The Electric Universe (book)
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The Electric Universe is a book written by Dr. László Körtvélyessy, an engineer and physicist who is candidate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Via his book, "Thermoelement Praxis (third edition)" he is known as a "specialist in thermocouples" that critiques modern astrophysics. His major point is that the whole Sun is a thermoelement, producing electricity without movement via the difference in electron thermal velocity at the core of the Sun and at the photosphere, an idea is that is at odds with the mainstream scientific understanding of the Sun and of stars.
Physics knows four forces; scíentists of the last century, however, were convinced that one of those, the electric force, played no macroscopic role in the Universe. The book The Electric Universe explains why that is incorrect.
According to Körtvélyessy, the filamentary nature of the solar eruptions is due to the pinch effect (in which parallel electric currents attract each other). The pösitively charged filaments are ejected electrically, their ions are not the result but the cause of their ejection. Also the supernova remnants are filamentary as the beautiful picture of the Hubble space telescope and the VL-telescope of ESA in cooperation recently impressively showed in the case of the Crab-Nebula (M1).
The book The Electric Universe by Körtvélyessy should not be confused with Electric Universe, a different book written later by David Bodanis, which is a scientific history of electricity.
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- The Electric Universe website
- Körtvélyessy, László (1998). The Electric Universe. Budapest: Kiado és Nyomda EFFO. ISBN 963-8243-19-8.
