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Published Date: 18 April 2009
By John von Radowitz
A NEW space telescope has started taking pictures of the star-filled patch of sky where it will soon begin searching for Earth-like planets.
Kepler's first images reveal a vast star field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

One picture is ablaze with stars filling the telescope's full field of view. Two others zoom in on targeted regions.

Lia LaPiana, programme e...



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  • Last Updated: 17 April 2009 10:20 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Space science
 
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Yok Finney,

Ross-shire 18/04/2009 02:35:11
Mars is like Earth, not so far away, and still habitable, whether it is we don't know.

Detectable Universe is mainly plasma and most astronomers know astonishingly little about it despite the occassional scientist getting a Nobel prize for experimenting with it.

Newton and Einstein, brilliant as they were, wrote useful subset laws and equations. But the sun is not a fusion reactor corseted by gravity, it's a complex electric device as is known Universe.

A bigger telescope will do nothing to shift this scientific ignorance and orthodoxy. Earth-like planets abount everywhere; and you'd tend to think they'd have wiser folk on them than us on our spiral, precarious, galactic outpost.
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Unimpressed one,

18/04/2009 09:31:43
Sounds like a worth while project. Zzzzzz.....
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Horrible Cankers @Cyber Shebeen,

18/04/2009 11:53:29
1...I'd like to think it....probably checking us out through a giant telescope and laughing to each other "Check the state o' that by the way"...
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Yok Finney,

Ross-shire 18/04/2009 15:23:42
For more than 10 years plasma physicists have had an electrical model of galaxies. It works with real-world physics. The model is able to successfully account for the observed shapes and dynamics of galaxies without recourse to invisible dark matter and central black holes. It explains simply the powerful electric jets seen issuing along the spin axis from the cores of active galaxies. Recent results from mapping the magnetic field of a spiral galaxy confirm the electric model.

On the other hand, cosmologists cannot explain why spiral shapes are so common and they have only ad-hoc explanations for galactic magnetic fields. More recently, inter-galactic magnetic fields have been discovered which is the final straw to break the camel's back. Incredible gravitational models involving invisible "black holes" have had to be invented in a desperate attempt to explain how the attractive force of gravity can result in matter being ejected in a narrow jet at relativistic speeds.

Why do we accept such science fiction as fact when an Electric Universe predicts spiral shapes, magnetic fields and jets? The cosmic magnetic fields simply delineate the electric currents that CREATE, MOVE and LIGHT the galaxies.
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Yok Finney,

Ross-shire 18/04/2009 15:38:06
Plasma physicists argue that stars are formed by an electromagnetic "pinch" effect on widely dispersed gas and dust. The "pinch" is created by the magnetic force between parallel current filaments that are part of the huge electric currents flowing inside a galaxy. It is far more effective than gravity in concentrating matter and, unlike gravity, it can remove excess angular momentum to prevent collapse. Stars will form like beads on a wire until gravity takes over.

The late Ralph Juergens, an engineer from Flagstaff, Arizona, in the 1970's took the next mental leap to suggest that the electrical input doesn't stop there and that stars are not thermonuclear engines! This is obvious when the Sun is looked at from an electrical discharge perspective. The galactic currents that create the stars persist to power them. Stars behave as electrodes in a galactic glow discharge. Bright stars like our Sun are great concentrated balls of lightning! The matter inside stars becomes positively charged as electrons drift toward the surface. The resulting internal electrostatic forces prevent stars from collapsing gravitationally and occasionally cause them to "give birth" by electrical fissioning to form companion stars and gas giant planets. Sudden brightening, or a nova outburst marks such an event.

That elucidates why stars commonly have partners and why most of the giant planets so far detected closely orbit their parent star. Stellar evolution theory and the age of stars is an elaborate fiction. The appearance of a star is determined largely by its electrical environment and can change suddenly. Plasma physicists and electrical engineers are best able to recognize plasma discharge phenomena. Stellar physics is in the wrong hands!

 

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