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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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Here is what this experiment infers is happening in space. A voltage difference will exist between layers <strong>of</strong><br />

plasma in the 'atmosphere' <strong>of</strong> a star, forming a Double Layer between them. On occasion, this voltage will<br />

build to a point where the double layer "explodes." (The complex signal expected from such an event has<br />

been successfully modelled by electrical engineers but their work is ignored in favour <strong>of</strong> the more outrageous<br />

hypothetical ‘neutron star’ model.) As the event proceeds, a pulse <strong>of</strong> visible light and X-ray radiation is released<br />

in all directions. One could imagine this as a cosmic lightning flash. Because the energy supply behind this is<br />

practically without limit, the charge will rapidly build up again across the DL to repeat the breakdown part <strong>of</strong><br />

the cycle once more; and on and on it will go. We know from experiments and experience that DLs quickly<br />

self-repair after a breakdown occurs. It is this same action that takes place around Earth when in our upper<br />

atmosphere, electrical breakdowns occur that allow charges to build-up in our lower cloud layers which in turn<br />

discharge to Earth as bolts <strong>of</strong> lightning. (Lightning is not well explained by today’s meteorology, its real cause<br />

goes back to the very interesting subject <strong>of</strong> ‘space weather’, but that is for another time!) So, to summarise,<br />

pulsar activity comes about as a result <strong>of</strong> electric breakdown action due to the build-up <strong>of</strong> excessive EM energy<br />

in a star’s magnetosphere. A pulsar’s apparent physical location can be thought <strong>of</strong> as the position <strong>of</strong> the ‘Neon<br />

Bulb’ component in a stellar scale relaxation oscillator circuit [6-28] .<br />

We are currently safe and cosy here within the Earth’s biosphere where the powerful activities that go on in our<br />

dynamic electric universe are kept well away, and so they are essentially unknown to us. Those powerful events<br />

would be far more obvious if the DL barrier around the Earth was suddenly to be exposed to greater external<br />

electrical stresses and change in a way that made it less effective for our protection. If that happened, we would<br />

observe many new and probably terrifying events in our skies that would bring about powerful discharges to<br />

ground that would carve, bore and split it in ways that would be hard for us to conceive. This, <strong>of</strong> course, is<br />

unlikely to happen in our lifetime. <strong>Our</strong> experience <strong>of</strong> spectacular things such as pulsars is actually a short period<br />

in their total existence, and we have no idea how their behaviour may change over the great swathes <strong>of</strong> time that<br />

lie ahead. However, one thing is for sure, their behaviour and that <strong>of</strong> other phenomena like them is destined to<br />

change as the energy input that defines their current action changes.<br />

Neutron Stars: As was said before, the description <strong>of</strong> these implies they consist <strong>of</strong> the heaviest (densest) form<br />

<strong>of</strong> matter in the universe; solidly packed neutrons with no space between them. This is the fabled ‘Neutronium’<br />

<strong>of</strong> which a spoonful would weigh a billion tons here on the Earth. Hmm, perhaps, and only if it were possible<br />

to produce that stuff in the first place! The reason behind neutron stars being considered real objects arose from<br />

the need for an exceptionally powerful gravitational source that theoretical mathematics had said was required<br />

to explain powerful radiation emissions and gravitational effects that were observed coming from deep space.<br />

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

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