A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

Electricity requires a conducting path to flow along, and in space those paths are formed from the plasma that
we know already exists there. The challenge therefore is to properly understand plasma’s ability not to instantly
mix to become electrically neutral, as we are told it does, but instead to form in regions that have isolating
double-layer barriers between them that allow powerful charge differences to build up. Where these different
electrical potentials exist then conditions are right for currents to flow, and when they do flow, magnetic fields
are produced to surround and spread out from the paths those currents take. These paths are what we often now
visibly see as twisted filaments in space - they are Birkeland currents.
The acknowledgement by astro-science of the reality of Birkeland currents, despite only being a tailored
admission to suit its own aspirations, is actually an unintended recognition that electric currents do flow in
space, and as we have discussed, this is the case at every conceivable scale. We know that the fundamental
electromagnetic force is 10 39 times more powerful than the force of gravity and that its effects on plasma are
shown from laboratory experiment to be upwardly scalable by 10 14 times. What results, therefore, is a situation
where ionised matter is being collected together in concentrations that span vast distances, the dimensions
of which we can only attempt to imagine. These regions of concentrated plasma subsequently interact with
each other dynamically through electromagnetic forces, the power of which we can only wonder at and so
represent with numbers that have many trailing zeros. The network of Birkeland currents that therefore exists
throughout our universe as the cosmic power distribution system, supplies energy to galaxies, stars and all the
other energetic phenomena we observe. All of these, fundamentally, are various plasma structures that form and
re-form within a cosmic ocean of ionised dust and gas to give us the fabric, objects and events we observe that
together present to us our powerfully dynamic but apparently motionless universe. Within all this, and closer
to our human scale of appreciation, the relatively minuscule bodies of planets and moons are moved around by
gravity, that is yet to be fully understood. It is only when these bodies approach each other that electrical forces
dominate and they interact spectacularly by discharge through the plasma medium of space that surrounds them.
Happily, it seems that such electrical exchanges serve to change orbits in such a way as to restore peace among
the planets.
Keeping the scalability of plasma energy and behaviour in mind, we find evidence of space being electric right
in front of our eyes when we look at how comets visually appear and how they behave. These occasional visitors
to the inner region of the solar system may open the door for us to everything else electric. The tantalising data
now collected around them may turn out to be the seed from which a breakthrough will sprout as evidence to
the electrical nature of our universe. Comets are solid bodies isolated electrically from their surroundings by
a double layer barrier formed by their own charge level and that of their oppositely charged environment. For
most of their long elliptical journey far from the Sun they are negatively charged bodies, so their spectacular
visual and physical behaviours as they fly through the rapidly increasing positive charge that surrounds the Sun
can be accounted for as resulting from the inevitable electric discharges that take place. It is also during this
inner solar system journey that the fracturing, cratering, sculpting and erosion of comets takes place.
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