{"id":54830,"date":"2026-08-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/?p=54830"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:35:45","slug":"michael-clarage-adventures-in-planet-hunting-thunderbolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/2026\/08\/29\/michael-clarage-adventures-in-planet-hunting-thunderbolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Clarage: Adventures in Planet Hunting | Thunderbolts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f4N6M3ImjCA\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p>Planets have been discovered when light from a selected star is observed and analyzed methodically. In many cases within these solar systems, we learn about each planet&#8217;s mass, orbital period, and atmospheric composition.<\/p>\n\n<p>In studying over a dozen known solar systems, their planets are found at ever increasing distances from their parent star\u2014while the rate of increase at the size of the orbit follows a simple exponential function. Although, each system examined has a slightly different rate of exponential growth.<\/p>\n\n<p>Consider the potential of a force-free, counter rotating plasma around a Birkeland current. When an electric current flows through a plasma, the plasma rotates in shells. Could a naturally occurring rotating plasma shell around an electric force correspond to planet locations\u2014and clarify the physics of solar system formation?<\/p>\n\n<p>Astrophysicist Michael Clarage, PhD, ponders planet behavior in nearby solar systems and evokes Hannes Alfv\u00e9n\u2019s contention that gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planets have been discovered when light from a selected star is observed and analyzed methodically. In many cases within these solar systems, we learn about each planet&#8217;s mass, orbital period, and atmospheric composition. In studying over a dozen known solar systems, their planets are found at ever increasing distances from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/2026\/08\/29\/michael-clarage-adventures-in-planet-hunting-thunderbolts\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mm"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"The Thunderbolts Project\u2122","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54832,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830\/revisions\/54832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}