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A joint project between NASA and Lockheed Martin Corporation resulted in
the launch of a satellite into Earth orbit, back in October 2008. That wasn't too long ago
and it was called IBEX, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer. The acronym I B E X,
I for interstellar, B for Boundary, Ex for Explorer. Its purpose was to seek out and measure
what are called “energetic neutral atoms.” And here is another abbreviation with letters E N A.
Those are Energetic Neutral Atoms. Those weren't plain old walking around,
regular atoms, not charged. It did exactly that, and as with so many NASA projects, it
has been a spectacular engineering success, but the analyses and conclusions
that have been drawn by gravity-only astrophysicists from the data it has
recovered, are somewhat less than spectacular. The unvarnished truth, results from the
mission have so far revealed that there is indeed a huge ring of energetic
neutral atoms surrounding the Sun's plasmasphere; far out, just at the
boundary of that volume. The Electric Universe explanation of the
existence of this ring is quite simple and not unexpected at all. A brief description of the plasma
discharge in which our solar system lives, is this. The Sun sits at roughly the center of
a volume of plasma, positive - and negative ion - and serves as the positively charged
anode of the electrical process that this volume contains. The outer surface of this volume thus
attracts negatively charged electrons from interstellar space, because of this
central positive charge. These electrons enter the plasma and are attracted
toward that positive Sun at the center. Thus, the edge of the plasma, called the
heliopause, becomes an effective cathode. The cathode is the source of electrons for the
discharge that lives inside the plasmasphere. There are some positive ions inside the
plasma due to natural ionization caused by cosmic rays, and more are emitted by
the Sun itself and these positive ions are repelled by the positively charged
Sun and they move outward. Any electrons that enter, are accelerated inward
because of the positively charged Sun at the center. If either of these flows
attain sufficient velocities, they collide with neutral atoms, and new pairs
of positive ions and electrons are formed. This process is called ionization.
The newly liberated positive ions move outward. When these accelerating positive ions
(astronomers call them the solar wind; it's not a wind at all, it's an electric
current), but when those accelerating ions approach the heliopause - the cathode of
this apparatus - many of them recombine. That is to say, they reunite with
electrons, coming inward from the cathode, and a neutral atom is the result of each
such recombination. There's nothing unusual about this. This is an entirely well-
understood and historically long observed phenomenon in electric plasma laboratories. Positive
ions coming out from the center, and reuniting with electrons from the outer
edge coming in. In those experiments, the recombination process emits energy.
Actually the same amount of energy it took to ionize the atoms in the first
place. A portion of this energy appears as light and in the lab is called the
cathode glow. Now NASA released a video about IBEX and you see that what the
call sign of it, the title of it is. But it presents all this as being ”newly discovered information”
quote, “...that shows the influence of the heliosphere on the local interstellar
medium and it's different than expected.” Unquote. It's not at all different than
expected, and it's not strange or anything like that at all.
Different from what NASA expected perhaps, but not at all surprising to
electric plasma scientists and engineers who have seen this behavior and worked
with it in labs for many years. One of the first images presented in
that NASA video is a picture of the ENA ring followed by the text, quote
”IBEX discovered a giant ribbon at the edge of the solar system, an anomaly
that has now been determined to be a reflection, where solar wind particles,
heading out into the interstellar space, are reflected back into the solar system
by a galactic magnetic field.” Okay, here we go again: magnetic
fields are responsible for anything we can't explain. It's actually not a
reflection of any kind and it doesn't have anything to do with a magnetic
field. It's the result of mass recombinations of solar wind positive
ions with incoming electrons from interstellar space. It's strictly a
natural electric process. Also, the text that accompanies this figure, “Previous
models showed a boundary ahead of the heliosphere outside the influence of the Sun:
a shock formed by the entire heliosphere pushing through the interstellar
material around it. IBEX data suggests that there is no bow shock preceding
the heliosphere's movement through space.” It's not there. So, we here in the
Electric Universe never agreed with the idea that the boundary between the Sun's
plasmasphere and interplanetary space was a bow shock. This is a holdover from
the fluid flow analysis of astronomers that don't believe in electricity. The
heliosphere is essentially a plasma- filled region within the huge Birkeland
current within which our Sun and its planets were born, and it's an entirely electrical process.
Just the other day there was a press release from NASA's Goddard Space Flight
center titled, “Studying the Edge of the Sun's Magnetic Bubble.”
Quote, “Mysteries abound. In 2009, IBEX returned a finding so shocking that
researchers initially wondered if the instrument may have malfunctioned.
That discovery became known as the IBEX Ribbon - a band across the sky where ENA
emissions are two or three times brighter than the rest of the sky.”
In my upcoming book I have made a comment about that. Anyway, David McComas, IBEX's principal
investigator, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University said, quote,
”The Ribbon was totally unexpected and not anticipated by any theories
before we flew the mission.” End quote. Well, I just pointed out that this is a
well-known formation of these neutral atoms. It is well known in the
laboratory. When the ions coming out from the anode, that is from the Sun - the solar
wind - when they get close to the cathode, that when these ions recombine with electrons,
they become neutral atoms and these neutral atoms then diffuse away from
this region where they're formed, back toward the anode. The formation of
energetic neutral atoms near the cathode is completely expected
in the EU, the Electric Universe Electric Sun model. And there's no excuse for them not to
know about it and running around, waving their arms looking at the sky, wondering
how in the world this could ever happen. I mean we've been talking about this for years now.
The best image of the EU model of that region, I think, was offered back in 2011
by Wal Thornhill. The ENA ring is in the horizontal plane of that image.
The Birkeland current is the vertical thing right down in the column in the
middle. It is in cross-section and appears as the two densest regions of
yellow dots to the right and left of the center. That is the ENA ring is circular,
like a donut, and then the two circles are the two parts of the donut that are
exposed when you cut it. The only thing missing from this image is a Heliotail,
going upward vertically from the Sun's heliosphere that looks almost identical
to the one in the diagram going downward. Recently we've heard whispers about the
possibility of there being dual tails on the heliosphere. On august 5th of 2020,
NASA released a sketch that shows how distorted the shape may actually be.
There's no real reason why two tails have to be symmetrically opposite each
other. Apparently, many stars are formed at points where Birkeland currents have
sharp bends, right angled bends. In august of 2020 the New Atlas website published
an image showing quote, “strange strings of stars.” Many of the stars in that
diagram were born where the Birkeland current strings so-called, take very
sharp turns. Hence the two tails connected to each of their heliospheres
would not be at precisely opposite sides of them. There's no need for it.
There are several images available on the internet of stars forming on strings -
Birkeland currents - often at jagged twists and turns of those so-called strings.
At any rate, IBEX seems to have opened another set of new ideas about the shape
of the cosmos and it all points toward one thing: it's inherently electrical in nature.
None of it was predicted or expected by gravity-only astrophysicists
and apparently some of them still do not recognize what IBEX results really mean,
and what they're really saying to us.
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