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Electric Universe = circuits and "wiring" between everything

If the Universe is Electric then there has to be powerlines and circuits between everything. If there is no connections, "wiring" or exchanges then there is no Electric Universe. It is that simple.

If there are electrical connections between everything then it is an Electric Universe Fact not Theory.


The Universe

2010 posts
** Tropical Cyclones Tomas and Ului - Electric Universe = scalability
** Giant "magnetic" loop connects the pair of stars in the double-star system Algol - a constant circuit flows between 2 (electric) Stars, "tidal locked" and less than 6 million miles apart
** BLACK Hole - feeding or something being powered in the EU in a circuit?
** Pair of Quasars - circuit or Galactic collision?

2009 posts
** galactic circuits and galaxies connecting in an Electric Universe or Gravity?
** The filaments extend for millions of light-years in an enormous cosmic web, providing a framework for the universe’s large-scale structure
** possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another
** Star Belts and Gould's Belt
** Space tornadoes are rotating plasmas of hot, ionized gas flowing at speeds of more than a million miles per hour (connecting the Electric Sun with the Earth)
** the hot Wolf-Rayet is dumping vast quantities of gas into its companion's accretion disk
** ...an apparently unrelated galaxy in the quasar's immediate neighbourhood is producing stars at a frantic rate

Arp's Catalog/Atlas Of Peculiar Galaxies
** Arp's Catalog Of Peculiar Galaxies ** Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (Wiki) ** The Arp Peculiar Galaxies
** (Halton Arp's Book) Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science


Our Solar System

Earth
** weathEU - Earths electric weather circuit
** Flux Transfer Events (FTE's) - magnetic portals (2 types) connect between the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes
** The Northern Lights Show or circuits? - are these "knots" of auroras or twisting Birkeland Currents?

Saturn and its moons
** Enceladus - fountains
** Aegaeon moon -  Saturns G ring dwarf parent moon?


Humans, animals and plants

Is ESP actually Electrical Sensensory Perception? Even Doyle Brunson, Poker legend and Godfather believes in ESP

ESP - it's a Jellyroll
I believe some good Poker players actually employ a degree of Extra Sensensory Perception (ESP)... Everybody has had the experience of riding with someone else in an automobile and thinking of a song, then being surprised to hear his companion start singing that very song.

...Is it really too unreasonable to suspect that such a highly sophisticated device as the human brain, during the intesity of concentrating in a big pot, could broadcast a simple message like a "Pair of Jacks" a mere eight feet?
Doyle Brunson's Super System - page 23 - ESP

** ever had a "brainwave" or a bolt from the blue thought or surprising idea? - The Akashic Records concept and the Electromagnetic Field Theory of Consciousness
** Where are our thoughts written? - Our brain is a interface, not a computer?
** Thunderbolts of the Gods Pt.5 and Thunderbolts of the Gods Pt.6 - radio interview about the book/video - Wal Thornhill and David Talbott discuss human connections with the Electric Universe
** Biophotonics experiment - human auras?
** Dowsing and the lattice


XEarth

** XEarth Board - the exchanging Earth in an Electrical Universe **

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If it is an Electric Universe then everything should be connected,
no matter what the scale. Jets or "wiring" should be seen. Things should work together.


Arp 194 (Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies) in the Cepheus constellation


Centaura A - radio galaxy with lobes connected by jets


spiral galaxy pair NGC 3808A and NGC 3808B (Arp 87 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies)


radio structure of FRII radio galaxy 3C98 with hotspots at the end of the lobes/plumes connected by a jet


The Mice Galaxies (NGC 4676 and Arp 242 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies)


galaxy M87 and its jet


Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
The "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies" was written by Halton Arp and shows unusual Galaxies. Halton Arp is also the author of the book "Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science" which is an investigation into the idea that Red Shift, a basic principal of the Big Bang, is not correct.
Halton Arp also has his own website where you can read other articles by him

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The filaments extend for millions of light-years in an enormous cosmic web, providing a framework for the universe’s large-scale structure

Giant galaxy graveyard grows

The largest known galactic congregation is bigger than astronomers thought—and its inhabitants are all dead or dying

A gigantic galactic graveyard lurks in the distant universe, and the death toll is growing.

New observations establish a supercluster centered on the cluster CL0016+16 as the largest galactic congregation ever found, astronomers report in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The supercluster extends even farther than previously thought, and it’s drawing in more and more galaxies.

CL0016+16 lies about 6.7 billion light-years away from Earth. That cluster was first observed in 1981, and later observations hinted that it might be just one of a cluster of clusters. Observations by David Koo of the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996 pointed to a large structure extending from the main cluster.

“There are many predictions for large-scale structure in the universe, but nobody has really confirmed that this large-scale cluster exists in the distant universe,” says Masayuki Tanaka from the European Southern Observatory, a coauthor of the new report. “We actually see this massive structure in the distant universe. Not theory, not prediction — this is the real universe.”


Tanaka and his colleagues made several observations of the region between August 2007 and December 2008 using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope in Chile. They found that the supercluster extends at least 60 million light-years in one direction beyond the 100 million light-years already known, and it could reach even farther.

“It must be gigantic,” Koo says. “This thing is not only big, it’s big in the opposite direction from what we saw. It’s probably twice as big as we thought.”

Galaxies that group together tend to switch off each others’ star formation, “bringing a flourishing galaxy into a dead one,” says study coauthor Alexis Finoguenov of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.

Astronomers think that grouped galaxies speed up, stripping away their neighbors’ hot gas, the raw material for forming stars. When galaxies cluster, “there is always a threshold when groups go from an encouraging environment to a suffocating environment,” Finoguenov says.

Galaxies are known to clump together along dark matter filaments, which grew from slight variations in the concentration of matter after the Big Bang. The filaments extend for millions of light-years in an enormous cosmic web, providing a framework for the universe’s large-scale structure.

Tanaka’s team identified tens of clumps of galaxies surrounding CL0016+16, some of which are up to a thousand times more massive than the Milky Way.

And most of those galaxies are either dead or dying, meaning they’re not making new stars. The tremendous gravitational pull of the central cluster  is drawing in other galaxies, which will eventually cease star formation in the growing galactic graveyard.

On the bright side, “this will be an ideal data set to study when, where and how galaxies die,” Tanaka says.

Galaxies near the Milky Way, at least, are at a safe distance from the graveyard. “We will probably never turn into such an environment anyway,” Finoguenov says. “We will keep living.”
Giant galaxy graveyard grows - sciencenews .org

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..possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another

Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 05 November 2009

BERKELEY — An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.

In a paper first published online Nov. 5 in the journal Science Express, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) astronomer Dovi Poznanski and his colleagues describe the outburst, dubbed SN 2002bj, and why they believe it is a new type of explosion.

"This is the fastest evolving supernova we have ever seen," said Poznanski, a UC Berkeley post-doctoral fellow who recently joined LBNL's Computational Cosmology Center. "It was three to four times faster than a standard supernova, basically disappearing within 20 days. Its brightness just dropped like a rock."

This rapid drop, coupled with the supernova's faintness, the strong signature of helium in the spectrum of the explosion, the absence of hydrogen, and the possible presence of vanadium – an element never previously identified in supernova spectra – points toward helium detonation on a white dwarf, the astronomers said.

"We think this may well be a new physical explosion mechanism, not just a minor variation of ones already known," said co-author Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley professor of astronomy. "This supernova is qualitatively different from the complete disruption of a white dwarf, known as a Type Ia supernova, or the collapse of an iron core and rebound of the surrounding material, so-called 'core-collapse supernovae.'"

Co-author Joshua Bloom, UC Berkeley associate professor of astronomy, also views SN 2002bj as a "new beast" quite different from the two well-known classes of supernovae.

"We have seen great diversity in those two main supernova mechanisms, but even within that diversity, observationally, there is a limited range of variation spectrally and in how events evolve in time," he said. "This object (SN 2002bj) falls outside that range."

The supernova was detected in 2002 in the galaxy NGC 1821, in the constellation Lepus, by Filippenko's Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory near San Jose as well as by amateur astronomers. Due to an unfortunate alignment of circumstances, the supernova was erroneously classified by the astronomical community as a common Type II supernova and filed away.



In June, Poznanski happened upon the spectrum while searching for Type II supernovae he hopes to use as distance indicators to confirm the accelerating expansion of the universe. When he carefully examined a high-quality spectrum of SN 2002bj, he realized that the supernova was not a Type II at all, but an unusual kind of supernova more akin to a Type Ia.

The spectrum had been obtained seven days after its discovery by Filippenko and Douglas Leonard, at the time a UC Berkeley graduate student, now an assistant professor of astronomy at San Diego State University, using the Keck I telescope.

"Its classification was a mistake, which is understandable given the conditions of the data. But, of course, a redress of old data with fresh eyes is not usually this fruitful," Leonard said.

Pulling out follow-up images made by KAIT, Poznanski and UC Berkeley graduate student Mohan Ganeshalingam found that the brightness of SN 2002bj dropped off so rapidly that the supernova disappeared 20 days after its discovery. An image of that area of the sky taken seven days prior to its discovery showed no supernova, so it had brightened and dimmed into obscurity in less than 27 days, whereas most supernovae brighten and dim over three to four months.

Searching through thousands of supernovae spectra, Poznanski and graduate student Ryan Chornock – now a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University – could find none that had such an awkward composition, but they did come across a theory of fast but faint supernovae that seemed to fit.

Proposed by Lars Bildsten and colleagues – Bildsten is a professor of physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara – the theory involves AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binary systems, which are composed of two white dwarfs, one of which is primarily made of helium that is being slowly pulled by gravity onto its companion. White dwarfs are the remnants of stars that burned their hydrogen down to carbon and oxygen or, in some particular cases, to helium.

In a 2007 Astrophysical Journal Letters paper, Bildsten and colleagues proposed that in AM CVn systems, when enough helium has been accumulated on the surface of the primary white dwarf, an explosion will occur that can "power a faint … and rapidly rising (few days) thermonuclear supernova."

Christopher Stubbs, chair of the Department of Physics at Harvard University, jokingly dubbed it a ''.Ia'' (point one A) supernova, because it is one-tenth as bright for one-tenth the time as a Type Ia supernova, and the name stuck.

Filippenko noted that this explosion is nothing like a regular Type Ia explosion because the white dwarf survives the detonation of the helium shell. In fact, it has similarities to both a nova and a supernova. Novas occur when matter – primarily hydrogen – falls onto a star and accumulates in a shell that can flare up as brief thermonuclear explosions. SN 2002bj is a "super" nova, generating about 1,000 times the energy of a standard nova, he said.

The explosion would have created heavy elements such as chromium, which decays to vanadium and thence to titanium. Thus, absorption lines of vanadium could be expected, Poznanski said.

Filippenko noted that the past few years have "yielded a bonanza of weird supernovae."

"A lot of us who have studied supernovae for several decades are amazed at the quality and quantity of data coming in recently, showing interesting new subclasses or even strange new physical classes of supernovae," he said. "It whets my appetite for what else we might find out there with these large, wide-sky surveys like the Palomar Transient Factory, Dark Energy Survey and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. KAIT has discovered about 800 supernovae, but these new surveys will find thousands or hundreds of thousands of supernovae."

Poznanski, too, is expecting the current Palomar Transient Factory, which uses a wide-field camera to search the sky daily for new objects, to find more supernovae like SN 2002bj. The factory is a project led by Shri Kulkarni, professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and involves many of the co-authors on the Science Express paper, including Peter Nugent, co-leader of the Computational Cosmology Center at LBNL, who runs the search for transients.

"The Palomar survey will be able to find many rare objects, like SN 2002bj, by scanning huge parts of the sky and not limit itself to the big, bright and nearby galaxies," Poznanski said.

Coauthors with Poznanski, Filippenko, Nugent, Ganeshalingam, Leonard, Chornock and Bloom are Rollin C. Thomas, a member of the Computational Cosmology Center, and Weidong Li of UC Berkeley's Department of Astronomy.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Sylvia and Jim Katzman Foundation and the TABASGO Foundation, with observational assistance from the University of California Lick Observatory and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star - berkeley.edu

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Gould's Belt - Dark explanation or power band across the sky?

In the middle of the 19th century, the English astronomer John Herschel noticed that we are surrounded by a ring of bright stars. But it was Boston-born Benjamin Gould who brought this to wider attention in 1874. Gould's belt, as it is now known, supplies bright stars for many famous constellations including Orion, Scorpius and Crux, the Southern Cross, which appears on the official flags of five countries and several territories. Perseus and Canis Major in the north, along with Vela and Centaurus in the south, also contain stars in Gould's belt.

It is a sizeable structure, some 3000 light years across, and can be traced as a bright band of stars tilted at about 20 degrees to the Milky Way. Within it are several thousand high-mass stars as well as up to a million low-mass ones. Most importantly, these stars appear to have formed separately from the rest of the stars in the galaxy - and that's what makes them so interesting.

Stars do not form randomly in the Milky Way. Instead they are confined to the arms that spiral around its nucleus.
Orion's dark secret: Violence shaped the night sky

What can cause a bright band of stars, out of place, in a galaxy? Not just in Gould's Belt but other places?

Dark stuff and Dark Collisions is the astronomers answer of course. But could it simply be a power band connecting across the galaxy?

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) sits just 186,000 light years away, and at first sight it appears to be a mess of stars with no obvious structure. Closer inspection, however, has revealed a bar-like structure of older stars buried near its heart. This could have happened if the LMC was once a "barred spiral galaxy" - one in which looping spiral arms are joined to the central nucleus by a bar of stars. What has so far defied explanation, however, is why the bar of stars is significantly off-centre inside the galaxy.

One suggestion was that the Milky Way's gravity has gradually been pulling the LMC out of shape, but this has come to nothing as simulations were unable to show how this gentle distortion could have displaced the bar....

Evidence for similar collisions is starting to turn up even further afield. Bekki is casting a critical eye at dwarf galaxy NGC 6822, which has a noticeable hole about 5000 light years across. "It looks like a collision to me," he says.

Meanwhile, Comerón has also found something that he believes to be a Gould's belt in another galaxy. Down in the south-east quadrant of the magnificent spiral galaxy M83 is a bright burst of stars, sitting in an otherwise dark lane between spiral arms. It is about 1500 light years across. "The complex stands out clearly from the spiral pattern of the galaxy, and its size and age make it look like a Gould's belt," he says.
Orion's dark secret: Violence shaped the night sky

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Space tornados are rotating plasmas of hot, ionized gas flowing at speeds of more than a million miles per hour

Twisting electrical currents, connecting between the Sun and the Earth every 3 hours, 1 million miles an hour, 100, 000 amps. Is it a Nuclear Sun and the Gravity Universe or does electricity have something to do with our Sun and the Universe?

If you think tornadoes on Earth are scary, newly found "space tornadoes" sound downright horrifying. But they are likely the power source behind the beautiful Northern and Southern Lights. A new finding by a cluster of five space probes – the THEMIS, or Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms show that electrical funnels which span a volume as large as Earth produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes. THEMIS recorded the extent and power of these electrical funnels as the probes passed through them during their orbit of Earth. Ground measurements showed that the space tornadoes channel the electrical current into the ionosphere to spark bright and colorful auroras on Earth.

Space tornadoes are rotating plasmas of hot, ionized gas flowing at speeds of more than a million miles per hour, far faster than the 200 m.p.h. winds of terrestrial tornadoes, according to Andreas Keiling, a research space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory.

Keiling works on THEMIS, which was built and is now operated by UC Berkeley. The five space probes were launched by NASA in February 2007 to solve a decades-long mystery about the origin of magnetic storms that power the Northern and Southern Lights.

Both terrestrial and space tornadoes consist of funnel-shaped structures. Space tornadoes, however, generate huge amounts of electrical currents inside the funnel. These currents flow along twisted magnetic field lines from space into the ionosphere where they power several processes, most notably bright auroras such as the Northern Lights, Keiling said.

While these intense currents do not cause any direct harm to humans, on the ground they can damage man-made structures, such as power transformers.

The THEMIS spacecraft observed these tornadoes, or “flow vortices,” at a distance of about 40,000 miles from Earth. Simultaneous measurements by THEMIS ground observatories confirmed the tornadoes’ connection to the ionosphere.

Keiling’s colleagues include Karl-Heinz Glassmeier of the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics (IGEP, TU) in Braunschweig, Germany, and Olaf Amm of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
New Finding Shows Super-Huge Space Tornados Power the Auroras[/url]

These  look and sound like Birkeland currents, infact what else can you call them? Oh yes Space Tornadoes or "substorm current wedges". Why not what they actually are?

the vast size and speed of these rotating plasmas of ionized gas

Giant "Space Tornadoes" Spark Auroras on Earth

Whirling at more than a million miles per hour, these invisible, funnel-shaped solar windstorms carry electrical currents of more than a hundred thousand amps—roughly ten times that of an average lightning strike—scientists announced Thursday.

Led by the University of California astrophysicist Andreas Keiling, scientists have made the most detailed measurements yet of the space tornadoes, also known as substorm current wedges.

Their results shed light on how space tornadoes help spark auroras, also known as the southern or northern lights—the glowing colors that light up the night in polar regions.


Spinning Up Auroras

As well as revealing the vast size and speed of these rotating plasmas of ionized gas, the team has pinpointed how space tornadoes kick-start the auroras we see on Earth.

"The tornado appears to ignite the aurora," said study leader Keiling, who presented the findings at a European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria.

Barrages of the wind's charged particles hit the dayside of Earth, then flow around the planet, stretching our magnetic field into a tail—or magnetotail—extending away from the sun.

A magnetotail is "like a rubber band being stretched and snapped back again. This creates lots of turbulence and forms the tornado," Keiling said.


Space Tornadoes: Fast, Furious—And Frequent

The new measurements show that a space tornado forms roughly every three hours and takes just one minute to reach Earth's ionosphere—our outermost atmospheric layer, between 62 and 250 miles (100 and 400 kilometers) above the ground.
Giant "Space Tornadoes" Spark Auroras on Earth

The Universe a Vast Electric Organism By George Woodard Warder (1903 Book) - Chapter one, page 25

...By reason of this law, all suns and planets, revolve on their electric centers at their poles. The great electric currents from the sun eight thousand miles in diameter and ninety three million miles in length, like a mighty, inexhaustible river of force and power, cause the earth to turn over, as a water-wheel is turned by the swift current of a river. This vast stream or current of invisible power, when it starts from the photosphere of the sun, is 865,000 miles in diameter and is narrowed to a focus of 8,000 miles at the earth's surface, thus increasing its force and power a thousand-fold. The largest river on the earth is 180 miles wide at its mouth and about 3,000 miles long, but what an insignificant rivulet it is in contrast with this vast,invisible,omnipotent stream of electric life-giving power, constantly passing to and fro from sun to earth and from earth to sun.
Think of its marvelous speed! While the swiftest current of a river or the speed of a railroad train is scarcely fifty miles an hour, this mighty electric tide comes with the speed of light 186,00 miles a second, or almost 12,000,000 of miles an hour; and it turns the earth over at the rate of a thousand miles an hour but its lines of magnetic force, just as the swift tide of a river turns the water-wheel of a mill.
The Universe a Vast Electric Organism By George Woodard Warder - Chapter one, page 25

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the hot Wolf-Rayet is dumping vast quantities of gas into its companion's accretion disk

A microquasar is composed of a massive star and a massive compact object, like a black hole. As the pair orbit one another, the powerful gravitational field of the black hole pulls matter from its stellar companion. In doing so, an accretion disk forms around the black hole and powerful jets of matter are ejected from the poles, generating a distinct radio signal.

In these new observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, gamma-rays have been observed coming from the microquasar Cygnus X-3, 37,000 light-years from Earth (in the constellation of Cygnus). Although Cygnus X-3 is known to generate powerful radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, this is the first time gamma-ray radiation has been observed coming from a confirmed microquasar.

Cygnus X-3 is a binary system composed of a massive Wolf-Rayet (an old O-class star in the final, violent stages of its life) orbiting a black hole or a neutron star. The pair have an orbital period of 4.8 hours and the hot Wolf-Rayet is dumping vast quantities of gas into its companion's accretion disk (in 100,000 years, the Wolf-Rayet will lose approximately the mass of our sun).

It is thought the gamma-ray radiation in Cygnus X-3 is being generated through interactions between the Wolf-Rayet's intense ultraviolet light and the accelerated electrons in the partner's accretion disk.

Microquasars are named after their larger cousins, quasars, as they share many of the same characteristics. However, quasars are composed of supermassive black holes in the center of active galaxies that consume vast amounts of material (very active quasars can consume the mass of 600 Earths per minute), so microquasars are tiny in comparison.
The Beating Gamma-ray Heart of a Microquasar - news.discovery .com

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...an apparently unrelated galaxy in the quasar's immediate neighbourhood is producing stars at a frantic rate

New Discovery: Supermassive Black Holes Create Galaxies

The answer may have been found to the question of whether a galaxy or its black hole comes first -one of the most debated subjects in astrophysics today. A startling new study suggests that supermassive black holes can trigger the formation of stars, thus 'building' their own host galaxies. This finding could also explain why galaxies hosting larger black holes have more stars. To reach such an extraordinary conclusion, the team of astronomers conducted extensive observations of a peculiar object, the quasar HE0450-2958, also called the "naked quasar" and the "quasar without a home," because it the only one for which a host galaxy has not yet been detected.

Until now, it was speculated that the quasar's host galaxy was hidden behind large amounts of dust, and so the astronomers used a mid-infrared instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope for the observations [2]. At such wavelengths, dust clouds shine very brightly, and are readily detected. "Observing at these wavelengths would allow us to trace dust that might hide the host galaxy," says Knud Jahnke, who led the observations performed at the VLT. "However, we did not find any. Instead we discovered that an apparently unrelated galaxy in the quasar's immediate neighbourhood is producing stars at a frantic rate."

These observations have provided a surprising new take on the system. While no trace of stars is revealed around the black hole, its companion galaxy is extremely rich in bright and very young stars. It is forming stars at a rate equivalent to about 350 Suns per year, one hundred times more than rates for typical galaxies in the local Universe.

Earlier observations had shown that the companion galaxy is, in fact, under fire: the quasar is spewing a jet of highly energetic particles towards its companion, accompanied by a stream of fast-moving gas. The injection of matter and energy into the galaxy indicates that the quasar itself might be inducing the formation of stars and thereby creating its own host galaxy; in such a scenario, galaxies would have evolved from clouds of gas hit by the energetic jets emerging from quasars.

...Hence, the team have identified black hole jets as a possible driver of galaxy formation, which may also represent the long-sought missing link to understanding why the mass of black holes is larger in galaxies that contain more stars
New Discovery: Supermassive Black Holes Create Galaxies

Although Black Holes dont exist (something is there but not a Black Hole) the thing is linked to its surrounding area. The reason there are larger objects where there are more stars is due to them being components in a circuit. The more power you have the more stuff you can power and the larger or stronger the current supplying them needs to be.

The idea that larger "Black Holes" are found near galaxies with more stars yet the nearby this quasar there is an amazing amount of stars should show that there is a link, a circuit. Especially as there is a "jet" being spewed into the galaxy. The word "spewed" should be looked at in a circuit idea. The quasar is powering the galaxy but especially the stars. 350 stars per year! Isn't gravity amazing.

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Power line between the Earth and the Sun

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth

Oct. 30, 2008: During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again, around the time you reach the end of the page.

"It's called a flux transfer event or 'FTE,'" says space physicist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible."

Indeed, today Sibeck is telling an international assembly of space physicists at the 2008 Plasma Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, that FTEs are not just common, but possibly twice as common as anyone had ever imagined.

Researchers have long known that the Earth and sun must be connected. Earth's magnetosphere (the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet) is filled with particles from the sun that arrive via the solar wind and penetrate the planet's magnetic defenses. They enter by following magnetic field lines that can be traced from terra firma all the way back to the sun's atmosphere.

"We used to think the connection was permanent and that solar wind could trickle into the near-Earth environment anytime the wind was active," says Sibeck. "We were wrong. The connections are not steady at all. They are often brief, bursty and very dynamic."

Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through. "They're real," says Sibeck.

Now that Cluster and THEMIS have directly sampled FTEs, theorists can use those measurements to simulate FTEs in their computers and predict how they might behave. Space physicist Jimmy Raeder of the University of New Hampshire presented one such simulation at the Workshop. He told his colleagues that the cylindrical portals tend to form above Earth's equator and then roll over Earth's winter pole. In December, FTEs roll over the north pole; in July they roll over the south pole.

Sibeck believes this is happening twice as often as previously thought. "I think there are two varieties of FTEs: active and passive." Active FTEs are magnetic cylinders that allow particles to flow through rather easily; they are important conduits of energy for Earth's magnetosphere. Passive FTEs are magnetic cylinders that offer more resistance; their internal structure does not admit such an easy flow of particles and fields. (For experts: Active FTEs form at equatorial latitudes when the IMF tips south; passive FTEs form at higher latitudes when the IMF tips north.) Sibeck has calculated the properties of passive FTEs and he is encouraging his colleagues to hunt for signs of them in data from THEMIS and Cluster. "Passive FTEs may not be very important, but until we know more about them we can't be sure."

There are many unanswered questions: Why do the portals form every 8 minutes? How do magnetic fields inside the cylinder twist and coil? "We're doing some heavy thinking about this at the Workshop," says Sibeck.

Meanwhile, high above your head, a new portal is opening, connecting your planet to the sun.
Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth - nasa .gov

Flux Tranfer Events move between the pole and the equator, there are TWO types of FTE's... what in the a Gravity Universe would create or even need a FTE let alone 2 types of them?

The answer to the question "How do magnetic fields inside the cylinder twist and coil? "We're doing some heavy thinking about this at the Workshop," is easily answered and no need for that Workshop. They are Birkeland Currents but astronomers do not like to say the B or the E words.

Were Flux Tranfer Events (FTE's) and/or Space Tornadoes predicted in 1903 by George Woodard Warder in his book The Universe a Vast Electric Organism ?

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Colliding Northern Lights or Circuits?



This is the starting composite image of the auroras (Northern Lights) before they start "colliding" and "producing light". Or are they variations of Birkeland Currents connecting in a circuit/exchange?



Here the "knots" of auroras (there are lots of knots, twisty stringy things in space that are very similar to Birkeland Currents) connect and do what any circuit does. Also in the top right hand corner there is a bright light of another circuit.

The bottom section describes the exchange/circuit as seen with mainstream eyes, oh and by the way...

"It took some creative thinking to come up with an answer, but I believe this team has done it," says THEMIS project scientist Dave Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center..."By putting together data from ground-based cameras, ground-based radar, and the THEMIS spacecraft themselves, we now have a nearly complete picture of what causes explosive auroral substorms," says Sibeck."

No more surprises then, even though they never predicted this and amazed it happens its all sorted now. The model used to not predict these things is just updated and will not predict the next surprise or circuit but will then be updated again and be the standard model and then...

A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. Movies of the phenomenon were unveiled at the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union today in San Francisco.

"Our jaws dropped when we saw the movies for the first time," says space scientist Larry Lyons of UCLA, a leading member of the team that made the discovery. "These outbursts are telling us something very fundamental about the nature of auroras."

The collisions occur on such a vast scale, isolated observers on Earth with limited fields of view had never noticed them before. It took a network of sensitive cameras spread across thousands of miles to get the big picture.

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency created such a network for THEMIS, short for "Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms." THEMIS consists of five spacecraft launched in 2006 to solve a long-standing mystery: Why do auroras occasionally erupt in an explosion of light called a substorm? Twenty all-sky imagers (ASIs) were deployed across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic to photograph auroras from below while the spacecraft sampled charged particles and electromagnetic fields from above. Together, the cameras and spacecraft would see the action from both sides and be able to piece together cause and effect—or so researchers hoped.

It seems to have worked.

The breakthrough came earlier this year when UCLA researcher Toshi Nishimura completed the Herculean task of assembling continent-wide movies from the individual ASI cameras.

"It can be a little tricky," Nishimura says. "Each camera has its own local weather and lighting conditions, and the auroras are different distances from each camera. I've got to account for these factors for six or more cameras simultaneously to make a coherent, large-scale movie."

The first movie he showed Lyons was a pair of auroras crashing together in Dec. 2007.

"It was like nothing I had seen before," Lyons recalls. "Over the next several days, we surveyed even more events. Our excitement mounted as we became convinced that the collisions were happening over and over."

The explosions of light, they believe, are a sign of something dramatic happening in the space around Earth—specifically, in Earth's "plasma tail." Millions of kilometers long and pointed away from the sun, the plasma tail is made of charged particles captured mainly from the solar wind. Sometimes called the "plasma sheet," the tail is held together by Earth's magnetic field.

The same magnetic field that holds the tail together also connects it to Earth's polar regions. Because of this connection, watching the dance of Northern Lights can reveal much about what's happening in the plasma tail.

By examining many collisions, Lyons and Nishimura have identified a common sequence of events. It begins with two elements: (1) a broad curtain of slow-moving auroras and (2) a smaller knot of fast-moving auroras, initially far apart. The slow curtain is quietly glowing over the Arctic when the speedy knot rushes in from the north. The two auroras collide and an eruption of light ensues.

How does this sequence connect to events in the plasma tail?

"It took some creative thinking to come up with an answer, but I believe this team has done it," says THEMIS project scientist Dave Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Lyons believes that the fast-moving knot is associated with a stream of relatively lightweight plasma jetting through the plasma tail. The stream gets started in the outer regions of the plasma tail and moves rapidly inward toward Earth. The fast knot of auroras moves in synch with this stream.

Meanwhile, the broad curtain of auroras is quietly hanging over the Arctic, gently glowing, more or less minding its own business. This curtain is connected to the stationary inner boundary of the plasma tail and is fueled by plasma instabilities there.

When the lightweight stream reaches the inner boundary of the plasma tail—bang!--there is an eruption of plasma waves and instabilities. This collision of plasma is mirrored by a collision of auroras over the poles.

National Science Foundation radars located in Alaska and Greenland confirm this basic picture. They have detected echoes from streams of material rushing through Earth's upper atmosphere just before the auroras collide and erupt.

The five THEMIS spacecraft also agree. They have been able to fly through the plasma tail and confirm the existence of lightweight material rushing toward Earth. (For reference, these are the "plasma bullets" reported in a 2008 Science@NASA story "Plasma Bullets Spark Northern Lights.")

"By putting together data from ground-based cameras, ground-based radar, and the THEMIS spacecraft themselves, we now have a nearly complete picture of what causes explosive auroral substorms," says Sibeck.
Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light - science.nasa .gov

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That movie of the Birkeland currents jumping from one level to another, just makes one wonder about the past when such events were probably multiple times brighter and more distinct. Pity the arcticle does not say 'Birkeland current'.
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yep, words they are not allowed to say as seen in this thread "Don't use the E or B word - anything other than electric or birkeland currents"

I am going to take a few screenshots from the movie as i used the standard ones. These will hopefully show more of the Birkeland Currents/Connections than mainstream images have shown.

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Black Hole feeding or something being powered in the EU in a circuit?



stellar mass black hole feeding on the globular star cluster in galaxy NGC4472 (M49) in the virgo cluster. or is it something else that is not feeding but being powered by the local surrroundings?

Black Hole Boldly Goes Where No Black Hole Has Gone Before
Astronomers have found a black hole where few thought they could ever exist, inside a globular star cluster. The finding has broad implications for the dynamics of stars clusters and also for the existence of a still-speculative new class of black holes called 'intermediate-mass' black holes...

Black holes are, by definition, invisible. But the region around them can flare up periodically when the black hole feeds. As gas falls into a black hole, it will heat to high temperatures and radiate brightly, particularly in X-rays. Maccarone's team found one such stellar-mass black hole by chance feeding in a globular cluster in a galaxy named NGC 4472, about fifty million light-years away in the Virgo Cluster.

Details in the X-ray light detected by XMM-Newton leave little doubt that this is a black hole - the object is too bright, and varies by too much to be anything else. In fact, the source is 'extra bright', - an Ultraluminous X-ray object, or ULX.
(full article) Black Hole Boldly Goes Where No Black Hole Has Gone Before

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A constant circuit flows between 2 (electric) Stars

EU Theory states that you can not have magnetism in space without the flow of electrical current. Scientists will not use the E word and always have to use the M word instead.

Why in a Gravity Universe would you have a "magnetic loop" which means 2 current lines between two stars? Will one line be different to the other, either in the amount of power/current or in its actual phsyscial/chemical properties? If this is discovered then how would it be explained in the gravityVerse? Would this prove it is an Electric Universe?

Why does the "magnetic connection" come from the poles of the sun to connect to its companion? How has the companion survived as it is less than 6 million miles from its larger partner and how come it does not spin? Shouldn't gravity have something to say about that? How are 2 stars tidal locked? Or is gravity an electromagnetic effect?

Giant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Through Space Between Stellar Pair

Astronomers have found a giant magnetic loop stretched outward from one of the stars making up the famous double-star system Algol. The scientists used an international collection of radio telescopes to discover the feature, which may help explain details of previous observations of the stellar system.

"This is the first time we've seen a feature like this in the magnetic field of any star other than the Sun," said William Peterson, of the University of Iowa.

The pair, 93 light-years from Earth, includes a star about 3 times more massive than the Sun and a less-massive companion, orbiting it at a distance of 5.8 million miles, only about six percent of the distance between Earth and the Sun. The newly-discovered magnetic loop emerges from the poles of the less-massive star and stretches outward in the direction of the primary star. As the secondary star orbits its companion, one side -- the side with the magnetic loop -- constantly faces the more-massive star, just as the same side of our Moon always faces the Earth.

The scientists detected the magnetic loop by making extremely detailed images of the system using an intercontinental set of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array, Very Large Array, and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, along with the Effelsberg radio telescope in Germany. These radio telescopes were used as a single observing system that offered both great detail, or resolving power, and high sensitivity to detect very faint radio waves. When working together, these telescopes are known as the High Sensitivity Array.

Algol, in the constellation Perseus, is visible to the naked eye and well-known to amateur astronomers. As seen from Earth, the two stars regularly pass in front of each other, causing a notable change in brightness. The pair completes a cycle of such eclipses in less than three days, making it a popular object for amateur observers. The variability in brightness was discovered by an Italian astronomer in 1667, and the eclipsing-binary explanation was confirmed in 1889.

The newly-discovered magnetic loop helps explain phenomena seen in earlier observations of the Algol system at X-ray and radio wavelengths, the scientists said. In addition, they now believe there may be similar magnetic features in other double-star systems.
Giant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Through Space Between Stellar Pair

I predict they will find a lot more "magnetic" features connecting not just double-star systems but other objects. If it is an Electric Universe that is.

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Tiny Aegaeon - hit by meteorites or EDM?

Cassini Aegaeon and Prometheus awesomeness

There were many, many treats waiting on the Cassini raw images website this morning. Yesterday, Cassini traversed the G ring, taking photos all the way. While doing so the spacecraft passed within 13,000 kilometers of Aegaeon, the tiny, recently discovered moon that is now believed to be the parent body of the G ring. (Small meteorite impacts onto Aegaeon would toss up dust particles that would escape the little moon's almost nonexistent gravity and go into their own orbits around Saturn; various sorts of drag extend the dust from Aegaeon's neighborhood all the way around the planet, but it's densest near the moon.) That distance is relatively close -- close enough for Cassini to get a very respectable 80 meters per pixel or so on the moon -- but since the moon's only roughly 500 meters across, you're only looking at 5 or 10 pixels.
Cassini Aegaeon and Prometheus awesomeness | planetary.org