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In part 1 of this presentation, Dr. Michael Clarage, the scientist on the
SAFIRE project team, began his analysis of a recent landmark discovery, which
shows a surprising relationship between sunspots and solar flares. As Dr.
Clarage explained, the discovery that solar flares seem to have a powerful
influence on sun spots is highly problematic for standard solar theory. In
this episode, Dr. Clarage explores what may be the fundamental difference
between the standard and electric universe concepts of the sun; and that is,
in an Electric Universe, stars are not the isolated bodies envisioned in standard theory.
Scientific thought exists in layers or levels. At the top we have
theories. Below that we have scientific models and below that we have data. I
have stacked them vertically because these three aspects; theory, models and
data are not of equal weight or equal power. Scientific theories, the top level,
are what you might call big ideas. They set the overall framework for years of
work where many scientists can create many models and do lots of experiments
collecting lots of data. Scientific theories change very slowly, over
centuries. The models change more quickly and new data, it's coming in every day.
I'm going to talk through some reasons why this new sunspot data is so
important for our understanding of scientific theories and models. Current
theory, and I want you to notice that I am using the word theory which is the
highest level of my diagram, says that each star, in our great universe, is
isolated from every other star. Yes, you may not know that about
mainstream cosmology but mainstream cosmology assumes that every star in our
galaxy is isolated from every other star. Like our picture of a medieval lord, each
isolated star creates its own energy only from within itself. But if you
entertain the idea that stars might be energetically connected to each other,
you entertain the idea that stars might receive energy from the galaxy, of which
they are a part, just as cells in our own bodies receive sustenance from our
bodies as a whole. Then we have in our hands a very different scientific theory.
We are at a point in cosmology where there are two worldviews. The old world
view, as I mentioned, sees all stars as energetically isolated. The new world
view says that stars are energetically connected and can influence each other.
The new world view goes further to acknowledge different levels of energies.
There are energies that exist at planetary levels, like weather and
lightning and the Northern Lights, and then there are energies that operate at
the scale of stars. Solar flares, the solar wind and the heliosphere current
sheet. But there is also energies that operate at the level of galaxies. And all
these levels are connected. In the new world view the planets receive solar
energies and transform those or scale them down so that lightning and weather
on our planet are manifestations of what happens when a planet absorbs and
digests solar energies. And just as a planet would be blown to smithereens if
it were hit by the full power of a star, so would a single star be blown to bits
if it were to ever receive the full energy of a galaxy. But individual stars
can absorb and digest their small portion of these galactic energies.
The stellar activities of solar flares and sun spots and the solar wind,
are what happens when stars take in their small portion of galactic energies.
Asked if there is any data that might support such a new world view, I can only
say that much of the evidence has already been seen but we have not known
how to understand what we are seeing. We scoff at people several hundred years
ago who thought the earth was the center of all things. For a few hundred years
now we have had been thinking in terms of the sun being the center of all
things. So how are we really any better? It is time now to add another and larger
level to our cosmology and truly see that stars are part of a larger, a more
energetic world. Look for example at this wonderful image from the Herschel
telescope. We can see clearly that stars form on filaments, galactic filaments. I
can tell you that none of the models of the old world view predicted that. In
fact, such a result would have been impossible. Here is a situation similar
to Chang Liu's paper. The old theories not only did not predict that stars
would form this way. The old theories said it was impossible. Yet in the new
cosmology that I'm trying to describe, this result, of stars forming on threads,
was predicted by such theorists as Wal Thornhill, long before the images started
coming back from the Herschel telescope. He was able to predict exactly what the
new telescopes show us because he was starting from a very different theory of
how galaxies and stars are related. This infrared data from Herschel is just one
example. Fresh images and data are coming in every day;
of our Earth, of other planets, of the solar system and the planets that orbit
other stars. When the recent results were published, that a nearby star has seven
planets orbiting it, all of which might harbor life; I asked my students, "Are you
surprised that we are discovering that most stars have planets orbiting them?
And the vast majority of my students said, "No", they were not surprised at all. I
was very encouraged by this because it shows that they have an inherent sense
that these sorts of hierarchies are to be expected. Our solar system is not
unusual or any sort of exception and I encourage anyone out there to start
looking at the wealth of the new data from NASA, ESA and other agencies. Look at
the data from the point of view of a new cosmology.
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