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A new scientific paper provides stunning confirmation
of one of the most striking predictions
of the Electric Universe/ catastrophist hypothesis.
The paper, published in the journal Icarus,
reports that the water in Saturn's moons and in its rings
is remarkably similar to water on our own planet,
a completely unexpected finding for planetary scientists.
The team of scientists made the discovery by remotely measuring
the isotopic ratios of water and carbon dioxide in the Saturnian system.
As reported by the Phys.org the findings
"...mean we need to change models of the formation of the Solar System
because the new results are in conflict with existing models.
Models for the formation of the Solar System
indicate that the deuterium/hydrogen ratio
should be much higher in the colder outer solar system
than in the hotter inner system where the Earth formed.
Deuterium is more abundant in cold molecular clouds.
Some models predict the deuterium hydrogen ratio
should be 10 times higher for the Saturn system than on Earth.
But the new measurements show this is not the case for Saturn's rings and satellites
except Saturn's moon Phoebe.
Those who follow this series understand
this is only the latest in a seemingly endless string of 'surprises'
for the standard model of our solar system's formation and history.
Discovery continues to offer no support at all to the widely accepted nebular hypothesis
which states that planets formed from accretion in a nebular cloud
that collapsed gravitationally billions of years ago.
However, as unexpected as the connection between
Saturn and our own planet is for planetary scientists,
this connection was in fact explicitly predicted
by one of the great scientific heretics of the 20th century.
Nearly 3/4 of a century ago, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky proposed that within human memory,
a period of chaos reigned in the inner solar system.
In this scenario, one of the migrating planets was Saturn.
And it was Velikovsky's seemingly outrageous thesis
that the water in Earth's oceans came from the gas giant.
In part one of this two-part presentation,
physicist Wal Thornhill outlines the incredible and ongoing predictive success
of the Electric Universe/ catastrophist paradigm.
There has been a flood of scientific reports recently,
supporting the Electric Universe model and confirming its predictions.
But the most spectacular example of predictive success occurred on December 3rd
when it was reported in phys.org
that the water in Saturn's rings and satellites is like that on Earth!
Astonishingly, the water has the same signature isotopic ratios
of deuterium to hydrogen or heavy water to normal water.
It happened that the founder of mythohistorical cosmology, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky,
made the shocking claim based on his research in the 1940's
that Earth's water came from Saturn.
Of course, a single success is open to the charge that it was a lucky guess,
no matter how well-documented the research,
but Velikovsky went on to be the only scholar before the Space Age
to successfully predict the extreme surface temperature of Venus,
the remnant magnetism of Moon rocks,
radio noises from Jupiter and many other remarkable discoveries.
His thesis uncovered a period within mythic human memory
of awe-inspiring chaos in the planetary system
involving electrical discharges between planets during close encounters,
the mythic thunderbolts of the planetary gods.
The ancients were adamant, as Heraclitus around 500 BC put it,
"...it is the thunderbolt that steers the universe."
It was no earthly spark;
it took the strange involuted corkscrew form of plasmoids
and was associated with stones or meteorites falling from the sky, and global devastation.
It was Velikovsky who first threw down the gauntlet to modern astronomers
to recognize electricity in space.
They refused to pick it up and instead behaved like the Inquisition against Galileo.
It seems, an unstable solar system was against their religion.
To squash growing interest in his ideas on campuses in America in the 70's,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, known as the AAAS,
organized the thinly disguised ambush in San Francisco in 1974.
It became a rallying cry for dissident scholars to attend the first international symposium
on Velikovsky and the recent history of the solar system
in Hamilton Ontario later that year where, incidentally,
I met Velikovsky and David Talbott for the first time.
But nothing has changed in the following decades despite the Space-Age discovery
that magnetism exists throughout the universe.
It shows that astrophysics is in the wrong hands
and should be passed to electrical engineers.
Velikovsky's best-selling book 'Worlds in Collision' published in 1950,
was the inspiration for a number of scholars
which has lately resulted in a truly interdisciplinary cosmology
based on human history and the electrical nature of matter and matter interactions
including the forces of magnetism and gravity.
The Electric Universe was developed in an effort to explain the remarkable research results
of those inspired by Velikovsky's forensic technique of investigating mythic history,
in particular the works of David Talbott and Dwardu Cardona
concerning the worship and central role of Saturn as our original Sun.
Electric Universe cosmology reestablishes the successful classical physics
of the 18th and 19th centuries
and its extraordinary successful space-age predictions
contrast markedly with the lack of predictive success for the last century
of the purely theoretical approach
which adopts mathematical concepts and ideals
without regard for the principles of physics or basic standards and definitions.
A classic case of the 'cart before the horse.'
The recent discovery of the isotopic likeness
between the water of Saturn's rings and the Earth
is documented in the Icarus paper
'Isotopic Ratios of Saturn's Rings and Satellites:
Implications for the Origin of Water and Phoebe'.
The simplest interpretation
is that the long-held model of the formation of the solar system is invalid.
The Phys.org reports,
"By developing a new method for measuring isotopic ratios
of water and carbon dioxide remotely,
scientists have found that the water in Saturn's rings and satellites
is unexpectedly like water on the Earth...
Adding a neutron to one hydrogen atom, (that) then called deuterium,
increases the mass of a water molecule by about 5%, in other words - heavy water,
and that small change results in isotopic differences
in the formation of a planet, moon or comet,
and changes the evaporation of water after formation.
The deuterium to hydrogen ratio is a fingerprint of the formation conditions,
including temperature and evolution over time.
Evaporating water enriches deuterium in the remaining surface.
Models for the formation of the solar system indicate
that the deuterium to hydrogen ratio should be much higher
in the colder outer Solar System than in the hotter inner system where the Earth formed."
Planetary scientists faced a fundamental problem to explain the presence of our oceans.
The hydrogen and oxygen required
would have been swept out of the inner solar system by the early Sun.
So, they resorted to an ad hoc story that countless comet collisions
from a hypothetical invisible cloud of comets enclosing the solar system
deposited the Earth's water eons ago.
This new discovery discounts that hypothesis.
A simple hypothesis will connect Saturn's rings' material with the Earth.
True the deuterium to hydrogen ratio is a fingerprint of the water formation conditions
and it is more straightforward to not assume evolution of the ratio
and to suggest that it is a fingerprint of the origin of the water on Earth.
Given the success of Velikovsky's remarkable prediction based on documented evidence,
we cannot simply assume the Earth formed in the inner solar system.
This latest evidence clearly supports Velikovsky's mytho-historical cosmology
which identifies a close association between Saturn and the Earth
within human experience.
That means the comforting belief the Earth has been circling the Sun like it does today
largely undisturbed for billions of years,
has been as great an impediment to scientific progress
as the centuries-long and even more comforting belief
in a primordially Earth-centered universe.
Of course, too shockingly unexpected and related discovery
supporting an earlier scientific claim,
raises the odds enormously in favor of a hypothesis.
This was true of Immanuel Velikovsky's later claim in 1950,
of the extreme surface heat of Venus,
when everyone else believed it will be similar to Earth
because the two planets are twins according to conventional thinking.
But the gravitational model of the formation of the solar system, eons ago,
has been shown to be fictional
now that we have discovered thousands of exoplanetary systems that don't match it.
It persists only because it is the foundation of our uniformitarian belief
in a safe, clockwork solar system.
It is merely a soothing bedtime story about the history of Earth
and our misunderstood and forgotten ancestors.
De Santillana and von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill, described our period as
'The Darwinian Period'
Where "the simple idea of evolution, which it is no longer thought necessary to examine,
spreads like a tent over all those ages that lead from primitivism into civilization.
Gradually, we are told, step by step, men produced the arts-and-crafts,
this and that, until they emerged into the light of history.
Those soporific words 'gradually' and 'step by step' repeated incessantly,
are aimed at covering an ignorance which is both vast and surprising.
One should like to inquire; which steps;
But then one is lulled, overwhelmed and stupefied by the gradualness of it all,
which is at best a platitude, only good for pacifying the mind,
since no one is willing to imagine that civilization appeared in a thunderclap.
The use of the word 'thunderclap' is remarkably appropriate.
And that is the crux of the problem,
for Velikovsky's proposal of a red-hot cometary Venus
as a motivation for the sudden rise of civilization
challenged that comforting Darwinian belief.
The result was a modern equivalent to medieval book burning.
The textbook publisher Macmillan was threatened by latter-day astronomer priests
who boasted they had not read the book because it was obviously wrong;
it didn't obey Newton's laws;
and stopped the publication of a best-seller.
Specialism and an instinctive desire for celestial law and order
rendered them blind to the forensic mythohistorical evidence Velikovsky had drawn together
to understand the creation stories globally,
referred to almost unimaginably spectacular and terrifying behavior of the planets.
Velikovsky claimed it was the origin of our instinctive doomsday fear.
Creation originally referred to the phases of the celestial spectacle
and not to the universe.
That makes sense.
Modern cosmologists bit off more than they could chew
and they suppose they had to compete with a universal creation story
that doesn't make sense.
So what does Venus got to do with the water in Saturn's rings
and satellites being found like that on Earth?
The answer lies in the inspiration generated among a remarkable group of scholars
by Velikovsky's well-documented thesis that early humanity witnessed Venus's birth
and early appearance as the archetypal comet.
He wrote,
"In former times the planets played a decidedly more important role in the imagination of peoples,
to which fact their religions give testimony.
True, Sun and Moon were also numbered among the planet gods,
but usually they were not the most important ones.
Their enumeration among the seven planets sometimes startles the modern scholar
because these two luminaries are so much more conspicuous than the other planets.
The dominance of Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mars must startle us even more as long
as we do not know what was displayed on the celestial scene a few thousand years ago.
The mythologies of all peoples concern themselves with the birth only of Venus,
not with that of Jupiter, Mars or Saturn.
Venus experienced in quick succession its birth and expulsion under violent conditions;
an existence as a comet on an ellipse which approached the Sun closely;
two encounters with the Earth accompanied by discharges of potentials between these two bodies
[that is, thunderbolts of the planetary gods]...
Of course, as a pioneer, Velikovsky made errors,
chief among them was his placement of planetary chaos within historical times.
The events he describes were memories at the times the pyramids were built
as evidenced by the Pyramid Texts.
The plasma forms seen in the sky were chiseled into rock in the form of petroglyphs.
It seems reasonable to suggest that echoes of the prehistoric catastrophes
reverberated down into historical times
and catalyzed descriptions in terms of the remembered doomsday events.
As to the first cause of havoc in the solar system,
Velikovsky made this astounding intuitive leap.
"Some dark star, like Jupiter or Saturn, may be in the path of the Sun
and may be attracted to the system and cause havoc in it."
But of course astronomers were right.
This mytho-historical reconstruction was unique
and could not be explained by the physics then or now.
With no experience of the events of the myth-making epoch,
the questions never occurred.
It has taken lifelong dedication by a number of scholars
with the courage to pursue Velikovsky's leads
in the face of indifference and hostility,
to understand his errors and to produce a surprisingly detailed sequence of events
that demanded scientific explanations.
It resulted in a truly interdisciplinary Electric Universe cosmology
with profound scientific and cultural significance for our future.
As evidence, in June 2004, just prior to the Cassini spacecraft arriving at Saturn,
I published 'Cassini's Homecoming'
which was to show again the explanatory and predictive power
of this multidisciplinary cosmology.
I wrote,
"...a scenario follows that is so alien to any conventional theory of Saturn's history
that it should be easily tested against information gained from the Cassini mission.
It shows striking connections between many seemingly unrelated facts about certain planets."
It's an epic story and it involves us.
In our next episode, Thornhill will outline the successful predictions he offered in 2004
prior to the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.
Predictions based in part on the mytho-historical reconstruction
which has revealed the incredible yet forgotten role
that Saturn played in the myth-making epoch in prehistory.