Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

81. SIS Silver Jubilee Conference: Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... We are overdue for a better model of the universe. There is another model - the Electric Universe . It is based on the fundamental role of charged plasma and the vastly more powerful electric force in organising and driving the universe. The phenomena associated with plasmas are scalable over an enormous range from atomic to galactic dimensions. The far-sighted Kristian Birkeland (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." By the time that other Swede, Alfvén (1908-1995), took up the gauntlet our cosmology had been fabricated ...

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82. Thoth Vol I, No. 5: March 14, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]

... ACHIEVED ELECTRICAL EQUILIBRIUM AFTER A RECENT COMETARY HISTORY. That being so, lightning of considerable violence and/or frequency would be expected on Venus. It would also fit the observation that the solar wind is tightly coupled to the planet. The magnetic flux ropes' of the solar wind, entwined about the planet, are indicative of electric (Birkeland) currents flowing from the solar wind directly into the planet's ionosphere. This is most simply explained by a high potential difference between the planet and its surroundings. The solar wind shock front observed by Pioneer Venus at solar maximum was 35% larger than the shock front observed the Soviet Venera 9 and l0 spacecraft at solar minimum. It ...

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83. APPENDICES (Hamlet's Mill)

... ; repro 1966), pp. 246, 248. Compare also the "epitheton" of Ugaritic Baal, aliyn, and its possible derivation from Hebrew alion ( 'elon), Oak, Therebynth, holy tree, and allanati as name of the fourth month, i.e ., the month of Tammuz. (H . Birkeland, Norsk Tidskrift for Sprogvidenskap 9 [1938], pp. 338-45; W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites [1957], p. 196, n.4 .) ]after all, our very Yima-Jamshid was sawed in two, by Azhi Dahakas Tammuz "the lord of the great tree, overcome by ...

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