No he wasn't
Just to clarify the electric comet / electric sun relationship ... SOURCE
ELECTRIC COMET
• Comets are debris produced during violent electrical interactions of planets and moons in an earlier phase of solar system history. Comets are similar to asteroids, and their composition varies. Most comets should be homogeneous - their interiors will have the same composition as their surfaces. They are simply “asteroids on eccentric orbits.”
• Comets follow their elongated paths within a weak electrical field centered on the Sun. In approaching the Sun, a charge imbalance develops between the nucleus and the higher voltage and charge density near the Sun. Growing electrical stresses initiate discharges and the formation of a glowing plasma sheath, appearing as the coma and tail.
• The observed jets of comets are electric arc discharges to the nucleus, producing “electrical discharge machining” (EDM) of the surface. The excavated material is accelerated into space along the jets’ observed filamentary arcs.
• Intermittent and wandering arcs erode the surface and burn it black, leaving the distinctive scarring patterns of electric discharges.
• The jets’ explode from cometary nuclei at supersonic speeds and retain their coherent structure for hundreds of thousands of miles. The collimation of such jets is a well-documented attribute of plasma discharge.
• The tails of comets reveal well-defined filaments extending up to tens of millions of miles without dissipating in the vacuum of space. This “violation” of neutral gas behavior in a vacuum is to be expected of a plasma discharge within the ambient electric field of the Sun.
• It is the electric force that holds the spherical cometary coma in place as the comet races around the Sun. The diameter of the visible coma will often reach millions of miles. And the visible coma is surrounded by an even larger and more “improbable” spherical envelope of fluorescing hydrogen visible in ultraviolet light.
• The primary distinction between comet and asteroid surfaces is that electrical arcing and “electrostatic cleaning” of the comet nucleus will leave little or no dust or debris on the surface during the active phase, even if a shallow layer of dust may be attracted back to the nucleus electrostatically as the comet becomes dormant in its retreat to more remote regions.
Electric Comet, Electric Sun
The electric comet model does not stand alone but in partnership with another hypothesis - the electric Sun.
In the 1960s, engineer Ralph Juergens, an admirer of Hannes Alfvén, proposed that the Sun is a glow discharge, the center of an electric field extending to the heliopause.
This field is the cause of solar wind acceleration. In the 1970s Juergens elaborated the theoretical concept and suggested that a comet’s display is provoked by its electrical exchange with the Sun.
The comet spends most of its time far from the Sun, where the plasma voltage is low relative to the Sun.
In remote regions, the comet moves slowly and its charge easily comes into balance with its surroundings. But as the comet falls toward the Sun, it begins to move at a furious speed through regions of increasing voltage. The comet’s charge, developed in deep space, responds to the new environment by increasing internal electric polarization and by forming cathode jets and a visible plasma sheath, or coma.
The jets flare up and move over the nucleus irregularly, leaving scars typical of electric discharge machining. The comet may shed and grow anew several tails. Or it may explode like an over-stressed capacitor, breaking into separate fragments or simply giving up the ghost and disappearing.
If the electric theorists are correct, there is no mystery in the gravity-defying behavior of comets.
A gravitationally insignificant rock on a highly elliptical orbit can be an electrically powerful object.
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Come on tusenfem !
When are the ESA going to give us more pictures and data from 67P ?
Are these huge increases in the solar wind ...
... going to produce a reaction from 67P ? and will they bother to tell us ?
It is clear that mainstream comet hypothesis expect such a reaction but are STILL surprised by the coma reaction (eg no deformation and massive increase in size) to the sudden increase of solar wind speed. It's interesting to read this paper and to wonder when the mainstream will realise that comet sublimating ices in the sunshine are inadequate to explain this. And so, the morph towards the magnetic - electric comet hypothesis is obvious.
ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL OSCILLATIONS OF COMETARY IONOSPHERES PDF
Of course mainstream will continue to be surprised by comet behaviour until they accept comets as CHARGED BODIES moving in the electric field of the Sun and that fact causes a PLASMA SHEATH to form around the comet nucleus.
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