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Today we again explore the remarkable contributions of a new member
of the Electric Universe experimentalist community.
In a previous Space News, we introduced the research of Jacob Gable,
whose simple demonstrations of electrical discharge in a homemade vacuum chamber
have produced extraordinary analogs to the craters
commonly seen on planets and moons.
As those familiar with the Thunderbolts Project are aware,
for decades laboratory experiments with plasma have also provided
critical insights into the mysterious archetypes in world mythology.
In this episode, Jacob presents his intriguing new results
beginning with a discussion of one of the most terrifying figures in myth --
the serpent or dragon.
Again, the link to Jacob's YouTube channel
can be found in the description box of this video.
Something I find interesting about the Thunderbolts Project
is how it interprets ancient mythology.
Plasma has the ability to appear lifelike
so it's not a far-fetched idea that the sky could be filled with plasma
producing lifelike images for people to observe.
I wanted to see what a discharge between two bodies in space looked like
so what I did is I buried two electrodes in the sand
side-by-side one another in a vacuum chamber.
After removing the air, I applied a voltage to the electrodes
causing a current to flow in the low-pressure environment above the sand.
This would simulate a sort of 'Worlds in Collision' event.
The images produced are typical of plasma in that they were life-like.
I would relate them to a snake or a serpent searching and digging for food,
gouging out the surface
or even gouging out a world from the inside out.
You can even see what looked like eggs flowing down the body of the snake.
This makes me think of the archetype Venus
and its transformation into the archetype Medusa
in that it was producing serpent-like hair
that possibly even was the cause of gouging out the surface of Mars.
In conclusion, I'd say that the experiment was a success
because it was inspired by a Worlds in Collision event
and when trying to simulate that event,
I was able to produce and observe what appears to be an archetype.
So this would support Velikovsky.
An enduring mystery in comet science is the collimated nature of explosive cometary jets
which do not disperse in the "vacuum of space".
As with the jets and the plumes from so-called cryovolcanoes,
the vents from which mainstream scientists proposed the jets originate,
have proved elusive.
Amazingly, as far back as the early 20th century,
the Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland
proposed that comet jets are electrical in nature.
He was able to emulate cometary jets from a cathode in a vacuum tube.
Birkeland wrote,
"From a cathode of graphite there came long, steady pencils of light,
which greatly resembled the so-called eruptions or jets on comets."
Jacob explains how easily he has produced jets like those of comets
in his own experiments.
Since comet jets and cryovolcanic plumes share similarities
with electric discharge experiments,
I wanted to capture an event that distinguished the comet jet
from the cryovolcanic plume.
I believe that event is when a comet tail can split into two different directions
of two different colors.
One would be a gas tail and the other a dust tail.
While working with discharge experiments forming craters,
I noticed that if I left the vacuum pump running
while the crater was burning at the surface,
a purple glow discharge would accompany the white crater-forming filament.
The purple glow discharge typically forms a wedge shape
and tends to remain towards the surface
while the white filament forms a column through the center
and leads up to the anode.
Both discharges can occur side by side
and appear to be jetting away from the surface of the sand
at different angles from each other.
If the power driving the plasma is held,
the purple discharge at the surface will grow and overpower the filament,
similar to when a coma grows in size as it nears the Sun.
A long unresolved anomaly in planetary science
is the preferential appearance of smaller craters on the rims of larger craters.
As far back as 1965, the amateur astronomer Brian J. Ford
published his research into the electrical discharge origins of lunar craters.
He noted that the larger lunar craters
often have smaller craters perched on their rims.
Yet there are no examples of a large crater
intersecting a smaller crater in the same manner.
These cratering patterns are routinely produced
in the industrial process of electrical discharge machining.
We asked Jacob if he has found similar patterns in his own experiments.
When looking at features in our solar system,
the most common feature is the crater.
Of course, when looking for electrical discharge-machined craters,
we can look for the rimmed crater.
While doing a lot of experiments, I've observed many craters
and often times there's a filament or two,
even more, that will be rotating around forming the craters
so the filaments aren't actually as large as the crater itself.
The filaments will be smaller
and they'll be rotating and accompanied by another filament
and they'll rotate as a Birkeland current.
Sometimes these filaments will rest on the side of a crater
and can begin rotating again and forming another crater right on the rim of a crater.
We see rimmed craters throughout our solar system
and of course they're hard to replicate with impacts.
On the other hand, rim craters are a process of electrical discharge machining
and that would be a rotating Birkeland current.