Earthquakes & Planet Alignments
How can the relative position of planets influence Earthquakes?
This is an interesting video by Ben Davidson at Suspicious Observers that touches on the curious subject of Planetary Alignments and the affect they have on Earth and the solar system. This is a taboo topic for physicists usually, so let’s dive in!
While mainstream scientists would mostly dismiss this phenomenon as being impossible in a gravity-centric Universe and therefore akin to Astrology, there is plenty of evidence that a strong correlation exists between these alignments and earthquakes. How could this be so?
The Electric Universe model says that in many ways our Solar System behaves like a plasma ball.
If we consider the centre of the plasma ball (the anode) here as being the Sun, the outer edge where your fingers can touch (the cathode) as being the outer boundary of the Solar System or the Heliopause, then the volume within is a diffuse gas that is slightly ionized (a plasma).
If the anode and the cathode were connected by a wire, all the current would flow directly and you’d probably regret touching it with your fingers! But the plasma acts as a partial insulator that allows a small amount of the current to short-circuit between the ions and reach the cathode. These are the wandering filaments you can see in the picture above.
This short-circuiting current causes tremendous excitement to the atoms in the plasma as they gain or lose charge, repelling or colliding and as some of the energy escapes these interactions, a dim glow is observed which becomes brighter as the current increases. So that’s all that is going on in a plasma ball, and exactly the same rules apply scaled up to the Solar System, it’s just our eyes are not normally sensitive enough to detect much of the glow except when it begins to light up our sky as aurora, or when we consider the glow of the Milky Way and cometary halos.
When our fingers touch the plasma ball cathode, the electric charge in our bodies becomes a part of the short-circuit and the plasma filaments are drawn to our finger tips as the current flows through them. They are drawn to matter because the matter carries charge, the more matter and charge, the more current is drawn to it.
Now planets and moons and asteroids and comets are also matter that can (and mostly do) carry charge. As they wander about the Solar System (through the plasma), that charge varies as they become nearer or further from the Sun. If you can imagine some little worlds orbiting inside your plasma ball, you would see a constantly changing web of plasma filaments dancing between these bodies as they rotate about the anode until eventually the filaments reach your finger tips.
We might not normally see the currents threading between these bodies but they are there and occasionally they are obvious enough to see as in the case of Jupiter and it’s moon Io.
Just as the current has an exciting effect on the plasma, it also causes electrical interactions on any wandering planets (or finger tips!) that should come into contact with it, this is why we see aurora’s on the planets, but this current also drives heat flow (energy) into and out of the planets, it’s is not just Sunlight that regulates our temperature.
This electric current drives our weather as it jumps between the different layers of the atmosphere and of the Earth itself. If enough energy builds up in one layer of the atmosphere it will eventually short-circuit into an adjacent layer, we experience this as storms and lightning. When the same thing happens between layers of rock, we experience earthquakes.
To conclude then, all the planets’ weather and seismic activity are affected to some degree by the current flowing from the Sun through the plasma to the planets and this current varies according to the presence of charged bodies. So the arrangement of the bodies does make a difference because when they are aligned much more energy is going to flow between them.