The Pulsating Universe and Planet Earth
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So, 'The Pulsating Universe and Planet Earth'.
So, right.
Right here we have the Crab Nebula which sends out energetic pulses 30 times a second.
So I've chosen that as my iconic image of the pulsating universe.
And here of course, we have the Aurora Borealis
which is the electric current coming into the earth
so that's my symbol of how planet Earth is affected.
So, there are discharge events occurring all the time on all kinds of scales,
on a whole range of scales in the cosmos.
This one is 30 times a second.
Here we have a supernova remnant
so there was a supernova which sent out a tremendous burst of energy
when it happened.
And here we have even larger scale, this is a stellar nursery.
So we have a cathode object here which is being impacted by an incoming current
and every one of those strands is creating stars
so that's a huge scale discharge event.
And all of these discharge events are sending spikes of energy,
spikes of energy down galactic currents.
Whatever current they're on, gets a spike of energy
whenever there's an event like that.
And those energy spikes reach planet Earth.
Here is an image that,
here's Don Scott's image of the Birkeland current that powers the Sun
so that current is going to get its share of energy spikes.
And then those are passed on to the earth proportionally
so the current coming into the earth is a spiky current,
it's not a constant current.
It's going to get spikes whenever there's a discharge event that is connected to our circuit.
And that's going to cause heating.
So the reason we see the Aurora Borealis
is because the ionosphere is being heated to glow mode.
In this particular report from THEMIS
they call it a hundred thousand amps circuit coming in.
And I think on an earlier talk it was an even larger amount of amps.
Doesn't really matter, it's a lot of amps, that's what we care about.
And it's not just the,
I call this the entire ionosphere. I suppose I should call it the plasmasphere
but the Van Allen belts, these radiation belts,
that's because of current flowing through them.
And that's being heated.
Plus the atmosphere is being heated by discharge from the ionosphere to the surface.
It's like a 250,000 volt difference between the ionosphere and the surface.
And these weather events are a discharge across that potential.
So, the whole Earth system is being heated by the current that flows through it.
The earth is basically a resistor for this, for the current,
and resistors heat up
and it's proportional to the current flow.
So that an energy spike is going to create a heating spike.
So there's no question that the earth is heated electrically,
the question is how significant is that heating.
So to get a handle on whether that has any significance to it,
let's take a look at the climate record.
So what we have here is the last 400,000 years
as recorded in the ice cores in Antarctica, in Vostok.
I just downloaded this data from the official website and charted it out.
So what we see is about every 100,000 years there's a major spike
and that's how ice ages are ended,
and then we see little spikes about every 10,000 years.
So basically the temperature record is nothing but spikes.
There's no level periods, it's all spikes.
And they are, and they occur on a cyclical pattern.
So let's look at this,
let's talk about climate a little bit while we have this slide here.
The earth is, 90% of the time, is in what we call an ice age.
It's unusual to have an interglacial period
so ice ages are normal.
And when we think about ice ages, we think about people wearing skins,
hunting mastodons, woolly mammoths.
Well that's not what ice ages are like.
Yeah, there are more, a lot of the northern hemisphere is covered with glaciers
but that doesn't mean the earth is cold.
I mean, the difference between an ice age and a non-ice age is only ten degrees.
A place like Phoenix would be much more livable if it was ten degrees cooler.
And also because all the water is taken up in the glaciers,
the sea level is about 200 meters lower
which means that what we call the continental shelf becomes the shoreline.
So in the tropics it's more livable and there's a lot more land.
So an ice age isn't, it isn't really that the earth is cold.
It's just colder
but there's nothing to prevent life or agriculture or civilization or anything else
during what we call an ice age.
So actually, ice ages are normal
and an interglacial period is a crisis time
because of this huge energy spike which ends it
and suddenly then all the glaciers are melting
which means tsunamis all over the world.
I should see what's next here.
Right, okay.
So now what we're going to do is we're going to zoom in on the interglacial period.
So we're zooming in on this little part here
and what do we see, more spikes!
So the heating pattern of the earth is a fractal,
a spiky fractal pattern.
We're having spikes at all scales
and that's what a fractal pattern is.
It's very distinctive, it's not random.
It's not at all random, it's a very distinctive non-random pattern of cyclical spikes.
So what we have, we have fractal energy spikes from the cosmos
and fractal heating spikes in the temperature record
so basically we have a unique fingerprint match between
heating caused by discharge events and the cosmos.
So we have a pattern match that that doesn't really,
but we don't know about the magnitude.
I mean, it conceivably could be a coincidence that the patterns are the same
so what we need is some direct evidence.
Is there any direct evidence for an electric effect on climate?
And there is, thanks to Ben Davidson
because he showed that solar activity,
variations of solar activity are correlated,
strongly correlated with significant climate change.
And variations in solar activity are of course
due to fluctuations in the Birkeland current that powers the Sun,
which is proportional to the current that comes into the earth.
So, my hypothesis then is that climate variation
is due to fluctuations in the current flowing into the ionosphere.
Now, I really should say it's a current flowing into the Earth's system
so it's not just the ionosphere, it's the whole Earth system.
And I think it's a strong,
I mean, I've given a very sketchy rendition of this,
but I think it's a strong hypothesis.
But I think what's even, so if we, if we have,
if this is what causes climate variation,
of course, that's interesting to know how something works
though what's even more interesting is the implications of the hypothesis.
So here is the first implication
that we have a seismograph basically,
or a voltage graph of discharge activity into the past.
So this is a new window onto the cosmos.
We can learn things from this that we couldn't learn any other way.
And in particular let's take a couple,
there we go.
We can, we can look for correlations between heating spikes in the record
and things we can see, things that we can see astronomically.
Like the Crab Nebula which was a pulsar, it also, it's a supernova remnant.
And we know from records that were kept
that that occurred in 1054 AD.
Well, that exactly matches one of our spikes.
So what that would indicate is that the spike of energy that caused the supernova
was the same spike that caused the the heating spike on the earth.
Do you think what causes the supernova?
Well, supernova happens when the double layers break down.
What's going to break down the double layers
is going to be a surge of current which overloads them.
It's just like a circuit breaker or a fuse.
If you put too much current through it, it goes.
And then here we have the Vela supernova remnant
which astronomers tell us happened 12,000 years ago
which is the spike that ended the last ice age.
So again, of course you might say well actually, it didn't occur 12,000 years ago.
The light got to us 12,000 years ago.
Well, what that's saying is that the voltage spike got to us at about light speed
at the same time the light did.
Now, so that was one...
One implication of the hypothesis is that we have this record
of this window onto the cosmos basically like a seismograph.
There.
A second implication of the hypothesis is that discharges seem to be always cyclical.
Now we know with pulsars that the discharges are cyclical
because it happens fast enough that we can observe it.
But we would have no way of guessing that
other that 100,000 year discharges are cyclical or 1000 year discharges are cyclical.
So we're getting information about the cosmos
that we really couldn't get any other way.
I really, by the way, while we're on, while we, I should've really said this
when this particular chart was bigger.
This is a good time to talk about this global warming nonsense.
Notice starting about 1000 BC,
we have a heating spike of about a degree or degree and a half.
And then we have another one at Year Zero.
And another one at AD 1000.
So every thousand years...
So, at 0 and at 1000 we got this one or one and a half degree rise.
Now this particular chart stops at 1800.
So what would you expect to have next?
Well, we'd expect a one or one and a half degree rise peaking in the year 2000
which is exactly what we got.
So yes indeed, there's been two centuries of global warming
and it's completely natural.
Now the next implication, the third implication of the hypothesis
is that ice ages are ended by an electrical energy spikes.
Not a collision with an asteroid, not orbital variations, not volcanoes,
it's an energy spike.
Now, in the ice age we have glaciers that are miles high
and they melt in less than a thousand years.
I mean, this chart is Vostok
and it looks like that's a steep spike
but actually there's another chart which I unfortunately didn't include,
and it shows that the the northern hemisphere
came out of the last ice age much quicker than the southern hemisphere did.
If you effect, if we stretch out the graph starting at 50,000, starting back here
and we bring in Greenland,
suddenly this spike that looks so steep, it becomes a gradual ascent.
And the one in Greenland is really steep
so like the glaciers melted in less than a 1000 years.
Now what, how much electrical energy would it take
to melt the glaciers in such a short time?
So what we have then is the interglacial spike is rising in intensity for centuries
and that's what melts the glaciers.
Well, what would that mean for the rest of the...
What effect could that have on the rest of the solar system and the other planets?
That intense amount of energy.
So what we're getting is a constantly increasing potential in the heliosphere.
So that the potential difference between the Sun and the heliopause is rising,
that potential difference is rising for centuries.
So that's going to, what could that lead to?
Well, the first thing that's going to happen
is there's going to be extreme planetary weather events.
Because, I mean, now we have 250,000 volt difference,
and we're now at the quiescent top of the spike.
But while that spike was rising, then that potential gradient
between the ionosphere and the surface is going to be always rising
so you're going to have amazingly powerful weather events.
Now, we also know from the electric model
that planetary spacing is electrically determined
and I mean, just this morning Wal was telling us that if the,
if you had twice the voltage gradient,
the planets would be twice as far.
So we're going to get, planetary orbits are going to be shifted.
And we're going to have violent interplanetary discharges.
So what we're going to have for centuries then is,
oops let's go back,
we're going to have the Thunderbolts of the Gods
going on for centuries every 100,000 years.
So, now obviously this is,
this is different than what the Saturn capture hypothesis says right now
and it would be really good if we could somehow reconcile the ice core record
with the Saturn capturing hypothesis.
And conceivably, that could be done if,
if this huge spike which ends the ice age,
what if it turns Saturn temporarily into a brown dwarf?
Say, now of course I'm totally speculating here,
it's way over my head on what's possible.
But I can't,
it's not easy to just dismiss the ice core record
because there are other temperature records like for instance in the Caribbean
you can look back at temperatures based on what kind of sea shells were being deposited
and what kind of species could survive on what temperature
so there are, there are corroborations for the ice core record.
We can't just totally dismiss it
and we certainly can't dismiss all the wonderful things
that David and others have discovered.
So it'd be nice if those two things could be reconciled.
Anyway, to summarize,
we not only have a pulsating universe,
we have a rhythmically pulsating universe
because the spikes are always occurring in cycles.
So climate is Gaia dancing to cosmic rhythms.
And the last slide
is if we compare the interglacial temperature record to a clip of Irish music,
we can see that these discharge events that caused these spikes,
those are the instruments of the cosmic orchestra.
So, thank you very much!