A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

“If the Earth’s orbit were represented by the period at the end of this sentence and Pluto’s orbit by a circle one
centimetre in diameter, then the nearest star is 41 meters away. The Oort cloud of comets would orbit in a sphere
6 meters in diameter containing one comet per cubic millimetre. The comets would move about 3 millimetres
per 1,000 years. They are effectively motionless. Passing stars ‘whiz’ past at a meter per 1,000 years and stir
up the nearby comets. Less than 1 in 10,000 disturbed comets will be knocked onto a path that will target the 1
millimetre or so sphere surrounding the Sun where a comet might be seen from Earth.”
This is not suggesting we should not see comets here on Earth, because we do. Rather, it is a comment on the
fact that we observe so many, but not in showers.
When listening to experts, they often refer to the tails of comets being, in part, brought about by heat from the
Sun that forces 'melting' (sublimating) ice, gas and dust to rapidly leave a comet’s surface and then for it to
be carried along in the 'solar wind' as a long narrow tail behind it. This turns out to be a narrow view because
it is based on old assumptions that have never included any consideration of the electrical nature of space. As
far back as the 1800s, scientists and science magazines are known to have announced the distinct possibility
that comet displays were fundamentally electrical in nature. It seems to have been for popular gravity-centric
reasons that this line of suggestion was ignored in favour of the dirty snowball idea. It also seems that things are
destined to go full circle with this issue, because electrical activity on and around comets has now been proved
as fact but still remains publicly unrecognised as such. If the Sun’s heat and the solar wind are responsible for
comet tails, then why in 1996 was the tail of comet Hyakutake detected by the Ulysses spacecraft mission to be
360 million miles behind it? ... Four times the distance that the Earth is from the Sun!
You will be aware of how hair can be made to stand on end when attracted to a nylon comb by the electrostatic
charge built up when you stroke it through your hair. With this impression in mind, consider the thin bright jets
seen here shooting out from the surface of comet Hartley.
Comet Hartley displaying its “jets”
Credit: EPOXI_NASA JPL-Caltech UMD
These jets are explained conventionally as coming from
narrow holes in the surface of a comet that act as ‘gun
barrels’ to direct jets of sublimating ice (as gas) from
under a comet's surface out into space. It would be strange
if this were true, because similar jets are observed on the
cold sides of comets that face away from the Sun. It seems
instead, they are rather like the appearance of hair when it
is electrostatically attracted to a comb, so perhaps there is a
more likely electrical explanation for what we see.
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