A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

The sensitive equipment we have can detect
this radiation so images can then be constructed
that let us understand the filamentary nature of
structures in space. One of the best sources for
imagery has been the Chandra X-ray observatory
launched in 1999. The X-ray detectors it carries
have revealed to us not only wonderful structures
in our own galaxy but many that lie billions of
light years further away.
The Cygnus Loop. Credit: ESA & Digitised Sky Survey (Caltech)
What appeared before to us as vast empty spaces are now showing up as regions that have within them filamentary
networks that deliver power to galaxies and stars and to vast regions of dust and gas where the formation of new
bodies is going on. Appreciating the pervasiveness and power of Birkeland currents on the grandest scales helps
us understand how plasma networks have formed the universe and remain to dominate it.
Stars again: With more now in place, we will go back to stars. We said they have solid cores and that, depending
on the charge level they have, their plasmaspheres will extend sometimes to great distances. The size and colour
of what appears to be their outer glowing or arcing
surface is therefore no indication of the size of
the core, in fact, we have no way of telling much
about a star’s solid core except that electric theory
says it is cooler than the photosphere. A star’s
appearance is also no indication of its age, as has
been assumed for so long by astro-science. Rather,
the apparent size and colour tells us about the
physical dimensions of the plasmasphere around
the core and the density of current flowing onto
and into the star at this single point in time [6-21] .
In terms of all low-energy stars that do not ‘shine’
like typical stars, these bodies have until just a few
decades ago, been very hard indeed to detect.
A comparison of star and planet sizes to Earth
Credit: NASAJPL-CaltechUCB
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