Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric (Electric Universe Theory)

[Clete]

The sort of thinking, the criticisms of modern science and the general overall gist of the following video is perhaps the most valuable thing one could take from Walt Thornhill. Of course, if much more of the Electric Universe theory turns out to be accurate than we currently expect then we'll all take much more but whether anything he says about cosmology is right or not, his attitude toward science and the way it should be done vs. the way it is being done, is, in my view, dead on correct.

 

[gcthomas]

CARL SAGAN is not a credible source!

You've gone from annoying to entirely intolerable.

I didn't read the rest. I don't need you for this. Good bye.

Carl Sagan was over simplifying for a popular audience. So, you dismiss the Cornell research astrophysicist as being an idiot for agreeing with me about redshifts? Figures.

Goods luck critiquing the videos from tie position of complete ignorance. This should be fun! :skeptic:

 

[Stripe]

Carl Sagan was over simplifying for a popular audience. So, you dismiss the Cornell research astrophysicist as being an idiot for agreeing with me about redshifts? Figures.

Goods luck critiquing the videos from tie position of complete ignorance. This should be fun! :skeptic:

How can redshifted light be determined to be from one side or the other?

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[Clete]

How can redshifted light be determined to be from one side or the other?

Sent from my SM-A520F using TOL mobile app

If I understand your question, I think you misunderstand the concept. Let me explain...

Whenever things get hot enough to put off light, the light they emit is at very specific frequencies. Conversely, if something isn't glowing of it's own according but has light bouncing off of it, portions of the light are absorbed rather than reflected. This too happens at very specific frequencies depending upon what is doing the absorbing. The result is a spectrum of light that is incomplete. It either has emission lines of absorption line depending on whether you talking about emitted or absorbed light spectra. Each element has a very specific set of spectral lines. This is how they know that both the Sun and Jupiter are made of mostly hydrogen and helium.

Red-shift happens when something is moving away from us at a rate sufficient to cause the frequency of the light to be dropped. It's just the same as when the pitch of train horn drops as it moves past and away from you only with light, a drop in pitch is detected by us as a shift toward the red end of the spectrum. The faster the motion away from us, the bigger the red-shift. Likewise, when something is moving toward us, the spectral lines are shifted toward the blue end of the spectrum. This is sometimes called blue-shift but more typically you'll see it refereed to as negative red-shift.

This concept is the foundational idea behind the big bang. It seems everywhere you look, everything appears to be moving away from us. The BBT implies that the further back in time you go, the faster the universe was expanding and since light take a long time to get to us, the further away something is, the more it should be red-shifted because of this increased speed of universal expansion. They, therefore, assume that the more something is red-shifted, the further away it is. Some things are so far distant that their spectra are shifted passed the red and into the infrared. This is why they are in the process of spending billions to send up an infrared space telescope.

The problem with this whole idea is that there are galaxies that have significantly different z values (red-shift is expressed as a value of z) that are physically connected together. In fact, the data would seem to suggest that in at least some cases, red-shift is not an indication of distance at all but rather of age. The EU, of course, believes red-shift to be an electrical phenomenon but then again, they think everything is an electrical phenomenon. I'm not convinced that they are right about the electrical nature of red-shift but I am convinced that it is not a reliable means to determining the distance to objects.

Here's a good video on the whole topic put out by the Thunderbolts Project people...

 

[Stripe]

If I understand your question, I think you misunderstand the concept. Let me explain...

Whenever things get hot enough to put off light, the light they emit is at very specific frequencies. Conversely, if something isn't glowing of it's own according but has light bouncing off of it, portions of the light are absorbed rather than reflected. This too happens at very specific frequencies depending upon what is doing the absorbing. The result is a spectrum of light that is incomplete. It either has emission lines of absorption line depending on whether you talking about emitted or absorbed light spectra. Each element has a very specific set of spectral lines. This is how they know that both the Sun and Jupiter are made of mostly hydrogen and helium.

Red-shift happens when something is moving away from us at a rate sufficient to cause the frequency of the light to be dropped. It's just the same as when the pitch of train horn drops as it moves past and away from you only with light, a drop in pitch is detected by us as a shift toward the red end of the spectrum. The faster the motion away from us, the bigger the red-shift. Likewise, when something is moving toward us, the spectral lines are shifted toward the blue end of the spectrum. This is sometimes called blue-shift but more typically you'll see it refereed to as negative red-shift.

This concept is the foundational idea behind the big bang. It seems everywhere you look, everything appears to be moving away from us. The BBT implies that the further back in time you go, the faster the universe was expanding and since light take a long time to get to us, the further away something is, the more it should be red-shifted because of this increased speed of universal expansion. They, therefore, assume that the more something is red-shifted, the further away it is. Some things are so far distant that their spectra are shifted passed the red and into the infrared. This is why they are in the process of spending billions to send up an infrared space telescope.

The problem with this whole idea is that there are galaxies that have significantly different z values (red-shift is expressed as a value of z) that are physically connected together. In fact, the data would seem to suggest that in at least some cases, red-shift is not an indication of distance at all but rather of age. The EU, of course, believes red-shift to be an electrical phenomenon but then again, they think everything is an electrical phenomenon. I'm not convinced that they are right about the electrical nature of red-shift but I am convinced that it is not a reliable means to determining the distance to objects.

Here's a good video on the whole topic put out by the Thunderbolts Project people...

My question is a test of those who holds to the big bang model.

They propose two sources of redshift. I just want to know if they can tell which kind they are looking at.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to differentiate between them.

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[Clete]

My question is a test of those who holds to the big bang model.

They propose two sources of redshift. I just want to know if they can tell which kind they are looking at.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to differentiate between them.

Sent from my SM-A520F using TOL mobile app

Oh! I see. Sorry I misunderstood the question.

I know for a fact that you cannot tell the difference - period.

They differentiate the two through statistical analysis of several different red-shift readings of several different galaxies. Once again, as with nearly all of the rest of modern science, its all about math over observation and experimentation. Observations don't mean squat until they've been run through the math mill and made to fit the proper paradigm. Anything that cannot be made to fit is shelved until someone figures out a way for make it fit or everyone forgets about it. Never is anything ever allowed to falsify anything - at least not anything important.

Here's an brief explanation I found online...

When looking at many galaxies in the same region of the Universe, and they all show velocities distributed around a certain average velocity away from us, and when we see that this velocity-distance relation holds true across the sky, we conclude that this average velocity is the expansion velocity of the Universe at that distance, and the deviations are Doppler shifts due to local proper motion of the individual galaxies.​

Note the circular reasoning. The only reason they differentiate one sort of red-shift from the other is because their theory states that there should be two kinds. They therefore finds reasons to find two kinds and say "See! Einstein was right!". The problem is that, observationally, there is no difference between the two and they ASSUME that if red-shift is not a straight forward Doppler effect then the only other option is the stretching of space, which has not been observed and in fact makes no sense. You cannot stretch nothing just as you cannot propagate a wave through nothing. And if you suggest something as radical as intrinsic red-shift, then you lose your telescope time and research funding.

That's not to say that there isn't good reason to believe that there is something going on with red-shift besides just how fast an object is moving relative to the observer. In fact, there is a lot of good reason to reject the notion that red-shifts are mere Doppler effected light as Halton Arp demonstrated beautifully at the cost of his career.

Clete

 

[gcthomas]

[MENTION=2589]Clete[/MENTION], hanging on to Arp's reading of a small sample of galactic images when a much larger sample thoroughly refutes his hypothesis is plain silly - it looks like you really need modern science to be wrong. As I said before: crank or creationist.

 

[Clete]

This is not one of the "Top Ten" videos but could be considered an expansion on the video about cosmic jets. Well worth your time to watch.
Note the discussion of EU predictions and things that must be found if the EU is at all correct.

 

[Clete]

Video #4 is finally out!

Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric: #4 Light Bulbs in Space

Transcript:

Spoiler

00:06
welcome to space news from the electric
00:08
universe brought to you by the
00:10
thunderbolts project at Thunderbolts dot
00:13
info on this series we are shining a
00:19
light on an unresolvable problem for
00:21
astrophysicists the challenge of
00:23
explaining unimaginably powerful
00:25
electromagnetic emissions and energies
00:27
in a universe in which electricity
00:29
causes nothing in our first three
00:32
episodes we explored this question
00:35
through our discussion of the stupendous
00:36
magnetic and filamentary structures seen
00:39
all throughout the visible universe the
00:42
features are neither predicted nor
00:44
explained in gravity centric cosmology
00:47
but they are the expected features of an
00:49
electric universe fantastic
00:51
electromagnetic phenomena are
00:53
increasingly recognized with each
00:55
passing year from the powerful electric
00:58
fields and supersonic plasma Jets
01:00
detected on our own earth to the
01:03
mysterious electron acceleration in
01:06
Jupiter's aurora and even tremendous
01:08
electric currents measured in galactic
01:11
Jets yet standard astronomy still holds
01:14
two theories in which mechanical and
01:16
kinetic processes collisions
01:19
explosions gravitational collapse
01:22
heating and shock waves produce the
01:25
measured electrical effects but it
01:28
cannot be a coincidence that ever finer
01:30
technological data only increases
01:32
astrophysicists expressions of amazement
01:35
and perplexity in this episode we will
01:39
explain why the discovery of quote giant
01:42
light bulbs in space is the forth of ten
01:45
reasons why the universe is electric the
01:49
Fermi bubbles it is one of a growing
01:52
list of astounding mysteries that demand
01:54
entirely new theoretical pathways for
01:58
over seven years
01:59
astronomers have struggled to explain
02:01
the presence of the so called Fermi
02:03
bubbles giant structures emitting
02:06
powerful gamma rays that stretch for
02:08
tens of thousands of light-years above
02:10
and below the Milky Way's spiral disk
02:13
both the structures mind-boggling size
02:15
and energetic emissions appeared to pose
02:17
intractable problems for astrophysicists
02:21
astronomers using the Fermi gamma-ray
02:23
Space Telescope discovered the so-called
02:25
bubbles in 2010 the energetic lobes
02:29
emanating from the Milky Way's Center
02:31
have been a source of extreme puzzlement
02:33
ever since the 2014 fizzle article
02:37
despite extensive analysis Fermi bubbles
02:40
defy explanation outlines the mystery as
02:43
follows the outlines of the bubbles are
02:46
quite sharp and the bubbles themselves
02:48
glow in nearly uniform gamma rays over
02:51
their colossal surfaces like to 30,000
02:54
light years all incandescent bulbs
02:57
screwed into the center of the galaxy
02:59
their size is another puzzle the
03:02
farthest reaches of the Fermi bubbles
03:04
both some of the highest energy gamma
03:06
rays but there's no discernible cause
03:08
for them that far from the galaxy as we
03:11
outlined in a recent space news episode
03:14
does gravity cause lightning in space it
03:17
seems almost beyond belief that
03:19
astrophysicists can only visualize
03:21
mechanical and kinetic processes even
03:24
when observing the unmistakable
03:25
signatures of electrical discharge
03:27
phenomena the aforementioned phys.org
03:30
report poses the question what blew the
03:33
bubbles as if air is being expelled from
03:36
the galactic center and filling a
03:38
balloon like fabric in the vacuum of
03:41
space
03:42
one theoretical possibility
03:44
investigators have proposed is that a
03:46
tremendous population of giant stars all
03:49
exploded at roughly the same time for
03:51
some reason somehow forming the gamma
03:54
ray bubbles as noted in the phys.org
03:57
report another ad hoc theory for the
04:00
quote bubbles is that they quote could
04:02
have been created by huge Jets have
04:04
accelerated matter blasting out from the
04:07
supermassive black hole at the center of
04:09
our galaxy
04:10
more recently in 2017 astronomers claim
04:14
that a so-called giant snack several
04:16
million years ago by the hypothetical
04:18
black hole believed to be at Sagittarius
04:20
a produced the energy that created the
04:23
bubbles
04:24
the scientists may have forgotten that
04:27
the supposed black hole had the
04:28
opportunity for another quote snack when
04:31
the gas cloud g2 made its
04:33
long-anticipated closest approach in
04:35
2014 apparently the imagined
04:39
gravitational monster was not hungry
04:41
leaving the gas cloud intact to the
04:44
amazement of astronomers around the
04:45
world we again note the irony of
04:49
scientists looking to colossal gravity
04:51
to explain stupendous electromagnetic
04:53
phenomena in this case no less than
04:57
quote incandescent bulbs screwed into
04:59
the center of our galaxy as we've
05:02
reported several times recently the
05:04
stupendous electric current in a
05:06
galactic jet estimated at 10 to the 18th
05:09
power amps or the equivalent to a
05:11
trillion bolts of lightning has been
05:14
measured by radio astronomers and the
05:16
seemingly unfathomable discovery of
05:18
radio jets in numerous galaxies in a
05:21
distant region of space all spinning in
05:23
the same direction will never be
05:25
explained by black hole proponents as
05:28
we've also discussed several times
05:30
recently in the electric universe an
05:33
ultra high density energy storage
05:35
phenomenon called a plasmoid is at the
05:38
core of the Milky Way a kind of load in
05:41
the Galactic electrical circuit rather
05:43
like a rechargeable battery in a
05:46
galactic circuit electrical power flows
05:48
inward along the spiral arms lighting
05:51
the Stars as it goes and is concentrated
05:54
and stored in the central plasmoid when
05:57
the plasmoid reaches a threshold density
06:00
it discharges usually along the galaxies
06:03
spin axis this process has been
06:06
replicated in the laboratory with the
06:08
plasma focused device the most seemingly
06:11
puzzling feature of the bubbles the
06:13
presence of the most intense gamma rays
06:15
at the outer edges of the bubbles at the
06:18
farthest distance from the galactic
06:19
center is explicable and indeed
06:22
predictable in the electrical
06:24
interpretation the father of plasma
06:27
cosmology Hannes Alfven proposed that a
06:30
plasma formation called a double layer
06:32
should be classified as a discrete
06:34
celestial object
06:36
that explosions of double layers could
06:38
be the source of gamma-ray bursts and
06:40
mysterious x-ray emissions a double
06:43
layer or what is known as a laying
06:45
mirror sheath forms between plasma
06:47
regions of different properties it's a
06:50
complete mystery to ask for physicists
06:52
why the most intense gamma rays should
06:54
be at the outer edges of the bubbles yet
06:57
in the electrical interpretation the
06:59
edges of the bubbles delineate the
07:01
boundary of the Galactic plasma
07:03
environment and that of deep space a
07:05
double layer only exists where there is
07:08
an electric current flowing through
07:10
space plasma in this case the double
07:13
layer at the bubbles edge would be like
07:15
a giant spherical plate capacitor with
07:18
positive charge on one plate and
07:20
negative charge on the other charged
07:23
particles are accelerated across the
07:25
double layer generating electromagnetic
07:27
radiation which can include x-rays and
07:30
gamma rays the double layer acts as a
07:33
boundary effect dissipating electrical
07:36
energy in a thin layer plasma scientist
07:39
dr. anthony peratt wrote in his book
07:41
physics of the plasma universe x-ray and
07:45
gamma ray sources are likely to have the
07:47
radiative energy supplied by electrical
07:49
currents while astronomers continue to
07:52
ascribe the bubbles to a mysterious
07:54
blast or eruption event millions of
07:57
years ago another important feature of
07:59
the bubbles completely defies this
08:01
notion while affirming the electrical
08:04
interpretation in 2013 in the journal
08:08
Nature scientists reported the
08:10
observation of quote - giant linearly
08:13
polarized radio lobes containing three
08:16
rich like substructures emanating from
08:18
the galactic center the lobes each
08:20
extend about 60 degrees in the Galactic
08:23
bulge closely corresponding to the Fermi
08:26
bubbles and are permeated by strong
08:28
magnetic fields of up to 15 micro Gauss
08:31
these extremely powerful magnetic fields
08:35
follow closely the directions of the
08:37
ridges which wind around the flow of
08:39
energy as we must find if the ridges in
08:42
fact represent electrical currents
08:46
critically the width of the ridges is
08:48
remarkably constant
08:50
at about 300 parsecs like the consistent
08:54
width of star-forming filaments the
08:56
constant width of the bubbles ridges is
08:58
the unmistakable hallmark of lightning
09:01
collisions
09:03
explosions eruptions geysers shockwaves
09:08
heating like countless others stupendous
09:11
electromagnetic phenomena in the cosmos
09:14
these kinetic and mechanical mechanisms
09:17
will never explain the spectacular Fermi
09:19
bubbles but why should it be surprising
09:22
that electricity is actually the source
09:24
of so called giant light bulbs in space
09:27
the celestial surprises will surely
09:30
continue until the light bulb of new
09:33
understanding begins to flicker in the
09:35
minds of astronomers illuminating for
09:38
them our electric universe
09:42
for continuous updates on space news
09:44
from the electric universe stay tuned to
09:47
Thunderbolts dot info
09:49
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[Clete]

Before this video, I don't recall having ever heard of Fermi Bubbles.

The images are mostly artists interpretations but, presuming that they are attempting to be faithful to actual data, they certainly look electromagnetic in nature.

If my understanding of the EU theory is correct, I think that there should be a dense ring of stars where the two lobes of the Fermi Bubbles come together. I could very easily be wrong about that though. That's just intuition based on having watched several of their videos and read some of their written material. I do know for a fact that there is a dense ring of stars orbiting the nucleus of the Andromeda Galaxy but that isn't likely the same phenomena because these Fermi Bubbles are much larger than could account for that ring, but something similar to it is what I'd intuitively expect to find where these bipolar lobes meet.

 

[JudgeRightly]

Video #4 is finally out!

Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric: #4 Light Bulbs in Space

Transcript:

Spoiler

00:06
welcome to space news from the electric
00:08
universe brought to you by the
00:10
thunderbolts project at Thunderbolts dot
00:13
info on this series we are shining a
00:19
light on an unresolvable problem for
00:21
astrophysicists the challenge of
00:23
explaining unimaginably powerful
00:25
electromagnetic emissions and energies
00:27
in a universe in which electricity
00:29
causes nothing in our first three
00:32
episodes we explored this question
00:35
through our discussion of the stupendous
00:36
magnetic and filamentary structures seen
00:39
all throughout the visible universe the
00:42
features are neither predicted nor
00:44
explained in gravity centric cosmology
00:47
but they are the expected features of an
00:49
electric universe fantastic
00:51
electromagnetic phenomena are
00:53
increasingly recognized with each
00:55
passing year from the powerful electric
00:58
fields and supersonic plasma Jets
01:00
detected on our own earth to the
01:03
mysterious electron acceleration in
01:06
Jupiter's aurora and even tremendous
01:08
electric currents measured in galactic
01:11
Jets yet standard astronomy still holds
01:14
two theories in which mechanical and
01:16
kinetic processes collisions
01:19
explosions gravitational collapse
01:22
heating and shock waves produce the
01:25
measured electrical effects but it
01:28
cannot be a coincidence that ever finer
01:30
technological data only increases
01:32
astrophysicists expressions of amazement
01:35
and perplexity in this episode we will
01:39
explain why the discovery of quote giant
01:42
light bulbs in space is the forth of ten
01:45
reasons why the universe is electric the
01:49
Fermi bubbles it is one of a growing
01:52
list of astounding mysteries that demand
01:54
entirely new theoretical pathways for
01:58
over seven years
01:59
astronomers have struggled to explain
02:01
the presence of the so called Fermi
02:03
bubbles giant structures emitting
02:06
powerful gamma rays that stretch for
02:08
tens of thousands of light-years above
02:10
and below the Milky Way's spiral disk
02:13
both the structures mind-boggling size
02:15
and energetic emissions appeared to pose
02:17
intractable problems for astrophysicists
02:21
astronomers using the Fermi gamma-ray
02:23
Space Telescope discovered the so-called
02:25
bubbles in 2010 the energetic lobes
02:29
emanating from the Milky Way's Center
02:31
have been a source of extreme puzzlement
02:33
ever since the 2014 fizzle article
02:37
despite extensive analysis Fermi bubbles
02:40
defy explanation outlines the mystery as
02:43
follows the outlines of the bubbles are
02:46
quite sharp and the bubbles themselves
02:48
glow in nearly uniform gamma rays over
02:51
their colossal surfaces like to 30,000
02:54
light years all incandescent bulbs
02:57
screwed into the center of the galaxy
02:59
their size is another puzzle the
03:02
farthest reaches of the Fermi bubbles
03:04
both some of the highest energy gamma
03:06
rays but there's no discernible cause
03:08
for them that far from the galaxy as we
03:11
outlined in a recent space news episode
03:14
does gravity cause lightning in space it
03:17
seems almost beyond belief that
03:19
astrophysicists can only visualize
03:21
mechanical and kinetic processes even
03:24
when observing the unmistakable
03:25
signatures of electrical discharge
03:27
phenomena the aforementioned phys.org
03:30
report poses the question what blew the
03:33
bubbles as if air is being expelled from
03:36
the galactic center and filling a
03:38
balloon like fabric in the vacuum of
03:41
space
03:42
one theoretical possibility
03:44
investigators have proposed is that a
03:46
tremendous population of giant stars all
03:49
exploded at roughly the same time for
03:51
some reason somehow forming the gamma
03:54
ray bubbles as noted in the phys.org
03:57
report another ad hoc theory for the
04:00
quote bubbles is that they quote could
04:02
have been created by huge Jets have
04:04
accelerated matter blasting out from the
04:07
supermassive black hole at the center of
04:09
our galaxy
04:10
more recently in 2017 astronomers claim
04:14
that a so-called giant snack several
04:16
million years ago by the hypothetical
04:18
black hole believed to be at Sagittarius
04:20
a produced the energy that created the
04:23
bubbles
04:24
the scientists may have forgotten that
04:27
the supposed black hole had the
04:28
opportunity for another quote snack when
04:31
the gas cloud g2 made its
04:33
long-anticipated closest approach in
04:35
2014 apparently the imagined
04:39
gravitational monster was not hungry
04:41
leaving the gas cloud intact to the
04:44
amazement of astronomers around the
04:45
world we again note the irony of
04:49
scientists looking to colossal gravity
04:51
to explain stupendous electromagnetic
04:53
phenomena in this case no less than
04:57
quote incandescent bulbs screwed into
04:59
the center of our galaxy as we've
05:02
reported several times recently the
05:04
stupendous electric current in a
05:06
galactic jet estimated at 10 to the 18th
05:09
power amps or the equivalent to a
05:11
trillion bolts of lightning has been
05:14
measured by radio astronomers and the
05:16
seemingly unfathomable discovery of
05:18
radio jets in numerous galaxies in a
05:21
distant region of space all spinning in
05:23
the same direction will never be
05:25
explained by black hole proponents as
05:28
we've also discussed several times
05:30
recently in the electric universe an
05:33
ultra high density energy storage
05:35
phenomenon called a plasmoid is at the
05:38
core of the Milky Way a kind of load in
05:41
the Galactic electrical circuit rather
05:43
like a rechargeable battery in a
05:46
galactic circuit electrical power flows
05:48
inward along the spiral arms lighting
05:51
the Stars as it goes and is concentrated
05:54
and stored in the central plasmoid when
05:57
the plasmoid reaches a threshold density
06:00
it discharges usually along the galaxies
06:03
spin axis this process has been
06:06
replicated in the laboratory with the
06:08
plasma focused device the most seemingly
06:11
puzzling feature of the bubbles the
06:13
presence of the most intense gamma rays
06:15
at the outer edges of the bubbles at the
06:18
farthest distance from the galactic
06:19
center is explicable and indeed
06:22
predictable in the electrical
06:24
interpretation the father of plasma
06:27
cosmology Hannes Alfven proposed that a
06:30
plasma formation called a double layer
06:32
should be classified as a discrete
06:34
celestial object
06:36
that explosions of double layers could
06:38
be the source of gamma-ray bursts and
06:40
mysterious x-ray emissions a double
06:43
layer or what is known as a laying
06:45
mirror sheath forms between plasma
06:47
regions of different properties it's a
06:50
complete mystery to ask for physicists
06:52
why the most intense gamma rays should
06:54
be at the outer edges of the bubbles yet
06:57
in the electrical interpretation the
06:59
edges of the bubbles delineate the
07:01
boundary of the Galactic plasma
07:03
environment and that of deep space a
07:05
double layer only exists where there is
07:08
an electric current flowing through
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space plasma in this case the double
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layer at the bubbles edge would be like
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a giant spherical plate capacitor with
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positive charge on one plate and
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negative charge on the other charged
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particles are accelerated across the
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double layer generating electromagnetic
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radiation which can include x-rays and
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gamma rays the double layer acts as a
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boundary effect dissipating electrical
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energy in a thin layer plasma scientist
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dr. anthony peratt wrote in his book
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physics of the plasma universe x-ray and
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gamma ray sources are likely to have the
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radiative energy supplied by electrical
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currents while astronomers continue to
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ascribe the bubbles to a mysterious
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blast or eruption event millions of
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years ago another important feature of
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the bubbles completely defies this
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notion while affirming the electrical
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interpretation in 2013 in the journal
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Nature scientists reported the
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observation of quote - giant linearly
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polarized radio lobes containing three
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rich like substructures emanating from
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the galactic center the lobes each
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extend about 60 degrees in the Galactic
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bulge closely corresponding to the Fermi
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bubbles and are permeated by strong
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magnetic fields of up to 15 micro Gauss
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these extremely powerful magnetic fields
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follow closely the directions of the
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ridges which wind around the flow of
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energy as we must find if the ridges in
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fact represent electrical currents
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critically the width of the ridges is
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remarkably constant
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at about 300 parsecs like the consistent
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width of star-forming filaments the
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constant width of the bubbles ridges is
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the unmistakable hallmark of lightning
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collisions
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explosions eruptions geysers shockwaves
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heating like countless others stupendous
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electromagnetic phenomena in the cosmos
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these kinetic and mechanical mechanisms
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will never explain the spectacular Fermi
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bubbles but why should it be surprising
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that electricity is actually the source
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of so called giant light bulbs in space
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the celestial surprises will surely
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continue until the light bulb of new
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understanding begins to flicker in the
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minds of astronomers illuminating for
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them our electric universe
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for continuous updates on space news
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from the electric universe stay tuned to
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A spoiler box would have been nice... Just sayng...

 

[Clete]

A spoiler box would have been nice... Just sayng...

A spoiler box? I don't think it would have ever occurred to me to use a spoiler box. I wasn't sure anyone was even going to watch the video!

 

[JudgeRightly]

A spoiler box? I don't think it would have ever occurred to me to use a spoiler box. I wasn't sure anyone was even going to watch the video!

The spoiler boxes can be used for more than just spoilers... Haha.

Here, if only for the timestamps and captions, on mobile your post is really long and takes a while to scroll through, hence the spoiler box.

 

[Clete]

The rate at which the top 10 videos are coming out is painfully slow. Had I known in advance the slaw rate of production I would have probably not started this thread until more had been released. Not that there's anyone seems willing to honestly debate them anyway.

The following video is already a few years old but the point they make at the end is just so perfectly suited to this thread that I couldn't resist posting it here...

 

[User Name]

The solar wind is caused by an electric field?

In physics an electric field applied to charged particles cause them to accelerate. The
Electric universe theory says that the solar wind is the result of such a field, and the Sun is electric, not fusion based.

Maxwell’s theory of acceleration, however, talks about a time variable field, not a fixed one, and what’s more the solar wind contains both positive and negatively charged ions (protons and electrons mainly). An electric sun would be positively charged and all the negatively charged electrons would be attached to it – not be pushed out from the Sun on a solar wind. This fact proves the Sun is not electric.

-- https://archive.is/3pLPJ

 

[User Name]

There's a reason these forces that are orders of magnitude stronger than gravity dont hold sway at cosmological distances. I'll break it down into two parts:

1: Electric field strength
Everywhere in the universe that you care to look, whenever you have a positive charge, you also have a negative charge, weather it's in plasmas, condensed matter or degenerate matter. The effect of this is that when you sum the positive charge field and the negative charge field, they cancel out at distances very near the source.

2: Magnetic field strength
Magnetic field strength is also a lot more significant at close distances than gravitational fields, but magnetic flux always forms closed loops in space. This means that it effectively does not follow the inverse square law, but, instead, an inverse cube law. This makes magnetic field strength drop off much, much more quickly with distance. I have two large (baseball sized) neodymium magnets that would utterly crush all the bones in your hand if you were to place them on either side of it, but at a distance of a couple of feet from each other there is no perceptible interaction.

This is why gravity dominates at cosmological distances. It follows the inverse square law and is unrestrained by any form of "antigravity" that would cancel it out.

'dark matter is an idiotic idea':
I don't think you understand what "dark matter" is. Its not ghostly magic undiscovered particles (though you may want to read the wikipedia page on the *known* properties of neutrinos). All dark matter is is matter that does not emit detectable radiation. It could (and probably is) a lot of things. Neutrinos, ejected planets and cold stellar remnants and naked black holes are all "dark matter".

The proponents of the electric universe "theory" seem to be making only half-educated pseudoscientific assertions, and every "explanation" they offer produces a dozen holes that they are too ignorant to see. For example "plasma redshift". That's great, certain kinds of *hot* plasma might produce some kind of red shift effect, so what, are they saying that the entire interstellar medium is made up of hot plasma? Are you f*$#ing serious with this s&$t? The obvious (stupidly obvious) hole here being that we don't observe *any* "hot interstellar plasma" (which is quite easy to detect by the way).

-- https://archive.is/3pLPJ#selection-1417.52-1443.599

 

[gcthomas]

The argument that the Sun doesn't experience nuclear fusion had to provide a reason for the production of Judy the right number of solar neutrinos, which are a quantum particle produced in the Weak Force interactions that are associated with fusion events. Neutrinos ate observational evidence of solar fusion, and more proof that EU is a great big pile of the steaming stuff.

 

[Clete]

The solar wind is caused by an electric field?

I don't think this is an accurate way of stating what the EU says. The solar wind is caused by the Sun (i.e. processes happening in and around the sun). It is the acceleration of the solar wind that is caused by an electromagnetic field.

In physics an electric field applied to charged particles cause them to accelerate.

Exactly, but to the modern standard model cosmologist the accelerated solar wind is a big mystery.

The Electric universe theory says that the solar wind is the result of such a field, and the Sun is electric, not fusion based.

It does not deny that fusion is taking place inside the sun, nor does it deny that the solar wind is the result of what are probably numerous different processes, including nuclear fusion. What it denies is that gravity is the primary cause of what is happening inside the sun. The EU does not deny the existence of gravity nor that it is responsible for causing things the happen in the cosmos. It merely adds the electromagnetic force, which is all but infinitely more powerful than gravity over long distances, back into the cosmological equation.

Maxwell’s theory of acceleration, however, talks about a time variable field, not a fixed one, and what’s more the solar wind contains both positive and negatively charged ions (protons and electrons mainly). An electric sun would be positively charged and all the negatively charged electrons would be attached to it – not be pushed out from the Sun on a solar wind. This fact proves the Sun is not electric.

-- https://archive.is/3pLPJ

Now that is an interesting argument that I have not yet heard. I'll read that whole article as soon as time allows and I'll see if I can find a response from the EU folks.

This is just the sort of thing I was hoping would be posted here. Care to do some digging to find some things that directly address the topics addressed in the actual "Top Ten Reasons" videos? If so, I'd love to read what ever you find.

Clete

 

[Clete]

User Name,

After reading that critique you linked to, I have to say that I'm rather disappointed in it. It was way too generalized and made assumptions based on those generalizations that just do not accurately portray what the EU is. In short, the author set up five straw men and, after knocking them down, declared the EU debunked. In fact, the article is so over generalized, it really makes me wonder just how much actual research the author did before writing his debunking article.

Not that I think the guy is lying. I just think that people tend to assume too much. People, especially professional scientists, hear "alternative cosmology" and instantly assume that whatever it is must be on par with ancient alien theory or something similar. They instantly leap to the crack-pot/lunatic presumption and automatically read that into whatever they see. Of course, no one can blame them for that too much because there is no doubt that the vast majority of alternative cosmologies are indeed nothing more than some wacko trying to gain his fifteen minutes of fame. In addition to that, the EU folks do, in my opinion, allow far too many people who aren't scientists and who's material is not scientific to be associated too closely with the EU model. I, for example, don't buy hardly a single word of what David Talbot proposes.

At any rate, there are some descent responses to that specific critique HERE.

Clete

 

[User Name]

In Number 4 of our ongoing series, "The Top Ten Reasons 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 a feature is both explicable and predictable in the Electric Universe.

The Fermi Bubbles are two huge structures “burped out” by the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole and visible in X-ray and gamma-ray light. -- http://astronomy.com/news/2017/03/fermi-bubbles