Dual bands of ultraviolet light mark streams of plasma circling Earth's equator.
Credit: NASA IMAGE Satellite/University of California Berkeley.
Plasma In Three Dimensions
Jun 12, 2009
Plasma is often described as the fourth state of matter. Since it makes up more than 99% of the Universe, it should be reckoned the first state. It was in September of 2006 that a major premise of Electric Universe theory was confirmed: Earth weather is electrically connected to the ionosphere. Since electricity always flows in a circuit, if the ionosphere connects to Earth's magnetosphere then it connects to the circuits of the Solar System, as well.
Although the general premise is probably thousands of years old—that Earth is somehow an electrical entity—it has only been in the last 100 years that scientists have given serious credence to the possibility that we could be living in a dynamic Solar System where electricity plays an important role.
Earth's polar aurorae are further evidence of this connection, as are high-altitude discharges known as red sprites and blue jets. Sprites and jets carry charge distribution from lower atmospheric layers into the ionosphere. They are usually seen high above thunderstorms, so high that the storm is sometimes below the horizon when the phenomenon occurs.
Space shuttle flights have recorded the glow from sprites and jets as they launched upward toward space. They are essentially reverse lightning bolts—beginning as powerful upward
Plasma In Three Dimensions
