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*Celestial Fireworks In
The Ancient Sky - Part 2
*By David Talbott and Mel Acheson
5-18-5

The ancients were not just doodling when they spent millions of
man-hours carving rock art forms around the world. They were reproducing
dramatic plasma discharge forms seen in their spectacular sky.

At high energy levels, the current within a plasma circuit will develop
instabilities that can be studied in the laboratory. The flow of charged
particles generates electromagnetic forces that in turn affect the flow
of particles. This feedback effect produces plasma behavior that is not
linear and is often unexpected. Theoretical predictions must be
frequently checked against laboratory observations. The non-linear
behavior at low energies, such as the alternating light and dark
segments in a gas-discharge tube, becomes even more complex. High-energy
discharges in plasma laboratories exhibit intricate structures, and
these evolve through a sequence of quasi-stable forms with intermediate
stages of violent transformation.

Anthony Peratt, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has
studied the evolution of these instabilities for several decades. One
evolutionary sequence is the development of the "warped disk" form,
which can involve many variations on the underlying pattern. (See
Thunderbolts of the Gods, Chapter One, pages 21ff.) A continuous
discharge channel will break up into a string of spherical cells,
usually 7 to 9 in number. These cells contract further into toroids
(donut-shaped rings) stacked along the axial channel. The toroids
flatten into disks, and then the edges of the disks warp upward or
downward. When viewed from the side (perpendicular to the axis), the
greater thickness of plasma along the axis and in the plane of the disks
appears as a glowing line figure -- a vertical line with cross bars.
(See TPOD "The Nine Steps to Heaven,"
www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050505stairs.htm)

Peratt described this sequence at an interdisciplinary conference on
plasma in the solar system in September of 2000. David Talbott, another
presenter at the conference, remarked on the similarity of the line form
to images seen in ancient rock art. The pictograph on the left above,
from Kayenta, Arizona, illustrates a late stage in this sequence. Peratt
remarked that the detailed correspondence with the laboratory discharge
sequence is precise. This Kayenta image was, in fact, the first
pictograph that Talbott sent to Peratt, and it inspired Peratt to
investigate the correspondence further. (The identification of the
discharge components comes from Peratt's later paper on the subject.
According to Peratt, the configuration is about to undergo an intensely
energetic transformation that could be deadly for humans exposed to its
radiation.)

In the transitional phase, the top disks fold over each other to form a
bulb shape; the next disk bends into a cup shape; the middle disks often
merge; and the lower disk bends down into the shape of an inverted cup.
The bottom of the axial current often develops a trident shape. When
viewed from the side, the line figure takes on the appearance of a
squatting stick person with his arms in the air. The central toroid
appears as two dots or, if bright enough, as a bar under the "stick
man's" arms. The trifurcated bottom end of the axial current is commonly
interpreted in rock-art lore as the "stick man's" genitalia. Peratt
calls this a "basic" form taken by discharge instabilities, and
significantly it is an image common to rock art around the world. (See
image on the right -
www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/041231predictions-rock-art.htm.)

Peratt's investigation of rock art led him to collect hundreds of
thousands of digital photographs of petroglyphs (images scratched or
pecked into rock) and pictographs (images painted on rock). He has
classified them into 84 categories that correspond with the quasi-stable
forms of the laboratory plasma discharges.

"Many petroglyphs, apparently recorded several millennia ago, have a
plasma discharge or instability counterpart, some on a one-to-one or
overlay basis. More striking is that the images recorded on rock are the
only images found in extreme energy density experiments; no other
morphology types or patterns are observed," Peratt writes. "The inward
rise on axis along with the upward folding of the outer edges of the
carved lines and transition to edge curling, a phenomena [sic] recorded
in intense electrical discharge radiographs, could not have been known
to prehistoric man unless he witnessed the same event in the sky."

Peratt and his assistants and collaborators also recorded the fields of
view of the ancient artists and the locations of the images with GPS
instruments. By plotting this data on computerized topographical maps,
he can calculate where the various forms occurred in the Earth's ancient
plasmasphere (what astronomers call the magnetosphere).

Peratt surmised that a surge of power in the currents driving the
auroras had set off the sequence of instabilities. The entire
pre-historical sky around the globe would have appeared to come alive
with a shimmering, shining "enhanced aurora" that stretched from pole to
pole. It would have featured exactly those abstract figures and stick
men and strange animal-like shapes that appear only in rock art and in
high-energy plasma discharges. He contends that the ancient artists were
witnesses to this "enhanced aurora" and that they recorded what they saw
on the most durable "recording device" available -- rock surfaces.

From the difference in scale between a laboratory spark and an auroral
discharge, Peratt estimates that the ancient displays would have lasted
"for at least a few centuries if not millennia." Radiocarbon dating of
material overlying some buried petroglyphs provides a time for the
occurrence of the displays at 4,000 to
12,000 years ago.

The curious phenomena that our space-age sensors are detecting in space,
phenomena that can be explained directly in terms of the electrical
behavior of plasma, are now reflected in the forms of ancient rock art.
The new universe of plasma requires not only a new vision of the present
but also a new vision of the ancient past. Discoveries in space, ancient
drawings of the sky, and controlled laboratory experiments converge to
revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos. Plasma and electricity
make possible a unified perspective, a goal that is fundamental to the
scientific quest.

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