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19 pages of results. 201. Thoth Vol I, No. 15: June 7, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... TETHERED SATELLITE DEBACLE Wal Thornhill (walt@netinfo.com.au) I mentioned this interesting cockup at the World Conference in January as a good example of the naive view that scientists have of the Earth's environment. The report is attached. The current dogma is that the Earth's magnetosphere is created by the Earth's intrinsic magnetic field and traps plasma to form a buffer against the buffeting of the solar wind. However, I believe that Ralph Juergens, Earl Milton and others are correct when they attribute electric charge to the planets and the Sun. With this single, simple assumption, backed up by myriad observations, the Earth's magnetosphere is plainly a PLASMASPHERE, which is formed to ...
202. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ingredient is for the star to have a strong magnetic field itself. Two of the superflare stars are known to have fields hundreds of times stronger than our sun's. Fortunately, Mercury is not Jupiter, so there's probably nothing to worry about.- DID THEY REALLY SAY THAT? By Wal Thornhill NASA on Galileo's current mission: "The plasma sheet, which lies along Jupiter's magnetic equator, is an area that exhibits a high concentration of plasma, or ionized gases. This allows relatively strong electrical currents to flow, and creates dynamic interactions between the plasma and Jupiter's magnetic field." Wal Thornhill comments: Pay particular note to the last sentence where the usual suspect, the ...
203. Thoth Vol IV, No 10: June 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ^2 )] Well, of course physicists didn't stop with the assumption. They tested it, and the experiment (yes, one experiment) showed the new equation was spot-on (given the 2-significant-figure accuracy of the experiment). Resnick & Halliday describe the experiment. Now keep in mind that Resnick & Halliday never mention Hannes Alfven or plasma. "H .E . Ives and G.R . Stilwell carried out such a precision experiment in 1938. They sent a beam of hydrogen atoms, generated in a gas discharge, down a tube at speed u .. .. They could observe light emitted by these atoms in a direction opposite to u .. . ...
204. Earth's Gaseous Core (Comments) [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... - spinning within the last of said cloud. 5) The force of gravity at the geocenter is, and always was, null once the vortex formed; so there could not have occurred any "accumulation to a compacted center". 6) In case the protoplanetary cloud should have originally been at very high temperature, any matter in plasma state that was shut in by the first shell' would, by continuous pressure of its own radiation against the inner surface, have tended to be forced into the geocenter; some small portion may still be there, forming a lesser spheroid of unknown diameter spinning within the larger one; it may possibly be still radiating heat and light ...
205. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the year concerns Venus. The SOHO satellite has detected a giant ion-packed tail which stretches more than 600 times as far as astronomers realised, almost far enough to contact Earth at certain times. The tail is described as consisting of lots of stringy things like those of some comets which can have several ion tails'. This highly structured plasma tail defies conventional theory but conventional astronomers will not consider the role of electricity in space. The flow of electricity in a plasma produces just such twisting filaments, as pointed out long ago by Wal Thornhill and the twisted, braided hair of the Venus comet has been described over and over again in myths, as interpreted by Velikovsky, ...
206. Solar System Studies [Journals] [Aeon]
... metals and metal compounds or mainly of atmospheric gasses and low density liquids. The Solar System milieu is isolated. The Sun is well out along the Orion spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy-one of billions of galaxies in the known universe. Ambient space is nearly an absolute vacuum at about 2.7 K except for cosmic rays, a plasma of free electrons, a cross wind of hydrogen and helium molecules and ions and the Solar Wind of positively charged ions which is continuously accelerated away from the Sun, mostly close to the plane of its equator. In addition, the Sun produces a complete gamut of electromagnetic radiations including visible light in all directions. In the sections which ...
207. S.I.S. Workshop Volume 6 Number 2 August 1985: Contents [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: S.I .S . Workshop Volume 6 Number 2 August 1985 Texts Home | SIS Workshop Home Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Workshop Volume 6 Number 2 Members' newletter SOCIETY NEWS 1 FOCUS 4 ARTICLES Volcanism and Catastrophic Mythology by Jill Abery 7 Pentecost by James E. Strickling 11 Cosmic Catastrophe in PARADISE LOST by Bernard Newgrosh 13 FORUM: Questions and Answers on the Chronology of Rohl & James 21 VIEWS IN BRIEF 27 MONITOR : * Thera Theories * Demise of Nemesis? * Another Iridium Extinction * Slow Death for Dinosaurs * Life on Mars? * Volte Face by Gould * Reverse Plate Tectonics? * Oldest Shipwreck * Geological Unconformities * Erosion of Another Geological Dogma? ...
208. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - I (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... available, so that the voltage gradient is of little importance. In other words, conduction would be limited by a certain saturation current rather than by a certain conductivity. This may be correct, but it is hard to say how large the saturation current would be, as we do not know very much about the composition of gas or plasma in interplanetary space during the millennia following the Deluge. Even if there were no external carriers at all, however, the strong voltage gradient postulated by Crew is able to produce all the carriers required for quickly transporting the major part of the charge out into space. To carry away the whole electric charge requires 3.27 x 1033 ...
209. Prologue: The Good Earth (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... the Earth is not located in the center of the system, it occupies the preferred position and possesses the optimal conditions for life and its progress. The Sun is a blazing flame. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, is so hot on its illuminated side that some metals would be molten; its face is licked by solar plasma and it has only a rudiment or a vestige of an atmosphere. Venus is enshrouded in massive clouds of dust and gases and is well over 8oo F. at its ground surface, equally on its lighted and shadowed sides. Its period of daylight is as long as fifty-eight terrestrial days; its night is of equal length. The ...
210. How Stable Is the Solar System? [Journals] [Pensee]
... From: Pensée Vol. 2 No 2: (May 1972) "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered I" Home | Issue Contents How Stable Is the Solar System?C.J . Ransom Dr. C.J . Ransom, a plasma physicist, has taught at the University of Texas. Currently he works in the Electro-optics and Reconnaissance Group of General Dynamics, Convair Aerospace Division, Fort Worth, Texas. He teaches a course in Velikovsky theory at Texas Christian University, and has lectured on the subject at other universities in Texas, Switzerland, Germany, and England. The scientific literature today abounds with catastrophic hypotheses not unlike the events Velikovsky described in 1950. (Harold ...
211. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... we can take an example from terrestrial mechanics to illustrate it. If an anti-aircraft shell misses its target and explodes in the air, its centre of gravity will follow the original trajectory even after the explosion, at least initially, until the effect of the increased air resistance becomes noticeable. In space there is no air resistance, and the plasma forces are very small, so the centre of gravity will keep following the old orbit, unless, of course, other bodies become involved. You may wonder how a body that consists mainly of light elements like hydrogen, can eject a solid body like Venus. If an explosion really took place, the answer is simple: Venus ...
212. The Orbits of Venus [Journals] [Pensee]
... From: Pensée Vol. 3 No 1: (Winter 1973) "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered III" Home | Issue Contents The Orbits of Venus C. J. Ransom and L. H. Hoffee Copyright 1972 by C. J. Ransom and L. H. Hoffee Dr. Ransom is a plasma physicist at the Electro-optics and Reconnaissance Group of General Dynamics, Convair Aerospace Division, Fort Worth, Texas. Hoffee is an optical engineer. In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky suggested that several orbital changes had occurred among members of the solar system (1 ). These changes resulted in near-collisions between celestial bodies and a reordering of the solar system. In the following paragraphs, ...
213. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is a colossal Rankine vortex [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 ...
214. Thoth Vol I, No. 4: March 2, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... In addition, as individuals we have to be aware of our human nature. Francis Bacon said "Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true". So, I should state my preference: it is to assume what the ancients had to say about electrical phenomena involving the planets is true since it may illuminate both the new plasma cosmology and in turn - in bootstrap fashion - confirm the veracity of ancient testimony. Also, ultimately, it should be easily verifiable. So, I begin with photographs of spark machined surfaces which show circular, ringed craters with melted floors and central peaks, together with simple craters in ratios which mimic those seen on the moon. ...
215. Thoth Vol I, No. 23: August 17, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... premise that Nature is silly enough to use the weakest force in the universe to create the outpourings of radiation that are interpreted as coming from a black hole at the centre of galaxies. When we want to create x-rays or ultraviolet light we use electricity- why should natural processes be different? The blindness of otherwise highly intelligent astronomers to the simple plasma cosmological explanation for the goings-on in active galactic nuclei is quite a phenomenon in its own right and worthy of study by those in the human sciences. It is an object lesson in the failure in practice of The Scientific Method, which requires a constant re-examination of the assumptions which underpin a theory- especially when that theory is so bizarre as ...
216. Catastrophe and Divine Fires [Books] [de Grazia books]
... clutch of balloons, are probable. The repeated Biblical references to Yahweh's sending darts of fire, jets of fire upon the enemies of Israel and even upon the Israelites when they displease him inspires one to seek the corresponding natural phenomenon, even though it would be enormously amplified in a general catastrophic encounter. Juergens has suggested plasmoids, pieces of plasma, as being formed and bombarding earth on some ancient occasions. These electrical footballs are formed of a balance of positive ions and electrons. They retain their identity and appear as luminous objects of the size of missiles. They would cause explosions near the ground and/or dig craters [67]. It is the voltage difference that ...
217. Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation (Part II) [Journals] [Aeon]
... kinds of mythological beings generically termed "sky serpents and dragons" which are found in the belief systems of races scattered all over the ancient world. (It should be noted that, although Jueneman did not use the term "Birkeland" in his 1988 scenario, the presence of such phenomena was explicitly referred to in his discussion of the plasma pinch effect in an interplanetary electric current.) It is the role of these three planets, and especially their linear configuration, which will be explored here. The Olmec Although our main focus will be concerned with the mythology of the Maya, a short preface about the Olmec civilization is in order. After all, "[ t ...
218. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . This very sophisticated new theory, he said, predicted and explained the anomalies that had been noted by JUERGENS and MICHELSON, and even those had puzzled Nobel prizewinners such as P. M. S. BLACKETT: it was responsible for many surprising correct predictions and no apparent false ones. The theory was best approached via a phenomenon in plasma physics, in which, under certain conditions of density and temperature, negative pressure or volumetric cohesion could occur; this conclusion was supported by experimental observations in Russia in 1978. In this theory, the solar system takes on the character of such a plasma, with electrostatic effects substituting for gravity, and Cook has demonstrated that the planets ...
219. Thoth Vol I, No. 3: February 18, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... not the Nobel Foundation, and it was for, among other things, inventing non-dangerous "slurry explosives" which are blasting agents as powerful as nitroglycerine but not anywhere so dangerous to handle.) One of Cook's most extraordinary breakthroughs came when he discovered, by accident, and then _explained_ theoretically the remarkable phenomenon of a fully ionized plasma in the state of a liquid metal (rather than a gas, which is what all conventional plasma theorists believe is the ONLY possibility). Though he is not infallible, he is certainly a genius who has made very important discoveries. And his works on prehistory merit serious study. Cook is the author of the highly-scientific, very ...
220. Thoth Vol III, No. 12: Aug 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. They believe the presence of chlorine- an ingredient of sodium chloride, or common table salt- is related to the violent volcanic activity. THORNHILL: Now, as I have argued in an earlier post we may safely discard NASA's description of the jets on Io as "volcanoes". They are plasma jets caused by powerful electrical discharges between Jupiter and Io, impinging on Io's surface. The material being electrically "machined" from Io's surface will also undergo nuclear transformations since the plasma jets are like scaled up particle accelerators. As I have said before, the Gallilean satellites of Jupiter seem to be characterised by an abundance of water ice ...
221. Thoth Vol I, No. 26: November 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... into Venus's slot. If you want it to wind up where Venus is, you HAVE to correct its velocity as it reaches Venus's orbit. [Amy replies] Again, he's taking into account only gravitational interactions, and simplifications of them at that. Astronomers don't understand why our solar system has a Bode's law configuration, but Wal Thornhill's plasma model indicates that the low eccentricities and orderly distances between planets is a function of the fact that interacting systems settle into non-interacting systems at a fairly hasty rate. He thinks that each of the planets makes a "home" for itself at the limit of the next inward planet's electrical influence. That interplanetary electrical discharges (recorded in the ...
222. Celestial Rings [Journals] [Aeon]
... involving rings in conjunction with comets. I can't tell which of the three explanations he himself prefers. Still on page 30, Zemel refers to dark matter in rings. Clearly, this is not the same "dark matter" that uniformitarians invoke to provide gravitational cohesion to galaxies. But I can't tell whether this matter is supposed to be plasma, dispersed dust, or something else. I look forward to his response to these questions. Henry Zemel explains: It seems that my dyslexic terminology did not escape the discerning eye of an experienced linguist. Professor Wescott is correct in referring to the bodies as "ringmoons" and "ringplanets," rather than "moonrings" and ...
223. Are the Moon's Scars Only 3000 Years Old? [Journals] [Pensee]
... Some of the most fundamental concepts are being summoned for revision. In celestial mechanics, all new evidence has conjured against the concept- basic in science until very recently- that gravitation and inertia are the only forces in action in the celestial sphere. The new discoveries are the interplanetary magnetic fields centered on the sun and rotating with it; the solar plasma; the terrestrial magnetosphere that caused the moon to rock when entering and leaving the magnetic funnel; the enormously powerful magnetic envelope around Jupiter through which the Galilean satellites plow, themselves influencing the Jovian radio signals. Who is the physicist that would insist that Jupiter, traveling with its powerful magnetosphere through the interplanetary magnetic field, is not affected ...
224. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have been developed, notably the idea of the Polar Configuration', are better known in the USA and Canada than in Europe and elsewhere, so Ev's article provides an introduction for newcomers. Wal Thornhill is writing about a complementary area of interest: the role of electricity in the cosmos. This is tantalising territory: scientists now accept that plasmas and electric and magnetic fields are everywhere around us and some of the space probe images from Earth's neighbours are strongly suggestive of electrical activity. However some of the more radical theories (such as Juergens' electric sun') have run into problems and there is still much to be done in determining whether, as many suspect, the ...
225. Is Gravity Necessary? (A Response to Charles Ginenthal's Electro-Gravitic Theory) [Journals] [Aeon]
... problems were faced. By 1979 I had outlined some of the parameters of a solution and distributed them to friends under the title "10-36 = 0." In this pamphlet I proposed that gravity is better explained as the result of opposing electrical repulsions than as an attraction between masses. I assumed, as Ralph Juergens had earlier [" Plasma in Interplanetary Space"], that the Sun and the planets possess net negative electrical charges. Juergens considered that an aether-like sea of cosmic charges impinged upon the Sun just as a surrounding "electron-sea" was once seen to keep conductive electrons within a wire carrying an electrical current. Juergens' work led me to the extensive set of ...
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