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9 pages of results. 11. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... impressive body of evidence that various planets in the solar system had only recently experienced significant episodes of catastrophic scarring. The surfaces of Mars, Venus, and Io, in particular, offer striking examples of extensive rilles, circular cratering, and fretting which Thornhill interprets as the result of an electrical scarring process akin to machine-arcing. Figure 1. Birkeland currents. Plasmas do not behave like a gas, they develop structure. Electric current in a plasma takes the form of filaments. The magnetic fields cause them to twist into "ropes". Thornhill's theory, heavily influenced by the views of Ralph Juergens and Immanuel Velikovsky, has profound ramifications for our understanding of the recent history of ...
12. Conference: Our Violent Solar System [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... . I'll put it in his own words: "Regarding the instabilities: I first started studying these over twenty years ago in intense arc discharges. I gave many seminars on them and wrote some defining papers. I simply called them My Instabilities' and my colleagues called them Tony's Instabilities' then they got formalized to the Peratt Instabilities in Birkeland Currents. They are hardly known except to those who work with very intense Birkeland currents. "The formal definition is, Peratt Instabilities: Instabilities that occur in intense Birkeland currents or arc discharges as found in plasma torches, z-pinched plasma filaments, or in the mushroom clouds of atmospheric nuclear detonations. The instability takes on the shape of ...
13. Prelude to Creation [Journals] [Aeon]
... which, because of its proximity, loomed large in the sky as a distinct disk larger than the apparent size of the full Moon. During this same period, a nebulous disk surrounded the Saturnian primary. And, shooting straight down from what we would consider to have been proto-Saturn's south pole was a jet-like stream of plasma, a sustained Birkeland current, which appeared to ancient man as a singular, but dynamic, ray of scintillating light connecting the giant proto-planet to Earth's north terrestrial pole. Earth was then "suspended" directly "beneath" proto-Saturn's south pole, sharing the same axis of rotation. In effect, it would have been partially embedded within the stream of plasma ...
14. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 91]. Talbott, on the other hand, originally explained the polar column as a stream of debris stretching between Saturn and Earth [92] but later amended this to a stream of debris attracted from Mars towards Earth [93]. Wallace Thornhill believes he has recognised this ethereal pillar as a sustained plasma discharge in the form of Birkeland current [94]. Maybe all three of these functions came into play at once or in succession (Talbott himself seems to accept Thornhill's explanation in conjunction with his own [95]) but this might be stretching things a little. One objection to Talbott's interpretation, meanwhile, is the lack of recognisable Martian material in Earth's Arctic ...
15. The Electric Universe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... disconnected in space and time. In contrast, the Electric Universe sees an electrical interconnectedness at all levels in the universe: galaxies with galaxies, galaxies with stars, stars with planets, planets with planets, planets with organisms, right down to quantum effects within the atom. It has the seeds of a holistic science. The far-sighted Kristian Birkeland [14] (1867-1917) wrote, According to our manner of looking at the matter, every star in the universe would be the seat and field of activity of electric forces of a strength that no one could imagine'[14]. What is more, the much-trumpeted confirmation of the Big Bang - the cosmic background radiation ...
16. Thoth Vol IV, No. 1: Jan 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a colossal Rankine vortex. David Talbott, on the other hand, had originally explained the polar column as a stream of debris stretching between Saturn and Earth, but later amended this to a stream of debris attracted from Mars toward Earth Additionally, Wallace Thornhill believes he has recognized this ethereal pillar as a sustained plasma discharge in the form of Birkeland current. AMY: Here Cardona disagrees with Talbott's interpretation on the basis that such an occurrence would have depleted Mars of its rubble and that Martian meteorites have not yet been found in the northern regions of the Earth. CARDONA: What Thornhill's explanation has going for it...is the fact that galaxies exhibit what Thornhill terms plasma ...
17. Testing Juergens' 'electric sun' theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... region at the heliopause. In my view, Ralph was on the right track but the reality is more complicated than his simple discharge tube analogy. The slow' solar wind is filamentary, which puzzles astronomers (who are taught rudimentary and incorrect plasma physics) but clearly demonstrates that electric current is flowing from the Sun in the form of Birkeland currents, which form twisted filaments or ropes of plasma. As an important aside, on June 1st I posted a note to the Kronia Internet group on a news item from New Scientist of 31st May, 1997, about 45 million km long stringy things' in Venus' magnetotail. My note read, in part: The ions ...
18. The Electric Universe: How and Why it Works [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the electric power is currently beyond detectors (c ) is a common simple electric model (d ) Stars are not isolated in their environment (e ) Weather systems on stars and planets have an electrical input. Space plasma can be neutral or charged, and have electric currents and magnetic fields. They form filaments that radiate energy. Kristian Birkeland placed a magnetised sphere representing the Earth (a "terrella") inside a vacuum chamber and directed electrons moving towards it, and saw that they were steered by the magnetic field in the vicinity of the terrella's magnetic poles. [More on the terrella experiment at www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/whaur1.html ...
19. Thoth Vol V, No 3: Feb 28, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... they had been previously producing - or we hear (as always) the mantra that perhaps there were "collisions between stars". From the ES point of view, any star can move quickly across the HR diagram if its electrical environment changes. Anyone who has seen the aurora's plasma curtains moving and folding in the polar sky realizes that Birkeland current filaments are not fixed, static, things. They move around. If the galactic Birkeland currents move around, it is likely they will move relative to some stars - either increasing or decreasing the current densities these stars experience. A blue star is just one that is experiencing the full brunt of a strong Birkeland current. " ...
20. The Saturn Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 49-64. 28. See the discussion in E. Cochrane, Martian Meteorites in Ancient Myth and Modern Science', Aeon 4:2 , 1995, pp. 57-73. Discussion on Wal Thornhill & Ev Cochrane's papers Wal Thornhill said he was sorry he didn't bring his slide looking down the barrel of a discharging plasma focus device discharging. Birkeland currents run from the central cylindrical conductor to the outer concentric cylindrical conductor and they space themselves equally so that it looks like radiant streamers. The streamers can rotate, giving various swastika and whirling effects. The streamers follow the field lines, which in the polar configuration curve away from Venus towards Saturn. So, the appearance of Venus ...
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