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WHAT
CAUSES
EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS?
by
Miles Mathis
A
particle physicist at MIT
shows that astrophysics is gravity
only
The recent earthquakes in Japan
have reminded us of this phenomenon, although it has long been
known. It was dismissed by mainstream physics as a myth until the
earthquake swarm in the 1960's in Japan, when many pictures were
taken. Take note, for this reminds us how new our science really
is, and how “skeptical” it is. Skepticism is now sold as a
positive attribute of science, but we see again and again that a
pig-headed refusal to look at evidence is often sold as
skepticism. We will see that again here, where I will show that
mainstream physics is refusing to look closely at evidence, or to
consider the most likely causes of that evidence.
In a
series of recent papers, I have proved beyond any doubt that
mainstream physics has buried its head in regards to the charge
field, as far back as the time of Laplace and Lagrange. The
so-called Great
Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn was clear evidence of the
charge field, as was the development of the
Lagrangian. Both required the presence of a second
fundamental field, present at all size levels, quantum and
celestial, but physics found a way to ignore this. It diverted
itself, through Byzantine channels of argumentation, into
ungrounded mathematical models, and it has done this ever since.
More recently, we see glaring evidence from the Moon ignored
nightly, as the
obliterated near crust of the Moon screams of the presence of
the charge field, but no one hears. NASA has long known of the
negative tide at the front of the Moon, the schematic is
published all over the place, but no on sees what this must mean.
Here,
we find evidence just as loud being ignored in full daylight. We
have lights linked to earthquakes, and since light is an
electromagnetic phenomenon, we must have strong electromagnetic
waves present. And yet no one appears to realize that this means
that seismic waves cannot be, at bottom, simply material waves.
We are taught that seismic waves can be body waves or surface
waves, each either transverse or longitudinal, but we are never
told what causes these waves. We are left with the impression
that they are like sound waves, created simply by compression,
and that therefore there needs to be no underlying cause of the
sort I am talking about. Motion is the only cause, I will be
told. But do we have any evidence of that? No. In fact, we have
much evidence to the contrary, and earthquake lights are just a
small part of that evidence. I will show that seismic waves are
not caused by simple motion in the crust, or below it. They are
caused by electromagnetic waves.
As with most other
science, the science of earthquakes tends to get bogged down in a
description of effects, never addressing fundamental causes. In
this way, we are taught all about P and S waves, Love waves,
Rayleigh waves, and so on, but we are never taught the genesis of
all these motions. We aren't taught it, because it isn't known.
As with the cause of earthquake lights, it isn't known. At least
this is admitted with earthquake lights, where even Wikipedia
admits that the various theories are just wild stabs, with no
data one way or the other. For instance, one leading theory tells
us that earthquake lights might be caused by quartz being
compressed, which creates a piezoelectric effect. But no one has
shown or even tried to show that earthquake lights are present
when crystals are present in abundance, and absent when crystals
are absent. That would be fairly easy to do. I assume the data is
negative, and that they know that, which is why they avoid
looking at it.
As I have already implied, earthquake
lights are very conspicuous raw data themselves, which tell us
that seismic waves are electromagnetic waves. Yes, these
electromagnetic waves then cause material waves in solids and
liquids, but the solid and liquid waves are secondary. They are
not uncaused, or caused only by motion. Both the motion and the
solid and liquid waves are caused by electromagnetic waves. So
again, current science is upside down. It tries to explain
electromagnetic waves in the earth or the atmosphere by solid
waves, when the reverse is true: it is the electromagnetic waves
that cause the waves of ground, water, and air.
I will be
asked why the Earth should be filled with these electromagnetic
waves, and I can only answer “for the same reason everything
else is.” The universe is filled with electromagnetic waves,
and collections of matter like the Solar System are especially
rich with them. The Sun recycles the charge field coming from the
galactic core, and the Earth recycles the charge from the Sun.
All are engines of the charge field, differing only in size and
scope. The Earth pulls in charge at the poles and re-emits it
everywhere else. So charge is moving up through the Earth all the
time. It only requires variation in density to create variations
in charge, which then create charge waves. It is these charge
waves that drive all other motions in the Earth's crust, its
waters, and its atmosphere. Yes, what we call gravity is a player
here as well, since this is a unified field effect. But since we
already know about gravity, I only need to talk here about
charge. Gravity hasn't been left as a hole I need to fill.
But
back to the earthquake lights. Given the lights, the most logical
theory would be that the seismic waves create the lights
directly. That is, the seismic waves do not stop at the level of
the earth, they continue up into the atmosphere. Unless we are
shown evidence to the contrary, that is the natural supposition,
since there is no hard boundary at the surface of the Earth. Yes,
we go from solid to gas, but we do not go from solid to vacuum.
Even were the seismic wave strictly a compression wave, it would
still continue up into the atmosphere, since the atmosphere is
material. But if we suppose that the seismic wave is
fundamentally an electromagnetic wave, this doubles our bet. The
atmosphere is full of ions, even in the lower levels, so the
ladder this wave climbs is even clearer and stronger. The
earthquake light is then just the seismic wave showing itself in
the atmosphere.
I will be asked why we see it sometimes
and not at other times. Simply because atmospheric conditions
vary. If there are a lot of ions in the air, the seismic waves
will light them up. If not, not. To start with, we may assume
that earthquakes don't cause or require certain atmospheric
conditions: they can erupt under any sort of sky. The seismic
waves then conjoin with the given atmosphere, either creating
visible light or not. You will say that is just a hypothesis, as
bald as any other, but it is confirmed by recent experiments. In
2005 and 2006, several Japanese authors published papers under
the titles, “Conditions of atmospheric electricity variation
during seismic wave propagation”1
and “Generation Mechanism of Earth Potential
Difference Signal during Seismic Wave Propagation and its
Observation Condition”.2
These papers shows just what I am saying: the
seismic waves are the direct cause of the atmospheric electricity
variations, without any piezoelectric additions, without
crystals, without consideration of the ionsphere, and so on. The
only reason we don't see the same atmospheric phenomena at all
sites is that the atmosphere was not the same to start with. The
variation in the atmosphere is dependent on two factors, not one.
It is dependent on the local atmospheric conditions, and it is
dependent on the quake conditions. The two together create the
effects we see.
But the main reason this Japanese paper
is confirmation of my theory is that if seismic waves were NOT
electromagnetic, we would expect to see NO atmospheric
electricity variation during seismic activity. This is precisely
why mainstream physics resisted earthquake lights until 1965.
With earthquakes as compression waves, there was no good way to
explain earthquake lights. They must be a myth. However, please
notice that mainstream physics has not been corrected by this
data. They have accepted the data but have refused to incorporate
it. That they have refused to incorporate it is obvious in the
types of theories put forward for earthquake lights since they
have been admitted. Not one of the theories since 1965 even tries
to link the seismic waves to the lights. All the new theories are
the attempt to keep the original theory, simply pasting an
addendum to it. First, they assume that the seismic waves cannot
be electromagnetic themselves. This being so, the earthquake
lights must be caused by some chain of events, but not directly.
That is, the seismic waves cause compression in crystals, which
cause piezoelectric effects, which then percolate up into the
atmosphere. Or, the seismic waves create a disruption in the
magnetic field above the quake (by a mechanics not given), and
this magnetic field disruption causes the lights. Never is it
proposed that the seismic wave simply continues on up into the
atmosphere, causing the lights by direct means. That can't be
proposed, because that would require that the seismic wave be
electromagnetic to start with.
Notice that this chain of
reasoning of the mainstream begins with an assumption that
seismic waves cannot be electromagnetic waves. Why would they
assume that? Well, they assume it because up until the last fifty
years, and even into the present decade, no one has wanted to
admit the presence of the charge field as a major player except
in quantum interactions. If you start to admit the charge field
as a major player in quakes, you have to start fielding questions
about the charge field affecting celestial equations, and that is
the last forbidden topic. The big boys don't want you messing
with their celestial equations, which they got straight from
Newton, Laplace, Lagrange, and the other demigods of physics.
Unfortunately, we now have recent experiments that show that
quakes are indeed caused by E/M potential differences. One of
these same Japanese authors, N. Takeuchi, showed in 19953
and 19984 that
seismic activity was directly linked to electromagnetic
potential. In the abstract of the first paper, it says
For
all earthquakes with seismic intensities of more than 1 at Sendai
we have observed clear variations in the potential difference
signal. The observed electric P and S wave arrival times agree
exactly with seismic data obtained by the Japan Meteorological
Agency (JMA).
And the abstract of the
second paper ends with,
The estimated
ratio between the earth electrical field (potential difference)
and the pressure difference in the ground, i.e., the coupling
coefficient, was found to be reasonable based on the streaming
potential model.
That's pretty clear,
I would say. If you need more evidence of the E/M nature of
seismic waves, you will find it just about anywhere you look for
it. All you have to do is remove the blinders you have been
fitted with by the mainstream, and the charge field becomes a
ubiqitous and obvious player in a thousand phenomena and
experiments. Just as another (somewhat lighter) example, I will
close by reminding you of the well known phenomenon of animals
knowing when an earthquake is coming. This has been passed off as
a better sense of hearing or a finer sensitivity to tremors, but
it is much more likely that animals are sensing E/M fluctuations.
We already know that animals use the E/M field in a multitude of
ways, and there is even a scientific term for it,
“magnetoception.” It has been shown in everything from
bacteria and fungi to crocodiles and bees, though perhaps its
most famous user is the homing pigeon. Recently, in the
proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it was reported
that animals like cows and deer feed by aligning themselves to
the ambient field, and that power lines could disrupt this
alignment.* Even humans have shown such sensitivity, though it is
weak compared to other animals. Given that, we have a clear and
easy mechanism for earthquake sensitivity. It also suggests a new
and better mechanism for earthquake early warning. Currently,
this warning is done by monitoring P waves or other seismic
activity. But I suggest it would be better to monitor the E/M
field directly, as animals do. If our machines were very
sensitive magnetoceptors, instead of crude motion detectors, we
could warn before the main motions started, instead of after they
have started. Remember, the E/M field moves much quicker than the
matter field, since it is mediated by photons. It is always
preferable in such a situation to monitor photons (or electrons)
than it is to monitor molecules. Current early warning systems
only give us a few seconds of warning, which is fairly pathetic.
Just yesterday (April 6, 2011), top seismologists in California
recommended spending $80 million on a warning system for the
state that would give only about a ten second warning. We have
been told in recent stories that the Japanese system gives up to
30 seconds or a minute, but that is pushing the numbers. The
minute is the time it took the quake to reach Tokyo from the
point of monitoring, not the time it took between local detection
and local quake. I am not an expert on this subject, but from
doing a bit of research, it appears California could save a great
deal of money by installing dogs or crocodiles or pigeons over
prominent faultlines, and monitoring their reactions, instead of
monitoring P waves. Even better, of course, would be to spend the
money developing magnetoceptors or charge receptors that don't
reside in the heads of animals.
Many readers will pass by
this as a joke, but they just haven't done their research. If you
go to this widely available National
Geographic article** (which comes up first on a search), you
will learn enough to open your eyes, perhaps. I will circle two
things in it. One,
There have also
been examples where authorities have forecast successfully a
major earthquake, based in part on the observation of the strange
antics of animals. For example, in 1975 Chinese officials ordered
the evacuation of Haicheng, a city with one million people, just
days before a 7.3-magnitude quake. Only a small portion of the
population was hurt or killed. If the city had not been
evacuated, it is estimated that the number of fatalities and
injuries could have exceeded 150,000.
Notice
that the warning was given days in advance, not seconds in
advance. Two,
American seismologists,
on the other hand, are skeptical. Even though there have been
documented cases of strange animal behavior prior to earthquakes,
the United States Geological Survey, a government agency that
provides scientific information about the Earth, says a
reproducible connection between a specific behavior and the
occurrence of a quake has never been made.
See,
pig-headedness sold again as skepticism. Could it be that a
reproducible connection hasn't been made because US scientists
have made little or no effort to make it? Yes, in fact, the USGS
admits it, in the article. They made "a few studies" in
the 1970's, and then quit. That about sums up the gumption of
American science, I would say.
1
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eej.20230/abstract
2
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005IJTFM.125..614O
3
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V6S-3SWKCJ7-
D&_user=10&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F1997&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_
sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1710115135&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_
version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b09bf053aa4b4b5a5c64803b0c386edf&searchtype=a
4
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291520-6416%28199812%29125:4%3C52::AID-EEJ7%3E3.0.CO;2-P/abstract
*http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/03/18/0811194106
**http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1111_031111_earthquakeanimals.html
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