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Originally posted by ngchunter
I demand a retraction of your accusation. I wrote this argument myself. If I sound like others who have ripped this theory apart it's because we're all speaking the same truth on why your theory fails. I did not educate myself on the sun from "discovery universe specials" I did it by reading these neat things called books. I wrote my counter argument and backed it up with real time space weather data, I did not plagerize anyone else.
This from a person who didn't even bother to notice that their own sources said the phenomenon either stopped short of the sun or was caused by the sun itself. Meanwhile you can't even show me a significant amount of electrons reaching the sun at all times and powering it, yet that is your assumption.
Translation: I can't prove my theory at all so let me try to poke holes in yours.
Juergens wrote: "Transmission lines carrying high-voltage direct current - electric trolley wires, for example - discharge almost continuously to the surrounding air. In the case of a positive (anode) wire electrons ever present in the Earth's atmosphere drift toward the wire, attracted by its positive charge. As they penetrate the increasingly intense electric field close to the wire, the electrons gain energy from the field and are accelerated to energies great enough to initiate electron avalanches as they collide with and ionize air molecules. The avalanching electrons, in turn, intensify the ionization immediately surrounding the wire. Positive ions, formed in the process, drift away from the wire in the electric field. In this way, a more or less steady discharge is maintained, although there is no tangible object other than the surrounding air that can be considered a cathode....."
The 'negative glow' region can be seen to have a strong electric field. People objected to Juergens'' model because we don''t find relativistic electrons, accelerated by a strong radial field in interplanetary space, rushing toward the Sun. But plasma phenomena in a glow discharge are complex, so appeals to simplistic models based on electrostatics are irrelevant. Instead, I propose that Juergens' model be modified and that interplanetary space is the extensive 'positive column' region of a glow discharge. Cobine writes, "The positive column is a region of almost equal concentrations of positive ions and electrons and is characterized by a very low voltage gradient." This model, with planets orbiting within the anode discharge of a star, is of extreme importance when considering life on other planets.
The most important feature of the positive column region of a glow discharge is that the plasma is quasi-neutral. That is, sampling will reveal equal numbers of positive ions and electrons. And that is what we find in the solar 'wind.' It merely forms the conducting plasma medium between the cathode region at the heliospheric boundary and the anode region near the Sun. So looking for excess relativistic electrons rushing toward the Sun is no more sensible than looking at a current-carrying wire and asking where are all the excess electrons rushing from one end of the wire to the other.
As Juergens argued, within our solar system the Sun bears all of the hallmarks of a small spherical anode in a galactic discharge. The planets occupy a vast region within the heliosphere, known in gas discharge theory as the positive column, which has a weak electric field centered on the Sun. Unlike the thin neon tube, the Sun occupies a vast sphere more than 16 billion miles across, so the positive column disappears and the current is carried throughout that volume by a low density of ionization. It requires only that the Sun’s electric field has sufficient strength to cause a drift of electrons toward the Sun, superimposed on their random thermal motion. In other words, it is immeasurably small. Notice that the net charge density in the positive column is zero. In other words, there are an equal number of negative and positive charges in interplanetary space. That is what spacecraft have generally found.
Great, so the electrons that make it out of the strahl and into the halo become less and less dense as radius to the sun decreases. By the time you're looking at the core you're seeing electrons that come nearly entirely from the sun. If there's one thing this study proves it's that nothing from outside could be electrically powering the sun. Your own source disproved your theory.
Originally posted by squiz
the solar wind is not uniform, the wind is slower along the equatorial plane and highly variable and the probes are incapable of detecting the slow drift electrons.
No. no, that was to show that not everything is moving away with the solar wind as you stated. however enormous blobs of plasma have been observed falling back in to sun.
www.spaceweather.com...
About this video:
"The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?"
About this video:
"Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."
Originally posted by ngchunter
If the wind is slower in some regions and the sun is polar, why doesn't the sun attract electrons out of the solar wind, thereby reducing their ratio to protons in the wind?
Additionally, it should accelerate protons away from itself to be faster than the electrons that do escape. Why don't we see this? We don't even need to be able to see "slow drift" electrons to see that slightly faster electrons aren't being affected by anything.
Additionally, just what makes you think that slower electrons stand a chance going upstream in the solar wind for millions upon millions of miles?
These observations provide strong evidence that the antisunward-directed portion of the electron halo at times results primarily from mirroring inside 1 AU of backscattered strahl and/or heated electrons from far out in the heliosphere rather than from scattering out of the strahl inside 1 AU.
The 90° PA depletions on open field lines are most logically interpreted in terms of adiabatic focusing and mirroring associated with field line connections to regions of stronger magnetic fields than at the observers location.
So you admit you were nitpicking with exceptions to the rule that don't even support electric universe theory? Nice.
Nice prominence animation by the way. I see gas rising up even as it falls back down. This is a common hedgerow prominence and it originated from the sun to begin with.
Nice try, next time don't try to pass off common phenomenon as evidence your theory holds an ounce of water.
Originally posted by squiz
well electron halo shows depletion due to that very point as seen by Ulysses. The general electron density increases towards the Sun I believe.
The streams of protons accelerated in the electric field would drag local electrons along for the ride
As Dr Scott says electrons measured in a current carrying copper wire is in the cm/hr.
Originally posted by squiz
I admit I was nitpicking, In retrospect it would make me just as guilty as the arrogance displayed by the astronomical community. So I do regret that. But the observations DO support the theory despite the interpretation.
I do see my fuel prices rising even though crude oil falls.
Yes origin the sun, not gas, plasma under the influence of magnetic fields, only electricity can create magnetic fields, no exceptions to the rule.
Birkeland simulated the solar plasma torus, corona, flares, sunspots and more, I seriously doubt that is a coincidence. It's so obvious it's painful.
www.plasma-universe.com...:On_Possible_Electric_Phenomena_in_Solar_Systems_and_Nebulae
Cathode rays through plasma on a magnetized globe.
Even managed to replicate some comets as well.
That link had nothing to do with the electron thing
Too bad copper wire isn't a valid analogy since copper wire doesn't have protons and electrons being accelerated in the opposite direction at moderate to very high energies.
With regards to the images, there's one thing they have the sun clearly does not have, a spiraling halo around the equator. Why? Because the sun isn't part of an electric circuit.
Originally posted by ngchunter
No they don't, in fact they flat out state that the gas clouds were stopped short of the sun and that the backscattering occured AFTER outbursts from the sun. That's not interpretation, that's simple fact.
I do see my fuel prices rising even though crude oil falls.
Completely irrelevant to this discussion. You posted a video of a hedgerow prominence and tried to pass it off as evidence of an electrically powered sun.
The motion of electrons creates the magnetic field, but it need not be a measureable electric current. What's the "electricity" of a bar magnet? Since the sun is plasma, electrons flow freely in the superheated plasma, hence magnetism. That does not mean they must be connected in an interstellar circuit, it just means the fusion in the core heats the sun to be a plasma.
Originally posted by squiz
reply to post by TeslaandLyne
Thanks, been meaning to get that book. You've prompted me to hunt it down.
Lerner's website, definitely worth a look.
www.bigbangneverhappened.org...
Originally posted by Ionized
Squiz, I am completely amazed you have not yet read it! I used to give away copies of it to interested people, don't have any now or I would send you one.
Originally posted by squiz
The question as to why NASA has not acknowledged the role of electricity in space is a difficult one, a question with many answers I would say. I recommend taking a look at “Universe – Cosmology Quest” for an insight into this unfortunate situation, It’s a two hour documentary the first half deals with the origins and history of the gravity only theories and the heart of this problem, the second half takes a look into plasma cosmology. An absolute must see if you’re a space nerd.
[edit on 18-12-2007 by squiz]