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A new investigation into the wind patterns in Earth's upper atmosphere may
provide critical insight into our planet's electrical environment, and its
relationship to the Sun.
In countless past episodes, retired professor of
electrical engineering Dr. Donald Scott has outlined his mathematical modeling
of a Birkeland current structure, and its visual identification as counterrotating cylinders.
Recently, Dr. Scott invited members of the Electric Universe
community to begin tracking our planet's wind patterns, which can be viewed in
real-time through the website seen on your screen.
In his own investigation, Dr. Scott has made what may be an important
discovery -- an apparent periodicity to the counter -rotational patterns seen at our planet's poles.
In this episode, Dr. Scott explains the potential significance of
this discovery for the Electric Universe model of the Sun, and its connection to Earth.
Back on May 10th of this year, I did a Space News and there was a sort of
put my toe into this area of earth.nullschool.net site, and
the major point, I think that I was trying to make there is, that it seems to
me that if you can, as you can with nullschool, look at various
levels, you know, in the various altitudes in the atmosphere of Earth and
you can see very clearly that the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere are very
ordered, they are quite circular most of the time and, as
contrasted to, if you go down farther into the atmosphere, those patterns get
all chaotic and messed up and the winds... to me the conclusion is
obvious that the Earth masses disrupt those beautiful circular patterns.
And so I think that's the evidence of the fact that the structure of those
circling flows are created by the incoming Birkeland currents that have
those nice concentric circular forms to them and the further down you get, the
more disrupted it gets; it's kind of like watching the crash of an airplane into a
mountain, I mean, it's very nice before it hits.
So anyway, that was my main point in that first Space News.
But then, when I looked at it and I looked, as I always do, at some of the
comments that were made, there was a commenter, his name, he put that his name is
Dr. BH, so hello to Dr. BH whoever he is!
And he asked, he said, do these patterns change as the seasons and the dominant
hemispheres align with the Sun, can you show a connection this way?
And I began to think, I said yeah, hey that sounds, that's a good question!
So I got to wondering whether there might be some periodicity,
maybe yearly periodicity in the general form of those high-altitude wind circulations.
Of course, most people realize, when they're asked what causes
the seasons, the answer is not that the summer is caused by the Earth being
closer to the Sun than it is in the winter.
Anyhow, what is the cause?
Well, we, most people realize the Earth's rotational axis is fixed in inertial
space, that is to say, the axis of Earth always points in one direction.
Of course, walk out at night and look up, it's our old friend Polaris, the North
Star or the pole star, and so as the Earth travels around in this path around
the Sun, it doesn't look at the Sun or away from the Sun, it looks directly at
Polaris and it keeps looking at Polaris, every minute of every day of every hour of every year.
When Earth gets to the point in its orbit where its axis of
rotation is pointing the North Pole away from the Sun, that's the Northern
Hemisphere's winter solstice, that's what causes the winter and the summer.
So anyhow, with those facts in mind, I figured a priori before I looked at
nullschool again,
that in December there might be a strong, inward directed Birkeland current from
the Sun entering Earth's South Pole, because the South Pole is pointed more toward the Sun.
Well anyway, to make a long story short, that isn't what happens.
Nothing remotely even akin to that was observed, at least by me, when I
looked at the earth.nullschool.net site.
What I did see, during the height of the Northern Hemisphere summer, that is
aphelion, Earth farthest from the Sun, current enters into both the North and
the South Poles, generally.
Now you know how I discovered that, I took my
finger, it's the old right- hand rule, you put
your fingers in the direction of the wind flow, the current flow, and then
your thumb is going to be pointed in the direction of the, assuming that our
theory is right, in the direction of the Birkeland current that causes that rotation.
And then, during the Northern Hemisphere winter, that is perihelion, the
Earth is closest to the Sun, the North Pole is pointed away from the Sun, the
South Pole is directed toward the Sun, and what do you observe, you observe that
current is directed out of both the North and the South Poles.
So it's strictly not what your intuition, at least not what my intuition tells me what happened.
Well anyway, if you look at that table you can see that overall, what
happens is that in those, those four lines in that table, and if you
look at the third and fourth columns there, the northern hemisphere current
and the southern hemisphere current, you can see that in the summer in the
northern hemisphere, that is to say the second row within that table, the current
is in, both at the North Pole and at the South Pole.
And the last line in the table, when it's winter in the north and
of course, we're closest to the Sun, the northern hemisphere current is out and
the southern hemisphere current is out.
So you've got this really strange, sort of, in out, in out, out, in out, in,
sort of arrangement,
and what's the punchline, what's the bottom line?
And my conclusion is, that if you look at the second row
and the last row, you can see that in the summer in the north, which is the winter
in the south, the current is going in at both poles; and in the winter in the
north and the summer being in the south, current is going out of both poles.
So there's a seasonal year-long cycle, in which these flows completely
reverse, and it's at those solstices.
So let me summarize, I've written it down, let me read what I've written.
From December through February, the southern hemisphere
summer, the North Pole is pointed away from the Sun, Earth is nearest the Sun,
it's at perihelion, and what I'm talking about is row four of the table, the
Birkeland current is directed out of both hemispheres.
If you look at figure one, that is, the Birkeland current is directed
out of both hemispheres, strong at the North Pole, figure one, and weak at the
South Pole, figure two.
Incidentally, that figure one, the strong currents, are
something well over 300-350 km/h, that's moving.
The weak currents are more like 50 kilometers per hour.
Now I see it's strong at the North Pole in Figure 1, and weak at the South Pole,
and you can see what I mean.
Anyway, both currents being out, the Earth is losing
positive charge during that season, the Earth is like a capacitor, if you have
current flowing out every hole in the north and in the
south is going out, well, clearly, the Earth is losing positive charge.
If the Earth is, at that time, closest to the Sun, that says that according to EU
Theory, that that would be a position of relatively higher voltage, we are closer
to the Sun, higher voltage, the Sun is very strongly positively charged.
Therefore, we ought to be collecting some positive charge from the surrounding
plasma, through which Earth is moving.
I'm just talking about this plasma ocean that we float in.
Now, if you put in there the Birkeland currents that I'm
talking about, those seem to have the opposite effect.
If the Earth is losing charge and the Birkeland current is
directed out of both hemispheres and it's strong at the northern pole, that is,
look at Figure one, you can see that the rotation is quite strong, and weaker at
the South Pole, that's figure two, but still directed
out of both hemispheres at that point, and that's what's important, and so the
effect of this newly observed Birkeland current mechanism appears to provide a
means through which the Earth may dump such added positive charge over this
part of the year.
So if it's normally collecting it from the ocean of plasma
through which it's floating, and that Birkeland current is connected
to the North Pole and the South Pole, and the charge is flowing out, it's sort
of a Birkeland current is sort of neutralizing the pick-up of the
charge that is happening.
Anyway, for the three months of the year at the South
hemisphere winter, that is the South Pole pointed away from the Sun, Earth is
farthest from the Sun, it's at aphelion, I'm talking about row two of the table,
the circulation pattern indicates that Birkeland currents simultaneously enter
down into Earth at both the North and the South Poles.
Now, if you look at figure three, you'll see that that
entering in is pretty weak at the North Pole but quite strong at the South Pole.
So Earth effectively gains positive charge during this season but it's
farthest from the Sun, and so therefore Earth ought to be losing charge, but the
action of the Birkeland current apparently counters any such loss of charge.
So the essence of it all is that yes, there is a yearly periodicity during
which everything completely reverses direction,
and it acts in a very complex way, as we can see.
The question is, is the Earth at aphelion, that is far away, or perihelion,
close in, and I think this fits with Wal's idea with which I again firmly
agree, that the Sun's electric field creates a higher voltage region near the Sun and
a lower voltage region farther out.
But, so we understand a little bit, but this is a rich, I think, and complicated area
that's open for research that nobody seems to have discovered, yet.