructive such event in more than 100 years. The explosion has also raised new questions pointing directly to the behavior of large meteors in the Electric Universe. |
GERALD POLLACK: Electrically Structured Water, Part 2 | EU 2013 February 25, 2013 by B Talbott In this lecture Dr. Jerry Pollack, a professor in the bio-engineering department of the University of Washington, discusses new insights into structured water garnered in his lab during the past year. Dr. Pollack has spent the last 10 years researching the role of water in biological tissue, and his discoveries... |
GERALD POLLACK: Electrically Structured Water, Part 1 | EU 2013 February 25, 2013 by B Talbott In this lecture Dr. Jerry Pollack, a professor in the bio-engineering department of the University of Washington, discusses new insights into structured water garnered in his lab during the past year. Dr. Pollack has spent the last 10 years researching the role of water in biological tissue, and his discoveries... |
Wal Thornhill & David Talbott | EU 2013 Off-Stage February 4, 2013 by B Talbott Wal Thornhill and David Talbott, founding members of The Thunderbolts Project, sat down for an interview at the recent conference, ELECTRIC UNIVERSE: THE TIPPING POINT. They review their converging interests, giving personal observations on the state of science today and the growing Electric Universe movement. |
SAFIRE: A Real-World Test of the Electric Sun (Part 1) January 30, 2013 by B Talbott Engineer Monty Childs, director of the SAFIRE project reviews the design of a laboratory experiment to test the Electric Sun hypothesis. How many anomalous features of the Sun can be replicated by a glow discharge in the laboratory? Now that the SAFIRE experiment has been assured of funding, it appears... |
Rupert Sheldrake: Science Set Free, Part 1 January 24, 2013 by B Talbott Part one of a talk by Rupert Sheldrake at the conference ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. See also part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKvvxku5So Many scientists like to think that science already understands the ways of the natural world. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details... |
Orion’s Spectacular “Cosmic Bullets” January 23, 2013 by B Talbott Luminous “cosmic bullets” accelerated out from the core of the Orion nebula raise new questions about the conventional understanding of plasma behavior in space. Wal Thornhill and David Talbott put the recent science news story in perspective. |
Ancient Origins of Doomsday Anxiety January 14, 2013 by B Talbott This brief video clip is a quick-draft giving first glimpses of a major project for 2013. The project will be included among several key themes at the upcoming conference, ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013:The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jan 3-6, 2013. |
Electric Discharge Scarring of Planets and Moons: Interview with Stephen Smith January 13, 2013 by B Talbott In this interview Stephen Smith, editor of the Thunderbolts Picture of the Day (TPOD) reviews evidence for a former epoch of planetary instability and massive electrical scarring of planets and moons. |
Thunderbolts of the Gods – Official Movie December 27, 2012 by B Talbott The 2004 documentary, “Thunderbolts – the Tutorial” has introduced hundreds of thousands of inquirers around the world to the basic concepts and principles of the Electric Universe. The Thunderbolts Project’s principal figures, including David Talbott, Wal Thornhill, and Don Scott, provide a compelling overview of the convergence of their respective works,... |
Greatest Mars Mysteries, Pt. One December 9, 2012 by B Talbott In early 2004 the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity touched down on the planet Mars to begin exploring the Martian environment. Due to calculations relating to accumulation of dust on their solar panels, the two robots were given an expected lifespan of 90 days each to gather as much scientific... |
Symbols of an Alien Sky – Official Full Movie December 7, 2012 by B Talbott We present the first in the Thunderbolts Project’s series of DVDs outlining David Talbott’s reconstruction of the ancient sky. Just a few thousand years ago a gathering of planets appeared as towering forms close to the earth, provoking spectacular electric discharge formations above our forebears. NEWS FLASH: “ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The... |
Voyager 1 Confirms Electric Heliosphere December 6, 2012 by B Talbott Mission scientists on NASA’s Voyager 1 mission have reported the discovery of “a new layer of the solar system that scientists hadn’t known was there.” The scientists are calling the region Voyager 1 has entered a “magnetic highway,” where “charged particles from inside the heliosphere …flow outward,” and cosmic rays come in. The... |
Stephen J. Crothers: Black Holes, General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation November 28, 2012 by B Talbott For several years now, far from the spotlight of mainstream media, a controversy has been brewing over the mathematical foundations of black hole theory and other widely accepted cosmological theories. Mathematician Stephen J. Crothers has offered the proofs that he says refutes the very existence of black holes, and also the Big Bang cosmology... |
Wal Thornhill Interview – “Comet Collisions” November 20, 2012 by B Talbott Physicist Wal Thornhill joins us to discuss astronomers’ claim that comet collisions, occurring every six seconds for the last ten million years, explains the mysterious cloud of carbon monoxide molecules surrounding the star 49 CETI. See also Wal’s timely new Thunderblog, Science’s Looming Tipping Point. |
Steve Smith – Reflections on the Electric Universe November 17, 2012 by B Talbott For over six years, Steve Smith’s extraordinary output of original Thunderbolts Pictures of the Day has provided an invaluable learning tool for inquirers into the electric universe. As Managing Editor of the TPOD, Steve has authored over 700 original articles, all written in clear, compelling language that is both understandable... |
Dr. Jeremy Dunning-Davies – Math is not Physics November 13, 2012 by B Talbott We welcome Dr. Jeremy Dunning Davies to our program to discuss the “math first” attitude and direction of institutionalized physics and astronomy. Dr. Dunning-Davies is a retired Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Hull, England. He is president of the Santilli-Galilei Association on Scientific Truth. And he is... |
Don Scott on the Electronic Sun November 9, 2012 by B Talbott Dr. Don Scott elaborates his theory of junction transistor-like action at the Sun’s surface. You may review Dr. Scott’s thesis online at http://www.electric-cosmos.org NEWS FLASH: “ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The Tipping Point.” A breakthrough conference, Jan 3-6 in Albuquerque New Mexico. Wal Thornhill, David Talbott, Rupert Sheldrake, Gerald Pollack, Mae Wan Ho,... |
Discovering the Electric Universe – Tom Wilson Interview November 8, 2012 by B Talbott Every day, new people of greatly varied backgrounds and interests, from the curious layperson to the professional scientist, discover the Electric Universe theory. Many, if not most, describe the discovery as life-changing. In this interview, Thunderbolts contributor Tom Wilson, a technology executive with a PhD in cell biology, explains in eloquent... |
Electric Universe: An Invitation to Future Scientists November 5, 2012 by B Talbott Cameron Mercer, recipient of a Natural Philosophy Alliance/Electric Universe conference scholarship, recounts what this program has meant to him. The program is possible only through independent financial support. Scholarships to the upcoming Electric Universe conference, Jan 3-6, can bring vitally needed inspiration to young people entering the sciences. Please do... |
Flashback — The CME that Shattered Solar Theory November 1, 2012 by B Talbott In this special “Flashback” edition of Space News, we review one of the most remarkable events ever recorded on the Sun. In 2005, a CME reached Earth in just 30 minutes – that means it traveled 96 million miles at more than one-quarter the speed of light! While a NASA... |
Voyager 1 Mystery — Solar Wind Ceases October 30, 2012 by B Talbott According to a new report, the latest data from the NASA space probe Voyager 1 has left scientists “without a working model for the outer solar system.” As the spacecraft reached what may be the outer boundary of the solar system, the solar wind had come to an inexplicable “standstill.” This was... |
Black Hole Surprise October 16, 2012 by B Talbott Scientists working with the VLA telescope recently discovered something very “surprising” — two bright radio spots in the globular cluster M22, which they interpret as proof of two small “black holes.” But the discovery does not fit with the expectations of black hole theorists. From http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2012/m22/: “We didn’t find what... |
The Impossible Star October 14, 2012 by B Talbott Astronomers today are puzzled by a star that by conventional wisdom should not exist. Scientists who have studied the star’s elemental composition discovered a stunning paradox – the star is made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, leading astronomers to believe it is the oldest star ever observed, and the closest... |
The Safire Project – Testing the Electric Sun October 9, 2012 by B Talbott Outside of the earth, the Sun is the most heavily studied body in the solar system. Yet almost all of the Sun’s features present major quandaries for solar physicists. But now, an expert on “Design of Experiment” methodologies, Monty Childs, is heading up a project to demonstrate how an electrified... |
Electric Galaxies Defy Big Bang October 2, 2012 by B Talbott Researchers using the Hubble telescope have spotted an “astounding” grand-design spiral galaxy – astounding, they say, because it shouldn’t exist. Based on the galaxy’s estimated age of 10.7 billion years, according to conventional theory, it should not display such complexity of form. In this presentation, we discuss whether astronomers’ methods for dating galaxies are... |
Deep Impact – Confirming the Electric Comet September 20, 2012 by B Talbott In the history of comet science, the most critical moment for the electric comet model was the evening of July 4, 2005. That was when a projectile from the Deep Impact probe struck the comet Tempel 1. The result was a stunning confirmation of key predictions by Wallace Thornhill and... |
Electricity Hiding Behind “Dark Matter”? September 16, 2012 by B Talbott Researchers working with data from the Planck satellite have detected an intense form of radiation called synchrotron radiation from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy – requiring an acceleration of charged particles to energies never imagined by textbook astronomy of the 20th century. Their conclusion: colliding particles of dark... |
Real Mars Mysteries for NASA’s Curiosity September 10, 2012 by B Talbott With the successful landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, NASA scientists will have new opportunities for discovery on the Martian surface. But will investigators be willing to question longstanding assumptions? |
The Sun–It’s Too Round September 2, 2012 by B Talbott Yet another “mystery” surrounding the Sun: scientists working with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have observed that the Sun is far too perfectly round. Centrifugal forces in a rotating ball of gas should make the Sun wider at its equator than along its axis – that’s the requirement of the... |
The Sun – Where’s the Convection? August 27, 2012 by B Talbott This little video segment is part of our experimental project development. At times a Skype interview works reasonably well, but sound quality can be unpredictable and video quality even more so. We’ve chosen to move ahead—imperfectly—because communicating information to a growing audience is the logical priority. Put the emphasis on essential... |
The Electronic Sun June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low EU2012 video excerpt Donald Scott Retired professor of electrical engineering Donald Scott discusses a transistor-like effect active on our Sun and regulating solar output, an effect that places the Sun squarely in the category of a glow discharge phenomenon. Longstanding mysteries disappear when seen through the lens of an electric sun. |
Seeking the Third Story June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low EU2012 video excerpt David Talbott This first of two talks by David Talbott provides an overview of human history, from the myth-making epoch to the rise of modern science. What will history look like, when we see the ancient past in terms of the archetypal accord between all of the... |
Returning Science to Real Physics June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low Wallace Thornhill Leading EU proponent Wal Thornhill takes us back to the fundamentals of the natural sciences before theoretical physics became a playground for mathematicians. “Mathematics is not physics,” he says, and the absolute requirement is that observation and experiment lead the way, inviting mathematicians to complete a picture, not build... |
The Role of Water in the Electric Body June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low Gerald Pollack Distinguished professor of bio-engineering Gerald Pollack introduces the remarkable electrical and plasma-like qualities of water, with attributes that can only expand our ideas about the Electricity of Life. This rapidly growing dimension of the Electric Universe paradigm has now opened up entirely new avenues for us, into one... |
Plasma Behavior in the Floating Water Bridge & Biology June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low EU2012 video excerpt R. Johnson The British proponent of the Electric Universe, Robert Johnson, expands on Gerald Pollack’s work, to show the remarkable similarities between the “floating water bridge” and a Birkeland Current, all the way down to a stable annulus and core-like structure, a bi-directional flow of charged particles,... |
The Catastrophic Termination of the Last Ice Age June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low EU2012 video excerpt Robert Schoch Easter Island petroglyphs and script find a new interpretation by geologist Dr. Robert Schoch, who compares them to the extraordinary plasma forms enumerated by plasma scientist Anthony Peratt. |
The Failed Attempts to Detect Macro Lensing June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low EU2021 video excerpt Edward Dowdye Jr. Contrary to what we’ve been told for decades, gravity does not bend light, according to Dr. Edward Dowdye, a former LASER Electro-Optics Engineer (retired) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. |
Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids June 6, 2012 by Ben Ged Low EU2012 video excerpt Wallace Thornhill One of the foremost advantages of the Electric Universe paradigm is its predictive success—at a level of undisputed discovery. Only an electrified solar system, centered on the Sun, will explain the things we now know about comets. The dirty snowball theory has failed virtually test,... |
Elenin and the Mystery of Exploding Comets March 6, 2012 by B Talbott It’s posted on YouTube for now, and early comments suggest that this video could open new communications with scientists, teachers, and students. For context, this 16-minute presentation is just a small part of the forthcoming Episode 3 of the “Alien Sky” series. The punchline to keep in mind is the... |
Seeking the Third Story February 25, 2012 by B Talbott Author David Talbott suggests that all of human history can be seen as just two stories. First, came the story of ancient mythology, when towering gods were said to have ruled the world. Then came the story of science, emerging from a growing distrust of the myths and a... |
Electric Universe 2012—The Human Story November 10, 2011 by B Talbott David Talbott previews the forthcoming conference, January 6-8, 2012, at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Now Available – Stars in an Electric Universe DVD This outstanding lecture delivered by Wallace Thornhill at the NPA 2011 Conference is now out on DVD! See our resources page for more information. |
Wal Thornhill NPA Lecture – Parts One & Two August 30, 2011 by B Talbott Australian physicist Wallace Thornhill delivers the John Chappell Memorial Lecture at the 2011 Natural Philosophy Alliance on the University of Maryland Campus, July 8, 2011. (Click here to comment) Wal Thornhill NPA Lecture – Part Two Thunderbolts of the Gods, by David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, introduces the reader... |