'..Is an electron a particle with mass that impacts surfaces or is it a charge carrier in an electrical circuit?''..The point is that different epistemological assumptions will populate the universe with different “things.” (Even in cases where the name is the same, the “things” envisioned by the partisans are different. Is an electron a particle with mass that impacts surfaces or is it a charge carrier in an electrical circuit?)
In this case of dark galaxies, Electrical Universe partisans see the redshift (z) of quasars as a consequence of their recent ejection from an active galaxy. Quasars with a z of 1 seem to be optically brightest, and they get dimmer to either side of that value. We may see quasars with a z of 1 to 2 in the
Virgo and
Fornax clusters, but ones with greater z are likely members of the
Local Group. This quasar has a z of 2.4: It is probably nearby, small, and intrinsically dim.
The dark galaxies that Adamic Astronomers have so named would be wisps of hydrogen plasma. (Electric Universe people don’t have gas.) They are debris ejected with the quasar and waiting by the curbside for the cosmic garbage truck—the nearest Birkeland current, whose “pinch” force pulls matter toward its axis—to pick them up.'
- Mel Acheson,
Dark Minds, September 4, 2012
'..Saturn’s aurora were consistent with electrical activity..''Recently, a Cassini mission press release announced that Saturn’s aurora were consistent with electrical activity: “…we can see the simultaneous motion of the electric current systems connecting the magnetosphere to the atmosphere, producing the aurora.”
It bears repeating that these remarks about a distant world were foreknown long ago:
<blockquote>“The knowledge gained since 1896, in radioactivity has favoured the view to which I gave expression in that year, namely, that magnetic disturbances on the earth, and aurora borealis, are due to corpuscular rays emitted by the Sun.”
— Kristian Birkeland “
The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903, Volume 1, Part 1"</blockquote>
Birkeland’s
terrella experiments also created miniature versions of what Cassini sees on Saturn.'
- Stephen Smith,
Saturn’s Auroral Ovals, September 5, 2012
'..If galactic currents were powering the Sun—and all stars—much like an electrical plasma discharge in a lab “gas discharge” tube, the list of anomalous observations could be explained—without patching the theory.''..reputations and salaries are at stake. Also, changing theories is expensive: textbooks would have to be rewritten, curricula changed, computers re-programmed. The incentives are for patching. But that’s expediency, not science. For many decades now, expediency has crowded out science: We live in a dark age of science, a fact obscured by technological feats. The “thermonuclear Sun” theory has been patched so much that it has disappeared beneath the stitches. In the words of Richard Rorty, it’s become “a nuisance.”
The first assumption that this new observation should question is the one Eddington made in the 1920s. He couldn’t imagine any way that the Sun could be powered externally, so he settled for an internal source. The idea of nuclear energy had just become fashionable, and questions about the details of nuclear power could be hidden along with it in the Sun’s core. Patching was excusable because the patches couldn’t be checked directly.
With the advent of the space age, it became apparent that the universe—and in particular the Sun—was composed of plasma. A century of experiments with plasma had shown it to be electrically active, and space-age data indicated that it could transmit electrical energy over stellar and even galactic distances.
Now there is a way for the Sun to be powered externally. It’s shape would be determined by electromagnetic forces, not by gravity and centrifugal force. It’s rotation would also be driven electromagnetically, like an electric motor, not inertially as a residue from a collapsed nebula (another gravity theory that never worked). If galactic currents were powering the Sun—and all stars—much like an electrical plasma discharge in a lab “gas discharge” tube, the list of anomalous observations could be explained—without patching the theory.
Theoretical extensions of lab experiments could be checked directly with space probes. So far, inadvertent results from probes have been encouraging, but for the most part the probes have not been equipped with appropriate instruments nor have their missions been designed to test the assumption of an external power source.
There is money for computer simulations, for the “video games” that circularly verify the latest patches. But the “patches” mentality has shut out every penny for challenges to the de facto orthodoxy. The uncritical reliance on mathematical deductions and computer simulations has severed the space sciences from their roots in empirical testing. They need less math, more English, and some old-fashioned empiricism.'
- Mel Acheson,
Round Sun vs. Foursquare Theory, September 2, 2012
Context(Electric Universe) - '..History speaks only to those people who know how to interpret it on the ground of correct theories.' - Mises
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