A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

Astro-scientists interpret these plasma discharges as
jets of gas that escape from sublimating ice under a
comet’s surface. The facts tell us this is bunkum!
Comet Hartley 2 (EPOXI) with plasma outbursts from its surface
Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech UMD
As comets continually circuit the Sun, the electrical
machining events described gouge out craters and
gullies to leave ridges and mesas on their surfaces.
The material removed is ejected into space as dust and
larger lumps of debris, pieces of which are destined to
become some of the meteors we see entering Earth’s
atmosphere. The amount of solid material removed
would be impressive on our earthly scale. As their
journey and this ‘surface sculpting’ process continues, the solid nuclei of comets are destined to eventually be
machined away to dust. This is the same EDM process that our manufacturing industry uses today as a well
understood technique for producing intricately machined metal parts through a controlled plasma discharge
process [6-48b] . This process highlights proven technology that industry knows well and uses every day that can be
directly associated with what we see taking place in space; the similarities are obvious. We must keep in mind
that we have only been talking about comets here. However, as you will see, these same machining processes
and discharge events can apply to all solid bodies in space, and it is especially interesting when we consider
them in terms of the planets and moons of our own solar system. It seems that Mother Nature is a sculptress and
her tools for that purpose are electrical.
Some of the clear images we now have of rocky comet surfaces show bright glows along the sharply defined
rims of craters. This makes electrical sense because high-points on a comet’s landscape are exactly where
negative charges will collect and begin to ‘arc’ when the current density of the environment is powerful enough
to force a slow but continuous discharge event - a bit like the process you may recall of smouldering paper when
you blow on it and watch the glowing edges eat into the paper then turn to ash and fall away. In these better
images we now receive, many of these ‘glowing outlines’ can be picked out for deeper analysis.
Thinking more about this type of discharge, have you ever seen those electric bulbs that are supposed to look
like a flickering flame? These bulbs are filled with neon gas, and in normal operation, the voltage across the two
electrodes inside will rise to a point where the ionised gas in dark mode will switch to its glow mode state as
the gas rapidly conducts some amount of current, as previously described. By this action the plasma gives off a
red-orange glow while appearing to jump around, so the appearance is that of a flickering flame.
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