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Thunderbolts of the Gods is a 108 page 8-1/2 x 11 full color monograph based on the life work of the two authors--a revolutionary synthesis of comparative mythology and the newly-discovered "Electric Universe".
The Monograph includes an hour-long DVD introducing various aspects of the Electric Universe explained by members of the Thunderbolts Group.
Dec 19, 2005
Electric Arcs in Planetary Science
If you’ve been following our Picture of the Day, you’ve seen the electric arc on the upper left more than once on these pages. It comes to us from the website, “Sparks and Arcs,” sponsored by John Dyer--
http://www.johndyer.com/sparxarcs.html
We also include above a photograph of the comet Hale-Bopp, enhanced to emphasize the rich filamentation of the comet tail. Electric Universe theorists identify comets as plasma discharge phenomena—negatively charged objects moving rapidly through the electric field of the Sun.
Some advocates of the Electric Universe have devoted decades to investigating the human past, concluding that Earth’s environment was once bursting with electrical activity. They believe that just a few thousand years ago intense electrical events, associated with unstable planetary motions, provoked an outpouring of ancient myths and magical practices. These investigators hold that in ancient times stupendous cometary displays occurred. Dyer’s arc thus offers a useful analog to the ancient image of the comet-like star-goddess with fiery, serpentine, or wildly disheveled "hair”. The “long-haired star” or “mane star” was, in fact, the most common symbol of the comet in the ancient world. (We shall return to this subject soon.)
In previous TPOD’s we’ve noted the similarities between Dyer’s arc and scarring patterns on the planet Venus and on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. We do not believe the similarities are an accident. In the formative phases of our solar system, the surfaces of planets and moons were sculpted by global discharge events. One common pattern is the “Lichtenberg” form, which is the form of the arc shown above, when viewed on axis. See the Picture of the Day for February 16,2005 and for February 25, 2005
In periods of instability and upheaval, planets and moons were subjected to intense electrical arcing. Though this idea is certainly “off the map” of conventional theory, plasma cosmologists, together with growing numbers of “Electric Universe” advocates, argue that the actual history of the solar system does not resemble the popular textbook summary. Stars and planets are born in electrical events more powerful than anything gravity alone can create. As Hannes Alfvén, the father of plasma cosmology, stated to his colleagues: our local gravitational system is the “ashes” of a prior electrical system.
The point is well illustrated by the close-up photo of the stupendous “volcano” Olympus Mons on Mars. In the electric model, Olympus Mons and other giant mounds on the Tharsis bulge are discharge “blisters” typical of those created by an electric discharge on a positively charged surface, or anode.
The picture suggests an extended event on Mars in which electrons streamed in to the top of a huge mound that had been raised from the surface by the electric force. As the discharge event excavated a series of flat-bottomed craters on the summit, the summit became a regional focal point of negative charge within a larger positively charged surface.
To achieve surface equilibrium, then, secondary discharging occurred between the "cauldron" of Olympus Mons and the surrounding region in a way analogous to the discharge of a negatively charged comet nucleus as it enters the positive region of the Sun's electric field. Thus, the finely filamented radiating "mane" is comparable to what we would see if we looked up the axis of John Dyer's lab discharge or the Hale-Bopp discharge shown above. Significantly, a virtually identical finely filamented mane is seen at the summit of Ascraeus Mons in the same region of Mars. In an electrical interpretation, charge redistribution will account for a repeated feature that otherwise has no coherent explanation.
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