🔵 Plasma Cosmology, The Electric Universe & The Thunderbolts Project - Difference/ Background/ Basic Tutorials (Pt 1)
Plasma Cosmology:
Modern Plasma Cosmology has evolved from but is inspired by what was once known as the "Plasma Universe" It puts forward that gravity is not the dominant force in the universe, and that electrodynamic forces are as important or more important (depending on the order of magnitude). It is centered around a connected universe where charge separation is prevalent, but its scope and focus remain rooted in astronomy including Cosmology and Astrophysics. Not every Plasma Cosmology devotee has the same position, but it generally retains the thermonuclear core star principle from the Standard Model despite radically different views on star formation.
Electric Universe Paradigm:
Uses the principles above in all astronomical matters but goes further by invoking the Electric Sun Model, which has a variety of possibilities rooted in self-contained plasma magnetic entities, double-layers and arc discharge anode-cathode heliosphere principles that will be explained later on. The EU paradigm goes significantly further by making the case that the principles defining Plasma Cosmology must therefore be in play in fields such as Geology, Archaeology, Biology, Weather and more since the plasma state of matter is the state we find in over 99℅ of the matter in existence. The Electric Universe highlights how an "overall universal charge" is not needed. Neither is a "source for all the electrons". This is simply because of the clear and pervasive influence of many forms of charge separation on all scales. That means the principles should apply broadly throughout our reality since this would be an inescapable logical consequence of the laws of Classical Physics.
The Thunderbolts Project:
TBP is one movement within the EU community, without doubt the leading influencer. It goes further yet in scope by reinvestigation of historical events through the EU prism. TBP introduces the potent angle of a spirit of cross disciplinary co-operation as an antidote to the over specialisation that we see in science today. Thunderbolts is also known for its novel view of placing value in the vast libraries of resources available to researchers in ancient mythology. This becomes valuable not by subjective speculation but by using a system where the archetypes of global myths are extracted, and it follows logically that the common themes must regarded as a source of historical value commensurate with how widely proliferated they are, especially when understood through Electric Universe principles.
NB: Foreword
If you are like me, someone with a keen interest all things science, you may feel a certain degree of resistance to these ideas after so much exposure to the science of "Big-Bang" cosmology (The LAMBDA-CDM concordance model) and all the spin that comes with it. I would urge you to overcome those feelings if your sense of certainty gives you the need to dismiss this science out of hand. That would be an unfortunate error in judgement that will cost you a rich source of the most elegant and powerfully predictive science currently available.
If you are indeed willing to open your mind to these findings you will open yourself up to the extraordinary explanatory powers of Plasma Cosmology and The Electric Universe. At this point a remarkable thing happens:
You will find that most of the dead ends in the space sciences will suddenly seem like new horizons.
Pay no mind to those "debunking" videos on YouTube or other mainstream platforms. I will get to why they are so weak. Better still, I will place you in a position to have enough of a grasp of the fundamentals that you will not take them seriously and may even be able start spotting the agendas behind the attacks. Usually, they are out of a sense of feeling threatened. Unbeknown to some this is actually an extremely well backed up set of disciplines experimentally and is not as much at the mercy of the musings of the more theoretical physics as the standard model is, nor to the projections or modelling mathmagicians (in cases where they conflict with observations) either. As with anything, it's not immune to errors or hypotheses and has a healthy appetite for reviewing its own body of work. It's vital to keep in mind at all times that The Electric Universe now has many voices and no one voice speaks on behalf of all. It encourages speculation but always seems perfectly clear on the boundary of where there are proven principles based on such fundamentals as Maxwells equations and alternatively when there is speculating. Compared to Theoretical Physics of standard models it speculates in increments instead of compounding layers of assumption on top of each other creating a house of cards. Such speculation is very sensible and as such it is very healthy.
However:
What you will not find...
You will not find speculation that "reality is a two-dimensional hologram projected onto the surface of a three-dimensional sphere" here. Nothing real exists in two dimensions, it boggles the mind that String Theorists could overlook that obvious fact! Neither will you learn that reality exists in eleven or more spatial dimensions as the mathematics of trendy theoretical physics requires.
This is because there are only three spatial dimensions. A "dimension" in mathematics merely represents a degree of freedom and should never substitute for real world representation, relatability, ability to communicate in principle what concept means and most importantly the one thing modern astrophysics repeatedly ask you to disregard in a form of brainwashing. That thing is common sense. Place value in it.
Observation must be explainable in cause/ effect terms as was always done in classical physics. These should all be self-evident, and it goes without saying that they are all critical aspects of what the new cosmology must be. I am here to tell you that this is possible, it's already been achieved! There are very important consequences. In this regard you will not find that over 80% of the universe is mysterious invisible "dark matter" here, or that (together with the equally fantastical "dark energy") almost all of the universe has turned out to be "missing".
What are the main space sciences?
Astronomy is the broad strokes science of all celestial bodies., planets, moons etc in the night sky. It's involved with the physics somewhat, but also mapping, charting, practical application of telescope and observatory resources and incorporates under it both Astrophysics & Cosmology. The institutions under the current establishment do not teach competing hypotheses and despite heavy competition for funding interally it must be said that overall the status quo has the monopoly on public funding and the public understanding of science.
Astrophysics involves itself principally with the actual physics involved with these bodies. It's become increasingly mathematically reliant and as an example it would attempt to deal with the problematic physics of the thermonuclear fusion model of the sun, or the infinities laden black hole physics as well as interface with such things as String Theory etc. Cosmology is tasked with the ultimate quest. The big picture questions. What is the origin and fate of the universe. Should we persist with the failing LAMBDA-CDM standard cosmological model or look at contenders to the throne such as Plasma Cosmology. Despite an overlap with Astrophysics, it is Cosmology that will ultimately be discipline that we use as our arena for questions beyond the overall model, such as:
- Was there a big bang?
- How old is the universe?
- What are space and time?
- How many dimensions are they set in?
- What is the Cosmic Web?
- What is the origin of comets etc.
- What is "embedded space" and is it a consequence of or setting for space and time?
Its Cosmology that was once referred to as the "queen of the sciences".
And may I cordially welcome you to the rabbit hole!
An introduction to the Electric Universe by the founders of The Thunderbolts Project.
Getting a sense of the current landscape in Astronomy, Cosmology and Astrophysics:
Below: The nature of the current insurgency, why it's so critical it must happen, and a succinct overview of the sun's electrical environment. The embedded clip below includes a quick overview of how exactly it works. This is an important fundamental aspect of understanding what is to follow.
T u t o r i a l s :
Plasma Cosmology Basics
Hannes Alfven looms large as one of the fathers of Plasma Cosmology and Plasma Physics. He is the inventor of Magnetohydrodynamics. Those equations are known for creating beautiful elegance out of the extraordinarily complex dynamics of plasmas. I included the transcript of his acceptance speech for his Nobel Prize because physicists have not gotten the message where he warns about the danger of using his creation for space plasma.
That being said, the Bristol and Philadelphia Institute of Physics Publishing has a free booklet available on Plasma Physics which you can download for free by clicking here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321587589_The_Fourth_State_of_Matter
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More great free EU books from Everything Is Electric
What makes Plasma so important?
Plasma is known as the fourth state of matter (Solids, liquids and gasses being the first three) although in truth it should be known as the first since plasma actually makes up over 99% of matter in the universe. Even the emergence of studies in condensed matter must acknowledge that even where not a gaseous plasma, any form of ionised matter is still a plasma. The influence of gravity as a very weak force compared to the electromagnetic force is well established. Electromagnetism - the force we know best - is 10 to the 36th power stronger than Gravity. That's actually a staggering fact for perspective. That means its 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times stronger!) and this fact has been well integrated into the plasma physics used by Plasma Cosmology. In a tug-of-war contest over a ball bearing, a child's magnet using its remnant magnetic field could easily defeat the entire mass of the earth using gravity.
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| Work out the mass of the earth using the equations above to determine how large the earth would need to be in order for its gravity to overpower the electrostatic force. |
Destroying the first myth of LAMBDA CDM Cosmology using basic physics!
There is no such thing as magnetic charge, only electric charge. The polarity of the electric field is established by movement of electric charge in a +/- circuit, a moving electric field results ins a magnetic field which in turn inherits is polarity from the initial direction of the current. Even in the case of remnant magnetism a magnetised conductor initially required a directional charge flow to form, and we know this by measuring the dipolar orientation of loadstone to work out when we had magnetic pole flips in the past. This is basic stuff and, in a stroke, destroys they myth of "magnetic reconnection" which cosmologists still rely on today. You can break a circuit which in turn interrupts the fields, but you are in violation of fundamental physics thinking you can break a magnetic field that somehow exists without being consequential of an electric field, although even that point is moot since (as Hannes Alfven himself called the "biggest mistake of my career") you cannot have magnetic fields "frozen in" to space plasma or plasma in moving low pressure gas. Even if it were possible to do so there would be no "reconnection" of a broken field searching for the other half of its severed former self.
This can be show by breaking a magnet in half, the result is no different to what would happen if you connected a conductor midway through a circuit and disconnected the latter half in doing so, it keeps the same orientation despite having a new pole where the halfway point was. With remnant magnetism each half does the same since instead of current causing the field it simply orientated a conductor which has the property of facilitating movement of electrons due to its structure, but vitally, that directional movement was set in place when it was magnetised. So, any residual movement of available electrons was established already but the solid nature of metals is not a characteristic of space plasma so it cannot be "frozen in", no matter how weakly.
The critical takeaway is of course that you first need current to form the fields. Once this happens, they can obviously in turn induce further current, but this relies on electric charge for orientation, since as mentioned there is no magnetic charge, so you cannot start any cosmic origin process from magically appearing magnetic fields whose origin is uncertain, that is not science. It's not analogous to a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" scenario.
Plasma cosmologists understand that magnetism is everywhere in space, and that only electric currents cause magnetic fields. What's so interesting is that a Plasma only needs to be 1% ionized to conduct. It is an excellent conductor. There is resistance though, its not a perfect conductor and the importance of that will become apparent later.
Plasma Physics by contrast and despite a huge overlap has to some extent been sanitised under LAMBDA CDM consensus institutions. (See Alfven's speech above). So, the inventor of Magnetohydrodynamics himself has warned that his own theory is rubbish in certain applications. MHD parading as tidy mathematics fails to account for the well-established fact that self-contained Plasma Magnetic Entities in space will not behave like a mysteriously magnetised fluid. They operate on complex electrodynamic interactions. Ionized plasma has the charged particles, the protons and electrons, separated from the atomic structure to some degree to facilitate the movement of charge (electric current). This ionized plasma in the form of Birkeland Current provides the facilitation of these currents over vast distances and even when they may be extremely weak in any one concentrated place. Their influence over galactic scales is powerful compared to the weak force of gravity. Experimental back up is solid with the disciplines. Repeatable, falsifiable observation is strong.
More recently this was done by Professor Anthony Peratt, of Los Alamos Labs more well known for his groundbreaking classified high budget work in the US governments plasma nuclear bomb program. He took the data from that work and modelled it, including computer models approximating all of the main spiral galaxy formations.
Norwegian scientist and explorer Kristian Birkeland, while investigating the aurora discovered the electric currents that cause them, now bearing his name "Birkeland Currents"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Birkeland
A terrella (Latin for "little earth") is a small magnetised model ball representing the Earth, that is thought to have been invented by the English physician William Gilbert while investigating magnetism, and further developed 300 years later by the Norwegian scientist and explorer Kristian Birkeland, while investigating the aurora.
Plasma, if occurring on earth, we tend to think of more in the terms of the gas laws, or we may see it as lightning or fire, in chemical reactions and this is true in a small way in plasma discharges in some places in the universe too, but the plasma that conducts electric current in any florescent bulb or neon light is closer. But we will still never see the incredible self organizing properties of ionized plasma until we move out to the realm that plasma truly dominates.
That is just the beginning of this incredible journey into the most exciting and cross-disciplinary field in all of science.
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EU and Plasma Physics in the early days of the first pioneers.
Norwegian scientist and explorer Kristian Birkeland, while investigating the aurora discovered the electric currents that cause them, now bearing his name "Birkeland Currents"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Birkeland
A terrella (Latin for "little earth") is a small magnetised model ball representing the Earth, that is thought to have been invented by the English physician William Gilbert while investigating magnetism, and further developed 300 years later by the Norwegian scientist and explorer Kristian Birkeland, while investigating the aurora.
An example of one of his experiments is depicted on the left front of a previous version of the Norwegian 200 kroner note; it shows a magnetized terrella, simulating the Earth, suspended in an evacuated chamber. Birkeland's face appears a second time in a watermark in the blank space above the drawing of the Terrella, and his rudimentary magnetosphere appears on the back, but is only visible under ultraviolet light. The ring encircling the magnetic pole depicted on the back of the bank note is similar to the patterns predicted by Birkeland and shown more recently by satellites. His drawing of what became known as Birkeland currents from his book, The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902–1903,[7] is shown on the back of the banknote at the right.
In 2017, Yara International ordered the Yara Birkeland, which will be the world's first autonomous ship and is named after Birkeland. It will enter service in 2018 and be fully autonomous by 2020.[20]
Those days seem so long ago. Today theoretical physicists ACTUALLY ADMIT that they have abandoned the scientific method! (Below)
Michio Kaku: Mathemagician
They have abandoned it in favour of mathematics, which is how we got into such a mess.
https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2019/12/mcmathematics-mathemagicians.html?m=1A different way to understand Plasma required by Plasma Physics
Plasma, if occurring on earth, we tend to think of more in the terms of the gas laws, or we may see it as lightning or fire, in chemical reactions and this is true in a small way in plasma discharges in some places in the universe too, but the plasma that conducts electric current in any florescent bulb or neon light is closer. But we will still never see the incredible self organizing properties of ionized plasma until we move out to the realm that plasma truly dominates.
That is just the beginning of this incredible journey into the most exciting and cross-disciplinary field in all of science.
Alvens galactic circuit, the first of many models to follow:
The notion of the galactic circuit is eclipsed by the cosmic web, or once the nature of ionized plasmas is accounted for, the cosmic circuit is a better way of understanding the vast scales electrodynamics forces control. Not dark matter, gravity does not form filaments, electromagnetism does.
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| Cosmic web or cosmic electromagnetic grid? |
And here is an Academic Paper:
*See the bottom of the post for a complete list of source references since from this point I wont reference them after each point is made, there are too many.
Accretion discs? or Bennet Pinches / Z-Pinches?
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| NOT a nebula but a pinch in a Birkeland Current Filament creating a star which often remains connected to the current filament as an anode focus or anode sun. |
The idea that a gas, dust or gas cloud exists as if obeying noble gas laws and subject to kinetic factors determining its fate is quite frankly absurd. This ignores the fact that radiation ionises everything in space and well-established plasma physics principles MUST therefore be at hand and in play. Gases, when not self-organized through twisted filaments or double layers, immediately disperse widely into the vacuum of space. This is well known. Gravity is far too weak to self-organize matter this way, especially competing with electrodynamics.
Furthermore, this is reflected by the failure of computer models to simulate the accretion discs and early stellar and planetary formation required by the standard model. It comes as no surprise when we see how straightforward the Plasma Cosmology models are, and all along consistent with understood dynamics proven by plasma physics in laboratories.
Is there such a thing as "Dark Matter"?
Black holes or Plasma Magnetic Entities (plasmoids)?
Nothing has the paw-print of a huge money-wasting scam imprinted all over it as much as the fruitless search for dark matter. So much so that it deserves its own post, which you can find by clicking here.
Black holes or Plasma Magnetic Entities (plasmoids)?
Baffled Again: I thought black holes were considered "dormant" only when not snacking on an accretion disc? I never knew they could decide to take a break and decide sometimes they just would do any sucking.... many physicists concluded that we may need to revisit our model. Meanwhile, This behavior, The self contained plasma magnetic entity, was already predicted by the proponents of an Electric Universe, who all along had been saying we were looking at a phenomenon of electrodynamics known as a PLASMOID.
Embarrassing fail for ^CDM
Plasmoids are known science. Black Holes by contrast cannot be observed, not even by Event Horizon team. They interpret what is actually seen which are bright X-Ray points. Black Holes remain speculation despite the press releases treating them as if they are established fact or that we have taken photos of them. Let that sink in for a moment, think of the devastating consequences to this and keep an open mind.
Moreover, Plasmoids are expected phenomena in Plasma Cosmology, and surprise surprise, they were predicted and expected exactly where black holes are alleged to be in the standard cosmological model (SCM from this point on).
Plasmoids by contrast expected and predicted all the surprises later added ad-hoc to Black
Hole theory like Magnetic fields, the hot torus surrounding them, the Galactic Jets and their current readings etc etc because they were observed in labs and anticipated in space AND FOUND ULTIMATELY. There is a term for that in science: predictive success!
Nobody has seen a black hole, the chance of them mysteriously occurring where plasmoids should be is weak, recent "proof" of a black hole only showed us the characteristic doughnut shape of a plasmoid.
Hole theory like Magnetic fields, the hot torus surrounding them, the Galactic Jets and their current readings etc etc because they were observed in labs and anticipated in space AND FOUND ULTIMATELY. There is a term for that in science: predictive success!
And here the cosmic jets only act as EVIDENCE for Plasma Cosmology. Black holes should not eject matter, even by the given patchwork reasoning, nor should they remain so thin and focused without dispersion into the vacuum of space, among other other theory-shredding problems. These are evidence of plasmoidal behavior.
Black holes also get a post of their own. For a more thorough scrutiny of the case against black holes can be found by clicking on this text.
Neutron stars, and other very exotic stars
The childish physics behind Neutron stars, which violate nuclear physics island of stability and make ridiculous claims. Pulsars are not billion ton per teaspoon fantastical beasts that spin several times per second.
Do you really think such things exist? Just because the mathematics takes us there?
They are simply strobe-like stars whose electrodynamic environment mimics a simple relaxation oscillation circuit.
Let's be serious for a moment here. Neutronium, just like "strange matter" or dark matter or MOND or dark energy is not a discovery. It's a failure to explain observation with known physics. If we were doing science, we would be forced to seek an explanation that could explain more. Instead, we assume we can't be wrong. We assume that all that must be going on is that invisible things or new physics iare in play, so we invent what is precisely needed to explain the error margin and patch up the theory. Never mind the intractable logical conflicts even in the mathematics, such as those surrounding infinities with black holes. This is not science, it's almost not even Sci-fi.
Pulsars. Are pulsars these strange objects defying belief, where a teaspoonful weighs more than Mount Everest, where the entire star rotates as fast as a dentists drill... or is there a simple, sensible electrical pulsing explanation that is entirely believable, scientifically much more rigorous and does not go head-to-head with common sense?
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