Also see Plasma Universe links.
Beware of first-hand ideas! [...] First-hand ideas do not really exist [...] Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible, tenth-hand, for then they will be far-removed from that disturbing element-direct observation.
The Machine Stops, E M Forster (1909).
Major discoveries, I said, are not like the discovery of America, where the general nature of the discovered object is already known. Rather, they are like recognizing that one has been dreaming.
Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend, p.92.
It was ... quite a shock to hear Feigl expound fundamental difficulties and to hear him explain in perfectly simple language without any recourse to formalism why the problem of application [of the probability-calculus] was still without a solution. Formalization, then, was not the last word in philosophical matters. There was still room for fundamental discussion-for speculation (dreaded word!); there was still a possibility of overthrowing highly formalized systems with the help of a little common sense!
Paul Feyerabend, Existential Hypotheses (1950), p5.
According to Feyerabend, only by endorsing scientific realism can the scientist cleave to a methodology which would consistently bring out the (conceptually) revolutionary potential of scientific theories, rekindling the kind of fire Galileo had lit under the Aristotelian world-view.
Paul Feyerabend - The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
In any case, there are many fields-I shall call them proto-sciences-in which practice does generate testable conclusions but which nevertheless resemble philosophy and the arts rather than the established sciences in their developmental patterns. I think, for example, of fields like chemistry and electricity before the mid-eighteenth century, of the study of heredity and phylogeny before the mid-nineteenth, or of many of the social sciences today. In these fields, too, though they satisfy Sir Karl's [ Popper's] demarcation criterion, incessant criticism and continual striving for a fresh start are primary forces, and need to be. No more than in philosophy and the arts, however, do they result in clear-cut progress. I conclude, in short, that the proto-sciences, like the arts and philosophy, lack some element which, in the mature sciences, permits the more obvious forms of progress. It is not, however, anything that a methodological prescription can provide. Unlike my present critics, Lakatos at this point included, I claim no therapy to assist the transformation of a proto-science to a science, nor do I suppose anything of this sort is to be had.
- Thomas Kuhn, Criticism and the growth of knowledge, 1970
"To give you an idea, the electromagnetic force is approximately 1036 times stronger than the earth's gravitational field! That is (to put it in perspective) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times stronger than gravity on Earth!"
Source: The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment.
"Gravity, the weakest of the four forces, is about 10-36 times the strength of the strong force. This weakness is easily demonstrable - on a dry day, rub a comb across your shirt to give it static electricity, then hold it over a piece of paper on a desk. If you were successful, the piece of paper lifts off the desk. It takes an entire planet to keep the paper on the desk, but this force is easily overcome with everyday materials employing the electromagnetic force."
Source: CosmoNet is an educational site dedicated to all forms and aspects of cosmology.
"The electromagnetic force also has infinite range but it is many times stronger than gravity."
Source: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
"...electromagnetism, for instance, which is the binding force for virtually all ordinary biological and chemical phenomena or Earth, is intrinsically 10^39 times stronger than gravity."
Source: THE IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY.
"...electromagnetic forces are so enormously strong, 1040 times stronger than gravity."
Source: MIT Physics 8.02, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"In fact, the electromagnetic force is many times stronger than gravity."
Source: Cornell University Library.
One would expect there to be a large bias towards our relationship with gravity. Just like the air it is one of our most immediate concerns that we deal with where we live. This is anthropomorphic and anthropic, meaning it is our own immediate relationship with the reality that we find ourselves in as humans that effects our outlook. There is really nothing strange about this or controversial when this is looked at in this way. Most people have not experienced zero gravity or been out in the universe and seen the vastly more powerful electromagnetic forces at work. We do see this in a small way as the northern lights (Aurora) or even as the light coming from the Sun which is another electrical property. But in the common human experience it is gravity that effects so many things that we do. The engineering of structures, even the way we walk are all determined in some way by gravity. However that gravity, in the way we experience it, is a product of of what is really a very thin surface wrapped around a sphere - our planet - that we happen to live in (I thank Wal Thornhill for this insight). This bias has carried through into the cosmological sciences. It does skew many discoveries and can cause sociological stress - especially between many eminent scientists of one kind of another who might disagree on these points. But we have only relatively recently established a rational and logical form of science born out of many struggles over the centuries. That science is still evolving away from some principles that have been influenced by anthropomorphic concerns. So when an eminent scientist says "bah!" to Electric Universe science, just pause and consider for a moment. This is not surprising !
Well, first of all this is an important area when it comes to reason and our approach to reality. There is strong evidence to show that the electric force is vastly more influential than gravity than it has commonly been seen to be up to fairly recently. Sadly some of "mainstream" Science has given into mystical, badly formed and even sometimes religously dogmatic ideas about "the way reality works". Science is supposed to allow a commonly researched understanding of common physical phenomena. However sometimes Scientists see their own theories as determing reality. This is the wrong way round. Discoveries and facts must change the theory. For many reasons this is acutely obvious in Cosmology to the point of utter absurdity in many cases. I will leave it to the reader to examine the field of Electric Universe Cosmology and come to their own conclusions.
So apart from it's importance to the health of human reason, in what other ways is Plasma Cosmology and Electric Universe important ? Well here are a few.
1. Energy. We are surrounded by enormous amounts of electrical energy in the Earth and the surrounding Solar environment. Yet we are currently using either dangerous or fossil fuel based technlogies. Wind and Solar are a step in the right direction but are only ever going to provide a part of the energy that we need. Fusion promises to provide clean, safe AND CHEAP energy directly from a non-radioactive waste producing fusion reaction much as the sun makes electricity. However this technology will not come through until "mainstream" Science accepts the facts in front of it regarding electrical space phenomena and WHY that determines what we see.
2. Health. Because gravity based Cosmology has determined to a large extend commonly accepted axiomic principles in Science, this bad thinking has carried through into many other fields such as health Science. This is why we have seen so many electrically based medical practices relegated to "alternative" or even "pseudoscience" fields. The basic principles and Scientific discoveries have just not been there to validate the practitioners and WHY their patients use these methods and are helped by them. As in Cosmology, the electrical nature of the body is simply not understood despite a wealth of evidence. We can't carry on entrusting the Pharmaceutical companies with our health using their flawed Science. With a core change from gravity based physics to electrical based, such fields as the health field will be radically changed for the better.
3. Human history and context. As the Thunderbolts project shows much of the information passed down by previous generations in the deep past has been missed because the Cosmological Science has been missing in order to be able to explain many symbols, legends and mythologies. This is probably the most difficult aspect of the Thunderbolts message as it introduces an entirely new view of history based on plasma phenomena seen in the sky in the past. To those who are happy to accept a comfortable view of history as "the way it happened" without a willingness to adjust to new discoveries, then this part of Electric Universe Science will be very hard to accept. However to the authentic Scientist new discoveries are the very tools of the endeavour they follow. To do the difficult work of sifting and verifying the evidence for the greater good of society is their work. Those not trained in these matters can be forgiven for shying away, but the authentic Scientist ? What could be more important than the true historical context of mankind and that relationship to navigating through future dangers and difficulties ?
And these are just three of the major themes ! At the present time we are seeing a massive revolution in Science. Many will not be aware of this for maybe a couple of decades yet when, for example, the first anti-gravity cars and flying vehicles arrive or the Fusion reaction is honed to the point where it can be used for a Star Drive. Some may guffaw at such bold statements, but consider this. Before 1903 it was unheard of for a human being to leave the ground and fly like the birds using wings, yet now this is almost a mundane reality.
There are four known fundamental forces that are mediated by fields. They are described in the Standard Model of particle physics. As yet we do not have a unified theory - A UNIFIED FIELD - that can explain phenomena that takes into account these four fundamental forces ... commonly known as the forces of gravity and electromagnetism.
In the mid nineties a friend of mine exclaimed "Have you heard of the Unified Field". As it turned out this short phrase led to a profound examination of what I had been taught is "your reality". I started moving from seeing the world based on what I had been told that it is, towards raw investigation of what I was actually encountering.
I would not recommend the Wikipedia article or any other article on the "Unified Field" as the field (no pun intended) is rife with competing theories, bad science, inappropriate behavior and just down right nastiness from many characters who "want to be the one" to solve the problem. These days problems are solved by collaboration, not in some eureka moment that is claimed by an individual.
What I would recommend is getting back in touch with your SENSES if you aren't already. Try and see the phenomena that ARE THERE IN FRONT OF YOU, rather than seeing WHAT YOU ARE TOLD IS THERE IN FRONT OF YOU. If you are truly interested it is crucial that YOU become the Scientist in the true meaning of the word. That starts with authentic observation of phenomena and the world around us. Of course the resulting observations, which lead to theories and experimentation, still have to be tested in practice by other Scientists, that is what Science is all about ! So we should not be afraid to record what OUR SENSES are telling us, however outlandish or "silly", because these are the raw materials of Science.
This is where what has come to be called Electric Universe Theory (official name - Plasma Cosmology) comes into play. Many of the people and groups who identify with this endeavor are simply practicing the above; making commonsensical observations and attempting to test those observations in action.
This is a developing article but to give a flavour of the type of Science at work here consider the Photon. Everyday we encounter light and yet it may not be the quite the phenomenon that we think it is.
"Electromagnetic interaction: the familiar interaction that acts on electrically charged particles. The photon is the exchange particle for this force."
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"Light and other electromagnetic waves take the form of quantized, self-propagating oscillatory electromagnetic field disturbances called photons."
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This is why Solar Panels can produce electricity. This is why plants are likely doing something electrical in photosynthesis;
"In another paper published in that same year, Albert Einstein undermined the very foundations of classical electromagnetism. His theory of the photoelectric effect (for which he won the Nobel prize for physics) posited that light could exist in discrete particle-like quantities, which later came to be known as photons."
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Here is a currently accepted model of dark matter distribution in the Universe.
Here is plasma doing it's thing, electrically (the Crab Nebulae).
To anyone familiar with Birkland Currents and the behaviour of plasma the model in the top image has a familiar look to it. But this pattern was generated using gravity based models. The model has been kludged or hacked with "dark matter" to make it work despite the evidence. Dark matter represents the unsolved Unified Field equations - unifying gravity and electromagnetic models - that, ironically, Einstein warned the physics community was a such a crucial problem to solve. Yet many are clinging to outdated models in the face of a lot of evidence. Dark matter is no longer "dark", it is plasma - electricity - see the light !
Alfvén, H. (1977), "Electric currents in cosmic plasmas, Rev. Geophys., 15(3), 271-284.
Sand dollar zygotes during first mitosis, fixed and stained for microtubules and chromosomes (single confocal sections). Top row: metaphase, early anaphase, late anaphase; bottom row: successive stages in furrowing. A variety of experiments imply that microtubules stimulate cortical contractility in the cell equator, but also many experiments purport to show that microtubules are dispensable after mid-anaphase (right-most frame in the top row). In an urchin egg like this one, microtubules have reached the cell poles at this stage, but not the equator. They only reach the equator after furrow initiation (left frame, bottom row). How can this be?
Quoted from Cytoskeletal Dynamics During Cytokinesis, von Dassow, Bement, Foe, Odell
The process shown above of cell Mitosis (cell division) is stained to show processes that would otherwise be too faint to be seen. To any electrical engineer or plasma cosmologist images such as this of mitosis present a familiar sight. Here we are likely seeing an electrical phenomenon happening at the microcosmic level. There doesn’t really have to be anything really mystical or "sacred" about this in Scientific terms (although that can certainly be the case). Just as the study of Physics shows we can expect to see commonly found physical processes at many different scales in the Universe, this is exactly what observations of natural phenomena show. In fact this is known as Scale Invariance in Physics which is related to manifestation of phenomena at different scales of reality - global scaling - or more specifically how certain principles and calculations in Physics can be applied to different phenomena even at vastly different scales ... with some adjustments, hence some of the calculations on that page.
Is there any evidence that Mitosis is an electrical phenomenon ? Yes ! Radio emissions have been detected happening as Mitosis occurs.
Radiofrequency emission spectra from yeast cells in Mitosis, taken from the paper Magnetic flux quantization and Josephson behaviour in living systems, Physica Scripta. Vol. 40, 786-791, 1989 (page 790).
There's only one way radio waves can be produced and that is by an electrical current. This is exactly how a radio transmitter produces radio waves.
Art by Michael Z Freeman.