A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

in energy terms on such a vast scale, so this again was a serious problem to explain. Guth also said that in order
to account for how the furthest observable points in opposite directions in space could have originated from
the same location 13.7 billion years ago, a super-luminal (faster than light) event must have taken place just
after the instant of the Big Bang. Inflation was Guth’s imaginative invention for this purpose as it could explain
the super smoothness of the background to deep space. Once again we find a single idea swiftly accepted as
another essential element of the SM. In reality, however, it was
just another ‘sticking plaster’ to prop that troubled model up.
Quasars, [1-4] Quasar
first discovered in the 1950s, are the mysterious
‘firecrackers’ of the universe. They ‘appear’ to us small, bright
and energetic and are assumed to be young formative galaxies.
Galaxy
Many of the hundreds of thousands of quasars discovered so far
are described as being far away at the limits of our observational
capabilities. Due to the calculated amount of time their apparent
bright light has taken to get to us, their visual appearance has
been judged as being how they appeared when the universe was very young. These quasars (Quasi Stellar Objects
or QSOs) are another puzzle for today’s astronomers to solve. This is mainly due to evidence accumulated by
astronomers who are not part of the mainstream, but also some who have been, which suggests that quasars are
not very far away at all and that their origin and appearance are explicable through theories unrelated to gravity.
I will say more in detail about quasars later.
White Dwarf Stars [1-5] are said to be dense Earth-sized remnants of
dead stars, which in simple terms weigh around the same as our Sun.
(We really should be talking about the ‘mass’ of objects instead of their
‘weight’.)
Many of the white dwarfs that are near to us appear not to be especially
bright. Their extreme mass (density) is said to result from the action of
the force of gravity collapsing their original star’s gas so much that the
resulting core is compressed to an extent where it ends up having the
appearance of a small whitish glowing ball. These stars are typically
described as being the ‘core remnant’ of a certain size of star that has
gone through this process and thrown its outer materials off into space.
14 | What the problem is
Young Quasar and Old Galaxy © author
A White Dwarf Star? © author