What follows is a look back at the progress of The Thunderbolts Project as
of the 2018 year end. Since the inception of The Thunderbolts Project in 2012,
we've experienced substantial and continuous growth, emerging as the
leading voice of the Electric Universe movement. The many testaments to our
growth would include five full-length documentaries all emphasizing the
extraordinary role of the electric force in the natural world. Well over three
hundred episodes of the highly rated video series Space News from the
Electric Universe. The popular Thunderbolts Picture Of the Day or TPOD
under the guidance of editor Stephen Smith offering wide-ranging factual and
visual support of the Electric Universe. 39 episodes of the series Discourses on
an Alien Sky exploring the extraordinary natural events from which the ancient
myth-making epoch arose. And several international conferences sponsored by
The Thunderbolts Project to bring together leading innovators in both the
sciences and in the study of the ancient cultures. Also of interest to followers
of The Thunderbolts Project, we should note the independently organized ongoing
experiment called the SAFIRE project exploring the electric discharge
patterns in the laboratory as possible corollaries to enigmatic features of the
Sun and other bodies in space. As we settle into the new year, this is also a
good time to reflect on the great surprises in space, as one discovery
after another reinforces the core tenets of the electrical paradigm. Consider for
example the recent findings in our own solar system where new discoveries have
overturned long-standing beliefs about planetary origins and about
comets, meteors and asteroids, even throwing into doubt many popular
teachings about the Sun at the center of the system. According to electrical
theorist Wal Thornhill and others, comets are not the assumed leftovers of
a solar system formed from gravitational collapse and accretion billions of years
ago. Comets, along with great multitudes of
asteroids, meteoroids and other cosmic debris, were torn from planetary surfaces
by powerful electric discharge in a prior more violent phase of solar system
history. With a broad field of evidence now in front of us, the
comet provides ideal opportunities to test key tenets of the Electric Universe
paradigm. The truth is that close-up images of comet nuclei have revealed
rocky desiccated surfaces, exactly as anticipated by electrical theorists. We
now know that these bodies bear no resemblance at all to the dirty
snowballs of traditional comet theory. In fact, the recently published scientific
papers on the Rosetta mission to comet 67P, continue to confirm the predictions
of the electric comet model. As we reported last year, comet specialists now
acknowledge that 67P cannot be billions of years old as was commonly believed. It
also seems clear that the double lobes and rocky terrain of 67P not only
present insurmountable problems for a theoretical model once considered
unassailable. Tellingly, many astronomers now suggest a remarkable collision of
two such minuscule bodies across millions of miles, placing an exclamation
point on the improbability of the underlying claim. If Electric Universe
proponents are correct, the most fundamental scientific mistake in our
time has been the exclusion of the electric force from events in space. In
the 19th and 20th centuries, the blind assumption of cosmic neutrality affected
the field of view within all of the space sciences.
According to Thornhill and others, it was this intellectual confinement that
prevented space scientists from seeing the electric force at work in the
discharge activity of comets. And yet, as telescopes have expanded our view to
thousands of exoplanetary systems of planets outside the solar system, nothing
we have found is consistent with today's popular theory of cometary origins. The
traditional nebular hypothesis suggests that comets were born billions of years
ago in an imagined diffuse cloud of gas and dust, the very cloud from which stars
are claimed to have been born. It was from that ideological foundation, the nebular
hypothesis, that not only comet science but all of the planetary sciences
emerged over the past century. More recently however, the entire ideological
framework has been shattered by the surprising discovery of abundant
planetary systems with so called 'Hot Jupiters' or gas giants bizarrely located
in seemingly impossible proximity to their parent stars. In response to this
surprise, astronomers now routinely point to evidence for large-scale planetary
migration -- a radical departure from traditional theory. In the scenario most
recently offered, theorists suggest that the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn
formerly acted as so-called 'wrecking balls' plowing through the inner
solar system to destroy the planetary order in its earlier evolutionary phase.
Of course this conjecture, if accurate, could only add support to the radical
claim of today's electrical theorists that chaos formerly reigned in the solar
system. Not just billions of years ago, as now proposed, but extending into much
more recent times to powerfully affect all of humanity. The result of such
developments in the theoretical science has been a remarkable convergence
of the Electric Universe movement with new perspectives on the origins of
ancient thought. We are confident that those who investigate this convergence
will find the doors opening to an unprecedented synthesis of ancient
experience and modern science with a host of wonders and surprises along
the way.