the Space Sciences a foundational theory
is the nuclear fusion model of the Sun
and all stars nearly a century ago with
nuclear energy the sensation among
scientists sir arthur eddington wrote
the internal constitution of the stars
in which he proposed that
self-gravitating gas an inflating
thermal energy explained how the Sun
could shine for billions of years and
not collapse due to its own enormous
gravity the concepts in this model have
remained essentially unchanged for well
over half a century but how well as this
model withstood scientific discovery the
list of solar phenomena that the
standard model has failed to either
predict or explain his astounding the
mysteries only increase over time
defying all attempts to resolve them
through conventional suppositions
unbeknownst to the general public an
alternative testable hypothesis of the
Sun does exist the electric Sun
hypothesis first proposed by engineer
Ralph Jergens and more recently advanced
by Australian physicist wal Thornhill
and professor of electrical engineering
dr. donald scott states as the Sun is
not powered by an internal thermonuclear
reaction rather electric currents
flowing in plasma along the Galactic
plane form and power all stars if the
Sun is in essence an electrical
discharge phenomenon then countless of
the enduring problems in solar physics
may finally be resolved however as a
late Richard Feynman once said it
doesn't matter how beautiful your theory
is it doesn't matter how smart you are
if it doesn't agree with experiment it's
wrong over four years ago the design of
an experiment began that could change
science forever on jun 27th 2015
attendees at the Thunderbolts conference
EU 2015 paths of discovery in Phoenix
Arizona will witness the premiere of the
documentary film sapphire the sapphire
project is the first-ever laboratory
experiment to test a theory of the Sun
today in this audio interview Montgomery
child's the director of the Sapphire
project offers a brief outline of Prague
press in looking ahead to his
forthcoming report at the EU 2015
conference there are two fundamental
hypotheses one which our team would
consider to be the contemporary
scientific position that the Sun itself
is thermal nuclear engine that its
kinetic model and when we say kinetic we
mean that atoms are bashing together and
they're under so much pressure that they
develop fusion in the core of the Sun
and then by some means or mechanism this
energy passes through the core out into
the outer layers of the Sun and then we
have a photo sphere and in a corona and
then the different type of phenomena
that we observe with the Sun like
coronal mass ejections and the whole
soup of elements that the Sun produces
so there's the other hypotheses that
says that the Sun itself is driven by an
electrical force and that force itself
would be that the Sun itself is a
positively charged body in a generally
negatively charged environment now the
principle behind the second I've written
a few papers on this and presented them
and i boiled it down to charged plasma
affecting matter of a different
electrical potential now thermo nuclear
model of the Sun is very different it
requires that the Sun itself is standing
alone and by itself but further to this
there is no known method or mechanism or
tests have been conducted on her so far
to obtain well obtain fusion but to
maintain ongoing and sustained fusion
reactions so that presents a bit of a
challenge with respect to a testable
model it doesn't mean that the
gravitational model isn't true and it
doesn't mean that it's absolutely false
our job the sapphire team our job we
were contracted to investigate the
electric Sun hypotheses and I wrote a
few papers on what I believe to be a
viable or feasible method but which we
could test that high
aussies obviously it's a simpler model
in a sense that we have a chart
differential so what we've done is
synthesized in a laboratory in a vacuum
chamber a positively charged anode which
enlighten as a soul Ellis or small son
in a generally negatively charged
environment which would provide the sun
with electrons now in any electrical
circuit typically you have a positive at
one end of the circuit and negative at
the other and electrons flow from the
negative where you might say crowded
state side to the positive state side
and the ions flow in the other direction
and this is very well known process in
plasmas so based on Christian brooklyn's
work on crooks work on Schmidt Quinn
fiorito many others that have worked in
plasma over the last hundred maybe
hundred and twenty years I examined
these models and came up with a design
that I thought would be promising with
respect to testing this model a couple
of years ago I presented this experiment
using modern technologies to go in and
measure and diagnose the mechanisms the
process now why that's important is
because the work that we're doing in
sapphire is not what is called
qualitative in other words we're not
only just taking pictures and saying gee
this looks like the Sun because in the
core of sapphire when we let it out it
looks very much like the Sun its
behavior is very much like the Sun we do
get ion or coronal mass ejections
occurring in the chamber we do get
photospheric type of behavior looks very
much like the photosphere of the Sun we
get a corona and it's okay to take
beautiful pictures of these things in
high definition video with modern
technology but what's a fire is about is
using state-of-the-art technology mass
spectrometers langmuir probes optical
spectroscopy and other types of
instruments to go right into the plasma
and diagnose the causes of the
particular phenomena that we see so this
is cause an effect for those who would
be familiar with that principle but the
methodology that we use falls under
what's called design of experiments
that's not a design of an
but it's an extremely disciplined
statistically robust method of
diagnosing a variety of variables that
contribute to the final phenomena that
we see as sapphire or in the case if it
is true the Sun so about a year ago we
launched phase one of sapphire and it
was really a proof of concept design and
a small bell jar we limited the power to
1800 watts DC we believe the power going
across the plasma may be around 800
watts DC but there were changes in the
plasma that we did not expect we went in
to do this just to test the
instrumentation to see if it could live
inside this environment and if we could
gather usable data we exceeded very well
on that the instrumentation will work
but the phenomena that we seen and we
observed in there and what we did
measure quite frankly blew our minds we
observed a much hotter corona than the
core the core we believe right now was
about 500 degrees Celsius the plasma
just adjacent to the surface of the core
we believe to be around 3,000 degrees
Celsius we don't see that there's any
thermal influence in the plasma towards
the anode even though the plasma maybe
only five or maybe ten thousandths of an
inch away from the surface of the animal
so we don't understand why the thermal
characteristics of the plumbers plasma
only goes upward into the chamber and
not directly back into the course while
I heat it up which is interesting
because it's similar behavior of the Sun
as you go in closer to the Sun it gets
colder and as you go up further from the
Sun it gets hotter photo sphere of the
sudden is measured to be around five six
thousand degrees Celsius the corona of
the Sun on the other hand is about two
million degrees and we're seeing very
similar behavior in sapphire now when
some of these ion cloud would build up
around the surface of the anode they
would blow off into the atmosphere of
the chamber now if you remember I said
that we limited the power to 1800 watts
in the chamber but when the
power was released or when these
ejections came off the surface we
measured and we've confirmed with
third-party that we measured power
release of over 2 million watts and in
some cases we measured over 10 million
watts now that's a lot of power now it
didn't last long we'd say right now
we've measured between 50 and 150 to
maybe 200 nanoseconds but it was there
and we don't understand it we're also
getting a copious amount of an atomic
mass of three which we have yet to
determine what that is we've got a lot
of work to do now there's only a few
mechanisms or possibilities for that a
time mass of three and if anyone who's a
physicist understands what I'm saying
they'll understand that that's that's
fairly strong talk with regards to
things like the possibility of fusion we
are not making a claim for fusion right
now but there's an indication of in time
mass of three we do understand the mass
spec that we're using gives us readings
and there's certain things that go on in
there but like I said we've got more
work to do and that's really what phase
two is a boat so phase two which will be
introduced at the conference will be
showing a chamber which is much larger
in size it's actually quite huge the
power that we're going to limit to go
into the end of the chamber won't be
1800 watts it'll be 105 thousand watts
and we'll let that energy as far as
current is concerned and pins on the
core and then we'll start to do
measurements the other thing that we're
going to be doing in this chamber unlike
the small bell jar the way that we're
going to be measuring things we've
designed a three-dimensional orbit 0
probe and what this will allow us to do
it will be analogous to you getting into
a spacecraft with a whole bunch of
instruments on board and taking a
journey down through the corona of the
Sun through its photosphere maybe make
an orbit and then go on and fly back out
in your flight path towards the
heliopause and the whole time that we're
doing this we're going to be making
measurements now the measurements
themselves or for two reasons number one
to diagnose the plaza physics that are
going on in there which is to our
knowledge have never been done to this
resolution and number two the data that
we're getting
back we're working to compare that with
the data that's coming back from SD land
from I backs and so many of the other
spacecraft that are up there that are
doing these measurements right now what
I can tell you optically even the basic
measurements were getting back from
sapphire right now we have not find any
disparities between what we're measuring
in sapphire and what we are measuring
from the Sun and that's our job and it's
kind of unusual because normally when
you run tests and experiments you can
usually find disparities but to date we
have not found any so the team itself is
not gravitational and we're not electric
universe team we were contracted to
examine this model and see if the
evidence may support or possibly falsify
the electric universe model electric
sun-mon but as I said right now to date
over the last now I guess we're going on
for years we haven't found anything so
that's fundamentally what sapphire is
about the word sapphire is really an
acronym and it stands for stellar
atmospheric function and regulation
experiment so and it's really about the
processes and mechanisms by which these
particular phenomena can occur so we're
examining not origins were not examining
what may happen in the future we're
examining these processes in these
phenomena right now as they exist right
now
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