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Wal Thornhill continues his discussion of NASA's New Horizons mission to the
dwarf planet Pluto.
The mission has already provided a number of stunning surprises for planetary
scientists.
The tiny planet's geological activity , its apparent age,
the stunning features on its moons and more.
All defied many fundamental ideas in planetary science.
As principal investigator Alan Stern recently stated,
Pluto is quote "going to send a lot of geophysicists back to the drawing board." As principal investigator Alan Stern recently stated,
Pluto is quote "going to send a lot of geophysicists back to the drawing board."
But are these discoveries surprising from Electric Universe perspective?
The new story is this: the gas giants in the outer solar system,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all captured by the Sun
at different times. Their rings are the remnants of the electrical capture
process, at different times. Their rings are the remnants of the electrical capture
process,
with Saturns spectacular ring signaling its recentness.
As a gas giant approaches the Sun its gravitational sphere of influence
shrinks,
resulting in the progressive loss of outer satellites.
So the minor planets in the Kuiper belt like Pluto and its moons
are likely to have trait seen elsewhere in the solar system.
Pluto and Charon are rocky bodies with their atmospheres recently frozen to their
surface.
They have not been there for four and a half billion years.
If they were members of the Saturnian family they arrived within human
experience.
Dating of surfaces by concocted story of billions of years of impacts
is invalid when crater features can not be explained by impact.
In contrast electrical cratering matches all crater features in detail
and can occur in a flurry over the face of a moon or planet
in minutes or hours. With these thoughts in mind it is instructive to look at the
comments by the New Horizons team following the return of the first images
from Pluto,
showing some detail. Alan Stern opened the press conference with,
"Charon has been active and there are mountains in the Kuiper belt.
This system is amazing." Now accretion of ices and improbable collisions
can not explain these findings,
but they're not surprising if Charon is a captured former satellite of a
planet the size of Jupiter
or Saturn. Cathy Olkin of Southwest Research Institute
thought Charon would be covered in craters. This is based on the invalid
accretion theory by collisions.
Collisions tend to fragment and disperse material.
Certainly we should not expect neat circular craters at the low velocities
in the Kuiper belt.
She said: "There's a darkish area at the North Pole,
dubbed Mordor. It has reddish coloring and the polygon shape is evident.
It is thought to be a thin veneer." Now extensive patches of material can be
deposited or removed in electrical exchanges between planetary bodies.
The redness should be compared spectrally with the red soils of Mars
or other bodies in the solar system. Polygonal features are created by
particle beams in an electric discharge
but not by impacts. There's a series of troughs and cliffs extending 600 miles
across the surface,
a huge area. This is attributed to mysterious internal processes,
an unfalsifiable catch-all for surface features throughout the solar
system.
There's a relatively smooth area attributed to geological activity and
resurfacing.
That's what was said about the entire surface of Venus to account for its lack
of craters.
There are stories invoking unseen and unverifiable causes hidden inside these
bodies. There are stories invoking unseen and unverifiable causes hidden inside these
bodies.
Cathy then tells us: "There's a canyon at two o'clock four to six miles deep
and another at eleven o'clock about 3 miles deep." But troughs, rilles and canyons
can be excavated in moments by a planetary discharge.
Naked electrical forces overcome gravity with ease and can raise mountain chains
and isolated mountains or blisters with ridge and gully formations down their
sides and isolated mountains or blisters with ridge and gully formations down their
sides
like those seen in the close-up image. Geology investigator John Spencer was
the last to discuss the high-res observations of Pluto,
where there is a distinctive heart-shaped formation called Tombaugh Regio.
He said: "The most stunning thing
in the first high-resolution image is that we have not found a single impact
crater in this image."
"This means this is a very young surface, because Pluto has been bombarded by
other objects in the Kuiper belt..."
"We think it probably has to be less than 100 million years old,
which is a small fraction of the four-and-a-half billion year age of the Solar
System."
End of his quote. This is a glaring example of the iron grip of
the old discredited story. Pluto's concocted history is stated as fact and
the stunning discoveries must be forced to fit.
He goes on: "The mountains are quite spectacular, up to 11,000 feet high.
We know the surface of Pluto is covered in a lot of nitrogen ice,
methane ice, carbon monoxide ice. You can't make mountains out of this stuff,
it's just too soft.
It doesn't have the strength to make mountains. So we are seeing here the
bedrock
or the bedice of Pluto. Water ice is strong enough of Pluto
temperatures to hold up big mountains and that's what we think we're seeing here."
But that contradicts the notion that recent internal processes have smoothed temperatures to hold up big mountains and that's what we think we're seeing here."
But that contradicts the notion that recent internal processes have smoothed
out the craters that the story tells us should be there.
If those processes can smooth out craters,
they can smooth out mountains of ice. The simpler answer
is, that the mountains are composed of rock and they and the flat terrain around
them were formed in the same electrical event.
Spencer continues: "What's particularly exciting to me about this is,
this is the first time we have seen an icy world that is not orbiting a giant planet.
We see strange geological features on many of these moons and we usually
attribute this to tidal heating.
That can not happen on Pluto." "So this is telling us that you do not need tidal
heating to power ongoing recent geological activity on icy worlds.
That's a really important discovery we just made this morning.
This is the first of many amazing lessons we are going to get from Pluto."
The hallmark of a good theory is its simplicity, that is the least number of
assumptions
and its predictive power. The Electric Universe model is based on observations
of starburst and exoplanetary systems together with the earliest human
testimony
of a planetary capture event. It predicts that Pluto will be
indistinguishable from other moons of the giant planets
because it had the same origin and the ages and complex histories are
practically unknowable.
The standard story fails miserably because it is a fiction.
How often have we heard its "back to the drawing board". The standard story fails miserably because it is a fiction.
How often have we heard its "back to the drawing board".
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