Astronomical Myths of Mercury & the Sun

Artist's impression of MESSENGER over Mercury
Artist's impression of MESSENGER over Mercury

The Messenger spacecraft has its inaugural fly-by of the planet Mercury today. Once again we hear the mantra that it will answer the solar system’s big questions. Once again it will fail to do so because our modern myths of astronomy and solar system history prevent insight and understanding. In a New Scientist cover story,…


2008 – Year of the ELECTRIC UNIVERSE®

Depiction of an intense auroral funnel.
Depiction of an intense auroral funnel.

The pause in news from this website is ended. I declare 2008 the International Year of the ELECTRIC UNIVERSE®. More on that later… “A first rate theory predicts A second rate theory forbids And a third rate theory explains after the fact.” —The Russian crystallographer, Alexander I. Kitaigorodskii. Karl Popper listed two other criteria of…


Io and the ELECTRIC UNIVERSE®

The plume from Io's Tvashtar "volcano"
The plume from Io's Tvashtar "volcano"

The book is now available from Mikamar Publishing. “Compelling, highly readable, and superbly illustrated, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to what will surely be the beginnings of a scientific revolution in the years ahead. The ELECTRIC UNIVERSE® understanding eliminates the need for the highly imaginative, sensational yet logic-breaking constructs of black holes, dark matter…


The Astrophysical Crisis at Red Square

Mwc 922 The Red Square Nebula
Mwc 922 The Red Square Nebula

“The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally come to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without discussion.” —Louis de Broglie,…


Global Warming in a Climate of Ignorance

Global warning
Global warning

“As for the promised control of nature, it is in rout before nature unleashed.” -Jacques Barzun, Science: the glorious entertainment “Next we come to a question that everyone, scientist and non-scientist alike, must have asked at some time. What is man’s place in the Universe?” -Fred Hoyle, The Nature of the Universe Global warming has…


The Electric Sky – Interview with the author

The Electric Sky
The Electric Sky

“If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If…


The ‘Spiral Galaxy’ at Saturn’s Pole

Poincaré, at the conclusion of the preface to his book, ‘Hypothéses Cosmogoniques‘, states: “One fact that strikes everyone is the spiral shape of some nebulae; it is encountered much too often for us to believe that it is due to chance. It is easy to understand how incomplete any theory of cosmogony which ignores this…


Nobel Prize for Big Bang is a Fizzer

COBE-WMAP
COBE-WMAP

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe them.” —George Orwell Consensus discourages dissent… It is the enemy of science, just as it is the triumph of politics. A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong. Committees… that decide which projects shall be funded are inevitably…


The Real Impact of Victoria Crater

Victoria crater on Mars
Victoria crater on Mars

“I don’t like the ‘terrorist geology of impact’, which is not the same thing as saying that no impacts have ever occurred.” —V. Axel Firsoff. One of the key arguments used to support the impact origin of craters in the solar system is that they seem similar to terrestrial explosion craters. However, superficial appearances can…


Voyager Probes the Sun’s Electrical Environment

Voyager
Voyager

“…with his [Birkeland’s] extraordinary intuition he had a feeling for the huge electrical importance of the universe. Future research may show that such messages from the sun are equally important to us as Galileo’s understanding of messages from the stars when he took his telescope and studied space for the first time.” —Sem Sæland, memorial…