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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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There is one other item to highlight about the mainstream belief <strong>of</strong> how solid and gas planets are distributed<br />

in their orbits. Supergiant gas planets have recently been found orbiting very close to other stars in a location<br />

where astro-science had always been confident in telling us that only solid planets could be found. Because <strong>of</strong><br />

this, astro-scientists have been forced to add another poorly explained and ad-hoc idea <strong>of</strong> ‘inward migration’ <strong>of</strong><br />

the gas giants [6-8] .<br />

Star size and power: The EU model can further provide explanations for the sizes and apparent energy levels<br />

<strong>of</strong> stars that range in dimension from supergiants down to the smallest dwarf type stars. Where current density<br />

acting on a star’s plasmasphere is not great enough to bring about a high energy plasma mode, this is where<br />

we find the red supergiant and red dwarf classes <strong>of</strong> star. Alternatively, where we see an extremely high current<br />

density impinging on a star’s plasmasphere, this is where we have highly luminous stars in the plasma arc mode,<br />

such as we see with main-sequence stars. To understand this in broad terms it helps to remember from basic<br />

theory that plasma has three modes; dark, glow and arc. Here, a variation in voltage pressure will cause a change<br />

in current density which in turn will bring about abrupt transitions between these modes. Plasma in arc mode<br />

is what brings about the apparent brightness <strong>of</strong> main-sequence stars, where that brightness and a star’s actual<br />

‘luminosity’ depends on the current density received from its environment.<br />

Despite being a limited summary view <strong>of</strong> what is actually the case, consider this. High-density current will<br />

produce blue and white stars, and low-density current will produce red and dull red stars, with our own ‘yellow’<br />

Sun being somewhere in the middle between these<br />

extremes. This current density relationship with<br />

apparent brightness and colour is applicable to all<br />

sizes <strong>of</strong> star, so using this line <strong>of</strong> thinking we can<br />

form a useful view <strong>of</strong> how big blue supergiants<br />

together with big red supergiants and little red<br />

dwarfs, appear to us as they do.<br />

The distribution <strong>of</strong> star types due to the mass and energy<br />

involved (From an original graph by Don Scott) © author<br />

Some stars receive very low current density from<br />

their environment so their appearance is that <strong>of</strong> a<br />

dull red glowing ball. These are stars at the low<br />

energy end <strong>of</strong> the scale where we have red, brown<br />

and white dwarfs.<br />

101 | The <strong>Electric</strong> <strong>Universe</strong> answers I see

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