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9 pages of results. 71. Thoth Vol I, No. 4: March 2, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... moat with a central peak. It occurred to me that this might be the mechanism by which the interplanetary discharge operates. Electric current in a plasma flows in thin filaments - more current, more filaments. These filaments twist into a braid, constrained by a long range attractive force, and short range repulsive force. They are known as Birkeland currents. So, when one of these current "ropes" strikes the surface of a planetary body, the strands describe a circle on the surface. It is where each strand touches down that cratering takes place. It is well known that if the pressure in a discharge filament exceeds some critical value, the discharge will "quench ...
72. Thoth Vol VII, No 5: Jul 31, 2003 [Journals] [Thoth]
... once achieved we can teach young children ideas that defeated the greatest minds for centuries. Our grandchildren will view it as perfectly obvious that Nature should provide us with an electric light, the Sun, powered over galactic distances by a vast network of invisible transmission lines, humming at an ultra-low frequency. Plasma physicists already know those transmission lines as Birkeland currents. © Wal Thornhill 2003 author of The Electric Universe A Holistic Science for the New Millennium See www.electric-universe.org ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ...
73. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... and we can therefore ignore the possibility that Jupiter may be part of a larger electrical circuit. I would expect that when the results of Galileo's sweep through Jupiter's magnetotail are published we will find that it is not as neat as expected and depicted in the models of planetary magnetotails. They should detect a rapidly varying field as they cut through Birkeland current "ropes" trailing away from the planet in the magnetotail. That can then be added to the plasma ropes detected from Venus and in the tail of a comet as proof of the larger electrical circuitry in space.- ELECTRIC UNIVERSE PREDICTION CONFIRMED by Wal Thornhill Last year in May I was embroiled in a defence of the electric ...
74. Thoth Vol II, No. 13: Aug 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... electric currents which exhibit long range attraction and short range repulsion.. PIA01619 should put to rest any notion that the grooved terrain is due to fracturing because we see one edge of a swath suddenly cutoff by an apparent transverse discharge which suddenly broadens at the point of intersection. It is evident that the motion and effects of these surface "Birkeland currents" can be incredibly complex. Wal Thornhill- PLEASE VISIT THE KRONIA COMMUNICATIONS WEBSITE: http://www.kronia.com Other suggested Web site URL's for more information about Catastrophics: Subscriptions to AEON, a journal of myth and science, may be ordered at the I-net address below: http://www. ...
75. Thoth Vol II, No. 3: February 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... each Propolyd is generating the surrounding cloud by spewing material into space in the same way that a comet does under the influence of electrical discharges at the nucleus. Your comment about the lack of alignment of some tails with the brighter stars seems to be so. This would be expected if the tail direction merely shows the local alignment of the Birkeland current thread in which the Propolyd is embedded. A Propolyd type of phenomena is precisely the way I envisage the Saturnian system behaving upon entering our Sun's electrical influence. Saturn is reported to have spewed material into space, which would have formed an obscuring coma, noted by Dave and Dwardu Cardona, just as we see with the Propolyds ...
76. Thoth Vol III, No. 15: Nov 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... one of the plumes and at 300 km above the surface of Io the discharge is likely to be fairly diffuse. Also, the spacecraft is small so that it would very quickly charge up, possibly avoiding a catastrophic discharge. So, if it does fly through a plume I would expect sudden swings of the magnetometer delineating the complexity of Birkeland currents rather than neutral gas following a ballistic trajectory. It should also find sudden changes in charged particle energy spectra.- CLOSEST EVER PICTURE OF IO By Wal Thornhill From NASA News of 24 October 1999 The highest resolution image ever of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, . . . was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Oct. 11, ...
77. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... was only during the break-up of the Saturnian configuration that this elongated vortex took on its monstrous serpentine form. [64] Did it "visibly reach Mars?" Bar-Ron asks next. Various explanations concerning the physics of this Axis have been supplied. [65] Thornhill himself has interpreted it as a sustained plasma discharge in the form of Birkeland current. [66] In my opinion, if this is correct, not only would it have visibly reached Mars, it would have physically reached all the way to Saturn. Bar-Ron claims that the name Adam "is connected to adom (red) only so far as the word for soil and ground (earth) happens to ...
78. Thoth Vol I, No. 21: August 11, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the conventional model, there can be no such structure in a tail constituted from plasma simply "blowing in the (solar) wind." The discovered structure requires the flow of electricity ‹ a phenomenon astronomy has never even considered!‹ and this single fact challenges mainstream theory at its foundations. The flow of electricity in a plasma produces Birkeland Currents in the form of twisting filaments- the "stringy things" encountered by the SOHO satellite. But long before the SOHO discovery, Wal Thornhill had discussed this principle of cometary "discharges" --while the twisting, "braided" hair of the Venus comet has for many years been part of David Talbott's reconstruction! Now to the punchline ...
79. Thoth Vol I, No. 16: June 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the tether. In the New Scientist of 31 May, p.18, there is a news item, "Planet's tail of the unexpected", which, un-noticed, provides direct confirmation of electric currents flowing between a planet and its surroundings. The "stringy things" detected near the Earth and causing such puzzlement can only be "Birkeland currents" which alone are capable of maintaining narrow plasma filaments over vast distances. It is the only force free configuration for a current carrying plasma. Hannes Alfven described them in his works and they feature in the recent plasma cosmology book, "The Big Bang Never Happened", by Eric Lerner. So, I suggest that storm ...
80. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... [99] Plasma physicist Anthony Peratt goes on to describe an experiment in which a laboratory plasma was first pinched by inward compression, then underwent a transformation to a force-free state producing plasmoids, and finally began to form spirals. [100] Donald Scott refers to the same phenomenon: "These instabilities are dynamic effects that occur in intense Birkeland currents or arc discharges as found in plasma torches, z-pinched plasma filaments, or in high energy density electrical discharges. The instability takes on the shape of a column of axially symmetric toroids or spheroids that remain in a semi-stable state until disruption. During this state the column may be a source of intense x-rays whose intensity is greatly enhanced ...
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