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News of the World - how it all began...

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Exlusive interview with Bruce Tsurutani, space weather specialist at NASA's JPL, on the Solar minimum

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Sun wakes volcanoes up, Jupiter makes them sleep

Mass awakening of volcanoes in the recent years has made scientists wreck their brains... more

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It's sunny! It's sunny! It's... not going to last

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A New Order of Magnitude

Jun 22, 2011

The scale and significance of solar electromagnetic disturbances is being reevaluated.

“The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium—that is, of any extension of ourselves—result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.”

--- Marshall McLuhan

According to a recent press release, an immense eruption on the Sun encompassed almost an entire hemisphere. The extraordinary plasma discharge prompted this response from Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, California: "The August 1st event really opened our eyes. We see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before."

The massive coronal mass ejection (CME) demonstrated that solar explosions are interconnected by magnetic fields reaching out for thousands of miles. The Great Eruption (as it was called) was composed of several smaller components: solar flares, filaments, and CMEs that spanned 180 degrees of solar longitude and lasted for 28 hours.

CMEs typically spew plasma in the billions of tons throughout the Solar System. A signature of CME ejections is an increase in auroral brightness and frequency on Earth. The ejections are composed of charged particles, and are attracted to and follow Earth's polar magnetic cusps. A few CMEs have been observed to leave the Sun with unexpected acceleration: velocities more than 70,000 kilometers per second have been clocked.

The fact that events on the Sun should be influenced by one another does not seem surprising when the Electric Star model is considered. Magnetic fields have been detected in galaxies, meaning that electric currents must flow through them in circuits. There is no other way to create a magnetic field other than the movement of electric current in a conductive medium.

Magnetic forces constrict currents into filaments, which twist around each other and "pinch" galactic plasma into balls, pulling matter together until internal pressure balances the so-called "electromagnetic z-pinch" pressure. This pinch effect is far more powerful than gravity, and can gather matter from hundreds of light-years away, forming stars like beads along the galactic filaments.

The surface of a star like the Sun generates multiple loop structures that rise up from its surface and penetrate its plasma sheath, or double layer region of the Sun, where most of its electrical energy is contained. When the current flowing into the Sun's plasma sheath increases beyond a certain point it can trigger a sudden release of energy, otherwise known as a CME.

As Electric Universe advocate Don Scott makes clear, powerful looping electric currents generate secondary toroidal magnetic fields. If the current grows too strong, the plasma double layer is destroyed. That event interrupts the current flow and the stored electromagnetic energy is blasted into space.

It is not surprising to Electric Universe proponents that conditions on the Sun are governed by interconnected magnetic fields, and, by extension, electric currents.

Stephen SmithJun 22, 2011 The scale and significance of solar electromagnetic disturbances is... more

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Which Came First?

Jun 24, 2011 Electric currents create magnetic fields in the Sun. “Which... more

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Lunar eclipse expected to turn the moon red tonight

The moon will rise in Earth's shadow this evening in a rare lunar eclipse that... more

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Video captures massive solar explosion on the Sun

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Biorhythms: Nj going solar

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HARBOR OF LOVE

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March 2011: Coolest Since 1994

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Sun Explosion

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5 Theories Why We're Experiencing Increased Earthquake Activity

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Amazing Picture Of The Sun

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Miami Winter Music Conference: Circo Loco

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Geomagnetic Storm,Why worry? « Ramanan50's Blog

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Solar Storm Hit Earth By Friday And Could Cause Massive Earthquake

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Giant Solar Blast Headed for Earth

The biggest solar blast in four years erupted late Monday, and it’s sending jets... more

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Sun Unleashes Huge Solar Flare Towards Earth

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First ever images of Earth-like cloud ripples exploding from Sun

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