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In part 1 of his presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Garrett Hill
introduced his experimental research into the electrical scarring of planets and moons.
Within a growing community of investigators, the conceptual foundation has been laid
for an entirely new understanding of planetary geology.
Electrical processes have been shown to routinely reproduce
almost every familiar geological feature.
Today, Garrett Hill continues his discussion of his research.
We begin with an examination of the electrical significance
of the scalloped edged features seen on many planetary bodies.
It seems, as though, that the scalloped edges would occur more prominently
where there was a larger concentration of particulate matter in a given zone and
plasma filaments would strike at that particular region and sort of excavate material.
When it was relatively small amount of material
it didn't seem like it would produce it
as prominently as it does with more material.
Different types of scallops, different distances in between,
scalloped binds or, sort of, successive scallops from a discharge,
they would strike multiple times
as it was traveling past a certain region of the acrylic plate.
It seemed like there was just simply excavation going on
whenever a discharge would happen in that particular region.
And it was pretty interesting.
There is a lot more photos of different scallops
and different looking than what these two experiments show
but it's clear that it's just a really common part of this type of experimentation,
this scalloped edge.
In recent years, the electrical nature of dust devils on our own Earth,
and the planet Mars, has become increasingly evident to investigating scientists.
Garrett explains the results of his attempts to reproduce
dust-devil features in laboratory experiments.
When the conductor that I'm carrying in my hand
gets in close proximity to the center of the mound,
you would see these lateral discharges
between the center of the mound and the outer perimeter of the insulator,
and so these strikes, you know, these plasma arc strikes.
And in conjunction with that you would see
the development of these radial patterns as well
which were pretty much perpendicular, for the most part, to the lateral discharges.
And so, depending on the concentration of the particulate matter in that particular region,
you would get these sort of diffuse marks.
They would be carved out of the particulate matter on the surface of that plate.
And then I inverted it, I was looking at the photos of these trails
and it was like, wow, that looks very similar to the dust devil tracks.
But the colors are wrong, right?
On the surface of Mars you have dark regions that outline the tracks.
We're here with the white regions because it was, sort,
it was oxidizing and moving the material out of the way and creating these trails.
The planet Venus is remarkable for its surface
that is nearly blanketed with filamentary scars
known in electrical terms as Lichtenberg figures.
Garrett notes how perfectly these features are reproduced through electrical discharges.
Look at this experiment in the above slides, the perpendicular discharge patterns
have radial and lateral distribution of these paths
carved out of the soot mound and into the surface of the acrylic.
We see a lot of that on the surface of Venus
while it's also adhering to sort of a fluid dynamic pattern,
whether it's sort of a radial distribution of these patterns around large craters
or, in different regions of the planet surface,
it's littered throughout the surface of Venus and
I'm not necessarily saying that these patterns look exactly like the,
all the region patterns but the fact that there are perpendicular discharges happening
I find really interesting.
You know, when you look at those videos of those experiments
with the Tesla coil, the acrylic plate and the soot mound,
you'll see that before I bring the conductor up close enough for a discharge to happen,
you see the radial patterns develop, first and foremost.
And then, discharges start happening which are perpendicular to those patterns.
And so you get this perpendicular relationship
and distribution of these electrical discharges
which may in a large part be able to explain a lot of these paths
that interfere with each other.
Planetary scientists believe the surface of Venus has more volcanoes
than any other planet in the solar system.
And they think that volcanism played a major part in shaping the planet's surface.
But like the towering Olympus Mons on Mars,
many of these features may not be volcanoes at all
but the scars left by powerful electrical discharges.
Just came across this photo, as I was archiving the different large features on Venus,
and came across a color image and I was like, okay that's awesome.
But then, when I saw the black-and-white images was like, okay,
this helps relate the color and removes the interference of the color
in trying to find similarities in the pattern and so;
Experiment two, as you see in the video,
has both radial and lateral distribution of filaments
that are scarring the surface of that plate
and they seem to, sort of, carve out thicker regions
and really distinct scalloped edge of the thicker regions of the soot
or the particulate matter on the plate
which you can see in the darker regions surrounding that volcano:
It's really hard edge.
And so I can appreciate that hard edge correlation to some of these photos
because that can allude to deeper regions or give a depth perception
as if there was, sort of a, raise or a depression, from the thicker region
to the region right next to that on the other side of that hard edge
where there's a depression or no particulate matter at all in that experiment.
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