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The myth of an electrically sterile
universe is dead. Only those who paid little attention to discovery could
think otherwise. But close attention must be paid indeed since institutional
science has made no attempt to contextualize the development as
significant. As we've reported many times, electric currents in space, long verboten
in the astronomical literature, is now acknowledged with increasing frequency
at all scales of cosmic investigation. Scientific papers propose that colossal
electric currents flow through the light years long jets exploding from active
galactic nuclei. Some radio astronomers estimate the strength of such an
electric current as comparable to a trillion bolts of lightning. In our own
solar system the electric currents that connect the gas giant Saturn and Jupiter
to their respective moons is also now recognized in science literature. However,
like the spectacular electromagnetic cosmic jets, space scientists heretofore
have always proposed that the electric currents are the result of strange
magneto-fluidic processes. Yet rather than affirming these interpretations,
finer technological data increasingly challenges standard theory while
confirming the Electric Universe prediction of electrical circuitry
connecting the bodies in our solar system.
In fact, the Saturnian moon Enceladus displays some of the most dramatic
electrical discharge activities seen on rocky bodies in our solar system today.
Well over a decade ago, prior to the arrival of NASA's Cassini spacecraft at
Saturn, planetary scientists had expected Enceladus to be "geologically dead".
Instead they found explosive filamentary jets shooting material at tremendous
velocities up to hundreds of kilometers from the moon's surface.
Adding to the surprise, the jets were seen at the moon's South Pole, the last
place they expected such activity. As reported by space.com
in 2005, "The finding flipped everything scientists knew about Enceladus on its
head, because what should have been a dead moon appeared to be geologically
active and what was supposed to be the moon's coldest region turned out to be
its warmest." Astronomer John Spencer said of the discovery, "This is as astonishing
as if we'd flown past Earth and found that Antarctica was warmer than the
Sahara." Since their discovery, scientists have interpreted the features as
so-called 'ice-geysers' which they view as a form of cryovolcanism probably
resulting from Saturn's gravitational forces producing tidal heating within
the moon. Over a decade ago, Cassini's plasma spectrometer discovered
evidence for electric currents in the jets that compose the plumes of water
and dust. In recent years, a number of papers have been written on the presence
of negatively charged dust grains in the so-called plumes. Today, scientists
studying data from the Cassini spacecraft are reporting that the
electrical circuitry connecting Enceladus and Saturn is more
"powerful and dynamic than conventional theory had proposed." The NASA press
release from July 9, 2018, states, "New research from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's
up-close Grand-Finale orbits shows a surprisingly powerful and dynamic
interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon
Enceladus. The observations show for the first time that the waves travel on
magnetic field lines connecting Saturn directly to Enceladus. The field lines
are like an electrical circuit between the two bodies, with energy flowing back
and forth." Planetary scientist Ali Sulaiman says of the findings, "Enceladus
is this little generator going around Saturn, and we know it is a continuous
source of energy. Now we find that Saturn responds by launching signals in the
form of plasma waves, through the circuit of magnetic field lines connecting it to
Enceladus hundreds of thousands of miles away."
It remains the position of planetary scientists that cryo-volcanic activity
on Enceladus releases the spectacular filamentary plumes which then become
ionized. However, when we consider the latest scientific data and juxtapose
the respective predictions and interpretations of standard theory
versus those of the Electric Universe, we see a consistent and stunning victory
for the electrical viewpoint. Consider first a scientific paper published
earlier this year based on data from the Cassini Langmuir probe which suggests
that negatively charged dust grains have previously "blocked the signal of
the powerful electric currents in the Enceladus jets." For a number of years
Standard Theory has proposed that electrically neutral water molecules are
ejected from the moon's surface where UV rays from the Sun and interactions with
plasma in Saturn's magnetosphere strips electrons from the water molecules
forming positively charged water ions. In theory, these ions are then free to be
"picked up" and merged with co-rotating plasma, supposedly generating
an electric current. Cassini scientists had estimated the strength of the jets'
electric currents based on disturbances to Cassini's magnetometer instrument. But
as noted in the summary of a scientific paper in the Journal of Geophysical
Research, "...when Cassini flew through the icy plume, its instruments sent back
vastly different readings. According to the craft's Langmuir probe, which measures
particle density, there were enough ions present to generate a current of 10
million amps. The magnetometer indicated a current more than 20 times weaker." The
authors provide experimental evidence that ions like those in the Enceladus
plume are, "attracted and trapped within the sheaths of negatively charged
dust grains." They conclude that, "Cassini's Langmuir probe is measuring
the entire ion population (free and trapped ions), while the Cassini
magnetometer detects the magnetic perturbations associated with pickup
currents from the smaller population of free ions, with this distinction possibly
reconciling the ongoing debate in the literature on the ion density in the
plume." Simply put, these results are anomalous for the standard "pick up
ions model" but they are expected if the surface of Enceladus is being etched by
electrical discharge machining. As physicist Wal Thornhill has always
proposed, "Electrical discharge machining works by stripping electrons from high
points on a surface. In this process on Enceladus, positive ions generated on the
surface are heated by electric discharge and electrostatically attracted to
follow the electrons into space. This does in fact explain the high loading of
positive ions that the Langmuir probe measured. Let us also consider the
hypothetical processes that planetary scientists must invoke to try to explain
the explosive plumes generation. Given the icy cold temperatures of the moon at
its vast distance, nearly 900 million miles from the Sun, it seems preposterous
to suggest that solar warming could produce the plumes. So it's believed that
Saturn's gravitational influence produces tidal heating within the moon
creating the explosive outbursts. However, science discovery continues to
challenge the tidal heating explanation both for Enceladus as well as for the
so-called volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io. In 2013, scientists reported that the
locations of the so-called volcanic plumes on Io are completely incompatible
with the moon's internal heat signatures. The lead author of a study on the
finding stated that it "...can't be reconciled with any existing solid body
tidal heating models." Likewise, on Enceladus, in 2016 scientists were amazed
to discover that when the so-called geysers on the moon are producing the
most water and dust the accompanying gas output was anomalously low. As reported
by space.com in 2016, "The researchers expected quite a lot more gas expelled
at the far part of Enceladus's orbit, to help explain the outpouring of dust, but
they found the gas output had bumped up by just 20%,
far less than expected." The leader of the study said of the findings, "We had
thought the amount of water vapor in the overall plume, across the whole south
polar area, was being strongly affected by tidal forces from Saturn. Instead, we
find that the small-scale jets are what's changing." A recent article by
Thunderbolts Picture Of the Day managing editor Stephen Smith succinctly
summarizes perhaps the most obvious objection to the tidal heating model,
"Although the South Pole of Enceladus is warmer than 'it should be' it is
still 261 below zero Celsius... So-called 'tidal kneading' from Saturn fails because
the theory has no explanation for why the effect is limited to the southern
hemisphere." A fundamental challenge to conventional theory is the belief that
celestial bodies cannot carry net electrical charge separation. The
Electric Universe however, recognizes charged bodies that are connected via
electrical circuits across the vastest cosmic distances. The electrical
connection of the sun to the planets is one of the great and ongoing surprises
of the Space Age. It is a concept that was proposed well over a century ago by
the electrical pioneer Kristian Birkeland, a concept that was confirmed
by the discovery of Birkeland currents in the Earth's upper atmosphere which
power the earthly Auroras. More recently, over a decade ago, while
investigating the Northern Lights, NASA's THEMIS spacecraft made the
completely unexpected discovery of so-called magnetic ropes which rapidly
form and unravel and are connected to intense auroral displays on Earth. Nearly
a decade later, in 2016, scientists reported their first-ever
observation of similar magnetic ropes traversing the 880 million miles between
the Sun and Saturn and connecting the two bodies. The lead author of a paper in
the Geophysical Research Letters said of the findings, "Contrary to previous ideas
about Saturn's magnetosphere being unlike its terrestrial counterpart, these
findings reveal that Saturn at times behaves and interacts with the sun in
much the same way as Earth." The term 'magnetic ropes' is used
to describe twisted filamentary pathways traversed by charged particles. We have
suggested many times that such terminology is misleading and
inappropriate. The so-called 'magnetic ropes' stretching from the Sun to Saturn
are electrical Birkeland currents. The rope-like form is the structure taken by
current flow due to the long-range attraction and short-range repulsion
between current filaments. As outlined in numerous episodes, in recent years
professor Donald Scott has developed an original mathematical modeling of a
Birkeland current whose structure is identified visually as counter-rotating
coaxial cylinders of current filaments. It is then not a coincidence that this
counter-rotation is clearly seen at the north poles of both Saturn and Jupiter.
The electrical interaction between Saturn and Enceladus may be comparable
to that between a comet and the sun. Comet jets, like the plumes on Enceladus,
are electrical discharge phenomena that heat and eject surface material. In fact,
over a decade ago scientists were astonished to discover a
"comet-like chemistry" to the material in the Enceladus plumes. As Cassini
investigator Hunter Waite stated, "A completely unexpected surprise is that
the chemistry of Enceladus, what's coming out from inside, resembles that of a
comet." But like the jets of comets, the matter is coming from the surface and
not the interior. It has always been the position of the Electric Universe that
water molecules detected in cometary comas is the result of electrochemical
processes. A fact which resolves how desiccated rocky comet nuclei can still
produce prodigious amounts of water, sometimes even at great distances from
the sun. We note again the recent NASA press release which states, "...plasma waves
travel on magnetic field lines connecting Saturn directly to Enceladus.
The field lines are like an electrical circuit between the two bodies, with
energy flowing back and forth." Electric currents in filamentary jets exploding
from Enceladus's surface, electric circuits connecting
Saturn and Enceladus, electric currents over hundreds of millions of miles
connecting Saturn and the sun. Such dynamic electrical interactions between
the sun, the planets and the planets' moons were never anticipated in gravity-
centric cosmology but they are only to be expected in our Electric Universe.