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close to their parent star. It could also explain why excessively large stars
are not observed there's no reason why clouds contracting purely under gravity
shouldn't be any size. In place of the elaborate mechanisms devised to explain
variable stars, we have a periodic discharge between companion objects,
followed by buildup back to some trigger level much like a relaxation
oscillator. Electrical instabilities in gas giants could account too for the
origin of the inner, "terrestrial" planets, which gives the standard accretion
model so many problems. The recent birth of Venus from Jupiter is a
much-debated candidate another suggestion that Velikovsky was vilified for
suggesting.
And the case here is perhaps not entirely devoid of observational
corroboration. Around 1900, the star
FG Sagittae was an inconspicuous hot star of temperature 50,000 degrees K and
magnitude 13. Over the next sixty years it cooled to about 8000 degrees K and
brightened to magnitude 9 as its radiation shifted from the far-UV to the
visual region. Then, around 1970, spectral lines appeared of newly present
elements formed by some energetic process or liberated from the interior. The
star cooled further in the
1970s and '80s, with a falling of magnitude to 16 in 1996. So, after abruptly
brightening by four magnitudes, it dropped by seven magnitudes, changing from
blue to yellow since 1955, and today appears as the central star of the
planetary nebula (nova remnant?) He 1-5. It is unique in affording direct
evidence of stellar evolution across the H-R diagram, but on a time scale
comparable with the human lifetime not at all the kind of slow stellar
evolution that the mainstream theory envisions. And FG
Sagittae is a binary pair!
Another example. Cosmic gamma-ray bursters have been called "the greatest
mystery of modern astronomy."7They are powerful blasts of gamma- and
X-radiation that come from all parts of the sky, but never from the same
direction twice. Earth is illuminated by two to three bursts every day. Until
recently it wasn't even known if they came from relatively close by or from
the far edge of the universe.
Then in 1997 the
BeppoSAX
X-ray astronomy satellite pinpointed the position of a burst in Orion to
within a few arc minutes, allowing visual imaging of the burst. It showed a
rapidly fading star, probably the aftermath of a gigantic explosion, next to a
faint amorphous blob. Sounds a bit like fissioning again to me an explosion,
followed by a rapidly fading star, accompanied by some sort of companion.
Maybe the reason why they never come from the same direction twice is that the
process has relieved the electrical stress that triggered it at least for the
time being. Not so mysterious, really.
Mainstream astronomy considers O-type stars to be young, and that they age due
to the nuclear burning up of their hydrogen. The electrical model has no
reason to attribute a greater or lesser age to any
spectral type compared to another. A star's location on the H-R diagram
depends only on its size and the current density that it is at present
experiencing. If that current density should change for any reason, the star
will move to a different position on the H-R diagram perhaps abruptly, like FG
Sagittae. Its age is indeterminate from its mass or spectral type. This
carries the sobering implication that our own Sun's future is by no means as
certain as mainstream astronomy assures. The Birkeland current powering it
could increase or decrease suddenly, and do so at any time. Surely we have
stuff for the making of some great science-fiction doomsday scenarios here!
Endnote:
Some references for further information on the electric universe:
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Aeon Journal: http://www.aeonjournal.com
Electric Cosmos: http://www.electric-cosmos.org/
Kronia Group: http://www.kronia.com/kronia.html
Plasma Universe: http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/TheUniverse.html
Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (UK): http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/
Notes
1Baen Books, July 2004
2For a discussion of this see Robert W. Bass, "'Proofs' of the Stability of
the Solar System,"
Kronos
2:2, (Glassboro, NJ: Kronos Press, 1976)
3http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
4Halton Arp, Quasars Redshifts and Controversies
, , , (Berkeley, CA: Interstellar Media, 1987); Arp, SeeingRed Redshifts
Cosmology and AcademicScience
:
, , , (Montreal: Apieron, 1988)
5Sir Arthur Eddington, 1926, The Internal Constitution of the Stars
, Dover edition (1959)
6http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/first_results/
7http://www.science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast13oct98_1.htm
Sword of Damocles
Somehow, the object escaped detection until it was within a million miles or
so of the Moon. This could have been due to its unusual geometry, which made
it a poor reflector of radar waves, or because it was constructed from
materials with high absorptivity; possibly it was due to a combination of both
factors. In any event, suddenly it was just there
falling inward toward the Earth from somewhere in the direction of the outer
Solar System.
It first appeared as a new set of coordinates and trajectory data in the
inventory of space-borne objects maintained by the computers of the Near-Earth
Surveillance Network. The computers decided that it oughtn't to be there and
flagged it with a query, which was about as much as they could determine. The
echo signals were weak and confused, enabling little to be reconstructed of
the object's shape and surface contours apart from that they were irregular
and complex, showing none of the characteristics of a naturally occurring
wanderer such as a large meteor or stray asteroid. Terrestrial and orbiting
telescopes trained on the point indicated revealed something that looked like
an indistinct, low-albedo, multifaceted strawberry, tumbling sedately at two
revolutions per minute as it closed on a path that would set it into
high-Earth orbit in a little under a week. Once its motion was fixed, its size
was estimated from the times for which it eclipsed background stars; it was
apparently more than a mile across.
As the days passed, "
Nomad
," as the object had been christened by the intrigued scientific teams
following its progress, gradually resolved itself into the form of twelve
circular constructions, each a little under a mile in diameter, arranged
symmetrically to define the faces of what, had they been pentagons joined at
the edges, would have been a dodecahedron. The constructions were concave,
like shallow dishes, and the space behind them contained a confusion of
supports and structural members that couldn't be resolved with certainty among
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