In this series, the Thunderbolts Project has reported on the increasing frequency with which astrophysical literature acknowledges a fact which was long verboten in the space-sciences: the existence of electric currents that flow through the so-called vacuum of space. At the vastest cosmic scales, many astrophysicists recognize the “fundamentally electromagnetic structure” of the stupendous jets, hundreds of thousands of lightyears long, emanating from active galactic nuclei. At a much smaller scale, in our solar system, electric current systems are known to link the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn with their respective moons. And on our own planet, in recent years with improved technology has come ever finer evidence of tremendous electric currents that are connected to previously unknown phenomena.

Nevertheless, notions of charge neutrality and disconnected bodies in empty space continue to dominate the space sciences. In this episode, guest speaker Richard Moore explores the role of electric currents, called Birkeland currents, throughout the electric solar system.

Watch the entire talk posted online April 30, 2018 at YouTube.com (9:42)

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Date: January 30, 2018
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Summary: Space physicists have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system).

Jan Egedal, professor of physics at UW-Madison who lead an exploration of magnetic reconnection, stands beside a chamber used for experiments in that exotic phenomenon. Magnetic reconnection seems to be involved in some of the most violent explosions in the universe; the recent study was the clearest view of the magnetic reconnection ever measured in space. The results “blew my mind,” he says. Credit: David Tenenbaum/UW-Madison

“The data on so-called ‘magnetic reconnection’ came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.

“‘We’re looking at the best picture yet of magnetic reconnection in space,’ says Jan Egedal, a professor of physics and senior author of a study in Physical Review Letters. Magnetic reconnection is difficult to describe, but it can be loosely defined as the merger of magnetic fields that releases an astonishing amount of energy.

“Magnetic reconnection remains mysterious, especially since it ‘breaks the standard law’ governing charged particles, or plasma, Egedal says.”

Read the entire article online at sciencedaily.com.

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Mark Gober explores the unresolved scientific puzzle: how and why does consciousness exist? In Mark’s book An End to Upside Down Thinking, he summarizes some of the voluminous scientific evidence which suggests that consciousness is not generated by nor confined to the brain. A major focus of his evidential summary is the amazing abundance of scientific studies, dating back more than half a century, into psychic phenomena, such as telepathy, ESP and precognition.

A parallel field of investigation is survival of consciousness – that is the study of near-death experiences and even purported communications with the dead by so-called mediums.

This presentation is produced by the Thunderbolts Project. While The Thunderbolts Project takes no position on these issues, in the past the project has presented interviews and public presentations by such noted scientists as Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Dean Radian, both of whose scientific research into consciousness Mark outlines in his book. In this talk, Mark offers a brief yet comprehensive overview of compelling evidence that the locus and source of consciousness is non-material.

Watch the presentation on YouTube (15:35)

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Freedom Hill Creatives publishing house in Taiwan is publishing a Chinese language edition of Kim MacQuarrie’s book The Last Days of the Incas, in which Gene Savoy’s discovery of Gran Pajaten is featured.

Milky Way (stock image).
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Date: December 5, 2018

Source: University of Oxford

Summary: New research could shed light on the ‘missing’ dark matter and dark energy that make up 95 percent of our universe and yet are wholly invisible to us.

Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses ‘negative mass’. If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago.

Read the entire article posted online December 5, 2018 at sciencedaily.com.

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In this speculative and thought provoking talk recorded at Reconnect 2018 on July 7, 2018 at Bath, UK, Rupert Sheldrake asks listeners to look beyond the strict confines of scientific materialism and consider how the consciousness of stellar bodies (such as our Sun) is not only of anthropological or cultural interest but a valid field of enquiry in modern philosophy, psychology, cosmology, and neuroscience.

Watch the talk on YouTube (47:14).

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Dr. Alexander Wunsch

Alexander Wunsch is physician, researcher and teacher in light medicine and photobiology with particular interest in light effects and the beneficial and adverse health impacts of solar radiation and artificial light sources on endocrine and cellular levels in humans. In his medical office in Heidelberg he develops and applies therapeutic light spectra in combination with other biophysically based treatments. He lectures at the Wismar University of Applied Sciences and mentors students in their master theses in light & health-associated topics. Alexander Wunsch presents at international conferences and acts as a consultant for federal authorities and the lighting industry.

Follow this link to watch “Dr. Mercola and Dr. Wunsch on Photobiology,” posted February 1, 2017 on YouTube (1 hr 15min).

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Earth (stock image) Photo credit robert / Fotolia

“A new study suggests that plate tectonics — a scientific theory that divides Earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock — could have been active from the planet’s very beginning. The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years.

Read the entire article posted online September 26, 2018 by University of Tennessee at Knoxville at sciencedaily.com

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“Most people have heard of the ‘mind/body connection’ and are aware that emotions affect the way people act. However, few can describe how that works. What is relatively new is our understanding that emotions are stored in and around the body as magnetic fields. Not only do these magnetic fields cause the biochemical effects noted above, but they also block the flow of voltage in the associated muscle battery packs that provide the voltage necessary for organs to function and repair themselves. He will discuss the human body’s battery packs, wiring system, and the physics of how our electronic systems are affected by these emotions. In addition, he will discuss how other magnetic fields and scalar energy can be used to erase these emotions, leaving behind only memories that do not disrupt our health and physiology.

“Dr. Jerry Tennant is board certified in ophthalmology and ophthalmic plastic surgery (residency, Harvard Medical School and Southwestern Medical School.) He was the director of ophthalmic plastic surgery clinic at Parkland Hospital in Dallas and practiced from 1965 to 1995. He did much of the FDA study for the VISX Excimer laser and performed approximately 1000 surgeries in the United States and Europe. In addition, Dr. Tennant was the founder/director of the Dallas Eye Institute and one of the first surgeons in the US to place intraocular lenses in eyes after cataract surgery and taught these techniques around the world. He holds patents for medical devices including intraocular lenses and several surgical instruments. While licensed in Arizona by the Board of Homeopathic and Alternative Medicine, Dr. Tennant is currently the Director of the Tennant Institute for Integrative Medicine.”

Watch the entire lecture posted online September 29, 2018 on YouTube

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Solar power is the world’s most promising clean energy solution, but governments must abandon outdated policies for it to succeed.
BY VARUN SIVARAM

MARCH 1, 2018

“Solar power is in the middle of a breathtaking global surge. In 2017, countries around the world installed nearly 100 gigawatts — fifty Hoover Dams — worth of solar capacity. Investors poured over $160 billion into solar projects, more than any other electricity source, clean or dirty. And the price of solar power plunged to once-unthinkable lows around the world. In Mexico, Chile, and Saudi Arabia, the price of solar electricity fell to around 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, less than half that of power from coal or natural gas plants.

“Supportive government policies have helped encourage the boom in solar energy. Developed countries such as Germany footed the bill for the early scale-up of the solar industry in the 2000s. Then China lavished billions on its domestic solar producers, creating an unrivaled manufacturing industry, and set sky-high mandates for the deployment of solar panels, making it the world’s largest solar market today. It is tempting to continue with more of the same.

“That would be a grave mistake. Solar power is no longer a cottage industry, and the public policies that it will need to thrive over the coming decades are very different from those that kick-started its growth.”

Read the entire article posted March 1, 2018 online at foreignpolicy.com

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