Plasma cosmology, developed over the last century in the hands of Nobel Prize winners (and which has an extensive peer-reviewed literature) has been empirically tested in the laboratory and its predictive power is impressive — for example, that stars and galaxies form, and are aligned, along cosmic electric current filaments.

The Electric Universe takes plasma cosmology further and investigates the continuing electrical nature of all stars following their birth. One model fits all stars. It shows the complex electromagnetic structure of cosmic current filaments, which influence the structure and rotation of condensed celestial bodies and galaxies. It introduces a simple physical model of matter in order to understand quantum behaviour, light, magnetism, gravity and the nuclear force. The result is a simple, coherent and interdisciplinary picture of our place in the universe. It has the attributes of a real cosmology, which must have application in our day-to-day lives.

Electric Sun Model

The pioneer of the Electric Sun model was an engineer from Flagstaff, Arizona — Ralph Juergens. In the early 1970s, he proposed a detailed electrical model based on arc searchlight technology. The result was a model which naturally explained features like photospheric granulation (see below image), spicules, the chromosphere and the corona in terms of a low-pressure spherical gas discharge. The solar ‘wind’ acceleration and its magnetic field are seen as a drift current in the observed weak radial electric field of the solar discharge.

This dovetails neatly with that part of the solar electric circuit proposed by the father of plasma cosmology, Hannes Alfvén. But rather than the Sun being a generator, it is a circuit load in the Electric Universe. More recent work has explained the magnetic cycle and steady radiance of the Sun while its X-ray output varies. And the discoveries of the IBEX mission match the expectations of a galactic circuit connection to the Sun. 

The implications of the Electric Sun model are profound for cosmology and for research aimed at producing energy “like the Sun.” As a result, a private experiment (SAFIRE) to test the model is at an advanced stage.

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