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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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The central peaks <strong>of</strong>ten seen inside craters are said to be produced by rebounding molten rock that has<br />

instantaneously ‘frozen into place’ after an impact event.<br />

Alignment <strong>of</strong> the strata <strong>of</strong> central peaks with those in crater walls © author<br />

Standard theory claims that the central peaks <strong>of</strong><br />

craters are formed by the instant solidification <strong>of</strong><br />

rock that has become molten after a projectile<br />

strikes and heats an area on the solid surface <strong>of</strong><br />

a planet or moon. The event being suggested<br />

here can be imagined as something akin to when<br />

you drop a stone into water and watch a central<br />

column shoot up. Again I share the view <strong>of</strong> others<br />

and cannot believe this is how these central peaks are formed. Instead, it seems logical to believe that a bifilar<br />

Birkeland current with its rotating machining action around a crater’s central point could leave behind a single<br />

or tight group <strong>of</strong> protruding cone-shaped features. In support <strong>of</strong> this it is claimed by some that these peaks have<br />

the same vertical sequence <strong>of</strong> stratification (distribution <strong>of</strong> layers <strong>of</strong> material) that the inner wall <strong>of</strong> its crater has.<br />

In any case, a process for central peak formation supports the idea <strong>of</strong> a rotating scouring action that removes<br />

material and does not support the idea <strong>of</strong> a catastrophic impact event.<br />

We never seem to see any great amounts <strong>of</strong> rubble lying<br />

around the site <strong>of</strong> craters, even though this would be a logical<br />

expectation resulting from an explosive impact.<br />

Why do we not see debris around these craters on the Moon?<br />

Credit NASA LRO<br />

It is practically impossible to find extensive rubble-strewn<br />

areas in the immediate vicinity <strong>of</strong> craters. Even where we see<br />

craters adjacent to one another, no material from one (referred<br />

to as ejecta) can be found lying inside another, so where has<br />

that excavated material gone? Due once more to the scouring<br />

action <strong>of</strong> Birkeland currents two main things have happened:<br />

most <strong>of</strong> the pulverised debris has been lifted upward into space, and the vast fields <strong>of</strong> sharp rock fragments, for<br />

example, those now found extensively across the surface <strong>of</strong> Mars, must be a result <strong>of</strong> much <strong>of</strong> that debris having<br />

fallen back to the surface after being lifted skyward. This is also the process that supplies us with an explanation<br />

as to why we still find small pieces <strong>of</strong> Mars as meteorites lying around here on Earth.<br />

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

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