Do you think that the universe is controlled by gravity? Do you believe that “the big bang”, “black holes”, “worm holes”, “dark matter” and parallel universes exist? Do you think that the sun (or any star) is a solid mass of thermonuclear fission? If so, you might find this pearl both interesting and enlightening—or maybe you will have a diametrical opinion.
The Farces of the universe, a Musical Alliteration:
Except for a 14.5 billion year old universe started by a Big Bang and employing black holes, dark matter, wormholes, parallel universes and thermonuclear stars, everything that you’ve ever heard about science and the universe is true.
There are many Neanderthals lurking in the muddled mist, ready to pounce on anything that may support their outrageous opinions. They assume (making an ass of u & me) that a fact is only what supports their outlandish opinions, and that if it doesn’t support them then they’re false facts. They have not only over this past period perverted political parley, they have surmised science-fiction to be science-fact, which they portray in their timeless thespian theatrics.
Take for example the centuries-long musical miscarriage, “Gravity Rules”, with its prolific program of prodigious playwrights ranging from Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and beyond. “Gravity Rule's” musical mutants include (all sung to the tune of “525,600 minutes”): “Help me Dark Matter I am too weak on my own”; “There is never a Black Hole around when you need one”; and my personal favorite, “But my manipulated math is patent proof”. This comical concoction was recently upstaged by the science sensible symphonic, “Electromagnetism Rules” with its hit songs (also sung to the tune of “525,600 minutes”) “Ten to the 36th power stronger than Gravity” and “Plasma’s suffuse soup unifies the universe”—plus the mega-hit “The hollow Sun will collapse, tomorrow” (sung to the Annie tune “Tomorrow”).
A tuneless spin-off of that “Gravity Rules” fantasy flop, which has been running rampant for over half a century is “The Big Bang Theory” with its neverending array of asinine acts: Act-I: “The Big Bang Bomb”; Act-II: “Black Hole BS”; Act-III: “The Dark Matter Diversion”; Act-IV: “Parallel universes filled with Wormholes” (yuck); and, Act-V onward “More Moronics yet to come”. Yes, all of these flights of fancy do create box office billions for SiFi movies, books and the like, but it bankrupts scientific truth.
The conundrum is that we assume that the playwrights for all of this science fiction are actual physicist, when they are mere mathematicians and theoretical physicists using thoughts and numbers instead of scientific studies to stage their sham sonatas. Few if any of them are electrical engineers, which would make it easier for them to understand a universe controlled by complex, compelling electromagnetic forces. Instead, they adhere to simplistic, sickly gravitational forces to support their spurious supposition. Billions are invested every year to get these ditties in history's “top ten” list, only to fail with little return on their investments—yet, this thespian theater is still high box office for their numbered masses. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of this gibberish were true? If so, we could create our own reality based on our own obstinate opinions and forget the facts no matter how adversely they affect us—we could assume that we could defy gravity and fly, enjoy the fascinating flight, but still have to deal with that sudden stop.
Moving onward:
Our one and only forever universe is controlled by electromagnetism, not gravity. And it is not 14.5 Billion years old; it’s at least 125 billion years old, which is how long it would take for stars to be created and combine into galaxies, and eventually combine into mega-galaxies—but back to the many forces and farces of of the universe.
Gravity helps keep everything from floating away into space and yes; solar systems have large masses (suns and planets) that are influenced by gravitational forces, because the distances between them are only millions of miles. And even galaxies can have a gravitational affect on each other, mainly because of their humongous masses, even though they are millions of light years apart.
A galaxy, unlike a solar system is held together by electromagnetic forces, not gravitational forces. For example, our flat rotating milky way galaxy can be thought of as a gigantic bicycle wheel with its hundreds of billions of stars secured to the spokes of that wheel. And as the wheel (galaxy) turns, the stars on the spokes move, but stay in place relative to each other. If the stars within a galaxy were held together by gravity their positions would change relative to each other as the galaxy rotates, just like the planets’ positions in our solar system change relative to each other as they rotate around the sun. Also some think that since we have a massive sun at the center of our solar system to hold it together that there must be a gigantic black hole in the center of our galaxy to hold it together. This is about as probable as a cowboy’s Milky Way Lasso holding our galaxy together.
The Structure of the Universe's Stars:
To fit in with the gravity theory, our solar system needs a massive sun to hold it together, which it does. But that sun is not a solid (like a golf ball), massive nuclear furnace with its center measuring millions of ºF. Fun fact; the sun is hollow (like a tennis ball), with its vacant center measuring only about 900 ºF. The sun’s true composition will become evident when the new NASA satellite probe examines it—although, much of this can be sermised through a telescope if you know what to look for. Being hollow and held together by electromagnetic forces, a star can collapse and become extremely small with an equal mass, held together by gravity. A simple example of this kind of collapse is when you deflate a fully inflated balloon and end up with a tiny balloon of equal weight (mass).
The best explanation of how the electromagnetic force runs the universe is the book by Donald E. Scott, The Electric Sky (2nd edition, 2012)—he writes well and is easy to understand. Another book by Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott, The Electric Universe (2002 & 2008) is similar, but harder to understand. The book that started it all is by Eric J. Lerner, The Big Bang Never Happened (1992), which is not an easy read. Lerner’s book is based on the original research and theories of the Nobel Prize winning physicist Hannes Alfven (1908 to 1995), a pioneer in the revolution to separate out science fact from science fiction.
I hope that this joyous journey from orthodontic forces and structures to universal forces and structures has entertained you and sufficiently stimulated you to further forage and appease an appetite for the delicious concepts presented here.
