Earth is part of the cosmos, and most of our false science started right down here. Our National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tells us all about how graupel (flying slush) brings on lightning. Actually, the electrical conditions that bring on lightning also happen to bring on the formation of graupel As ice crystals attain greater charge during a storm, the negative ions, which are all restricted to the surface of the crystals, overcome more of the gravitational action that has produced the crystallization, and the surface water can liquefy at temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius. When the ion density has reached such levels that such supercooled liquid water is present, another effect of the electricity is production of lightning bolts.
Crediting the graupel for bringing on lightning is like explaining that pain can break bones! One good kick in the butt can bring pain. Successive kicks in the butt can break the butt. But it is the kicks in the butt that does the breaking, not the pain.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Another Force
Posted by Dale Miller
We have such oodles and oodles of data nowadays that surely many conclusions are due to us just from incidental appraisal of evidence already at hand. It does seem that we can now critique popular reports of cosmic acceleration, explain snowflake and lightning formation processes, describe the workings of polar jets, and deduce how super massive black holes snare stars that had been orbiting them. This posting attempts to break such ground with revelation of a forsaken force in cosmic architecture.
Contemplation of M. Faraday's ice pail suggests that charged particles can and do become rearranged for indefinite periods of time. We might describe such phenomena as electroconcentric repolarization. The effect represents a migration of particles that results in altered situations for the materials involved. Therein lies Another Force. A good local example of such material shifting might be the meteorologist's FWC (Fair Weather Current) whereby electrons travel up through the atmosphere to our electrosphere AKA ionosphere. Most electronics technicians should suppose this current to demonstrate that the earth has more negative particles than positive ones, and the consequential negative charge resides at the earth's outer limits in keeping with Faraday's demonstration.
It follows that positive charges travel or propagate downward to the center of our planet. Gravity must suffice to withhold those extra electrons from earthly departure. Given the electrostatic traction afforded such particles, it also follows that any ionizing event that reduces an ion's pull upon its displaced electron to less than the pull of global traction will yield that electron to the electrosphere. The added positive charge propagated to Earth's core provides the additional holding required for the added electron enlisted into the electrosphere, but we can know that neither transition represents a storage of energy because the excursions are taken exothermically. Despite the semantic hazard of the charged particles involved then, there is no energy invested by the rearrangement; hence there is no concern about imperfect insulation. Your informant remains unaware of any limit to the ratio of electrons thus retained electrically to those under gravitational restraint, nor of any limit to the size of a Faraday cage.
If no one shows us that repolarization doesn't happen, we will get back soon with some more of the story.
We have such oodles and oodles of data nowadays that surely many conclusions are due to us just from incidental appraisal of evidence already at hand. It does seem that we can now critique popular reports of cosmic acceleration, explain snowflake and lightning formation processes, describe the workings of polar jets, and deduce how super massive black holes snare stars that had been orbiting them. This posting attempts to break such ground with revelation of a forsaken force in cosmic architecture.
Contemplation of M. Faraday's ice pail suggests that charged particles can and do become rearranged for indefinite periods of time. We might describe such phenomena as electroconcentric repolarization. The effect represents a migration of particles that results in altered situations for the materials involved. Therein lies Another Force. A good local example of such material shifting might be the meteorologist's FWC (Fair Weather Current) whereby electrons travel up through the atmosphere to our electrosphere AKA ionosphere. Most electronics technicians should suppose this current to demonstrate that the earth has more negative particles than positive ones, and the consequential negative charge resides at the earth's outer limits in keeping with Faraday's demonstration.
It follows that positive charges travel or propagate downward to the center of our planet. Gravity must suffice to withhold those extra electrons from earthly departure. Given the electrostatic traction afforded such particles, it also follows that any ionizing event that reduces an ion's pull upon its displaced electron to less than the pull of global traction will yield that electron to the electrosphere. The added positive charge propagated to Earth's core provides the additional holding required for the added electron enlisted into the electrosphere, but we can know that neither transition represents a storage of energy because the excursions are taken exothermically. Despite the semantic hazard of the charged particles involved then, there is no energy invested by the rearrangement; hence there is no concern about imperfect insulation. Your informant remains unaware of any limit to the ratio of electrons thus retained electrically to those under gravitational restraint, nor of any limit to the size of a Faraday cage.
If no one shows us that repolarization doesn't happen, we will get back soon with some more of the story.
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