Welcome to the Electricity of Life, brought to you by The Thunderbolts
Project™ at Thunderbolts.info The Electric Universe and plasma cosmology
have laid the foundations for a new understanding of our Sun and of all
stars. Many decades ago, the father of plasma cosmology, the Nobel Prize winner
Hannes Alfvén, proposed that stars form electromagnetically along vast networks
of filaments, like pearls on a string. Later, the electrical engineer Ralph
Juergen's went a step further and developed an electrical model of the Sun
as an anode, a positively charged body powered by galactic electric currents. In
the last year, the project scientists with the independent SAFIRE experiment
announced a series of findings in agreement with the Electric Sun model.
Indeed, we learn more everyday about the extraordinary electromagnetic
connection between our planet and its parent star, including the discovery in
2014, that powerful outbursts from the Sun result in increased lightning on
Earth. Perhaps even more remarkably, a number of scientific papers have
reported an apparent correlation between surprising changes in radioactive decay
rates and solar activity. But not only does our planet, and all of its complex
atmospheric systems, share a remarkable relationship with the Sun, so too is all
of life affected by the Sun in ways that science has only begun to recognize. And
here the electrical nature of the Sun shines through with striking clarity.
Consider the recent scientific discovery of a surprising correlation between
solar storms and the beaching of grey whales and certain other cetacean
species. The apparent connection was originally noted by a biologist and his
team at Duke University, who found that when dark sunspots cover the Sun, the
marine mammals are more likely to beach themselves. With the help of an
astronomer, they were able to confirm the connection. Their findings have been
published in the journal Current Biology in the paper “Grey whales
strand more often on days with increased levels of atmospheric radio-frequency
noise.” The paper’s abstract states that the findings suggest “The potential
for magnetoreception in this species.” In fact, this is not the first scientific
paper to demonstrate such a correlation. In 2016,
Cambridge University's International Journal of Astrobiology published the
paper “Solar storms may trigger sperm whale strandings.” The authors state in the
paper’s abstract “... magnetic fields can affect terrestrial life such as
migrating animals. Thus, terrestrial life is connected to astronomical
interrelations between different magnetic fields, particle flows and
radiation. Whales’ magnetic sense may play an important role in orientation and
migration, and strandings may thus be triggered by geomagnetic storms.” Of
course the concept of magnetoreception in some animals is not new. Many
biologists have long proposed that the mysterious abilities of homing pigeons
is resolved by the presence of magnetic particles in the pigeons heads. This
apparent magnetic sensing has also been found in other animals, perhaps
surprisingly, including cattle. As reported in a study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in 2008, “We demonstrate that
domestic cattle across the globe and grazing and resting red and roe deer
align their body axes in roughly a north-south direction. Direct
observations of roe deer revealed that animals orient their heads northward
when grazing or resting. Amazingly, this ubiquitous phenomenon does not seem to
have been noticed by herdsmen, ranchers or hunters.” Other species that seem
sensitive to Earth's magnetic field include frogs, lobsters, snails and
perhaps most intriguingly of all, humans. While a human magnetic sense has long
been a subject of interest and investigation, the most powerful
scientific evidence to date came in 2019 with the publication of the paper,
”Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from alpha-Band activity in the
Human Brain.” In the experiment, conducted by a team of
Caltech scientists, 34 subjects sat in an aluminum box which shielded them from
electromagnetic noise. The box was lined with coils through which electric
currents flowed, and the investigators created a magnetic field which sloped
downward, similar to the geomagnetic field at the mid-latitudes of the
Northern Hemisphere. They then rotated the field, producing a
measurable change in the brain activity of nearly 1/3 of the study's
participants. In an article in Science Magazine, biologist Margaret Ahmad states
in the findings ”I'm not surprised there's an effect.
There's something in a cell that is different in the presence of a magnetic
field. We see this effect in human embryonic kidney cells; you're not going
to convince me that an effect in brain cells is of any greater or lesser
significance.” And here, the great significance of the electromagnetic
connection between the Sun and the Earth comes into focus. The Earth is a rotating
charged body and electric currents from the Sun touch down at the Earth's
poles, producing the aurorae and modifying our planet's magnetic field. Evidence of
the profound biological effects of both electric and magnetic fields, increases
with each passing year. So, the question is, do geomagnetic events impact the
physiology of human beings? Increasingly, it seems the answer is yes. In fact, it
was over a century ago that the Soviet era scientist Alexander Chizhevsky
founded the field of heliobiology, the study of the Sun's effect on biology. As
noted in an earlier Electricity of Life by Alex Fournier, Chizhevsky conducted
exhaustive data analysis, which compared solar activity with prominent historical
events in human society. Using a ”mass excitability” index, Chizhevsky found
that the timing of these prominent events consistently linked to outbursts
from the Sun, which led to Chizhevsky to propose that geomagnetic storms had a
significant impact on the human mind and behavior. As a result of his scientific
endeavor, after refusing to retract his findings, he was placed in a labor gulag
for eight years by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Today, scientific research into
the Sun's effects on the human body and mind continues, with an emphasis on the
role of electromagnetism. For example, a number of studies have reported data
suggesting a connection between geomagnetic storms and dramatic changes
in blood pressure and other effects on the heart. And as suggested by earlier
research, some scientists have found an apparent linkage between geomagnetic
storms and major changes in behavior. In 2006, the peer-reviewed journal,
Bioelectromagnetics, published a paper, “Do Ambient Electromagnetic Fields Affect
Behaviour? A demonstration of the Relationship Between Geomagnetic Storm
Activity and Suicide.” The authors studied the geomagnetic storm activity,
and the national suicide statistics for Australia, between the years 1968 and
2002. Their conclusion was that the data ”...suggests that perturbations in
ambient electromagnetic field activity impact behavior in a clinically
meaningful manner.” In February of 2020, another study, this time focusing on
suicide statistics in Taiwan, reported similar results. Such findings might
sound strange, but the purpose of this series is to explore the role of
electricity in nature and biology, including the body's electrical
circuitry. In fact, the connection between major health changes and geomagnetic
activity might actually be predictable, in light of the remarkable scientific
research of our previous guest, Dr. Jerry Tennant. Dr. Tennant has proposed that
many health problems are essentially the result of a disruption of the natural
voltage in the body's muscles and organs. Emotions, Dr. tenet suggests, are stored
in and around our bodies in the form of magnetic fields. The treatment he's
devised involves the use of other magnetic fields and scale our energy to
restore the body's voltage and ”erase the residual effects of trauma.” In
describing the relationship between celestial objects and the greater cosmos,
we have stated that ”...no islands exist in our Electric
Universe.” Of course, this applies not only to astronomical objects, but to all of
life. And thus, it is unsurprising that the evidence of the electrical nature of
the cosmos, continues to illuminate the interconnectedness of all things.
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