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... . The comet was then 360 million miles from the spacecraft! That is four times the distance of the Earth from the Sun. To remain intact over that distance the tail of a comet must carry electrical current to prevent its dispersal. That is because an electric current in space takes the form of a twisted filament known as a "Birkeland current", rather like an invisible braided copper wire. When the current is strong enough such filaments are visible. They can be seen when comets are close to the Sun and they are ubiquitous in images from deep space. They may stretch, in the former case, over interplanetary distances and in deep space over intergalactic distances. ...
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62. Evidence for the Extreme Youth of Venus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... were caused by discharges flowing along the magnetotail. So-called fracture lines' are also likely to be discharge scars. This is borne out by the craterlets visible along their length where resolution is good. They are found in vast numbers on the surface of Venus, often following parallel courses across undulating terrain. The parallelism may be caused by so-called Birkeland currents [67] flowing in a plasma in a single interplanetary discharge. Birkeland currents have parallel components that exert a long-range attractive force and circular components that provide short-range repulsion. When unconstrained in space they exhibit a twisted rope-like appearance. When confined to a planetary surface they should show rough parallelism (See Figure 10). Later events ...
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63. Thoth Vol V, No 9: August 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... as well as the electrical effects seen during its breakup (as comets are similarly affected on approaching the Sun). How would the Earth have survived outside the Solar System? Saturn would have been a brown dwarf, one of the most common objects in the Universe. There was even suggestion that collinear systems are formed by plasma currents (Birkeland currents) as exemplified by Herbig-Haro objects, some of which "consist of highly linear chains or jets", and the accretion of material in a plasma Z- pinch, where "Most models of young stars and their immediate environments incorporate magnetic fields. Magnetic fields in the collapsing, rotating cloud core are advected with the accretion flow ...
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64. The Paleo-Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... Mundi, could not have been a physical uplift of land. In the paper I have just mentioned, I offer two separate options as indicative of what this Axis could have been: (1 ) a Rankine vortex complete with bolus flow as per Frederic Jueneman, and/or (2 ) a sustained plasma discharge in the form of Birkeland current as per Wallace Thornhill. [25] Even so, an actual lithospheric bulge would have been raised by Saturn's proximity, and this would have been aided by the added adjacency of Venus and Mars in the linear configuration. And, to be sure, the remnant of such a bulge remains to this day. It is, ...
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... this context, planetary magnetospheres are recognised as Langmuir plasma sheaths surrounding electrically charged planets rather than magnetically contained plasma shock structures in the solar wind. It is of particular interest therefore to note the report last year of the discovery of plasma strings from Venus reaching the Earth's orbit during conjunction [16]. Plasma strings are diagnostic of electric (Birkeland) currents flowing from Venus. However, the most dramatic orbital adjustment will occur when a planet is discharging strongly so that the plasma tail is visible, in other words when it is behaving like a comet. Comets today are noted for their non-Newtonian accelerations. Given the global references to the Venus comet, it is not quite so ...
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... [131] It is these attributes which originally made me latch on to Frederic Jueneman's exposition of this phenomenon as a Rankine vortex complete with bolus flow. However, as I pointed out in the paper cited above, I have also have had to consider Wallace Thornhill's alternative explication of this prodigy as a sustained plasma discharge in the form of Birkeland current. [132] Van Rhee objects that, had the diameter of this column been vast enough to enable its visibility from a distance, "such a vortex would have caused a continuous storm all over [Earth's northern hemisphere." This destructive quality, he then states, "would certainly have been mentioned by the ancients. ...
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67. Thoth Vol V, No 4: Mar 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Velikovsky's lead) that lightning bolts had passed between planets. And I had identified the Valles Marineris on Mars as the lightning scar, wound, or disfiguring mark on the celestial warriors of mythology (the "Scarface" motif about which I've spoken elsewhere). But prior to Wal Thornhill's arrival in Portland, I didn't even know what a Birkeland Current is, and I knew nothing about the unique configurations taken by plasma discharges. CONVERGENCE OF MYTH AND SCIENCE While I've experienced many breakthroughs over more than a quarter century, this one exceeded all others. It was the first indication that, at a level of explicit detail, a convergence of myth and science may be possible. ...
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68. Thoth Vol IV, No 5: March 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... model cannot do it and it has had the full attention of hundreds of scientists for many decades. I can, however, provide some ideas that make more sense than that of Neugebauer. The switch in polarity of the Sun's field is likely to be superimposed on other rhythms by the current source that feeds the Sun, that is the Birkeland currents that shape the galactic arms. The relative movement of the Sun transversely across each filament will see the Sun's local galactic magnetic field reverse polarity roughly cyclically. The 27 day 43 minute cycle seems to be tied to the rotation of the Sun's core. In the standard model it is hard to imagine anything in a fiercely hot plasma ...
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69. Thoth Vol III, No. 6: March 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... in a plasma sheath is meaningless. The filamentary structures in the chromosphere and corona, seen down to the limit of resolution, are diagnostic of predominantly radial electric currents in these regions. I would take issue with the use of the word "wind". The solar wind is structured in a way that suggests it is a spiral of Birkeland currents feeding a plasmoid shaped like a twisted doughnut that encircles the Sun very closely. As shown in laboratory experiments, such a plasmoid can store considerable energy. That energy is released at intervals by discharging to the surface of the Sun. Solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejection events result from particularly violent discharges. The glow discharge model predicts ...
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70. Thoth Vol III, No. 7: April 30, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ! It also exhibits spots which I think are sudden releases of energy from the encircling plasmoid (radiation belt) via plasma discharges into the ionosphere. I would expect therefore that changes in albedo would be tied to the solar cycle since that, in turn, reflects the passage of the solar system across the cosmic power conduits: the galactic Birkeland current threads. Neptune's moon exhibits "geyser" activity which indicates electric discharges are impinging on that moon, just like Jupiter's moon, Io. (Would you believe it? - the greenhouse effect was invoked to explain Triton's geyser activity!) It is also covered with double-ridges, like Europa. The next closest outer planet, Uranus ...
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