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On August 17th, 2017 the Thunderbolts Project will begin its International Conference:
Future Science in Phoenix, Arizona.
At the conference speakers from a variety of disciplines,
including engineering, physics, mathematics, and the life sciences
will present new, groundbreaking research on the role of electricity in nature.
A keynote speaker will be Professor Donald Scott
who has spent recent years developing his own model
of the structure of a Birkeland current.
As noted in several Space News episodes, in recent years,
the term Birkeland current has increasingly appeared in scientific literature,
the scientists recognizing the role the currents play in earthly Aurora's
and other atmospheric phenomena.
Recently Dr. Scott's prediction that the unique signature of Birkeland currents
is their counter rotation, has been visually verified.
At the Thunderbolts conference Dr. Scott will discuss his investigation
into the role of cosmic Birkeland currents
and the evidence that these currents power many galaxies in deep space.
Dr. Scott: We in the Electric Universe are involved in the investigation
of things that happened very long ago or far, far away
and one of the challenging things about that,
is trying to get any kind of hard substantive evidence to support your ideas
and hopefully we can come up with, at least we always look for,
evidence that interlocks with other evidence.
Anyway we've long suspected that electrical current flows through cosmic space and
they have real effects on things that we can observe.
For example Kristian Birkeland predicted that the cause of the Earth's Auroras
were electric currents, and he was right!
And now we can call them Birkeland currents in his honor.
They are there.
They flow down into the North and South Poles of Earth
and they've been measured and they're now known to exist.
Nobody really argues about that anymore.
We have suspected that, if it was true about the earth though,
it might be true about other planets as well.
So, how can we obtain supporting evidence for that,
other than maybe going there and measuring them with a space probe.
Well, a couple of years ago, I was able to develop a mathematical model
for what the structure of the Birkeland current would probably look like
if we could actually see one and take it apart and dissect it.
Actually Birkeland currents have a unique structure, totally unique.
They consist of a collection of concentric cylinders that counter-rotate,
like a bunch of pipes inside one another,
each one going in the opposite direction from the ones on the other side of it,
or I shouldn’t say, either side of it, but inside or outside.
Anyway, each cylinder, one inside the other,
rotates in the opposite direction from its neighbor.
So, when I saw that the north poles of both Saturn and Jupiter
are covered with counter-rotating cloud belts,
now that was the kind of corroboration that's hard to ignore.
Counter rotation is almost uniquely a property of Birkeland currents.
That doesn't mean it can't happen from other means,
but it's very, very difficult.
Try to think of it yourself:
how do you make these cylinders go in the opposite directions.
That's very tough, that's a tough problem.
So, when we see it, we're encouraged to think
that we may be seeing a situation in which Birkeland currents are present;
or at least we should allow for the possibility that that's what's going on.
The earth’s auroras exhibit counter-rotation,
and so that's additional supporting evidence that indeed, yes,
Birkeland currents are impinging on the north pole and south pole of the earth.
So, why not on Saturn, Jupiter and the other planets?
We see these counter-rotating cloud belts and that supports our ideas.
So we also think, however that strings of Birkeland currents
connect galaxies in our universe.
If we can show that lots of these galaxies contain counter-rotating belts of stars
that would be strong evidence for the presence of Birkeland currents;
otherwise how do you get those belts of stars to go in opposite directions?
In this summer's EU conference
I'm going to present evidence of a lot of galactic counter-rotation
that astronomers claim, this is very rare; that very few galaxies exhibit this.
Well, maybe.
But it's quite difficult to observe and measure
and try to show the folks at the conference how that's done.
Does that prove that Birkeland currents are responsible for galactic rotation?
No, of course not.
But it's very difficult to come up with another mechanism
that can produce galaxy counter-rotation that isn't electrical;
that isn't a Birkeland current.
Anyway lastly at the conference,
sort of talking about the other end of the spectrum of dimension
from the huge galaxies to very something very small at the other end,
relatively small at least.
We suspect that storms here on Earth may involve Birkeland currents.
But I'm going to be presenting new evidence that they indeed are.
They're intimately involved with both hurricanes and tornadoes.
Also, this last week I discovered thanks to my informants
who say, hey Don, you should see this.
And so a fellow sent me a website,
showing that Birkeland currents are a possible explanation
of the mysterious circulating ocean currents, like for instance the Gulfstream.
People have been asking for decades, centuries, actually millennia,
as to why do these big streams, these oceanic showing that rivers of water
flow around and around and around.
What drives them?
You can hear people talk about the dynamos inside the earth or something, but...
That's like the dog-ate-my-homework kind of explanation.
They are, we think now, quite obviously
the result of those Birkeland currents that come into the poles of the earth
and I will be talking about that and presenting evidence to that effect
in August and I look forward to it.
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