In recent years some of the most intriguing and surprising discoveries in
the space sciences have been provided by comets. Several space missions have
allowed opportunities to test the predictions of standard comet theory
versus those at the Electric Universe. More than ever it's clear that a new
picture of comets is required for institutional science. At the forthcoming
Thunderbolts conference Elegant Simplicity, taking place June 17th
to 19th in Phoenix Arizona, physicist Eugene Bagashov will
present a new analysis of cometary orbits that may provide further support
to the electric comet hypothesis. I believe that the electric comet idea
is one of the most intriguing areas of the Electric Universe field.
First of all because it concerns the bodies we might readily interact with on
a reasonable timescale, even with our limited resources as opposed to, for
example, more distant astrophysical objects and objects of much bigger scale
such as galaxies for example, which we cannot probe just as easily and thoroughly. And cometary
processes are taking place right now as opposed to the proposed large-scale
electric events of the past, where the scope of evidence is limited due to
obvious reasons. Here on the contrary, we have a growing field of evidence and
ever increasing quality of data. This provides a good basis for an
increasingly intense scientific examination and research regarding the
electric comet idea. In the recent couple of years at least one important step in
this direction was taken by Franklin Anariba with his examination of possible
electrochemical aspects of cometary phenomena. I personally think his
presentation at the EU 2015 Paths Of Discovery conference was among the best. I'm highly
anticipating to hear his talk at the EU 2016 conference coming in June. I also
believe that Subhon Ibadov, a professor from Moscow State University, is going to
give his talk at this year's conference on a related phenomena concerning
possible discharges in the cometary environment.
I consider all of those topics being highly relevant and interesting but what I
was interested in since about a year ago is a more macroscopic or maybe statistical
approach so to speak, that is dealing with the whole population of comets rather
than some individual comet and considering the probability of some abstract probe-body
with given orbital parameters to be a comet, to discharge like a comet under
the electric comet idea. So I've started doing my own research in this field
trying to play with the statement that the commentary behaviour is caused by the
high eccentricities of cometary orbits, causing the comets to significantly
change their radial distance to the Sun along their orbits, thus moving through
changing electromagnetic environments and discharging in the solar wind.
So I basically wanted to look at the data and try to find any correlations
between eccentricities and the number of comets or the percentage of comets
out of all the small bodies, because the absolute majority of the small bodies
are asteroids of course. Theoretically, if we'd find a direct increase of the
percentage of comets with increasing eccentricity, that would pose a
significant and strong support to the electric comet idea. And indeed I've found
a significant increase of the percentage of comets with rising eccentricity,
but this dependence- the graph that it produced, is quite nonlinear and shows some
interesting features. It is changing its overall shape in certain intervals of
eccentricity parameter. My first thought was that this looks like changing regimes of
discharge, pretty much like in the laboratory plasma tube, though it seems
not so simple and I've yet struggled to find a decent and more or less viable explanation.
Maybe some feedback from electrical engineers and other people from the EU
community would provide some insight. In general what I'd like to say is that my
talk is going to be more of an invitation to sharing thoughts and ideas
and making some introductory steps, rather than a presentation of some well
developed theory. It is still more a question than an answer but this
question could not have been posed without the initial electric comet idea
and as it is said, the right question is already half the answer.