The following video is the first segment in a series of interviews with Monty Childs,
Project Director of the SAFIRE experiment,
a scientific investigation of the Sun's newly-discovered electrical properties.
The SAFIRE Project is a scientific endeavor
to explore the Electric Universe hypothesis.
The idea that the Sun is a positively charged body in a negatively charged environment
- that's, fundamentally, the premise that Electric Universe is built on.
If you break it right down, it's based on the principle of charged plasma
affecting matter of a different electrical potential.
And, it was based on that, that I'd done a number of evaluations of the universe model
- I wouldn't say it's, at this point in time, a mature hypothesis
where it's mathematically defined,
and even if it is mathematically defined (like so many other models)
there's a lot of assumptions, and the physics, and math
that you have to shake out to see whether or not there is substance to it.
The Electric Universe model is simpler in its construct than the conventional model,
which is based on gravity.
There are a number of theories with respect to various phenomena, or characteristics,
that we see what the Sun - whether it's a theory of how Sun spots come into being,
or the photosphere, or the temperature of the corona -
each one, when you dig into it, has its own hypothesis, or theory,
as to how those characteristics come into being due to one cause, which is gravity.
And, there are a lot of disparities with it.
It's a challenge for modern heliophysicists, or solar physicists,
to bring this model into an understanding
where you can place gravity at the heart of all of these mechanisms and processes
by which these will all occurr due to gravity.
We have an objective to see if we can recreate the Sun in a chamber -
some people call it a 'star-a-jar', some people call it a 'sun-in-a-box',
but it's built on the Electric Universe model
and the idea is that the Sun is a positively charged body
in a negatively charged environment.
And, that's what we're attempting to do: that is, the research objectives with SAFIRE.
It started off with research that I was doing on my own,
a partner and myself had developed some technology for the solar industry
and we submitted it for a patent and I mentioned to them
that I was going to do further research into the Sun
and the potential of gaining energy in ways that were efficient.
And, I had come across a video from the Electric Universe with respect to the Sun
and I had run into a number of disparities with the conventional model
- one of them being gamma rays.
The Sun itself doesn't really emit that many gamma rays,
which I personally had a problem with considering it's supposed to be this 'nuclear furnace',
a by-product of those kinds of reactions.
So, I contacted Wal Thornhill and said on my CV
because I was doing research into this and I wanted him to take me seriously.
So, that's when David Talbot contacted me - Wal didn't contact me initially -
and David asked me if I could help the Electric Universe and I mentioned back to him,
I was really contacting Wal based on research that I was doing
and David convinced me that I could help in some way,
and sent me a pile of information on the Electric Universe.
And, I started the conversation with Wal,
and I got to know better what the Electric Universe model was based on.
And at that point, I was asked to do an evaluation, and I did
- but, I didn't base it on plasma physics, I based it on a statistical model
to evaluate whether or not the process
by which the Electric Universe model of positively charged Sun
and negatively charged environment could stand.
And, I took a look at number of documents associated with
stellar luminosity, the temperature, a number of characteristics of stars
and determined that, in fact, it made a lot of sense
that it could be a simple process that can light up the billions of stars that we see.
And, then further went into research to see if there's any precedent
if there was any other experiments have been done in the past and there was,
dating back as far as Crookes, Birkeland, Quinn, Schmidt, Fiorito.
I was doing a feasability study to determine
if an experiment might be conducted to test the Electric Universe hypothesis.
And, as it turned out it is feasible to test this principle
and so, I did a number of other talks couple of them in Albuquerque,
one in Phoenix, one in Las Vegas, another one at the University of Maryland
and met at Hopkins University and worked on developing what the experiment look like.
And, I was approached by a man named Scott Mainwaring,
who said he wanted to fund it and I told Scott before we spent a lot of money,
let's just shake it out and see if we can even do this.
The intent was not to just create a light show,
but bring to bear modern technology where we can obtain really good data
to diagnose the plasma that we would hope to get.
So, we started off with Phase I, a proof of concept, and the results were astounding.
We did not expect to get some of the behavior that we had got
- it looks like a Sun, it behaves a lot like a Sun.
We had limited the power to 1,800 Watts DC
and there were times when the atmosphere developed its
own spherical stratified atmospheres around the core,
and the energy built up in these atmospheres to such an extent
that it blew off into the chamber and when it did,
it surged with a release of power over 10 million watts, at times.
And, we were shocked, we did not expect that kind of behavior.
We were watching this dense cloud of ions built-up just off the surface of the anode
- and just to digress for a minute, right now we're just estimating.
We believe the plasma is around 2,000º to 3,000º
and that's way beyond the melting temperature of the core itself.
But, the core (we believe, right now) is maybe 600º Celsius,
which in itself is a very interesting phenomena.
If you study thermodynamics you would expect that there would be,
the gas would be extremely hot, that the anode - the core itself -
would be extremely hot, and then the heat would dissipate outward.
We didn't find that, at all.
What we found is that it built up a cloud of ions
just off the surface maybe about a millimeter or so.
The anode was cooler,
the plasma was what maybe as I said 2,000º to 3,000º, we are estimating.
But, it got very dense and when it got dense,
that's when it blew off into the chamber.
We've submitted one paper on this, 'the study of striations'.
Those ions are trapped in a stratified layer, we call them 'striations.
And we believe that it may be occurring with the photosphere of the Sun.
Now, further to that, we did measure the temperatures -
we have fairly good spectral equipment to measure the energy states of the ions
and what we found to our surprise again
is that we have higher energy states the further out that we went.
In other words, the gas is hotter, or the temperature is hotter,
in the same way that we see higher coronal temperature than we do with the photosphere.
It looks like a Sun, it acts like a Sun and there are characteristics of it
that appear to be a direct correlation of what we see with the Sun.