Currents of up to 10,000 billion amperes flow between the stars

[HysteryDiagnosis]

but these currents have nothing to do with the luminosity of the stars themselves, or so it is said.

http://plasmauniverse.info/CIVmonterey.html

Peratt said that the filaments between the stars are not visible themselves but are observable with radio telescopes that can observe space at much longer wavelengths than are visible to the human eye. Prof. Per Carlqvist, a researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, estimated that the interstellar filaments found by Verschuur conducted electricity with currents as high as ten-thousand billion amperes.

"The individual filaments in space are often called Z-pinches. These Z-pinches occur when current-carrying plasma 'pinches' itself into a filament by a magnetic field the current produces around the plasma. Z-pinches, such as those produced on the Sandia National Laboratories 'Z' machine, are among the most prolific producers of X-rays known," cited Peratt.

The United States Department of Energy funded Z-machine at Sandia has surprised the scientific community during the last few years by breaking all records in the production of high intensity X-rays from wire filaments converted into plasmas by million-volt pulses. Such filaments have already been discovered in our own solar system. For example, the aurora on Earth is known to be caused by million ampere currents flowing down the Earth's magnetic field lines at the northern and southern poles while similar were found by planetary explorer spacecraft to connect the planet Jupiter with its closest satellite Io.

That such currents existed on a much larger scale outside the solar system and beyond the reach of spacecraft has been a topic of conjecture among astronomers and space plasma scientists. According to Igor Alexeff, President of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society hosting the conference, "It's not unusual that neutral hydrogen in space should show such well organized current structures; plasma also acts in a lifelike and intelligent way in laboratory experiments and in naturally occurring plasmas such as lightning."

[Turbineguy]

1. Good

now put the GOP in that circuit.

[rug]

2. Showoff.

[rfranklin]

3. Let's send a big extension cord into space..

No more energy problems!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Didn't the shuttle drag some sort of cable to see if it could produce potential

and didn't it melt? Why yes, yes it did.

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/02files/Electrodynamic_01.html

The instruments aboard the tether satelite showed that this plasma diverted through the pinhole about 1 ampere, a current comparable to that of a 100-watt bulb (but at 3500 volts!), to the metal of the shuttle and from there to the ionospheric return circuit. That current was enough to melt the cable.

As the broken end whipped away from the shuttle, the plasma established electric contact with the ionosphere directly. The satellite on the distant end monitored the current: after about half a minute it stopped, then it reignited and flowed again for about another half minute, stopping for good when (presumably) all the trapped air was gone.

[Posteritatis]

5. Unrec for woo electric cosmology BS. (nt)

[SidDithers]

6. +1...nt

Sid

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Your unrec is both welcome and expected. Please show where what was posted

is untrue.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Give the site a break - it does say:

The Plasma Universe and Plasma Cosmology have no ties to the anti-science blogsites of the holoscience 'electric universe'.

http://plasmauniverse.info/

[truth2power]

9. This is an interesting concept, hystery. I've marked the article to read in detail, later....

of course, you've already heard from those who are unable to think outside the box, ready to ridicule anything that doesn't fit into their narrow world view. So sad. Especially on a progressive board. :eyes:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Vids in sig will help out, thanks for looking beyond the OP title. n/t

[PCIntern]

11. Danny Ocean's gonna use this in their next movie "Ocean's 14"...

it can't be true; the universe is only 5000 years old, right? Unless...this is part of the Plan...Plan Nine From Outer Space!

[Raksha]

12. K & R, bookmarked.

This sounds fascinating. Might take some time and effort to understand, but I get the feeling the effort will be worth it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. Not to be too pushy but if you go to

www.holoscience.com and search black hole, or dark matter, well here's one that makes you go hmmmmm.

http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=jdjcab6s

[RagAss]

13. Recc'ed...at least somewhere in the Universe...something is doing its job !!!