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It is a fact known to any high school student, electric currents produce
magnetic fields.
Incredibly, this law of physics is virtually nowhere evident in the
so-called Standard Model of the universe.
It is therefore no surprise that many so-called baffling discoveries in the
space sciences have involved the detection of magnetic fields at
virtually all scales throughout the universe. A Universetoday article from
2011 describes the conundrum for astronomers. It states, "The mention of
cosmic-scale magnetic fields is still likely to be met with an uncomfortable
silence in some astronomical circles -- and after a bit of foot-shuffling and throat-
clearing, the discussion will be moved on to safer topics. But look, they're out
there.
They probably do play a role in galaxy evolution, if not galaxy formation, and
are certainly a feature of the interstellar medium and the
intergalactic medium." In recent years
one of the great mysteries in astrophysics was the detection of
astonishingly powerful magnetic fields in so-called young galaxies. A 2008
report on such a discovery reads, "Astronomers have made the first direct
measurement of the magnetic field in a young, distant galaxy, and the result is
a big surprise.
Looking at a faraway protogalaxy seen as it was 6.5 billion years ago, the
scientists measured a magnetic field at least 10 times stronger than that of our
own Milky Way.
They had expected just the opposite."
But what is the cause of these magnetic fields?
The answer to this question, which we revealed in the opening statement of
this report, remains elusive for astrophysicists. Today, increasingly fine
data across the entire electromagnetic spectrum only deepens the astronomical
mysteries. Recently, scientists in Germany, using the Hubble Space Telescope,
have detected extremely strong magnetic fields in the quasar which is believed
to be about 4 billion light-years from Earth. The magnetic fields were measured
at 200 million Gauss. In comparison, the strength of the magnetic field at
Earth's surface is only about one Gauss. The scientists state that the magnetic
fields are very close to the quasar's theoretical central black hole and they
suggest that the magnetic fields play a role in expelling matter from the black
hole's accretion disk.
However, how confident should astrophysicists be in their ideas about
magnetic fields in space or their belief in the existence of black holes.
Scientists from the university of Göttingen in Germany have detected, for
the first time, the existence of very strong magnetic field of 200 million
Gauss immediately next to a supermassive black hole in a quasar four billion
light-years distant. As a comparison, the magnetic fields on Earth are measured in
the range of one Gauss.
The report states that, "The existence of such magnetic fields could explain why
so much of the matter, which happens it to enter into the surroundings field of a
Black Hole, still manages to escape." Now
years ago I was at a meeting of professionals
where leading astrophysicists admitted, "When we don't understand something we
blame it on magnetism!"
But what that leading astrophysicists didn't say is that astrophysicists don't
understand how the magnetic fields are generated!
If you have a look at Scholarpedia on the web and it says and I quote, "The origin of
the first magnetic fields in the universe is still a mystery"
and it goes on, "It calls for a mechanism to sustain and organize the magnetic
field." Of course mysterious dynamos are called upon to provide these magnetic
fields.
You'll notice in astrophysics that these dynamos are in fact inside the Earth,
inside the Sun and now inside galaxies but no one knows how they work,
they've never been shown theoretically to work so they remain mysterious.
Meanwhile, plasma cosmologists have shown both theoretically and experimentally that
the magnetic fields in galaxies are due to electric currents flowing into the
centers along the spiral arms of the galaxy.
Now when the current reaches the center of the galaxy
it is twisted into a plasmoid where all of the electromagnetic energy is stored
until that plasmoid becomes unstable and ejects matter in jets along
the galaxy axis, as observed. And all of this was published and is easy to read
in Eric Lerner's book, The Big Bang Never Happened. In plasma physics the plasmoid
is the most concentrated form of electromagnetic energy known.
You can store the energy of a room full of capacitors in something a few
millimeters across, the tiny donut-shaped plasmoid. That plasmoid of course, to
contain that energy, has an intense magnetic field itself generated just by
the electric currents and the way they twist themselves together.
So this discovery confirms the plasma cosmology model.
This means of course that black holes are mathematical fiction.
Now at our Electric Universe conferences in the past year or two,
Steve Crothers has shown that the mathematics of black holes is nonsense;
that the most significant argument against them is that the mathematics
invoke a universe where there is no other matter,
it exists on its own, they can be no other matter in its universe.
If you want to have a simple explanation
you could look at his paper called, Black Holes, Unicorns, and All That Jazz. At the
heart of all of this is the problem that physicists themselves don't understand
magnetism, gravity or mass
so this talk about what's going on in the centers of galaxies is complete nonsense.
I'll be talking about all of these subjects and particularly "The Long Road
to Understanding Gravity" at my presentation at the Electric Universe
conference this year in Phoenix, in June.
There's a great deal of evidence against Black Holes from other observations that
have been made in recent years,
one is the idea that these massive gravitational concentrations called
Black Holes will cause gravitational lensing.
Now, the stars orbiting the so-called supermassive black hole at the center of
the Milky Way have been observed over a number of years and they orbit this
so-called Black Hole at high speeds and their orbits have been tracked but in
no case has there been any evidence of gravitational lensing of those stars.
Another thing that was observed recently and was tracked was a cloud of gas and
dust which was approaching the center of the Milky Way, the so-called black hole,
and it was expected to be gobbled up by the black hole but that didn't happen
and that was a surprise.
The point is, it's not a black hole and therefore the forces in action there are
not purely gravitational as this research has just shown.
Like the theoretical wormhole celebrated in the recent blockbuster film
"Interstellar", black holes are a beloved staple of science fiction and popular
science media routinely present the theoretical Black Hole as a science fact.
How might the general public form independent opinions on such a complex
and arcane subject?
The public is at a disadvantage with science reporting these days because
it's done by press release and the original papers which present the data
are usually interpreted in such a way as to make these assertions and assumptions
real objects. We have artists' impressions of black holes, we have artists'
impressions of all kinds of things in space --
none of which are images of something that has been actually observed. As
Einstein once said but didn't actually follow; the ideas of the most important
thing, not the mathematics, and yet the ideas are often not well organized logically
or well expressed so that the public can be misled. But not only the public, the
scientists themselves mislead themselves. The Electric Universe, on the other hand,
follows the tradition of classical physics where there is a freewheeling
exchange of ideas and those ideas are organized into a coherent big picture,
something which makes sense of a widely disparate set of information from
different disciplines. The Electric Universe has not been surprised by any
of these surprises for astronomers and astrophysicists simply because it starts
from a much bigger picture,
it accepts empirical evidence from plasma cosmologists, which astronomers
unfortunately ignore, and the result is that we have been able to predict things
in advance and to accommodate new information and actually find
confirmation in new information week by week, as it comes in.
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