A. Plasma Cosmology and Ancient Mythology
One of the more
recent and serious entries into the question of the existence of an
ancient paleophysics must surely be plasma cosmology. Brainchild of
Swedish physicist and Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén, plasma
cosmology is a significant departure within mainstream physics from
the “Big Bang” cosmology spawned by Einstein’s relativity theories
and pursued by most cosmological physicists. In Alfven’s view, the
most important force in the universe is not the geometry of
gravity, as with relativity-based cosmological theories, but
electromagnetism, and the complex geometries of rotating plasma
vortices. In Alfvén’s view, electromagnetism spans all scales, from
the very small to the very large, including star-and-planetary
systems, to whole galaxies, to the even larger scale of clusters of
galaxies. This is another way of saying that our own galaxy and
solar system are not electrically neutral, but rather, electrically
dynamic systems.
Eric J. Lerner - a
noted plasma physicist himself and author of the best layman’s
study of plasma cosmology, The Big Bang Never
Happened - traces Alfvén’s fascination with plasmas to his
boyhood experiences in Sweden, where Alfvén “was fascinated by the
spectacular displays of the northern lights, the moving curtains of
filaments and spikes.“63 Alfvén even quipped
humorously that ”,Our ancestors called
them ‘the Spears of Odin,””64 a statement as we
shall soon see that may not be a joke after all, but a significant
clue into a paleophysical problem discovered by fellow plasma
physicist Anthony Peratt.
What Alfvén soon
began to notice, however, was that the same filaments that he saw
in aurora displays were also being found in his laboratory:
“Whenever a piece of vacuum equipment started to misbehave, there they were,” he recalls. They were there too, in photographs of solar prominences and of the distant Veil and Orion nebulas....Many investigators had analyzed the laboratory filaments before, so Alfvén knew what they were: tiny electromagnetic vortices that snake through a plasma, carrying electrical currents. The vortices are produced by a phenomenon known as the “pinch effect.” A straight thread of electrical current flowing through a plasma produces a cylindrical magnetic field, which attracts other currents flowing in the same direction. Thus the tiny current threads tend to “pinch” together, drawing the plasma with them... The converging threads twine into a plasma rope, much as water converging toward a drain generates a swirling vortex, or air rushes together in a tornado. The filaments are plasma whirlwinds.65
Lerner explains the
implications of this important phenomenon as follows:
Magnetic fields and currents can concentrate matter and energy far faster and more effectively than can gravity. The magnetic force of a plasma thread increases with the velocity of the plasma. This leads to a feedback effect: as threads are pulled into the vortex, they move faster, which increases the force on the threads of current and pulls them still faster into the filament. In addition, a contracting mass tends to spin faster and faster, like an ice skater who pulls in his or her arms. This generates a centrifugal force which fights the contraction. Magnetic filaments can carry away this excess spin, or angular momentum, allowing further contraction, while gravity cannot.66
Lerner reproduces the
following diagram to illustrate this “pinch effect:”
Pinching Effect of an Electrical Current in a
Plasma67
One unique component
of Alfvén’s theory was its ability to be applied to systems of any
scale, from the very large to the very small. “Plasmas should look
similar no matter how big or small they are. ‘If we can extrapolate
from the laboratory to the solar system, which is a hundred
trillion times larger,’ he asks, ‘then why shouldn’t plasma behave
the same way for the entire observable universe, another hundred
trillion times larger?’”68 Consequently,
In his theory, a galaxy, spinning in the magnetic fields of intergalactic space, generates electricity, as any conductor does when it moves through a magnetic field... The huge electrical current produced by the galaxy flows in great filamentary spirals toward the center of the galaxy, where it turns and flows out along the spin axis. This galactic current then short-circuits, driving a vast amount of energy into the galactic core. The galaxy “blows a fuse”: powerful electrical fields are created in the nucleus which accelerate intense jets of electrons and ions out along the axis (of spin).69
Thus, as fellow
plasma physicist Anthony Peratt demonstrated, computer generated
simulations of this electromagnetic plasma pinch effect are able to
generate the familiar forms of spiral galaxies, as the following
pictures show (reading the pictures time-wise from left to right,
then down the page):
Computer Simulations of Plasma Pinch Effects Over
Time70
Peratt was able to
demonstrate even more stunning correlations between these computer
simulations and actual galaxies, for he found that he “could link
up each picture of a galaxy with some stage of one of my
simulations and I knew exactly what forces - electromagnetic forces
- were shaping the galaxies.”71 Lerner reproduces
Peratt’s simulations and the galaxies - 3C66, 3C285, NGC3187,
NGC1300, and M95 - that he compared with his simulations. The
results are stunning:
Comparison of Actual Galaxies with Peratt’s Computer
Simulation11
The implications of
plasma cosmology for the hypothesis of an ancient interplanetary
war, fought with horrendously powerful weapons, now begins to take
on significance, for if a planetary system such as our solar
system, or a galaxy such as our own Milky Way, are not electrically
neutral, then the same basic technology that allows such
simulations to be made, might, on a larger and more sophisticated
scale, also be able to tap into these enormous supplies of energy
for either good or ill. In short, such a principle could
conceivably be weaponized, and if weaponized, then it becomes
entirely feasible that exploding a planet would be child’s play for
the very energy of an entire planetary system, much less a
galaxy.72
And these
observations bring up...