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In recent months, a mysterious star has created a firestorm of media speculation.
In October, news headlines around the world suggested that the star might be...
...surrounded by a so-called alien megastructure. The nature of the mystery...
..is a seemingly impossibly rapid dimming of the star, impossible under standard stellar theories.
One investigator states of the star's sudden changes: "What was unusual about that...
...was the depth of the light dips, up to 20% decrease in light,..
...and the timescales of light variation a week to a couple of months".
What is the relevance of this discovery for the Electric Universe theory of stars?
Well, the second paper that caught our attention was entitled "Dimming star remains a mistery",..
...but it´s likely not caused by comets.
'Dimming Star remains a mystery', what is its cause, that's not answered. Stellar evolution,..
...in other words, when stars change according to the standard nuclear fusion model,..
...these changes take place over astronomically long periods of times.
We are talking about millions of years and so it's certainly not reported that these kinds..
...of changes would happen during the period of the human! What they used to describe stellar...
...evolution is a plot called Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is...
...a scatterplot, it's a set of points. Think of shooting a shotgun against the side of a barn...
...and there are all the points. Now, each of those points represents a single star, and so,..
...if you put a set of axes,..
the Vertical axis is the absolute magnitude of the star . Absolute magnitude just means, you know,..
...if you look at the night sky and some of the stars look bright, some stars dont look bright,..
...the reason possibly it's because the one that doesnt look so bright is much farther away.
Well, absolute magnitude tries to normalize that variable out of the equation, and it just says..
...in absolute magnitude no matter whether this guy is farther away than this one,..
...if they're the same absolute magnitude that means they're the same billions in,..
...what should I say, real life,..
...up close on the same skill vertical skill you can plot the star's luminosity.
Now, the horizontal axis of this plot, which runs from left to right,..
...is labeled with the spectral class, in other words, the color of the star.
Another scale that you can set on that same horizontal axis is surface temperature.
So these temperatures correspond to the spectral class at the stars.
So very hot white stars are found in the upper left-hand corner of the diagram, and our Sun...
...is found right about in the center of the diagram, and down at the lower right-hand corner...
..of the diagram, is the region of the brown and red dwarfs, and also called giant gas planets.
So, recent discoveries of extremely cool stars have produced some additional types:..
...we now have an L type star and a T type star. The discovery of these objects have required...
...the original diagram to be extended even further toward the lower right.
And these stars have extremely low absolute luminosity and temperature.
They are so low that in fact they theoretically can't support internal nuclear fusion reaction,..
...which essentially falsifies the model right there. If they're stars and they can't have nuclear...
...fusion, well, that's as nuclear fusion doesn't power the stars, but they ignore that problem...
...and continue to talk about the nuclear fusion model of the stars.
The surface temperature of T-type dwarf is in the range of a thousand Kelvin,..
...and if you think about it, the surface of the planet Venus is in the range of 500 Kelvin.
So these stars are not very hot at all. T-type spectra have features that are very much similar...
...to Jupiter spectrum, so the gas giant planets of our solar system,...
...that is to say, certainly Jupiter and Saturn, maybe you can include Uranus and Neptune,.. 51 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:31,020
...would plot very nicely right next to the T-type stars.
Now, as far as the electrical model of the stars concerned, the EU hypothesis, is that...
...every star is strongly influenced by the strength of the electric current that flows through it.
So when we look at the HR diagram, the Hertzsprung- Russell diagram starting at the lower right hand...
...corner and moving toward the left in the Electric Universe,..
...that you're moving in the direction of an increasing current drive to each of these stars.
And so, if you're way over there on the lower right hand corner where theres is...
...very very low current density , the current density has such a low value that the plasma...
...surrounding the star is not driven into the normal glow mode of operation.
That's why Jupiter isn't a star, it doesn't look, it doesn't glow like a star,..
...it doesn't get enough input but give it some more current and maple bar at the door.
Jupiter is all set to go, all it needs is a kick of more current.
Anyway, the EU view on this whole operation is to say that any star that experiences a change..
...in its electric current input will move to a different location on the HR diagram.
That being the case, such a change can happen very very quickly, it doesn't require...
some long million year evolution and changes internally in the star.
All that it requires is that all of a sudden the current input increases for some reason,..
..and it therefore can happen very very quickly. So again the same, as in the case of the...
...first paper, the surprise and wonder of standard astronomers is uncalled for.
All they have to do is read the ideas that we, in the Electric Universe group, have been...
...promoting for decades. For us, none of this data is surprising. It contradicts the standard...
...model and at the same time gives confirming evidence for the EU hypothesis.
Just in closing, let me just comment that there are, I hate to be self promoting,..
..but if you look at a copy of my book in chapter 14 I give eight different counter examples of stars..
...starting with the famous FG Sagita,..
...that has broken all the rules of standard astronomical stellar evolution.
And these stars have all changed drasticaly in the period of time which, one human lifetime let´s say.
So others, like some of the major ones that we know about, think about as fixed stars Sirius, Capella,.
...those stars haven't changed that rapidly but they've changed in the period of recorded history.
Changed in the period of recorded history. For example, Sirius was known in the ancient days,..
...at the time of the ancient Romans, as being a red star.
Now we know it as a bright blue-white, one of the big white giant stars, and that has changed...
...in a couple of thousand years, which you might say well, that's a blink of an eyelash,..
...it's a nanosecond in astronomical time, so there are all sorts of examples to show these folks that...
...don't be amazed, just read the history books and read some of the books that have been published...
...by people like Halton Arp and fellows like us in the Electric Universe.
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