The first serious attempt to scientifically and mathematically describe the universe from the perspective of EU/PC theory was done by Kristian Birkeland in 1908 in his landmark publication: The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902–1903 (158 MB). Birkeland began his quest for knowledge of astronomy based on his observations of aurora. The beauty of the aurora piqued his curiosity and sent him on a lifelong quest to understand their origin and their cause. Birkeland and his team risked life and limb to collect data from some of the harshest environments on planet Earth, so that he could compare his in-situ magnetic field measurements during solar storms to information and data that he and his team gathered from their empirical experiments in the lab.
A few of the correct predictions based on empirical simulations that Birkeland and his team made from what they learned from their lab experiments were the presence of both types of high speed solar wind particles flowing from the sun, cathode rays/electron beams flowing from the sun, polar jets, coronal loops, field aligned Birkeland currents, including those found in planetary aurora, and electrical discharges in the solar atmosphere. All of those predictions were later verified by satellites in space, but this didn't start to happen until the late 1960's, long after Birkeland's death. Unfortunately most of his work was overlooked at the time, and most of it continues to be overlooked to this day.
A quick two minute video overview of his basic solar model and his explanation of planetary aurora can be found here:
The following image compares a white light image from one of Birkeland's terella experiments (black & white) to a Yohkoh x-ray satellite image of the sun (orange). By adding a magnetic field inside the solar terella, Birkeland was able to concentrate the electrical discharges into two distinct bands in the northern and southern hemisphere much as we observe during the active phase of the solar cycle.
One of the more interesting concepts of plasma cosmology theory that Birkeland predicted over a hundred years ago from his experiments is that most of the mass of the universe was likely to be found in the charged particles and gases which are found *between* the stars rather than inside the stars themselves. Only in the past 5 years have we become aware of two different massive plasma and gas halos that surround our own galaxy which contain more mass than all of the stars in our galaxy combined. That's another of Birkeland's highly successful *cosmology* predictions that is directly related to electric universe theory.
If you download the 158 megabyte PDF of his book, you'll find *tons* of mathematical models listed in the back. Anyone who erroneously tries to suggest that "there is no math to support EU/PC theory" has obviously never read any of the hundreds of published papers or numerous books on this topic. There has been *tons* of math to support EU/PC theory for over 100 years.
Keep in mind at the time that Birkeland and his team were trying to describe the electric universe, the universe was thought to be an "island universe" consisting of only a single Milky Way galaxy. It wasn't until nine years after Birkeland's death that Edwin Hubble demonstrated in 1926 that some of the blurry objects that he was seeing in his telescope were actually entire distant galaxies in and of themselves. Birkeland's "electric universe" was therefore a bit "limited" by today's standards, but later authors like the Nobel Prize winning author Hannes Alfven and his student Anthony Peratt have also written very extensive books and papers on the topic of electric universe/plasma cosmology theory from a more modern perspective.
"Cosmic Plasma" by Hannes Alfven is considered by most people in the EU/PC community to be "the" book that defines the Electric Universe/Plasma cosmology model. Some of the first few chapter of his book are available online, and most of it's content comes from his various published papers. A short overview of his basic cosmology model can be found in his paper: Cosmology In The Plasma Universe. Alfven published over 100 papers on this topic which can be found on the ADS server. I have also collected quite a few of Alfven's published papers in a PDF format which you can find here.
By far however, the most extensive book from the perspective of mathematics that has ever been published on the topic of Plasma cosmology is Physics of the Plasma Universe written by Alfven's student, Anthony Peratt who works at Los Alamos. It includes *numerous* mathematical models and explanations of the various topics related to EU/PC theory. Peratt even built computer models based on Alfven's basic ideas and published the results of those models in various papers and in his book. Many of Peratt's published papers can also be found on the ADS server.
Another popular EU/PC author is Eric Lerner. His book "The Big Bang Never Happened" is an excellent introduction to not only the topic of EU/PC theory, but also to the topic of cosmology in general. If you're interested in learning about cosmology theories (plural) from scratch, and a quick comparison of cosmology theories, his book is an excellent place to begin. Lerner has also published a number of papers on cosmology theory. My favorite is a recent paper which compares a static universe model to an expansion model.
I'll continue to post additional resources to this thread as I get time, but I'll stop here for the moment since it's getting late and I need to grab a cup of coffee.
Ok Selfsim, you asked me to start this thread and I did. Now let's hear you answer my question. Which of the three books by Birkeland, Alfven and Peratt have you actually read for yourself? Any of them? All of them? Have you read Lerner's book?
A few of the correct predictions based on empirical simulations that Birkeland and his team made from what they learned from their lab experiments were the presence of both types of high speed solar wind particles flowing from the sun, cathode rays/electron beams flowing from the sun, polar jets, coronal loops, field aligned Birkeland currents, including those found in planetary aurora, and electrical discharges in the solar atmosphere. All of those predictions were later verified by satellites in space, but this didn't start to happen until the late 1960's, long after Birkeland's death. Unfortunately most of his work was overlooked at the time, and most of it continues to be overlooked to this day.
A quick two minute video overview of his basic solar model and his explanation of planetary aurora can be found here:
The following image compares a white light image from one of Birkeland's terella experiments (black & white) to a Yohkoh x-ray satellite image of the sun (orange). By adding a magnetic field inside the solar terella, Birkeland was able to concentrate the electrical discharges into two distinct bands in the northern and southern hemisphere much as we observe during the active phase of the solar cycle.
One of the more interesting concepts of plasma cosmology theory that Birkeland predicted over a hundred years ago from his experiments is that most of the mass of the universe was likely to be found in the charged particles and gases which are found *between* the stars rather than inside the stars themselves. Only in the past 5 years have we become aware of two different massive plasma and gas halos that surround our own galaxy which contain more mass than all of the stars in our galaxy combined. That's another of Birkeland's highly successful *cosmology* predictions that is directly related to electric universe theory.
If you download the 158 megabyte PDF of his book, you'll find *tons* of mathematical models listed in the back. Anyone who erroneously tries to suggest that "there is no math to support EU/PC theory" has obviously never read any of the hundreds of published papers or numerous books on this topic. There has been *tons* of math to support EU/PC theory for over 100 years.
Keep in mind at the time that Birkeland and his team were trying to describe the electric universe, the universe was thought to be an "island universe" consisting of only a single Milky Way galaxy. It wasn't until nine years after Birkeland's death that Edwin Hubble demonstrated in 1926 that some of the blurry objects that he was seeing in his telescope were actually entire distant galaxies in and of themselves. Birkeland's "electric universe" was therefore a bit "limited" by today's standards, but later authors like the Nobel Prize winning author Hannes Alfven and his student Anthony Peratt have also written very extensive books and papers on the topic of electric universe/plasma cosmology theory from a more modern perspective.
"Cosmic Plasma" by Hannes Alfven is considered by most people in the EU/PC community to be "the" book that defines the Electric Universe/Plasma cosmology model. Some of the first few chapter of his book are available online, and most of it's content comes from his various published papers. A short overview of his basic cosmology model can be found in his paper: Cosmology In The Plasma Universe. Alfven published over 100 papers on this topic which can be found on the ADS server. I have also collected quite a few of Alfven's published papers in a PDF format which you can find here.
By far however, the most extensive book from the perspective of mathematics that has ever been published on the topic of Plasma cosmology is Physics of the Plasma Universe written by Alfven's student, Anthony Peratt who works at Los Alamos. It includes *numerous* mathematical models and explanations of the various topics related to EU/PC theory. Peratt even built computer models based on Alfven's basic ideas and published the results of those models in various papers and in his book. Many of Peratt's published papers can also be found on the ADS server.
Another popular EU/PC author is Eric Lerner. His book "The Big Bang Never Happened" is an excellent introduction to not only the topic of EU/PC theory, but also to the topic of cosmology in general. If you're interested in learning about cosmology theories (plural) from scratch, and a quick comparison of cosmology theories, his book is an excellent place to begin. Lerner has also published a number of papers on cosmology theory. My favorite is a recent paper which compares a static universe model to an expansion model.
I'll continue to post additional resources to this thread as I get time, but I'll stop here for the moment since it's getting late and I need to grab a cup of coffee.
Ok Selfsim, you asked me to start this thread and I did. Now let's hear you answer my question. Which of the three books by Birkeland, Alfven and Peratt have you actually read for yourself? Any of them? All of them? Have you read Lerner's book?
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