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Scientists using the Green Bank Telescope have observed what they describe
as a river of neutral hydrogen streaming into the galaxy NGC 6946.
The researchers conclude that this tenuous filament of gas is providing
the necessary fuel for the high rate of star formation seen in the spiral galaxy.
The lead author of a study in the Astrophysical Journal States:
"We knew that the fuel for star formation had to come from somewhere.
So far, however, we've detected only about 10%
of what would be necessary to explain what we observe in many galaxies."
What does the Electric Universe tell us about this so-called
"river of hydrogen" in deep space?
In an article in Science Daily titled,
'River of hydrogen flowing through space observed',
it's reported that astronomer D.J. Pisano, from West Virginia University,
has discovered what could be a never-before-seen
― river of hydrogen flowing through space.
Now here we come upon a great problem in modern science
and that is the use of inappropriate words or terms
which conjure up images that confuse everyone.
How exactly do you have a river flowing through deep space?
A river normally has banks or something to constrain it to form a long sinuous channel.
Here we have a long sinuous channel of hydrogen
but there are no river banks to hold it in.
And that comes down to the next problem of magnetism.
Astronomers acknowledge magnetism because they can measure it in deep space
but they have no explanation for why it exists there
or why it exists in the forms that are seen.
Meanwhile, we have plasma cosmology which has been around for decades now
and is recognized by the IEEE, but which astronomers studiously ignore.
Plasma cosmology explains why the magnetism is there,
why there are filaments of gas in deep space
and how that comes together to form a galaxy.
All of these questions have been answered both theoretically
and by experiment by the plasma cosmologists
but it's as if it never happened!
The article goes on,
"This very faint, very tenuous, filament of gas
is streaming into the nearby galaxy NGC 6946 and may help explain
how certain spiral galaxies keep up their steady pace of star formation."
Dr. Pisano from West Virginia says,
"We knew that the fuel for star formation had to come from somewhere.
So far, however, we've detected only about 10% of
what would be necessary to explain what we observe in many galaxies.
A leading theory is that rivers of hydrogen ― known as cold flows ―
may be ferrying hydrogen through intergalactic space,
clandestinely fueling star formation.
But this tenuous hydrogen has been simply too diffused to detect, until now."
Once again, if we return to the plasma cosmologists, they show why and how
this hydrogen is ferried about in intergalactic space
by electric currents flowing between galaxies.
So these interconnecting filaments of hydrogen,
neutral hydrogen that's been now found,
merely shows the channels of along which these currents are flowing
because those currents tend to aggregate matter toward the filament axis
over vast distances much more powerfully than gravity does.
What's more, the plasma cosmologists have explained how stars form
along these filaments once they're compressed down into the spiral arms of a galaxy.
So all of this has been explained and yet it's a total mystery to astronomers.
Radio Astronomy has provided evidence that electric currents
confine filaments of neutral hydrogen in space.
It may be thought that the Electric Universe model and Plasma Cosmology
doesn't have anything to say about neutral hydrogen.
But, of course, neutral hydrogen or neutral atoms in space are affected by
ionized atoms and electrons that are traveling at high speed past them.
Collisions and so on will draw, and also some electrical interaction
between these neutral atoms and the high speed charged particles
will tend to draw them together towards the central axis of the discharge.
It's been many decades since the radio astronomer Gerrit Verschuur,
using a radio telescope, has mapped these neutral hydrogen filaments near the Sun.
And he has shown that so-called 'clouds of neutral hydrogen'
are in fact merely a perspective effect
where you're looking down the barrel so to speak of one of these hydrogen filaments.
One of these electric currents flowing through space.
And Gerrit Verschuur has been active in looking at the plasma cosmologists' view
and confirming that the expected radiation you would get from these filaments in space
actually does occur.
And that to me is a very very powerful test
of the integrity of the plasma cosmologists' model.
The problem for astronomers also, when it comes to finding
the necessary amount of hydrogen to form stars,
is that they are using a gravitational theory of collapse
which requires far more neutral hydrogen than does
an electric current flowing through a cloud of hydrogen.
Because the forces involved are so much more intense and also
a star does not require nuclear fusion to take place at its center, to be a star.
So both of these things will result in stars
with far less hydrogen than is required by the standard model.
"Earlier studies of the Galactic neighborhood around NGC 6946...
have revealed an extended halo of hydrogen
(a feature commonly seen in spiral galaxies,
which may be formed by hydrogen ejected from the disk of the galaxy
by intense star formation and supernova explosions)."
Here again we have this problem of the only acting mechanisms
are all mechanical explosions and gravity bringing things together.
Plasma cosmologists have shown that the coming together
of these intergalactic current filaments to form a spiral galaxy,
will actually draw neutral hydrogen into a sump at the center of the galaxy.
But that comes from an extended halo of neutral hydrogen
which is drawn in by forces which are greater than gravity.
So these extended halos around spiral galaxies
are to be expected in the Plasma Cosmology view.
In an earlier report of magnetic spiral arms in the galaxy NGC 6946 it was said,
"Magnetic fields pervade spiral galaxies ― at least all of those searched so far;
these fields have a substantial energy density,
and hence could play an important role in galaxy evolution."
In this report,
"Observation of two 'magnetic spiral arms' in... NGC 6946,
lying between the optical spiral arms.
But it's a surprise because dynamo action
is thought to be related to star formation activity
and that's concentrated within or in the leading edges of the optical spiral arms."
So here we have a problem.
It's said then,
"This organized structure probably reflects the signature of some
global mechanism relating to magnetic field generation,
but no current theory ― in particular dynamo theory in its present form ―
is able to explain this phenomenon."
Once again we have the problem of magnetism being invoked to try and explain things
but the magnetism being measured doesn't match up with any of the theories.
In particular, there is a substantial energy density in this magnetic field.
So what's providing the energy?
And also the organization of the structure, being so regular,
also reflects that this is something critical to the formation of a spiral galaxy.
Here again we return to the plasma cosmologists and all of this fits with their model.
But you will see no mention of it in any astronomical treatise.
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