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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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It seems once again that what was known about the behaviour <strong>of</strong> volcanoes and lava here on Earth was transferred<br />

to what they thought they were seeing on the Moon. Unfortunately, this explanation has been stuck to ever since<br />

with no room for broader discussion on the matter. It is the line <strong>of</strong> thought automatically transferred to apply to<br />

similar features on other bodies, but it is especially the case with the subject <strong>of</strong> flat-bottomed craters [6-59] . Astroscientists<br />

continue to cling to mechanical impact and/or geological disturbances as the only possible lines <strong>of</strong><br />

explanation for craters and other surface scars. To me this is an example <strong>of</strong> self-defeating tunnel vision.<br />

I also must address the claim from astro-science that round craters and their internal features can be accurately<br />

reproduced in the laboratory, no matter the angle at which a projectile is fired at a surface. Keep in mind that the<br />

obvious idea <strong>of</strong> craters being formed through impact events and the understandable human desire to be correct,<br />

would together likely form the backdrop to people’s thinking as they considered why they should support that<br />

simplistic idea. I liken this to where a person with a narrowly developed belief will tend to ignore anything that<br />

contradicts it while recognising only that which is supportive. People just like to be right!<br />

It is apparently the case that experiments have been carried out using miniature high velocity projectiles to show<br />

that round crater-like features can be produced no matter at what oblique angle the projectile is fired into sand<br />

or some other analogue <strong>of</strong> compacted surface-type materials. The results show simple crater-like shapes but<br />

none with the distinguishing external or internal features <strong>of</strong> real life craters. Arguments put forward based on<br />

this inadequate evidence should therefore be rejected, and in my opinion, those who conduct these expensive<br />

experiments should be put on the spot with questions about the accuracy <strong>of</strong> their results when compared against<br />

actual observations.<br />

As Mr Spock <strong>of</strong> Star Trek fame might say to explain how the vast majority <strong>of</strong> craters are formed… ‘Let logic<br />

dictate that due to evidence from direct observation, surface cratering is undoubtedly produced by a force acting<br />

vertically and in a rotating fashion to remove material quickly and cleanly from the body.’ This really is what<br />

the evidence indicates, so to explain cratering and surface scarring in terms <strong>of</strong> EU theory we must concentrate<br />

completely on electrical discharge events [6-60] [6-61] .<br />

Experiments in electrical and plasma laboratories<br />

can now be done to reproduce major features <strong>of</strong> the<br />

cratering and scarring we find on planets, moons,<br />

comets and asteroids. Further to this, by-products <strong>of</strong><br />

these experiments are frequently produced that are<br />

useful electrical clues, such as here where we find<br />

small round globes or ‘spherules’ known as Martian<br />

Blueberries.<br />

Hematite Spherules (Martian Blueberries)<br />

Left on Mars & Right from Laboratory<br />

Credit: NASA (Left) and C.J. Ransom (Right)<br />

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

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