Comets Impact Cosmology 彗星は宇宙論に衝突する by Wal Thornhill | July 20, 2004 1:35 pm “Comets are important, they could be the key to the universe …maybe.”「彗星は重要です。宇宙への鍵になるかもしれません…もしかしたら。」– Burt Lancaster,…

Cassini’s Homecoming カッシーニの帰郷 by Wal Thornhill | June 19, 2004 8:22 am １７７＊ Cassini closes in on the beautiful ringed planet — Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute カッシーニは、美しい環のある惑星―土星に接近します。…

Electric Weather 電気的天候 by Wal Thornhill | May 30, 2004 8:10 am The following excerpts come from a report[1] that appeared in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) magazine, SPECTRUM, for April. 以下の抜粋は、電…

Electric Dust Devils 電気的ダストデビルズ by Wal Thornhill | April 25, 2004 12:40 am ‘.. it may sometimes be that not to know one thing that is wrong could be more important than knowing a hundred things that are right.’– Halton Arp, Quasa…

An Open Letter to Closed Minds閉ざされた心への公開書簡 by Wal Thornhill | April 12, 2004 12:18 am １６６＊ Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal.サー・マーティン・リース、王室天文学者。 Everything astronomers can see, stretching out to dis…

Mystery of Mars’ Polar Spirals 火星の極渦巻の謎 by Wal Thornhill | March 30, 2004 11:30 pm ‘Before each revolution, all the pegs seemed square and all the holes round. In each case, it was not until it was realized that one had to discard …

The Shiny Mountains of Venus 金星の輝く山々 by Wal Thornhill | December 16, 2003 2:07 pm The astronomer Victor A. Firsoff in his book, The Solar Planets (1977), wrote:天文学者のビクター・A・ファーソフは、著書『太陽惑星』（1977年）の中で次…

THE SUN — Our Variable Star 太陽 — 私たちの変光恒星 by Wal Thornhill | November 9, 2003 10:12 amThis article updated on 25 Nov 2003 “Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the growth in our understanding of the universe is that we understan…

Comets & Lightning Jets 彗星と雷ジェット by Wal Thornhill | October 19, 2003 8:35 am I recently picked up a second-hand book titled “The Big Splash” by Dr. Louis Frank of the University of Iowa. 私は最近、アイオワ大学のルイス・フランク博士…

Mysterious Mars 謎の火星 by Wal Thornhill | August 27, 2003 7:43 am Today, 27 August, at 9.51 am GMT, Mars will be a mere 56 million kilometres from Earth, the closest it has been since 57,617 BC. 今日、8月27日午前9時51分（グリニッジ標準時…

Spiral Galaxies & Grand Canyons 渦巻銀河とグランドキャニオン by Wal Thornhill | August 18, 2003 11:33 pm The grandest canyon in the solar system is Valles Marineris on Mars. It stretches a third of the way around the planet. But what in he…

Puzzling Star Stuff 不可解な恒星の素材 by Wal Thornhill | August 2, 2003 11:20 pm“Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are.” 「キラキラ光る、小さなお星様。 あなたは何者なのか不思議です。」 In a report for the New Scientist o…

Planet Birthing – more evidence 惑星の誕生 – さらなる証拠 by Wal Thornhill | July 24, 2003 9:57 pm １３５＊ In my May news item[1] I wrote, “It is far simpler and infinitely more efficient if planets are “born” at intervals by the electric…

Squashed Star Flattens Solar Theory 押しつぶされた恒星は太陽理論を平らにする by Wal Thornhill | June 24, 2003 9:36 pm The following report appeared in New Scientist for 12 June 2003:次のレポートは、2003 年 6 月 12 日の New Scientist に掲載…

Planet Birthing惑星の誕生 by Wal Thornhill | May 25, 2003 4:41 pm Dan Falk prefaced a recent news report in Nature, on the subject of planet formation, with these words:ダン・フォークは、惑星形成をテーマとしたネイチャー誌の最近のニュースレ…

SETI – The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ・セティ – 地球外知性体の探索 by Wal Thornhill | April 9, 2003 2:38 pm“Next we come to a question that everyone, scientist and non-scientist alike, must have asked at some time. What is m…

Sunspot Mysteries黒点の謎 by Wal Thornhill | November 30, 2002 1:02 am‘If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.’– Rene Descartes「真実を真に探求し…

The Remarkable Slowness of Light光の驚くべき遅さ by Wal Thornhill | September 2, 2002 11:30 pm “The more one reflects on the nature of light, matter and gravitation, the more he realizes that there are problems connected with them that are…

Water on Mars? 火星に水? by Wal Thornhill | July 15, 2002 6:10 am Planetary scientists are busy looking for evidence of water on Mars in support of plans to send robotic and, eventually, manned missions to the red planet. 惑星科学者たちは…

Antigravity? 反重力？ by Wal Thornhill | May 21, 2002 11:40 amAccording to the physicist, Lee Smolin, cranks are just a fact of life for working physicists.物理学者のリー・スモーリン氏によると、現役の物理学者にとってクランク（風変わり）は…

A Mystery Solved – Welcome to the ELECTRIC UNIVERSE®!謎が解けました – エレクトリックユニバース® へようこそ! by Wal Thornhill | March 20, 2002 8:37 am―――――― “We simply do not have a truly unified view of the world, one that paints an unambi…

The Balloon goes up over lightning! 風船が雷を越えて上昇します！by Wal Thornhill | January 29, 2002 6:43 am ８１＊ In August 2001 a high-altitude balloon was sent aloft to ride far above the great storms of the mid-west USA. 2001 年 8 月、…

Charge Separation in the Mind心の電荷分離 by Wal Thornhill | January 22, 2002 6:31 am “The operation of removing a problem from its traditional context and placing it into a new one, looking at it through glasses of a different color, as i…

MARS and the GRAND CANYON火星とグランドキャニオン by Wal Thornhill | October 24, 2001 2:49 pm“The ultimate objective of comparative planetology, it might be said, is something like a vast computer program into which we insert a few input p…

Matt Finn Set the Record Straight WF Thunderbolts マット・フィン （YouTube人気番組）WF・「Why Files？」の記録をまっすぐに糺す １ ―――― ２Recently, the “Why Files”, files came up with some surprisingly fair evaluations in a show that covered…

Comet Borrelly rocks core scientific beliefsボレリー彗星が科学的信念の核心を揺るがす by Wal Thornhill | October 18, 2001 11:53 am[The blockquoted text in brown is from an original news story.The highlighted text is a statement of the “core…

Solar neutrino puzzle is solved?太陽ニュートリノの謎は解けたのか？by Wal Thornhill | August 13, 2001 11:29 am The ELECTRIC UNIVERSE® model has made some capital from the fact that the key evidence for a nuclear engine in the Sun, the neutr…

Two spacecraft Watch a arc welder on Io二つの宇宙船がIoでアーク溶接を見る Posted on April 5, 2001 by Wal Thornhill MEDIA RELATIONSOFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRAT…

Scientists Fail to Unravel the Kinks in Solar Waves科学者たちは太陽波のねじれを解明できていない Posted on April 4, 2001 by Wal Thornhill NASA/JPL NEWS RELEASE Posted: March 29, 2001NASA/JPL ニュースリリース掲載日: 2001 年 3 月 29 日 Kinks …

Eros Not So Mysteriousエロスはそれほど神秘的ではない Posted on February 10, 2001 by Wal Thornhill The following message is from Reuters:On February 12, the world's first spacecraft will land on an asteroid – Eros, named after the Greek god…