'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 8: The Cosmic Web
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“And as regards ‘dark matter’, which would eventually become widely accepted in the scientific community, my position is that one does not need to invent strange new kinds of matter, since it is plasma in different states (gaseous, liquid, solid, etc.) that is in ‘the dark mode’ and hence invisible to us. This fits perfectly with what we now know about the Universe consisting of 99.9 per cent plasma, bearing in mind too how hard it has been to photograph or even find the Kordylewski Clouds.”
“But what is important for this book and this chapter is that Zwicky produced evidence to show that space is not empty. Until then ‘outer space’ had been assumed to be totally empty, consisting of a perfect vacuum, with the exception of the solid orbiting bodies such as planets, moons, asteroids, etc. within the solar system and stars outside it. In other words, no medium was recognized. What happened to Zwicky after his discovery is an example of how blind and stubborn ignorance can hold back our understanding, because of the ‘tactics of ignoring’ new findings by the self-styled ‘Establishment'.
“... After d’Azambuja’s discovery of the solar wind, astronomers simply ignored it, as they had ignored Zwicky. Many famous astronomers continued to insist in the most vehement fashion that space was ‘empty’, and this remained very much the Astronomical Establishment’s position. There is nothing like ‘establishments’ of all kinds to ignore advances and new findings, and try to retain the status quo! And we must never forget that there is a status quo of ignorance, which is precious to the mediocre minds incapable of original thought who make up ‘the Establishment’.”
“.... However, the situation has become even worse today, for now it is not only observatory committees that prevent things from being published, but also the organized and combined forces of military, security and corporate power. Most scientists working in astrophysics in America today have signed confidentiality agreements with military agencies, and a large proportion of their work is kept secret under various security classifications, many of which are wholly unnecessary. If the scientists try to release their findings, they can go to jail.”
“Alfvén’s breakthrough was to follow up Birkeland’s speculations by identifying plasma as the medium by which electric currents could travel through space, as he extrapolated what he discovered about the currents running between the Sun and the Earth first to the galaxy and then to whole of the Universe.
This breakthrough would lead to both a radical new understanding of the contents of the cosmos and also – by coming to an understanding of the mechanisms by which plasma carried the currents and in turn the effects of currents of plasma – a greater understanding of plasma and its extraordinary properties....
Because Alfvén showed that the Universe has this vast network of plasma filaments carrying electric currents, he also showed that the Universe is full of electromagnetic fields. In fact, Alfvén’s electric currents in space produce a complex and dynamic interaction of magnetic fields, magnetic currents and electric fields throughout space. The charging of particles in plasmas and space by electromagnetic fields in turn modifies the electromagnetic fields. Whereas once space was thought of as empty, we now know that at a subatomic and quantum level, space is a jungle of plasma, a highly charged, creative ecosystem – with matter in the form of particles being one of the things it creates.
“Alfvén showed that a Birkeland Current is a stream of either negatively charged particles (electrons) or positively charged particles (protons and positive ions) that can travel for immense distances through space (many millions of miles or even billions of miles at speeds not far below the speed of light) along a ‘twisted rope’ not made of dense matter at all. The ‘rope’ is made entirely of the charged particles themselves and the magnetic fields generated by those streams of current. Scientists call these ropes ‘filaments’. When there are several of them seen at once, they are referred to as a filamentary structure. Sometimes they consist of substantial bundles of filaments, and sometimes of only two, which are literally a ‘double helix’.1
Superconductivity is an extraordinary phenomenon, first observed in 1911, by which a current can pass through certain materials and experience zero resistance. Classical physics cannot explain how this works and the quantum mechanical explanation is still not complete. But in 1970, Laszlo Solymar and Donald Walsh, two particularly brilliant scientists, clarified the nature of superconductivity to a large degree by pointing “out that superconductive filamentary currents consist of a central magnetic field surrounded by whirling layers of current vortices...."
“The charged particles that reach the Earth from the Sun are mostly positively charged, made of protons and ions emitted by the Sun, and they stream along Birkeland Currents towards the north and south poles of our planet. They are literally space rivers of positive current streaming into our planet, and into all other planets in our solar system as well. What this means is that there are ‘threads’ connecting the Sun with all of the planets, which is thus in continuous direct communication with all the ‘small fry’ by means of these rivulets. Of course, the rivulets get all twisted up because of the revolutions of the planets, and sometimes the rivulets are shut off and then new ones start up again.”
“Birkeland Currents beneath the surface of our own Sun are known to be 40,000 miles wide, as mentioned earlier. The ones linking stars are far larger, and ones linking galaxies in filaments to form ‘the cosmic web’ of the Universe are so gigantic that they are much wider than the diameter of any sun or star. Many have been observed and recorded by astronomers, including the Sloan Great Wall – a filament that is an amazing 1.37 billion light years long.
Birkeland Currents can also be microscopic. Our bodies are full of them. It is because of the nature of such infinitesimally small currents that we are alive …"
“The way in which the ‘ropes twist’ to form Birkeland Currents in a double-helix shape is really rather astounding. Does this remind you of anything? Yes, there is a distinct similarity between the structure of the DNA molecule and a Birkeland Current. Not only is this, in my opinion, no coincidence, but we shall see that since the 1970s there have been cell biologists insisting that charged currents flow along the DNA molecules inside our bodies, and that they are superconducting. Double helixes not only carry currents, they transmit information. All of this is getting us closer and closer to what I believe to be the nature and structure of a plasma body, and to the reasons for believing that intelligence can evolve in plasma.”
“Time and again in history, science seems only to progress via vicious ridicule, followed by vindication and reluctant, hypocritical acceptance by most of the people who have spent years insulting the innovative thinkers. Kristian Birkeland and those who have followed in promoting his idea of electric currents streaming through space, have defied orthodoxy and ridicule and have put forward a far more convincing explanation of how the Universe works. I certainly believe them to be correct.
“Filaments are fundamental to the Universe, and to all entities. They carry current. And they can carry information in the form of signals, they can transport energy, and so forth. In the Universe as a whole, they are everywhere. They constitute the major portion of the Universe’s structure, which today is known as the Cosmic Web. Here we see two similar adjoining images. The top one shows the Cosmic Web of the Universe. The bottom one shows the neural network of the human brain. Both are constituted of masses of filaments separated by voids and joined at intersection points called nodes. The Cosmic Web is called that because of the web-like nature of the filaments, which many believe to be filamentary channels for the conduction of energy and currents across astronomical distances. Some scientists call them Birkeland Currents (named after the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland), which contain current-carrying double-helixes spiralling forward and surrounded by protective sheaths.”
The 99.9 per cent of the Universe that is plasma is not sitting there inert. It is fantastically active and dynamic.
And we shall shortly see that as plasma beings, we are part of that universal process.”
“... As with the Universe and its Cosmic Web, the Brain Web of a human being displays filamentary networks separated by voids and joined at nodes. Is the Universe a giant brain? Is the human brain a mini-Universe? In any case, these phenomena are examples of ‘fractality’ (a term arising from the study of fractal geometry), which means similar patterns and structures occurring at different scales, from the microscopic to the cosmic. Such reoccurrences of shapes are often referred to as the ‘self-similarity’ of forms which remain the same across different scales. These concepts arise from the pioneering genius Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), discoverer of fractals. ”
by Robert Temple
Chapter 8: The Cosmic Web
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“And as regards ‘dark matter’, which would eventually become widely accepted in the scientific community, my position is that one does not need to invent strange new kinds of matter, since it is plasma in different states (gaseous, liquid, solid, etc.) that is in ‘the dark mode’ and hence invisible to us. This fits perfectly with what we now know about the Universe consisting of 99.9 per cent plasma, bearing in mind too how hard it has been to photograph or even find the Kordylewski Clouds.”
“But what is important for this book and this chapter is that Zwicky produced evidence to show that space is not empty. Until then ‘outer space’ had been assumed to be totally empty, consisting of a perfect vacuum, with the exception of the solid orbiting bodies such as planets, moons, asteroids, etc. within the solar system and stars outside it. In other words, no medium was recognized. What happened to Zwicky after his discovery is an example of how blind and stubborn ignorance can hold back our understanding, because of the ‘tactics of ignoring’ new findings by the self-styled ‘Establishment'.
“... After d’Azambuja’s discovery of the solar wind, astronomers simply ignored it, as they had ignored Zwicky. Many famous astronomers continued to insist in the most vehement fashion that space was ‘empty’, and this remained very much the Astronomical Establishment’s position. There is nothing like ‘establishments’ of all kinds to ignore advances and new findings, and try to retain the status quo! And we must never forget that there is a status quo of ignorance, which is precious to the mediocre minds incapable of original thought who make up ‘the Establishment’.”
“.... However, the situation has become even worse today, for now it is not only observatory committees that prevent things from being published, but also the organized and combined forces of military, security and corporate power. Most scientists working in astrophysics in America today have signed confidentiality agreements with military agencies, and a large proportion of their work is kept secret under various security classifications, many of which are wholly unnecessary. If the scientists try to release their findings, they can go to jail.”
“Alfvén’s breakthrough was to follow up Birkeland’s speculations by identifying plasma as the medium by which electric currents could travel through space, as he extrapolated what he discovered about the currents running between the Sun and the Earth first to the galaxy and then to whole of the Universe.
This breakthrough would lead to both a radical new understanding of the contents of the cosmos and also – by coming to an understanding of the mechanisms by which plasma carried the currents and in turn the effects of currents of plasma – a greater understanding of plasma and its extraordinary properties....
Because Alfvén showed that the Universe has this vast network of plasma filaments carrying electric currents, he also showed that the Universe is full of electromagnetic fields. In fact, Alfvén’s electric currents in space produce a complex and dynamic interaction of magnetic fields, magnetic currents and electric fields throughout space. The charging of particles in plasmas and space by electromagnetic fields in turn modifies the electromagnetic fields. Whereas once space was thought of as empty, we now know that at a subatomic and quantum level, space is a jungle of plasma, a highly charged, creative ecosystem – with matter in the form of particles being one of the things it creates.
“Alfvén showed that a Birkeland Current is a stream of either negatively charged particles (electrons) or positively charged particles (protons and positive ions) that can travel for immense distances through space (many millions of miles or even billions of miles at speeds not far below the speed of light) along a ‘twisted rope’ not made of dense matter at all. The ‘rope’ is made entirely of the charged particles themselves and the magnetic fields generated by those streams of current. Scientists call these ropes ‘filaments’. When there are several of them seen at once, they are referred to as a filamentary structure. Sometimes they consist of substantial bundles of filaments, and sometimes of only two, which are literally a ‘double helix’.1
Superconductivity is an extraordinary phenomenon, first observed in 1911, by which a current can pass through certain materials and experience zero resistance. Classical physics cannot explain how this works and the quantum mechanical explanation is still not complete. But in 1970, Laszlo Solymar and Donald Walsh, two particularly brilliant scientists, clarified the nature of superconductivity to a large degree by pointing “out that superconductive filamentary currents consist of a central magnetic field surrounded by whirling layers of current vortices...."
“The charged particles that reach the Earth from the Sun are mostly positively charged, made of protons and ions emitted by the Sun, and they stream along Birkeland Currents towards the north and south poles of our planet. They are literally space rivers of positive current streaming into our planet, and into all other planets in our solar system as well. What this means is that there are ‘threads’ connecting the Sun with all of the planets, which is thus in continuous direct communication with all the ‘small fry’ by means of these rivulets. Of course, the rivulets get all twisted up because of the revolutions of the planets, and sometimes the rivulets are shut off and then new ones start up again.”
“Birkeland Currents beneath the surface of our own Sun are known to be 40,000 miles wide, as mentioned earlier. The ones linking stars are far larger, and ones linking galaxies in filaments to form ‘the cosmic web’ of the Universe are so gigantic that they are much wider than the diameter of any sun or star. Many have been observed and recorded by astronomers, including the Sloan Great Wall – a filament that is an amazing 1.37 billion light years long.
Birkeland Currents can also be microscopic. Our bodies are full of them. It is because of the nature of such infinitesimally small currents that we are alive …"
“The way in which the ‘ropes twist’ to form Birkeland Currents in a double-helix shape is really rather astounding. Does this remind you of anything? Yes, there is a distinct similarity between the structure of the DNA molecule and a Birkeland Current. Not only is this, in my opinion, no coincidence, but we shall see that since the 1970s there have been cell biologists insisting that charged currents flow along the DNA molecules inside our bodies, and that they are superconducting. Double helixes not only carry currents, they transmit information. All of this is getting us closer and closer to what I believe to be the nature and structure of a plasma body, and to the reasons for believing that intelligence can evolve in plasma.”
“Time and again in history, science seems only to progress via vicious ridicule, followed by vindication and reluctant, hypocritical acceptance by most of the people who have spent years insulting the innovative thinkers. Kristian Birkeland and those who have followed in promoting his idea of electric currents streaming through space, have defied orthodoxy and ridicule and have put forward a far more convincing explanation of how the Universe works. I certainly believe them to be correct.
“Filaments are fundamental to the Universe, and to all entities. They carry current. And they can carry information in the form of signals, they can transport energy, and so forth. In the Universe as a whole, they are everywhere. They constitute the major portion of the Universe’s structure, which today is known as the Cosmic Web. Here we see two similar adjoining images. The top one shows the Cosmic Web of the Universe. The bottom one shows the neural network of the human brain. Both are constituted of masses of filaments separated by voids and joined at intersection points called nodes. The Cosmic Web is called that because of the web-like nature of the filaments, which many believe to be filamentary channels for the conduction of energy and currents across astronomical distances. Some scientists call them Birkeland Currents (named after the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland), which contain current-carrying double-helixes spiralling forward and surrounded by protective sheaths.”
The 99.9 per cent of the Universe that is plasma is not sitting there inert. It is fantastically active and dynamic.
And we shall shortly see that as plasma beings, we are part of that universal process.”
“... As with the Universe and its Cosmic Web, the Brain Web of a human being displays filamentary networks separated by voids and joined at nodes. Is the Universe a giant brain? Is the human brain a mini-Universe? In any case, these phenomena are examples of ‘fractality’ (a term arising from the study of fractal geometry), which means similar patterns and structures occurring at different scales, from the microscopic to the cosmic. Such reoccurrences of shapes are often referred to as the ‘self-similarity’ of forms which remain the same across different scales. These concepts arise from the pioneering genius Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), discoverer of fractals. ”