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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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Stars <strong>of</strong> various types … Protostars, T-Tauri Stars, Main Sequence Stars, Red Supergiants, Blue Supergiants,<br />

White Dwarfs, Yellow Dwarfs, Red Dwarfs, Blue Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs, Black Dwarfs, Cepheids, Neutron<br />

Stars, X-Ray Stars, Pulsars, Magnetars, Quark Stars, Preon Stars and Wolf-Rayet Stars are potentially confusing<br />

when considered as different types <strong>of</strong> bodies. In fact, we should take this array <strong>of</strong> names as an indication <strong>of</strong> the<br />

embarrassment <strong>of</strong> ideas about stars that really does exist! They are <strong>of</strong>ten talked about in the public domain as if<br />

their various labels should define them as very different objects with individual explanations for their creation<br />

and operation. But we can relax here, we do not need to follow this line <strong>of</strong> thinking if we just want to understand<br />

a plausible explanation for why all visible star types appear as they do.<br />

Here is a brief reminder <strong>of</strong> what we recently learned about the currently accepted story for stars. They are said<br />

to result from the process where gravity brings great amounts <strong>of</strong> gas and other heavier matter together. When<br />

everything about this task is complete, with a great amount <strong>of</strong> energy assumed to be released in the process, a<br />

star will have been formed <strong>of</strong> a particular size and energy output. After this, we are told that a clock starts running<br />

that defines a lifetime for the star; a period during which it passes through a sequence <strong>of</strong> stages represented by<br />

some <strong>of</strong> the names mentioned above. At the end <strong>of</strong> an active star's life it dies and collapses in on itself when<br />

the gas (fuel) it is composed <strong>of</strong> runs out. This process <strong>of</strong> collapse is termed a nova or supernova event; the<br />

distinction here depending on the original size and mass <strong>of</strong> the star involved. These nova events are where some<br />

assume it is possible for the matter thrown <strong>of</strong>f by an exploding star to be accelerated to great enough speeds that<br />

its subsequent mechanical collision with other particles <strong>of</strong> dust and gas in the vicinity, will produce high-energy<br />

radiation such as x-rays and gamma rays. Because <strong>of</strong> problems that exist with theories on which this account<br />

is founded, it is the story we will be challenging. In chapter six we will look at star creation from an alternative<br />

vantage point that embraces the theories <strong>of</strong> powerful electrical forces we already understand.<br />

I do not want to focus too much on the questionable aspects <strong>of</strong> the standard model and I do not want to be seen<br />

as documenting only an attack on these things, for as you will see, the book has a much more constructive<br />

objective. It remains important, however, to show that a very complicated and confusing story has evolved<br />

to include narrowly applied theories and a lot <strong>of</strong> assumption, the origin and operation <strong>of</strong> stars being just one<br />

aspect <strong>of</strong> this. Amusingly, and in terms <strong>of</strong> how the gravity model has come together, I am here reminded <strong>of</strong><br />

the old Johnny Cash song … “One Piece at a Time” … The lyrics <strong>of</strong> this song tell <strong>of</strong> a car being built from<br />

‘opportunistically purloined’ parts over a period <strong>of</strong> time. The end product is a rather special contraption; a<br />

vehicle which I choose to think would only have been <strong>of</strong> great value to its builder. In a sense, this is an analogue<br />

for how the SM has been put together. When it is discovered that something else is required to patch it up, then<br />

that 'item' is imaginatively constructed and fitted into place.<br />

Black Holes are 'real objects' only in the imagination <strong>of</strong> supporters <strong>of</strong> the gravity model. The supposed process<br />

<strong>of</strong> creation <strong>of</strong> these things is similar to the one involved with the death <strong>of</strong> typical stars, except it is on a very<br />

much grander scale. The need that brought them about was to explain observations that could only be attributed<br />

36 | We are waiting for answers to these questions

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