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In a Space News episode, earlier this year, we reported on the mysterious
sounds associated with electromagnetic phenomena in Earth's atmosphere. In
addition to centuries-old accounts of strange noises,
apparently connected to earthly auroras, we discussed the electro-static noises,
reported by some witnesses, of spectacular meteors. Today, a new scientific study,
published in the Geophysical Research Letters, argues that the sounds
associated with some meteor sightings are the products of electrical activity.
As reported by Science magazine, "As a meteor streaks through Earth's
atmosphere, it ionizes the air around it, splitting it into heavy, positively
charged ions and lighter, negatively charged electrons. The ions follow the
meteor, whereas the electrons are deflected by Earth's magnetic field. That
separation of positive and negative charges in the meteor's wake produces a
large electric field that drives an electrical current." The authors state that
the electric current launches radio waves which are then conducted through
nearby objects producing audible sounds. This explanation brings mainstream
scientists much closer to the Electric Universe interpretation. A key difference
is that, according to Electric Universe proponents, any object that comes far
from Earth will be differently charged and can discharge electrically when it
enters the atmosphere. In the 2005 Thunderbolts Picture Of the Day article,
The Peekskill Meteor, authors Michael Armstrong and Jim Payette suggest that not
only the electrophonic sounds of meteors; but also their bright glare, flare-ups
and disintegration, involve electrical discharge activity. They state, "One
proposed explanation, with which the Electric Universe would agree, is that
meteors (and spacecraft) trigger the formation of instabilities in plasma
layers. The energy of the flickering and flaring, as well as of the low-frequency
radiation, comes more from the ionospheric plasma than from
the meteoroid. The meteors that we've come to think of as 'burning up in
the atmosphere' may instead be the targets of mini-
thunderbolts from the ionosphere." For many decades, institutional science has
imagined that spectacular meteor explosions occur when fast-moving bolides
encounter extreme pressure, heat and chemical reactions when passing
through Earth's upper atmosphere. But this interpretation has left many
unresolved mysteries. In fact, the most renowned of meteor explosions, in modern
times, leaves many facts that beg for a new interpretation. In 1908, in a remote
region of Central Siberia, a blue-white fireball, which some described as
brighter than the sun, exploded with the force of a 10 to 15 megaton hydrogen
bomb. The explosion felled some 60 million trees
across an area of 2,000 square kilometers.
Yet some trees near the blast center were not burnt and a ring of burnt trees,
circling the epicenter, was left standing. The thunderous clouds were accompanied
by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundreds of
kilometers away. The explosion registered on seismic stations across Europe and
Asia and as far away as Britain; Meteorologists registered fluctuations
in atmospheric pressure. The resulting pulse of air pressure circled the earth
twice and astronomers observed, for several nights afterwards, a glowing red
haze in the upper atmosphere though they were not aware of the cause at the time.
Curiously, as noted in the Australian Journal of Astronomy in 1993, the Sir
Douglas Mawson expedition in Antarctica reported an extensive auroral display a
few hours before the Tunguska event. Many historical accounts also exist of
strange weather, including lightning and thunder, and even seismic activity, well
before the devastating explosion. Despite occasional claims to the contrary, no
impact crater for the intruding body has ever been found nor the remains of an
impactor. Well, some have occasionally claimed to
have discovered Tunguska meteorite fragments. Nevertheless, Tunguska remains
officially classified as the largest impact event ever recorded on earth. In
the Electric Universe theory, the energy released from an intruding; comet,
asteroid or meteor; is not limited by its mass and kinetic energy but also the
electrical energy due to its charge differential with Earth. This stored
electrical energy also explains the astonishing effects of the comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9's explosion as it approached Jupiter; including the
completely unexpected dramatic brightening of the gas giant's radiation
belts. Similar effects were seen on Mars when the close passage of the comet
Siding Spring "blew away part of Mars' upper atmosphere." Calculations of the
mass and size of the Tunguska bolide based solely on mechanical considerations
cannot be accurate. These principles were more recently
demonstrated in 2013, when a meteor exploded in the sky over the Urals
region in Russia. Thousands of homes and buildings were damaged and more than
1,400 were injured by an explosion that produced as much energy as two dozen
Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. The object is said to be the largest to have
"struck the earth since Tunguska." It's important to note that, based on
infrasound data from around the world, NASA scientists stated that the
meteorite had to be about 1,000 times larger than they originally thought,
based on the object's visual trail. As Wal Thornhill explains in a 2003 article;
In the study of meteors, a key element that institutional science has long
overlooked is, "The connection between ionized meteor trails and
electrical discharge activity in the ionosphere. The meteor trail acts as a
giant lightning rod that connects the conducting ionosphere to the upper
atmosphere. If the earth is an electrical body in an electrical solar system, it is
the equivalent of a temporary short-circuit of a giant capacitor. The
current flowing along the meteor trail gives rise to the unexplained brilliance
and long-lasting glows of some meteors. It causes them to disintegrate like an
exploding capacitor, high in the atmosphere.
The Tunguska explosion was probably the most noteworthy example of the effect."
Increasingly today, scientists are proposing electrical processes as the
answers to long-standing mysteries on comets, asteroids and meteors; revealing a
slow, yet inevitable, recognition of our electric universe. For continuous updates
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