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In Part 1 of the cosmology of the Electric Universe, we looked at how the electrical
systems of the Earth and the planets exist in the larger electrical body of the Sun.
Do we stop at the body of our Sun? No of course, we do not. The Sun lives within a larger world.
The Sun lives inside the galaxy. This, of course, is not a picture of our
galaxy because we cannot take a picture of our galaxy any more than a cell in your liver
could take a picture from the outside of your body. We do have decent evidence to believe
that our galaxy looks something like this. When we shift up in scale, we can ask
what's the relation of each star to the larger galactic body of which it is a part?
Every star is transforming galactic currents and fields. In our schematic, we picture
current coming from the galaxy and being transformed by the stars, and we must allow that stellar
transformation of galactic energies is just as complex as what we are learning
about the electrical transformations taking place on planets. In other words, my little drawing is very
inadequate but it does convey the main point: stars transform galactic energy.
So, are we done with our picture? No! Our most excellent engineers and
astrophysicists have given us a larger view to contemplate.
In this picture, which is a computer generated picture, each dot, each tiny dot
represents galaxies and clusters of galaxies. This is the large-scale structure of our Universe.
And you might not be surprised to learn that this filament-like structure
was a complete surprise to standard cosmologists. But it was predicted by Electric
Universe theorists. Gravity cannot explain this structure, but electricity,
and the flow of electricity does predict this. Keeping our theme of each world
eating and transforming energies from the larger world it lives in, we can see that galaxies are
transforming energies from, well it's hard to say from what, we're kind of at the limits of what
we can talk about. But we can say something like, ‘galaxies transform
the great currents and fluxes that course through our universe as a whole’. Coming back
to our own human scale. All plants, all animals, all humans, transform energy
that comes from the Sun. This is rather obvious. Plants turn sunlight and minerals into
leaves and fruits, animals digest the fruits and the leaves, and we humans eat all of it.
We only move and think and feel because of the flow of electricity
in our bodies. If it were possible to stop the flow of charged particles and
electric fields within us, then our thoughts, feeling and sensations would instantly stop.
I am studying the electrical connections that exist between one living creature
and another, or exist between every plant and animals and the Earth. Or between
living creatures and other planets. Or even the connections between an individual man or woman
and the Sun. All of this is my field of study. As a closing note, since I said that cosmology must also
include our aspirations, what does this new cosmology say about our yearnings and our hopes?
In a better cosmology, we would recognize that caterpillars do sometimes turn into butterflies,
and buds do sometimes turn into flowers, and the sperm and the egg do sometimes become
babies. These transformations are part of our life and part of every aspect of the living
Universe. The Electric Universe model says that the brightness of a star is a function of how
much galactic current it is transforming. Bright stars are transforming a lot of
galactic energy, dim stars transform little. Maybe the stars we see burning more
brightly, are actually doing more work for the galaxy and the brightness is really
more of a side effect, a consequence. The bright stars in the sky are literally responding
to some galactic need that requires more energy. And we can go one step further because
we know that some stars completely transform into a supernova, putting out for a short time
more energy than the entire galaxy. In the old view, this is an accident,
and unconnected to anything else going on in the galaxy. But in a better cosmology, we can see
that the supernova is a star that has taken a huge leap in its ability to transform galactic energy.
A supernova is burning so incredibly brightly because it it has found a way to be much more
useful. The Crab Nebula was once an ordinary star, doing ordinary work
for the galaxy. And then something changed. And it has since been churning out
prodigious amounts of super-high frequencies. What is the purpose of these enormous
energies, at these very high frequencies? We don't know,
but I do know that these supernovae play an important galactic function and I know
that a similar transformation is possible for you and me at our own scale.
We could actually take a leap and be much more useful to the world around us.
We could start emitting much more energy at much higher and finer frequencies.
This promise is one of the reasons I pursue the Electric Universe paradigm.
In closing let me say that I do not think electricity explains
everything, but including electricity in our explanations, provides a much
more coherent view than using gravity to explain everything. I personally think
as we try explaining how galaxies and Suns behave, we will have to be open to including
other forms of energy that are beyond light and electricity.
I also want to remind us all that hubris is one of the lowest places we can go to
intellectually. Hubris, a form of arrogance. This knowing that I'm right,
believing I have explained everything, and then being offended when my
brilliance is questioned; believing that human understanding can
penetrate the ultimate degrees of truth, all this is hubris. And let none of us
fall to that level. And besides, hubris makes us all quite boring and oh so tiresome.
In this truly exciting adventure, a lot of what we are proposing might be totally wrong,
but I know that a lot of what has been proposed is totally right,
more right than things have been for many years in science.
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