Posted on 05/12/2008 7:05:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Vacuum. No conduction of heat. Think REALLY LARGE Nissan Stainless.
If we’re the brain cells I guess it’s up to us to tell him to take an aspirin and get that edema under control.
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For real? I wasn't aware of that.
Also, something seems out of sync: Why is it when I go searching around the web for some information on plasma(s) I find several articles crediting plasma(s) with making up 90+% of the universe, and the authors of this article are still looking??? Looking for something that has already been found? Color me confused!
Seriously, that was a great explanation.
Now here is a sci-fi postulation for space travel. In the future, when we understand the physics better, these "threads" (baryonic not FR) will be the highways between galaxies allowing warp speed travel over light year distances. /wild eyed speculation
from 2001:
“The forces that hold a sponge, a spider web and a brain together in the shape they have are all electromagnetic,” Møller said...
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/spongy_universe_010522-2.html
The Sun is an ELECTRICALLY INERT BODY dontcha know...and you’re an HERETIC LOL!
That’s so pessmistic. These baryonic threads will act like rubber bands snapping everything back to the center. ;^)
Found this in an abstract from a 2001 paper, Baryons in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium :
"The evolution of the WHIM is primarily driven by shock heating from gravitational perturbations breaking on mildly nonlinear, nonequilibrium structures such as filaments. Supernova feedback energy and radiative cooling play lesser roles in its evolution."
Based on the wikipedia entry for Intergalactic Space, I think the shock heating refers to the particles "falling" into these zones and gaining gravitational energy. This energy becomes thermal as they interact. This is a very thin plasma, and the interactions occur when the charged particles pass very near each other and emit "brehmstrahlung" X-rays . Brehmstrahlung means "braking radiation" and is a result of the electrostatic interaction of the particles.
Anyway, they're saying that the radiation is weak enough so that it is not a significant drain of the energy of the WHIM. The abstract of the article from the news link says the thermal energy is of the same order as the detected X-rays, so this means that the interaction time per particle must be much greater than 1 billion years, I believe.
Heaven's net casts wide. Though its meshes are coarse, nothing slips through. - LAO-TSU
( on the fly-leaf of Timothy Ferris's GALAXIES )
Probably, but I've been called worse ;^)
But really, the articles I ran across stated matter-of-factly that plasma makes up most of the universe. It's not like they were trying to sell anything or looking for grant money....or so it would seem. Maybe I need to be sent to re-education camp???
And leptons?
Astronomer’s Dogma.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050523halleyborrelly.htm
“Though the popular theories have hardened into dogma and the scientific media present them as facts, the new discoveries challenge the popular assumptions. The metaphor of a “dirty snowball” does not fit what we know about comets in the space age. A vast library of data now contradicts the standard assumption of an electrically neutral comet in an electrically neutral solar system. It is no longer useful to ignore the electrical properties of plasma...
“electrically neutral solar system”...a la Newton. The same dogma V was up against.
Good question. Most mainstream cosmologists consider plasmas to be merely hot gasses... without electrical charge or flow. They fail to recognize that electrons flow through plasmas both in the laboratory and at the galactic level. According to the Electric Universe theorists, it is the flow of electrons in the plasma and the electromagnetism created by the flows that cause the millions of degrees of heat.
Plasma and electrical discharge phenomena are scalable from the micro to the macro. What we see in the plasma lab is duplicated in the space between stars and planets.
Plasmas do strange things over intersteller distances that are contrarian to gravitic theory. Check out Herbig Haro objects where spiral plasmas hold together in a columnar shape for upwards of 20 light years away from the originating star.
"Explanation: Some features of HH-34 are understood -- some are not. At the core of Herbig-Haro 34 lies a seemingly typical young star. This star, though, somehow ejects energetic "bullets" of high-energy particles, appearing as red streaks toward the lower right of the this image. Astronomers speculate that a burst of these particles might rebound when gas from a disk surrounding the star momentarily collapses onto the star. Visible near the end of each light-year long jet is a glowing cap. HH-34 lies about 1500 light-years away in the Orion Nebula star-forming region. The cause of the large arc of gas on the upper left known as the waterfall remains unexplained." - Nasa
If you magnify the red "jet" of "particle bullets" in HH-34, you can see the vague shape of a double spriral which plasma/electrical universe cosmologists tell us are paired Birkeland currents where electrons are flowing in opposite directions in a double sheath that keeps the "jet" cohesive over light years' distances.
Until astronomers start to recognize that currents flow throughout space, they will be at a loss to understand what they keep being surprised at finding.
Now they have found a surprising, filamental, hot, "gaseous" connection between Galaxies... spanning millions of light years. . . and cannot understand what holds the filaments together over such tremendous distances.
With the increasing population on our planet would require more socks for the population, resulting in increased “Lost sock” occurrences. Perhaps once the sock has reached its final cycle it is transformed into said dark energy, hence for the “accelerated expansion of the universe”.
AND it's never one of those socks that the elastic is getting weak around the top or the toe and heel are starting to wear...
It's all part of a vast cosmic conspiracy.
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