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06 September 2009

The Simple Electric Universe

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Some people in each successive generation believe that theirs is the one that has at last

seen everything clearly, that their insights point to the truth, the final answer. Yet

scientific discovery marches on and todays truth will become tomorrows anecdotes.

Gerrit L. Verschuur,Interstellar Matters

>> The Southbank, London, August 2009

Since my last report I have been in England where I convened a meeting of people

actively concerned with the Electric Universe and the problem of educating the public.

Gaining attention for a simple electrical model of the universe is a problem because the

media is devoted to the science fiction of the big bang. The noted astronomer, Fred

Hoyle, wrote prophetically in Of Men and Galaxies (1964) More and more the

professions will cross over into the entertainment field. Those of us who are not

employed directly in industry will come to realize that what we are really in is show

biz. Much earlier, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg(1742-1799) was even more prescient,a man cannot strongly enough ask of Heaven: if it wants to let him discover something,

may it be something that makes a bang. It will resound into eternity. For the sake of

science I hope not. The big bang was not discovered but contrived by mathematicians

following the proposal of a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and astronomer, George

Lemaitre, for the origin of the universe from a primeval atom or Cosmic Egg

exploding at the moment of the creation. The theory defies physics principles and is

unrealistic, needing most of the matter in the universe to be invisible (not even dark) and

a mysterious dark energy. Even galaxies must have mathematical figments (black holes

at their hearts to explain just a few of their characteristics. Hoyle believed one single,

usually simple, observation could unseat a strongly established prejudice like the big

bang. But when you believe in theories like the big bang, logic has no dominion and anyobservation can be accommodated.
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>> How is it that cartoonists can see through humbug while others cannot?

Credit: Wiley Miller [Click on image to enlarge]

The Electric Universe is developed upon plasma cosmology, which is a recognized

discipline within the practical electrical engineering profession through the Institute for

Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Refereed papers on plasma cosmology are

published in the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. The freewheeling discussion in

that journal is reminiscent of the science journals of more than a century ago, not the

monoculture of the big bang today. My paper on the electrical nature of supernovae and

stars was published there in 2007. [It is curious that astronomers plot stellar colors and

brightness (the Hezsprung-Russell diagram) like Alice through the Looking Glass. Leftand right are reversed, which makes it difficult to see the obvious connection between th

electrical power arriving at a star and the stars color, size and brightness]. Unlike big

bang cosmology, plasma cosmology is subject to experimental tests in the laboratory and

follows the Lichtenberg experimental tradition. Any bangs it creates are real and noisy.

Plasma cosmology can demonstrate with simple physical principles the electrical

formation and behavior of spiral galaxies and stars without recourse to hypothetical dark

matter and black holes.

Almost the entire visible universe is composed of plasmaa gas where some of the

atoms have lost an electron or two. However, unlike the gases we are familiar with on

Earth, plasma reacts strongly to the presence of electromagnetic fields and is a betterconductor than copper. Its behavior has been described as complex and life-like. That

should be a clue! The universe is principally an electrical plasma phenomenon.

Electricity exists in space. Magnetic fields detected in space can only be generated by

electric currents. Radio telescopes routinely map galactic magnetic fields and their field

configuration matches that found in plasma cosmology experiments. If science were the

advertised open pursuit of truth, we should expect big bang cosmologists to be rushing to

the plasma labs. Not a bit of it. They are principally theoretical mathematicians. We

strike the artificial modern barrier of specialism. The cultural historian, Jaques Barzun,

defined specialism as a piece of etiquette which decrees that no specialist shall bother

with the concerns of another, lest he be thought intruding and be shown up as ignorant.Specialism is born of what the philosopher Arthur Balfour called the pernicious doctrinthat superficial knowledge is worse than no knowledge at all. Rampant specialism, an
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arbitrary and

purely social evil, is not recognized for the crabbed guild spirit that it is, and few arebold enough to say that carving out a small domain and exhausting its soil affords as

much chance for protected irresponsibility as for scientific thoroughness. Science:

the glorious entertainment.

The plasma cosmologist Eric Lerner, author ofThe Big Bang never Happened, says oneof the most destructive features of the methodology of the big bang is that it conveys the

idea that only people versed in extremely complicated mathematics can understand the

universe This is, of course, the argument of the emperors new clothes. If you cant seethe emperors new clothes you must be either stupid or incompetent.

Engineers are neither stupid nor incompetent. Much of the hyped success of science over

the last century can be attributed to engineers. And it is engineers who tend to prefer the

real-world simplicity of the Electric Universe to the metaphysics of the big bang and

black holes.

The Simple Electric Universe

A signature of a good theory is its simplicity. One of the participants at the London

meeting concluded:

I think the Electric Universe is actually very simple.

In essence, everything hinges on the question of whether or not electricity exists in space.

The mainstream view is that it does not; we argue that it does. Everything else flows fro

that.

What we are attempting to do is bring about a scientific revolution; The Electric

Revolution. This Revolution will have as far-reaching consequences as the Copernican

revolution, which was also based on one simple idea, is the Earth or the Sun at the

centre?

Like the Copernican revolution, the data can be interpreted in both ways; Copernicus did

not phrase his argument that the Sun was at the centre; he merely suggested that it was an

awful lot easier to interpret the data if, for the sake of calculation alone, one pretended

that it was. In the same way, I believe we are essentially suggesting that it's an awful loteasier to explain the observed behaviour of the universe if one allows electricity to have

role. Yes, you can develop a gravity-only model that gives the right answers, but having

to live with 96% of the resulting universe being dark and unobservable is no better than

having to have multiple levels of epicycles to explain the planetary motions around the

earth.

That's why it's so simple. Just assume electricity is there and it all becomes a whole lot

easier. Bob Johnson

History will show that our present big bang cosmology is an unfortunate accident oftiming. The foundations of the big bang story were being laid down early in the 20th

century. At the same time, electric lights were just being introduced and the study of


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electric discharges in gases was in its infancy. The result was that Einsteins new, esoteri

geometric theory of gravity that treats empty space as an object capable of being

warped, was combined with a curious interpretation of the redshift from faint

extragalactic objects (that was not favored by Hubble himself as being physically likely)

to produce the notion of an expanding universe. The fact that this defied a principle of

physics in creating matter from nothing at the beginning, or big bang, seems not to haveconcerned theorists. It should have. Invoking the ultimate free lunch is not science. On

the other hand, based on observation the Electric Universe assumes a universe of

unknown age and extent.

Who, indeed, are we as a species to dare ask such mighty questions as concern the

origin of the universe and in unique arrogance believe we may have the correct answerwithin cosmic microseconds of the asking. Gerrit L. Verschuur, Interstellar Matters.

>> Gerrit Verschuur, radio astronomer and popularizer of astronomy. Past director of the

Fiske Planetarium, U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Radio astronomy is a crucial tool for

mapping cosmic circuitry in an Electric Universe.

The intellectual hubris of big bang theorists is shocking when we find that science cannot

explain the simplest phenomena associated with matter. Mass, gravity, magnetism, and

light are a mystery. We have equations that describe what happens when a charged

particle is accelerated; you drop something from a height; a current passes down a wire;and light strikes a surface. But mathematical descriptions do not constitute a physical

explanation.


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in the lightning bolt and occasional aurora. Plasma has been termed the fourth state of

matter but in view of its ubiquity it would be better termed the fundamental state of

matter.

It is a state where neutral atoms are mixed with charged particles, positive and negative.

These particles may be as small as electrons and protons or may range up to the size ofmolecules and dust particles. In a gaseous plasma, like we find throughout the universe,

the charged particles respond more strongly to electromagnetic forces than they do to

mechanical or gravitational forces. One of the results we see in lightning is the

constriction of electric currents to form long filaments. And the filamentary nature of

plasma in space is well documented. No dark matter, sprinkled where required to save a

theory, is necessary.

>> Survey of the nearby universe maps the distribution of about 75,000 galaxies (small

blue dots). The placement of each galaxy in the radial direction is proportional to its

distance from the Earth (which is located at the intersection of the two wedges), and its

angular position (or right ascension in hours of arc) corresponds to its location along a

thin strip in the sky. The galaxies clearly trace a network of filamentary structures.

Image courtesy of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey team.

The Electric Universe assumes that Nature is not wilfully hiding her secrets. The

complexity we observe in the universe comes from very simple electrical principles,some of which can be tested with very simple apparatus. Science is open to everyone.

The visible universe is an electrical phenomenon, from the structure of subatomic

particles to the superclusters of galaxies in deep space.
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Cesarsky, said recently, I think young scientists should guard themselves against

brainwashing. They should look beyond the road maps, even if we put the best we knowin them. Also, they should resist specializing too much at the cost of the big picture. The

best way to escape [the] bandwagon effect is to look at things from a distance, to connect

different ideas.

It is time for another idea in astronomy. The Electric Universe is a new big picture of

the universe that looks at things from a distance and connects different ideas. If science

has become show biz, the broad panorama of the Electric Universe is fitted for an Imax

theatre show like nothing else before it. The Electric Universe releases us from the

confining eggshell of big bang metaphysics and propels us into the real universe. Our

future depends on it. The possible scientific, technological and cultural advances will be,

as Arthur C. Clarke so ably expressed it, indistinguishable from magic.

My thanks to Bob Johnson and Gerald Pecksen for their help in London and their

valuable views about an Electric Revolution.

Wal Thornhill

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