Electrical Tornadoes Power the Auroras!

All things old are new again... Hundred-year-old electrical science has finally come back into fashion! The latest results from the THEMIS satellite fleet leave no wiggle room. The auroras are powered by what...

Dark New Ideas About Cosmological 'Dark Matter.'

Many years on, and many, many, many dollars spent, scientists still don't know what the mysterious 'dark matter' is. They claim that it is there and claim to have indirectly detected it, but its assumed properties...

Sun and Earth Electrically Connected By "Magnetic Portals"

It seems that solar and heliospheric astronomers / physicists are making great leaps and bounds in their understanding of our dynamic relationship with our local star (the Sun). Recent new observations by Cluster...

Galaxy Clusters Move Contrary to Big Bang Predictions?

We'd like to think that astronomical science has it all "down pat," but the universe is steadfastly determined to keep throwing astronomers curve balls that undermine even their best theories. First, it was a...

Earth's Atmosphere Losing a Few Oxygen Ions to Space. Plasma Cosmology Paper ...

One would like to think that modern science knows everything and understands all about near-Earth and deep space physical processes. But it's just not so. At least, it seems that papers explaining the actual...

An Argument for the Consideration of Electrodynamics in Cosmology

The force of gravity rules supreme according to the cosmological model currently in vogue. But is gravity actually the strongest force in nature and is it truly the only prime mover and shaker in the cosmos?...

A Fractal Distribution of Matter in the Universe May Topple the Big Bang. If ...

The Big Bang currently rules supreme in the sciences. But for how long can this flight of fancy survive in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary? A recent discovery threatens to overturn the tables in the...

Big Bang vs. Plasma Cosmology: Competing Approaches to the Cosmos

While the "Big Bang" theory is certainly the entrenched incumbent paradigm, a scrappy underdog theory is waiting in the wings for its moment to shine. Its name is "Plasma Cosmology," and its proponents adopt a...