Abstract: Energy and matter are transferred from the sun to Earth in brief dynamic bursts (magnetic flux events) via electromagnetic filaments, also known as magnetic flux ropes. The ropes initially form at the Earth’s equator and then travel towards the winter pole. These events seem likely candidates for the original causes of regulatory disorders such as influenza and may explain the simultaneity of outbreaks along lines of latitude. Flux ropes that are visible through the movement of air may be what is represented in much ancient art but misinterpreted as depictions of meteorites. Exceptionally powerful flux events may be the cause of ancient craters on the moon, Mars, Earth and other planets and are still detectable today in a weakened form. Flux ropes likely take the form of Birkeland currents.
Below: An artist’s depiction of a magnetic flux rope impacting the Earth.
Description
A flux transfer event (FTE) occurs when a magnetic portal opens in the Earth’s magnetosphere through which high-energy particles flow from the Sun. This connection, while previously thought to be permanent, has been found to be brief and very dynamic. The European Space Agency’s four Cluster spacecraft and NASA’s five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these FTEs, measuring their dimensions and identifying the particles that are transferred between the magnetic fields.
According to NASA, Earth’s magnetosphere and the Sun’s magnetic field are constantly pressed against one another on the dayside of Earth. Approximately every eight minutes, these fields briefly merge, forming a temporary “portal” between the Earth and the Sun through which high-energy particles such as solar wind can flow. The portal takes the shape of a magnetic cylinder about the width of Earth. Current observations place the portal at up to 4 times the size of Earth – Wikipedia
Flux events as the cause of moon craters
The moon, Mars, Venus and to some extent the Earth, are covered with craters which could well have been caused by magnetic flux events. The craters are said to have been caused by the impact of comets, but several factors mitigate against this:
- Arguments that a lack of atmosphere on the moon allows free passage of comets fail when applied to the Earth
- All these craters seem to be of a similar depth regardless of their radius and assumed impact mass
- All the craters on the moon, at least, are circular in shape and never elliptical. This suggests that all impact is perpendicular to the surface of the body. This is too much to be a coincidence and needs some explanation
- The moon craters show a general spiralling aspect (subjective) and pole clustering unexpected from the impact of random chunks of rock
Are these craters instead the result of powerful magnetic flux ropes which have attached to the moon temporarily and melted the rock into a circle? A magnetic tornado has accumulated debris at its centre and deposited it in a small mound which is easily visible in many pictures. The circular aspect is caused by the tendency of the tornado to ‘ground’ in a least energy pathway or maybe for it to be directly guided by the moon’s gravitational field.
Persistence of ancient rope connections?
Contemporary maps of the moon’s gravitational field show clear anomalies that coincide precisely with existing craters.
Analyzing GRAIL data: first lunar gravity field solutions at AIUB
https://www.aiub.unibe.ch/forschung/leo_bahn__und_schwerefeldbestimmung/analyzing_grail_data_first_lunar_gravity_field_solutions_at_aiub/index_ger.html
Not the preponderance of anomalies on the visible side of the moon (the side facing the Earth).
The technique used was to have two satellites orbit the moon and to form a radio wave connection between them. As the satellites moved around the moon, interference patterns in the radio waves suggested that the distance between the satellites had changed by a very small amount and this was attributed to small changes in the gravitational field of the moon. The scientists speculate that these gravitational discontinuities are caused by the surface irregularities of the moon.
Now if we have crater-like shapes on the moon and are measuring the same irregularities out in orbit then it seems inevitable that we would measure the same irregularities if we were in a higher or lower orbit. To rephrase this, there exists a gravitational(?) tube or filament extending from the moon craters to the satellite and beyond.
The images are crisp which implies a sharp edge to the filament. Newtonian gravity is radiative and dissipative; it is inconceivable that it should produce such artefacts. The filaments are sharp and hold their shape and this suggests some centripetal ‘field movement’ typical of electromagnetic fields.
The notion that these are gravity tubes originating in the physical matter of the moon makes it credible that they should simply dissipate into space at larger orbits, but the formulation as electromagnetic filaments allows the possibility that they hold their shape all the way to some other destination. Now since almost all of these anomalies are on the side of the moon that permanently faces Earth, the logical conclusion is that this is where their true origin lies.
A plausible hypothesis
The gravitational filaments in moon orbit are really some sort of electromagnetic current produced by discharge from the Earth, either directly from the surface or from somewhere in the ionosphere. The moon craters were formed millennia ago from the discharge and although the intensity has abated, the connection has persisted and the filaments persist to this day.
The permanent connection between the Earth and moon has affected the rotation of the moon and entrained it to the position of the Earth, giving the rotation we see today whereby the same hemisphere of the moon is permanently facing the our planet.
The discharge of possibly vast amounts of energy from Earth to moon acts as a stabilising influence on our planet’s ionosphere and makes life here less hazardous.
The filaments are permanently tethered to the Earth but must somehow cope with the Earth’s rotation. One possibility is that they ‘drag’ along lines of latitude as the Earth spins and that this causes synchronous effects in the health of the population (see below). The dragging may be continuous or may pause for significant periods at some locations more than others; after all, certain locations on the moon seem able to fix the filaments permanently.
A passing over of a filament or a sudden discharge event may destabilise the human regulatory system causing measurable effects in the health of the population.
If there also exist filaments from the sun to the Earth, then these no doubt will interact with the Earth-moon filaments, causing more disturbances and possibly adding a 29.5 day periodic component to any effects on health or biometrics.
A flux event as the cause of Earthly craters
Many similar craters appear on Earth, with one example, the Eye of the Sahara (Richat structure), shown below. This is claimed to be an eroded bubble in the Earth’s mantle, but could it just as easily have been caused by magnetic flux ropes? Note the concentric circles and alternating directions of the breaks in the rocks.
Flux ropes as Birkeland currents
If a flux rope has come all the way from the sun or makes it to the moon without significant attenuation then there must be some ‘cohesive’ forces that are holding all this energy together and preventing it from dissipating into the cosmos. This observation taken together with the concentric circles shown in once molten rock above, suggests that the flux ropes adopt the form of the alternating coaxial currents referred to by cosmologists as a Birkeland current (See below).
The phenomenon is electromagnetic in nature and arises naturally from the laws of electromagnetism. (Wallace Thornhill)
https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOAAJ/TOAAJ-4-191.pdf
The Great Serpent as a flux rope
Depictions of some sort of serpent abound on the planet in various forms, here the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio.
The head of the snake is often aligned with the spring equinox and is accepted by many as representing the Sun. Some have interpreted the sculpture as a whole as representing either a solar flare or a stream of meteorites originating at the sun and causing some sort of catastrophe on Earth.
Another interpretation is that what is depicted here is not a violent stream of flaming rocks, but a sinuous plasma tornado initiated by a magnetic flux rope originating from the sun. The serpent may be a mighty tornado or it may be a routine electromagnetic effect that passes by unnoticed.
Elliptical craters
All the craters on the moon are circular but there exist elliptical craters in the Carolina Bays and other places. How are these formed?
An obvious guess is that they are formed by magnetic flux ropes which for some reason hit the surface at an angle. Why? Is this caused by latitude? The season? Some sort of geo-magnetic anomaly in the past that mis-guided the ropes?
They all look the same proportions and so it looks like they were all caused by the same phenomenon and possibly all at the same time. They appear to be lacking a central mound.
A seasonal indicator?
Computer simulations suggest that the behaviour of solar flux ropes is different according to season and may therefore act as an indicator of season. This may be of some relevance to seasonal disease.
“According to NASA, since Cluster and THEMIS have directly sampled FTEs, scientists can simulate FTEs on computers to predict how they might behave. Jimmy Raeder of the University of New Hampshire told his colleagues simulations show that the cylindrical portals tend to form above Earth’s equator and then roll over Earth’s winter pole. In December, FTEs roll over the North Pole; in July they roll over the South Pole.” – Wikipedia
“I think there are two varieties of FTEs: active and passive.” (David Sibeck) Active FTEs are magnetic cylinders that allow particles to flow through rather easily; they are important conduits of energy for Earth’s magnetosphere. Passive FTEs are magnetic cylinders that offer more resistance; their internal structure does not admit such an easy flow of particles and fields. (For experts: Active FTEs form at equatorial latitudes when the IMF tips south; passive FTEs form at higher latitudes when the IMF tips north.)
So local electro-magnetic conditions are profoundly different in summer and winter, with the winter months transferring more energetic particles from the sun to Earth than the summer months.
What happens of you are standing underneath a sudden influx of energy from the sun?
A cause of disease?
The post: Influenza and field vortices speculated that influenza outbreaks are caused by electromagnetic field vortices in the atmosphere and the post: Influenza and weather found many correlations between weather events and outbreaks but only during winter months.
We need to account for:
- Influenza is a regulatory disorder caused by changes in the weather
- The regulatory system is electromagnetic in nature
- Outbreaks form along lines of latitude
- Outbreaks are correlated to changes in the weather
- Changes in the weather are accompanied by changes in the local electromagnetic conditions
- Outbreaks are seasonal but not related to temperature
- The northern flu season starts at the equator and moves up the latitudes towards the north pole in winter (Hope-Simpson)
- The southern flu season moves the other way
- The correlations with weather events are very precise, but only in the correct season
The question that remains is then: “What is it that defines the season?”. We need to find some reason why the electromagnetic conditions are reliably different in winter, some explanation as to why the ‘season’ moves from south to north each year and a reason why the season does not coincide precisely with the calendar year.
The behaviour of the flux ropes gives us some basis for an explanation although the description is far from complete.
We now have a theoretical model (computer simulation), at least, which:
- Is electromagnetic in nature
- Is a highly localised phenomenon
- Is seasonal in nature
- Produces different local electro-magnetic conditions in summer and winter
- Has some possibility of ‘movement’ from south to north
- Could possibly travel along lines of latitude
- Is likely linked to solar activity (sunspots etc.)
Latitudinal synchrony
The chart below shows the number of cases of flu measured over a period of 6 years in Cirencester (UK) and Prague.
The pattern matching is striking, with precisely matching timings and similar magnitudes. The same cause is present in both cases in towns which are 800 miles apart but at similar latitudes.
Hypothesis: Magnetic flux ropes are the cause of weather disturbances that lead to influenza outbreaks in these towns. If a flux rope can survive for more than a few hours only, then it traces out a line of disturbed magnetic activity on the ground as the Earth turns beneath it.
Think about what happens as the Earth turns. A rope from the sun cannot remain fixed at a point on the surface as this would mean looping around the planet at night time, which seems unlikely. The footprint of the rope must remain approximately stationary with respect to the sun whilst the Earth turns beneath it.
The flux ropes are described as moving towards the pole in the winter and it is interesting to note that although Prague is at a latitude of 50°, Cirencester is nearly two degrees north of this, at 51.7°. The rope may be spiralling slowly northwards.
Latitudinal gradient
Grenfell et al. in the chart below found a strong correlation between influenza ‘season’ and latitude, with outbreaks occurring later with the more northern latitudes. (The start of July is week zero I think)
This is an important discovery as the usual assumption is that outbreaks are somehow coincident with colder weather. This cannot be true as it would imply a general southerly progression from the north pole downwards.
How to explain?
If we think that influenza is caused by some atmospheric disturbance of electromagnetism, the in the first instance we are looking for some such disturbance that moves from south to north as the northern winter season progresses.
But we already have, from the Wikipedia article: “(Computer) simulations show that the cylindrical portals tend to form above Earth’s equator and then roll over Earth’s winter pole. In December, FTEs roll over the North Pole; in July they roll over the South Pole.”
This looks promising, but it isn’t too clear what is happening here. How long does the rolling take? What happens in October? Does it still roll all the way to the North Pole or does it pause half way?
This lack of clarity doesn’t really help our hypothesis but neither does it contradict it, so flux transfer events are still plausible candidates for the initiation of seasonal outbreaks of influenza.
Ancient petroglyphs and plasma discharge
Much ancient art seems to depict shapes similar to plasma discharge produced in a laboratory (Anthony Peratt) thereby suggesting that our atmosphere may have been considerably more electrically active in the past than it is today.
Crop circles
Crop circles are found mostly on Salisbury plain and have been theorised to have been caused by plasma whirlwinds (Wikipedia)
In Cilycym, Wales a farmer claims to have witnessed such a creation:
Mr William Cyril Williams wrote: “With reference to the corn circles mystery I actually witnessed one being made. I was standing in a cornfield one morning and saw a whirlwind touching the ground and forming a circle in the corn. It was just the strength of the wind in the whirlwind that formed the circle”.
The event happened in the late 1940’s when he worked on his father’s farm, Penfedw Farm at Cilycwm.
https://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/scienceofcropcircles.htm
Gobekli Tepe
Carvings of snakes in Gobekli Tepe could easily depict magnetic flux ropes:
Newgrange
The rock art at Newgrange clearly depicts some sort of vortex wind flowing over some water:
Plausible hypotheses
Magnetic flux ropes in the past were more abundant and more visible. Even if they could not be seen directly, they could be ‘felt’ or inferred by circles in the grass for example.
Stonehenge, Avebury, Cilycwm, Newgrange and half of Salisbury plain are all at around 51° N, the same latitude as both Prague and Cirencester. This may or may not be of significance.
The flux ropes took up either permanent or seasonal residence at certain sacred places and the locals decided to make use of the intermittent (seasonal) energies associated with them.
Geoffrey Drum (Land of Chem) argues that these places were constructed as fertiliser factories, harnessing energy to facilitate bio-chemical reactions. Very possibly the astronomical orientation of the buildings helped to keep track of the season in order to optimise energy usage.
Smaller constructions are to be found all over the the world and are assumed to be tombs for the local dignitaries. An alternative idea might be that that are attempted healing chambers; the energy has been sensed or even seen by the locals and they have placed their sick there in the hope of rejuvenation.
References
Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth – Tony Phillips
https://web.archive.org/web/20090731010649/http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30oct_ftes.htm?list179029
Flux transfer event – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_transfer_event
Global Patterns in Seasonal Activity of Influenza A/H3N2, A/H1N1, and B from 1997 to 2005: Viral Coexistence and Latitudinal Gradients – Grenfell, Finkleman et al.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001296