Solar Flares Are Electric; So Too Venus and Saturn?

Jesse | May 10, 2009

When deciding between paradigms, the one with the fewest parameters and the most unifying power wins. In the pursuit of science, the eventual goal is a simple integrated explanation with as few parameters and unknown entities and quantities possible. The current state of cosmology seems to be a concerted effort to add complexity and untested new hypothetical entities. If a different paradigm were able to offer simplifying assumptions and more comprehensible answers, would it not behoove astronomers and cosmologists to stand up and take note?

Recent observations by the X-Ray Telescope instrument aboard the Hinode mission provided high-resolution images of sigmoids (solar flare precursors) erupting. The conclusions were unmistakably electrical in nature.

“…sigmoids consist of many thin and twisted layers (or ribbons) of strong electric current. When these layers interact it leads to the formation of the observed powerful flares and the eruption of strong magnetic fields [that] carry highly energetic particles into interplanetary space.” [Emphasis added]

This is certainly a large step forward in admitting to and characterizing the electrical behaviors of the sun.

In an effort to bring simplicity and comprehensibility to the study of solar system physics, I find it incumbent upon myself to address the new findings in light of several older observations. Specifically, I wish to bring to light the astonishing similarity between the recent high-resolution observations of the solar sigmoids and prior high-resolution observations of the double-eyed vortices at the Venusian poles.

Further, Wal Thornhill (who successfully predicted experimentum crucis that Saturn’s “wintry” northern pole would be found to be just as hot and “anomalous” by astrophysicists’ standards as its south polar hot spot) has asserted that Saturn’s “anomalous” northern polar hot spot will be found to display a structure uncannily similar to that of Venus’ poles. From common causes, common effects. From preliminary imaging, it seems Thornhill is on track to have predicted another winner:

“The image [of Saturn’s polar vortex in infrared], while being incomplete, supports the electrical model. At around 300˚ we see the yellow-reddish cusp feature of one Birkeland filament. At intervals, heated gas from that filament is ‘squirted’ in a thin jet into the central ‘sump,’ indicated by the reddish patch over the pole. The inward jets alternate between the two filaments so we may expect the pattern to be repeated where the infrared data is missing.”

In a prior article by Thornhill, the inner plasma region was also discussed:

“Of particular interest are the linear filaments sometimes seen connecting the opposite sides of the hot spots. Taylor writes: ‘It is virtually impossible, even with complete license, to begin to speculate in any detail as to what mechanism could give rise to such a curious effect.’ The answer, in the Electric Universe model is simple. They are a feature seen in simulations of the behavior between two converging Birkeland current filaments where plasma becomes trapped in the elliptical core between them.”

It seems increasingly likely that all these disparate phenomena may now be classed together under the auspices of an electrical interpretation: Specifically, paired magnetic field-aligned electric currents will tend to trap plasma in or discharge to the elliptical region between them.

If one wishes to explain the widest variety of phenomena with the fewest number of hypothetical entities, it seems like the electrical explanation is the clear winner.