The Playful Planets

@LeeHarris @ArchRose90 Green policies in a nutshell.

@ArchRose90 Immediately reminded me of this...

The Greens Makerfield candidate, Sarah Wakefield, runs a charity which: Calls for British farming to be “decolonised” with “inclusive spaces.” Shared a report which argued perfectionism is an example of “white supremacy culture.” Every Green candidate is satire come to life.

@theterriersfan A good team.

STEADY ON 👊 Jon Stead has also been announced as Martin Drury's assistant head coach. #htafc

@HMSHTAFC After a positive start, it was clear that Grant had no clear plan.

We were in the play offs because most teams around us still had games in hands Also top scorers is nice but when your defence is as open as Bonnie Blues legs it means nothing Conceded 3 against Blackpool, Barnsley, Bradford, Wycombe, Wimbledon, Cardiff, and Burton #htafc

@theterriersfan I like the cut of his jib.

𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗥𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 👑 Huddersfield born Martin Drury will take charge of the Terriers for the upcoming SkyBet League One campaign! #htafc

@JamesMelville No arrests or imprisonment for Social Media posts.

40,000 gun deaths per year.

@QuantumTumbler @Kekius_Sage "Dark matter and dark energy aren’t “patches” in the same sense as just making things up though." Er, yes they are. "Dark Matter and Dark Energy are the blank cheques required to postpone the falsification of bankrupt theories." Thunderbolts Project

Dark matter and dark energy aren’t “patches” in the same sense as just making things up though. They’re inference terms for observed gravitational and cosmological behavior that the current equations are trying to account for. You can absolutely criticize ΛCDM people do it constantly in mainstream physics, but the replacement still has to cash out quantitatively across • CMB structure • lensing • galaxy clustering • nucleosynthesis • expansion history • large-scale structure • precision cosmology data That’s the hard part. Physics isn’t won by disliking a model aesthetically. It’s won by outperforming it predictively.

Is it possible that our consciousness is created by dark matter?

5/ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐒𝐎𝐇𝐎? 𝐎𝐨𝐩𝐬…𝐰𝐞’𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚 « 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐭 » Officially the « magnetic carpet » is a dense network of tiny, ever-changing magnetic loops and bright points covering the solar photosphere. It produces frequent small-scale jets, spicules, UV brightenings and nanoflares. Astronomers admit that coronal heating is a major unsolved problem, but the carpet’s high density and continuous explosive activity was not predicted by the standard model. « The pattern of the magnetic carpet changes completely every 40 hours. That implies a continual rearrangement of loops in the atmosphere, by magnetic reconnections. The resulting explosions appear as jets of gas… » (SOHO) Standard model expectation: 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆 But we have an explanation: « Internal dynamo and convection drive magnetic loops that braid and reconnect, releasing energy via nanoflares ». This is proposed to heat the million-degree corona. Not a chance. The « carpet » consists of anode tufts where incoming Birkeland currents meet the positively charged solar anode. These tufts form dense, bright discharge points that naturally produce loops, filaments, and current sheets. As current input varies, instabilities and double-layer breakdowns in the plasma release energy as jets, spicules, blinkers, and explosive events. This provides a direct, abundant external electrical source for coronal heating — simple, scalable, and consistent with laboratory plasma experiments. As Scott has shown, these are not fictitious « magnetic reconnections » but electrical processes driven by external currents. It elegantly unifies small-scale activity with larger phenomena like solar tornadoes and coronal mass ejections.

@QuantumTumbler @Kekius_Sage Equally, the Plasma Universe does not rely on exotic hypotheticals like Dark Matter and Dark Energy to patch increasingly strained equations. What passes for “Plasma Astrophysics” within the mainstream still plays the elegant-math, gravity-only game. Think egos. Think funding.

“Electric Universe” keeps getting presented like it overturns modern cosmology, but it never actually replaces the predictive framework. Plasma effects in space are real. Nobody disputes that. Plasma astrophysics is an actual field. The problem is the leap from “plasma forms filaments” to “therefore galaxies, gravity, dark matter, stellar evolution, the CMB, nucleosynthesis, lensing, and large-scale structure are all fundamentally wrong.” That jump is where the evidence collapses. The standard cosmological model isn’t accepted because the visuals look cool. It’s accepted because it quantitatively predicts observations across multiple independent datasets. Electric Universe models still fail to produce a mathematically complete framework with predictive power comparable to GR + ΛCDM. Analogies and morphology are not enough. Physics cashes out in equations, simulations, constraints, and predictions.

@QuantumTumbler @Kekius_Sage The resemblance between Lichtenberg figures and branching water tributaries is another fascinating example of nature’s recurring geometries across scale. Regarding consciousness, I also recommend this interesting speculation. #stme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">plasmacosmology.net/electric.html#…

That’s exactly the leap I’m cautioning against though. Large-scale filamentary structure does not automatically imply “cosmic neurons” or universe-scale consciousness. Plasma naturally forms filaments under electromagnetic forces. River deltas branch. Lightning branches. Fungal networks branch. So do lungs and blood vessels. Nature reuses efficient geometries across scales because similar optimization pressures often produce similar patterns. But similarity in morphology is not evidence of identical function or mechanism. Neurons don’t just “look connected.” They process information through very specific biochemical signaling, adaptive synapses, learning dynamics, and computational architectures. Right now there’s zero evidence cosmic plasma filaments are performing cognition, storing memory, or generating consciousness in any remotely brain-like sense. Interesting analogy? Absolutely. Evidence for a conscious universe? Not even close.

@danmogs_ Well, nothing would surprise me, but he is already in gainful employment.

Mark Robins has been appointed Head Coach of Huddersfield Town, taking control of the Men’s First Team with immediate effect having signed a long-term contract with the Club. Welcome to the Terriers, Mark! #htafc

@QuantumTumbler @Kekius_Sage No, but the point is that large-scale filamentary structure is not merely “visually similar.” In a plasma universe, such formations are expected outcomes of electromagnetic behaviour in plasma, including filamentation and fractal-like self-organisation across scales.

Similarity in visual structure doesn’t automatically mean the same underlying mechanism though. Lightning, neurons, river deltas, fungal networks, and cosmic filaments can all look alike because nature reuses efficient branching patterns across scales. That’s interesting mathematically, but it’s not evidence the universe is literally a giant brain or that plasma filaments generate consciousness. Analogies can inspire ideas they can’t replace mechanisms, predictions, or evidence.

Harvey Friedman — the youngest professor in Stanford's history, founder of reverse mathematics, and the mathematician Kurt Gödel personally chose to sponsor his final paper — has spent 60 years on a single, audacious question: can ordinary, finite math be trusted? His theorems suggest otherwise, showing that even the most concrete and natural mathematical statements — involving nothing more exotic than rational numbers — cannot be proved or refuted within the gold standard of mathematical foundations, ZFC. The foundations of mathematics, Friedman argues, are not settled bedrock but something far more vertiginous: totally up in the air, and made more mysterious, not less, by his own work.

@QuantumTumbler @Kekius_Sage Dark matter remains hypothetical. Meanwhile, the observable universe is threaded with plasma filaments and electromagnetic networks transferring energy across cosmic scales — not unlike the electrical activity of neurons in the brain. The microcosm and the macrocosm.

@Kekius_Sage There’s currently zero evidence dark matter interacts with neurons in any meaningful way, so consciousness arising from it is pure speculation for now.

@tboltsproject We need far more real experimentation like this. Science advances through observation and experiment — not endless chalkboard abstractions insulated from reality.

—Thunderbolts— Benjamin Hyde: Three MORE Simple Experiments May 16, 2026 youtu.be/48tDb7bTaZc

@AshtonForbes @UAPJames In Fairness, Greer said it more then 30 years ago,

@UAPJames You mean the thing I've been screaming is the center of the UFO topic for three years? I'll fire up the printers, we're gonna need a lot of apology forms.

Rep. Burchett says President Trump is facing resistance from the Deep State on the UFO files which may reveal a coverup of Zero-Point Energy “It’s about power and control. That’s what runs Washington. They’re gonna have to admit they’ve been lying to us.”

@AshtonForbes The situation is reminiscent of gravity-only cosmology, where plasma and its electromagnetic interactions are treated as insignificant despite dominating laboratory plasma behaviour. Once messy EM is admitted into the system, many elegant theoretical assumptions start to wobble.

Here's the math for free energy. Physicists missed an entire dimension. There are no closed systems. When physics found out zero point energy was real experimentally via Casimir effect, lamb shift, etc, they calculated the energy density and found it to be practically infinite. That's the math, and they hated it, so they renormalized it to nothing. Do you still want to debate the math of zero point energy? I'm ready. We don't have a math or science problem, we have a psychology problem.

@DayneShaul18324 Maybe the motherships are effectively invulnerable, while the smaller probes are expendable and comparatively fragile. Even our own species sends disposable craft into hostile environments.

If aliens from another galaxy were coming here, their technology would be thousands of years ahead of us. If their technology is that good, would they really be crashing spaceships on earth for the last 100 years?

@talkSPORT Hearts almost broke the Old Firm monopoly. That would have been good for Scottish football. The controversial ending only adds to the bitterness and sense that the game is increasingly run for the same entrenched interests.

🔚 "When we scored the third goal, the game essentially over!" 😤 "There's obvious excitement... we've just won the league! So the fans should stay put?" Martin O'Neill launches angry defence of #CelticFC fans invading the pitch during their title decider vs Hearts! 😡

@NCFCTyler He got Hudds into the Prem on the second smallest budget in the Championship, after Rotherham.

I can’t speak for the whole fanbase as it’s very torn with him but for me personally, I heavily underrated him. I gave him so much unfair stick. He did an insane job to get a team with that God awful back four to the play-offs, even if he had Sara, Rowe and Sargent