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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-11 11:07 AM
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How did we get here?
Dark matter is the answer,according to this blog.

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/12/how_did_we_get_here.php
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-11 11:40 AM
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1. Letting the days go by.......
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-11 06:24 PM
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5. My theme song, too!
One of them, anyway... especially for awesome cosmic stuff like this.
:fistbump:

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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-11 11:45 AM
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2. It's filamentary my dear Watson
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-11 11:55 AM
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3. Doesn't mean it is "electric"
It might be something else entirely. Or these filiments might be leading to some mechanism that isn't fully formed yet. From where I sit, I'm looking for fractal zoom similarities.

That graphic is amazing.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-11 12:11 PM
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4. I'm sure that by now you have seen what Los Alamos has stated
regarding the filaments and their formation, if not here it is again in full.


These are most likely representative of the filaments from the previous graphic.

http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/anatomy.html



The simplest geometry for galaxy formation, two adjacent Birkeland currents of width 35 kiloparsecs separated 80 kiloparsecs across. By scaling the current flows in astronomical objects by size, it is determined that the average flow in a galactic Birkeland current is approximately 1019 amperes; IA, the Alfvén galactic current.

In contrast to the experiment above, where the plasma currents are 30 millimeters in length, the galactic currents may extend 400 megaparsecs or more.

Economy in simulation, gained from observing laboratory experiments, suggests that the active region, where large electric fields build up, is about 10 kiloparsecs in length. That is, the salient phenomena can be modeled with two stubby pinches. The pinches are driven, of course, by the energy carried in the long length currents.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-11 11:07 PM
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6. THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE CLAPTRAP IS PSEUDOSCIENCE QUACKERY
Please stop spamming this forum with it.

Thanks.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 04:33 PM
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7. But tell us how you *really* feel...
;)
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