A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

Now, something about comet tails; there are usually two. The visually larger and often ‘curved’ one is said to
consist of slower moving heavy dust and debris particles ejected from the surface of the nucleus as the result
of ice sublimation. The other ‘ion tail’, the
straight one, is said to be formed by the action
of high-speed, high-energy protons in the
solar wind striking gas particles expelled from
a comet’s surface with enough force to make
them glow as they are ionised. The resulting
brightly coloured display stretches out to a
narrow tail behind. This is the standard story
of comet tails.
Comet Hale-Bopp - Credit: NASA
In the Electric Universe there is a different
view of comet tail production due to electrical
action being responsible for them and not
solar heating. The heavy dust and debris of the
curved tail is indeed material removed from a comet’s surface, but not via the action of sublimating ice. This
surface machining process will be covered in detail very shortly but for now I will continue with the ‘ion tail’
description. In 1986, the Ulysses space probe detected evidence of the ion tail of comet Hyakutake at a distance
of 360 million miles behind the comet itself - this is close to the distance between the Earth and Jupiter; a fact
that gives us an important thought to chew over.
We should remember that space is a very good but not perfect vacuum and that under normal circumstances,
electrically neutral gases like those claimed to be expelled from a chunk of sublimating ice would disperse
very swiftly and not remain together as a structure that has form. Therefore, the question is, what could have
held Hyakutake’s ionised tail together as a long filament for it to be detectable at an enormous distance from its
source? It certainly could never be gravity, magic or the fact that the molecules of gas were just being friendly,
so we find ourselves back with the EM force to explain this. Here again we consider the constraining action of
a surrounding magnetic field, this time the one formed by the Birkeland currents flowing within Hyakutake’s
ionised tail. It is that field that would naturally act to maintain the tail’s narrow structure over the vast distance in
question. If astro-science’s idea of this tail consisting of neutral gas was true, then instead of forming a tail with
structure, the gas would have rapidly and randomly dispersed into space after departing the nucleus of the comet
[6-46] . Again, we find ourselves talking about the involvement of filamentary Birkeland currents. In the electrically
dynamic environment of space, we can expect to find them everywhere, supplying energy to powerful events or
being generated by the interaction of mobile charged bodies within their plasma environment.
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