"Do not wait to strike till the
iron is hot; but make it hot by
striking."
--- William Butler Yeats
A recent
press release asks what
forces are powerful enough to spread
the floors of Earth's oceans and
move the continents? Additionally,
Earth's core is supposed to be
molten iron. What heat source has
kept it hot for the billions of
years that it has supposedly floated
in the cold of space?
According to geologists, the heat
from uranium, thorium, and potassium
isotope decay is what powers Earth's
great engines. Bore hole temperature
data from over 20,000 worldwide
locations confirms an estimated heat
flow in excess of 44 terawatts
escaping Earth's interior. However,
it is now thought that only fifty
percent of that loss is due to
radioactive element decay.
Using the Kamioka Liquid-scintillator
Anti-Neutrino Detector
(KamLAND), scientists
report that they have found a flux
of anti-neutrinos from Earth's crust
due to the decay of the previously
mentioned radiogenic elements. Most
neutrino family particles fly
through our planet as if it were not
there. Their interactions with
matter are said to be extremely weak
because they carry no electric
charge. The only forces that can act
on them are gravity and the
weak nuclear force,
although some physicists would argue
that the weak force is another
aspect of electromagnetism.
Anti-neutrino detection depends
on computer analysis of several
events that take place over
breathtakingly small fractions of
time. When an incoming anti-neutrino
converts a proton to a neutron and a
positron (an anti-electron), the
first thing that happens is
inverse beta decay: the
positron annihilates itself, along
with an electron when they come into
contact. There is a brief, dim flash
of light from the annihilation that
is picked up by the KamLAND
photomultipliers. In another hundred
millionths of a second, a proton in
the tons of hydrocarbon fluid inside
the detector vessel captures the
neutron, causing it to emit a gamma
ray. It is these two delayed
coincidence signals that constitute
the "detection" of an anti-neutrino
when they are decoded from the
"noise" that interferes with the
machine.
There are several factors that
call into question the reliability
of such practices, not the least of
which are the presumptions that are
made about the signals that KamLAND
detects. Its primary function was to
identify various neutrino "flavors"
from nearby nuclear reactors. The
fact that it found neutrinos in
conditional states that did not
agree with the standard model of
quantum mechanics indicates a
problem with the theory or a problem
with the data. Possibly both. Of
further significance, its findings
do not support the
conventional model of the Sun.
Perhaps what is needed is a track
change away from conventional
destinations and into new areas of
thought: thought that takes into
account Earth's interaction with
colossal electrical forces at some
time in the recent past.
So-called "telluric currents"
circulate through Earth's
crust because our magnetic field
induces current flow in conductive
strata. Hundreds of thousands of
amperes stream beneath the surface,
the current strength varying
according to the conductivity of the
strata. Since the Sun can affect
Earth's magnetic field through
geomagnetic storms,
fluctuations in telluric currents
can occur when
solar activity increases.
This happens because of oscillations
in the ionosphere. The slight
variations that have been found are
probably accounted for in this way.
When
blocks of acrylic plastic
are exposed to a high intensity
electron beam, they accumulate a
significant electric charge. After
the blocks are discharged by driving
a nail into their sides, the traces
of feathery figures remain embedded
in the plastic. The lightning-like
pathways are called Lichtenberg
figures. They result from electrons
rushing through the acrylic toward
the point of discharge. The tension
caused by the current flow leaves
micro-fractures behind.
Interestingly, the blocks continue
to exhibit flashes from internal
electric discharges for several
minutes.
If small plastic blocks were
converted to quartz and scaled-up to
the size of North America, and the
electron beam were scaled up to an
electric discharge of planetary
dimensions, giant scars might be
left behind: scars like the
Grand Canyon's Lichtenberg
geography, or something as
incredible as the Mid-Atlantic
ridge. The remanent electromagnetic
fields could also generate a great
deal of thermodynamic energy.
Stephen Smith
Hat tip to Thane Hubbell
New
DVD
The Lightning-Scarred
Planet Mars
A video documentary that could
change everything you thought you
knew about ancient times and
symbols. In this second episode of
Symbols of an Alien Sky, David
Talbott takes the viewer on an
odyssey across the surface of Mars.
Exploring feature after feature of
the planet, he finds that only
electric arcs could produce the
observed patterns. The high
resolution images reveal massive
channels and gouges, great mounds,
and crater chains, none finding an
explanation in traditional geology,
but all matching the scars from
electric discharge experiments in
the laboratory. (Approximately 85
minutes)
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