Evidence from Voyager Indicates Uranus is Hollow!

Evidence from Voyager Indicates Uranus is Hollow!

The spacecraft Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus on January of 1986 gathered information that indicates the hollow nature of that planet. The hollow planet theory provides answers to puzzling observations made by Voyager that are complete mysteries to orthodox science.
For example, where does the radio noise come from that emanates from Uranus?

Why do heated clouds rise in the form of a ring from the planet’s poles?

Why does Uranus radiate 15 times more energy in ultraviolet than it receives from the sun?

What could be the source of the powerful solar wind that causes auroral lights of Uranus to light up when it is obvious that the solar wind from the sun is too weak to cause them? The mysterious source of the energy that lights up Uranus’ auroras is compounded by the fact that Uranus’ strong magnetic field repels the solar wind from the sun around the planet and so CANNOT cause its auroras to light up.

And, finally, what could possibly explain the huge displacement of the magnetic poles of Uranus when it is known that the magnetic poles of a common dynamo always coincide with its rotational axis?

Orthodox science has no answers for these mysterious observations. Yet the hollow planets theory gives ready answers: The radio noise, heat and solar wind that emit through Uranus’ polar openings from a sun within Uranus’ hollow interior is the power source of these anomalous phenomena. The disjunct orientation of the interior sun of Uranus with respect to the rotational axis of the planet’s shell gives rise to the extreme displacement of Uranus’ magnetic poles. And assuming Uranus has a planetary shell with a thickness of 10% of it’s diameter, Uranus would have a solid surface and density of 2.58. Even oxygen was detected in Uranus’ atmosphere. Under these conditions, the interior of Uranus could possibly have an environment compatible for human life. Indeed, it could be ideal, even a Garden of Eden.

The Interior Sun of Uranus

The period of rotation of the planet Uranus was calculated by the Voyager spacecraft by analyzing a regular variation in radio noise that emits from the planet. Since radio noise is a characteristic of stars, this indicates that Uranus has an interior sun from which this radio noise is emitted. It also indicates that Uranus has polar openings into it’s hollow interior through which the radio noise from the interior sun is emitted. Voyager discovered that Uranus’ period of rotation of 16 hours and 48 minutes is almost twice as fast as earth’s speed of rotation. This indicates that Uranus could possibly have a stronger magnetic field than earth, which it is. Uranus’ magnetic field was measured by Voyager at approximately 0.1 gauss, which is three times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field (Astronomy, April 1986, p. 15). The bigger size of Uranus, it is 14.44 times more massive than Earth, and it’s faster rotation about its interior sun would account for it’s stronger magnetic field. As with all planets, being hollow, their magnetic fields are produced by the rotation of the planetary shell about a stationary or nearly stationary interior sun suspended by gravity and electrostatic forces within the hollow interior of the planet. Besides the radio noise and magnetic field that Uranus’ interior sun causes, it also gives rise to the displacement of Uranus’ magnetic poles, emits a solar wind that produces auroras and “electro glows” as reported by Voyager scientists, and it’s interior sun also produces the heat that Voyager discovered is radiating from the poles of Uranus.

Displaced Magnetic Poles on Uranus

An important discovery made by Voyager as it bypassed Uranus on its way out of the Solar System is the huge gap detected between the location of the planet’s rotational axis and the axis of its magnetic field. They were found to be 55 degrees apart. This is almost five times the difference between the north pole and the magnetic pole on Earth. That difference on Earth is 11.5 degrees. The planet Mercury has the next largest discrepancy between it’s axis of rotation and the location of its magnetic pole with a 14 degree displacement.

Scientists theorize that the crust of Uranus must be spinning in a different direction from material in its core in order to explain the displacement of Uranus’ magnetic poles. Because Uranus lies nearly on its side as it revolves around the sun, scientists theorize that a planet the size of earth must have collided with Uranus causing it to tip over on its side. However, it is more likely that Uranus has been by-passed by a planet-size comet so close over one of its geographic poles that the gravitational interaction would have caused the planet’s rotational axis to be tilted. The interior sun suspended in its interior by gravity and electrostatic forces and protected by the shell of the planet would have most probably retained its original orientation. This would explain why the magnetic poles on Uranus do not coincide with its rotational axis. Since an interior sun gives rise to the magnetic field of a planet as the planetary shell rotates about it, the interior sun’s orientation would also contribute to the location of the magnetic poles. The displacement of a planet’s magnetic poles is therefore directly linked to the degree of tilt of the planetary shell with respect to the orientation and rotation of it’s interior sun. Similar to Uranus, on Earth the passage of an ancient planet-sized comet could have tilted the Earth’s rotational axis causing the displacement of the magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles. The Earth’s rotational axis is tilted 23.5 degrees with respect to it’s orbital plane about the sun. Uranus has a tilt of 98 degrees. Since Uranus has a greater rotational tilt with respect to its orbital plane about the sun, it could be expected that is magnetic axis would also be displaced further from its rotational axis than is the case on Earth.

The fact that the magnetic poles of Uranus and Earth do not coincide with their rotational axis indicates that the magnetic poles may be a combination of two magnetic fields, as first theorized by Astronomer Edmund Halley. One field is located within the other, the planetary shell gives rise to one field and the other by the interior sun. It has been discovered that the Earth has a magnetic north pole centered in northern Canada, and a geomagnetic north pole located on the west coast of Greenland. This indicates that Earth is hollow having two magnetic fields, one produced by the earth’s shell and the other by the interior sun. The magnetic poles have been measured to move in a more or less orbit about the arctic and antarctic at a rate of about 8 miles a year. Astronomer Edmund Halley was the first to propose that this movement of the magnetic poles is caused by the slow rotation of a body suspended in a hollow inside the planet. On Earth, the rotation of its interior sun seems to complete one rotation about every 700 years. The slow rotation of the interior sun is what causes the magnetic poles to follow an orbital path about the arctic and antarctic.

On Earth, the magnetic axis is almost exactly one-half the tilt of the rotational axis. On Uranus, the magnetic axis is a little more than one-half of the tilt of the rotational axis. It has always been a puzzle to scientists that Earth’s own magnetic poles do not coincide with the rotational axis of the Earth, as is the case in a common dynamo. Now Uranus has been found to have this same puzzling arrangement as does the Earth. The answer must lie in the fact that if the axis of a planet’s shell coincides with the axis of rotation of its interior sun, then the magnetic poles would coincide with the rotational axis. On Earth, they do not coincide. Now Voyager has found they do not coincide on Uranus.

The solution to the enigma of the displaced magnetic poles must lie in the orientation of the rotational axis of the interior sun in relation to the orientation of the axis of the planetary shell. On Earth, the rotational axis is inclined 23.5 degrees to its orbital plane about the sun. Let’s assume that the original orientation of the rotational axis of the Earth’s shell and its interior sun coincided and were perpendicular to the plane of the Earth’s orbit about the sun. Now suppose that sometime in past geological history, a planetary-sized comet bypassed earth over one of it’s geographic poles and caused it’s rotational axis to tilt 23.5 degrees with respect to its orbital plane. The interior sun, having a very small percentage of the Earth’s total mass and buffered by the planet’s hollow shell, would not have been affected substantially, and therefore would have retained approximately its original orientation. The axis of the interior sun, therefore, is most likely inclined 23.5 degrees to the rotational axis of the Earth’s shell retaining its and the Earth’s original orientation. So the question is, why would the magnetic pole be located only 11.5 degrees from the shell’s rotational axis, and not 23.5 degrees? The answer may be that because one field is located within the other, that the combined magnetic fields of the earth’s shell and the magnetic field of the interior sun produce a magnetic axis located halfway between the two orientations, which on earth is 11.5 degrees, almost exactly half of the 23.5 degree inclination of the shell.

On Uranus a similar scenario may have occurred to give it a displaced magnetic field orientation. The magnetic field is produced by the rotating planetary shell about an interior sun rotating at a different, probably counter rotation and slower rate. The fact that the magnetic poles do not coincide with the rotational axis indicates that the axis of Uranus’ interior sun is oriented differently than the rotational axis of the planet’s shell. As with Earth, the original rotational axis of Uranus’s shell as well as the axis of its interior sun could be assumed to have been at right angles to its orbital plane about the sun. So when that planet was hit or by-passed by another celestial body and the rotational axis of the shell was tilted 98 degrees to it’s orbital plane, its interior sun most probably retained its original orientation. Therefore, the combined magnetic field of shell and interior sun would cause the magnetic poles to be located halfway between the original orientation and the present one located at about 55 degrees.

Mass an Density of a hollow Uranus

Assuming that the Newtonian gravitational constant is approximately correct and that it gives a reasonable mass of earth and the planets, Uranus would have a mass that is 14.44 times greater than earth. Since the overall density of Uranus is 1.26 gm/cc, scientists have assumed that Uranus is a liquid planet. However, if Uranus is hollow and has a shell thickness perhaps 10% of its diameter, then the shell density would be 2.58 gm/cc, which would give it a solid surface. The surface acceleration of gravity on Uranus is 893 cm/sec^2 which is only slightly less than on earth. With an interior sun, and surface gravity similar to earth, and with oxygen detected in Uranus’ atmosphere, the interior world of Uranus could contain an environment compatible with life forms.

The Atmosphere of Uranus

Voyager noted oxygen ions in Uranus’ magnetosphere (Astronomy, April 1986, pg. 14), but since most of this gas is concentrated near the surface of a planet because of its relative heavier weight than other gases, Voyager had no way of telling what percentage of Uranus’ surface atmosphere contained oxygen. But since oxygen ions were detected high up in the atmosphere, in all probability, oxygen could be abundant at lower altitudes. Voyager also detected clouds in the Uranian atmosphere. In fact, they cover the planet so the surface cannot be seen from space. Could these be water clouds? If so, then Uranus may have water to sustain life.

The Auroras on Uranus

All the outer planets were found by Voyager to have auroral lights. This was a surprise to space scientists, because they have assumed that auroras on Earth are caused by the impact of the solar wind on the atmosphere above the poles. However, with Voyager’s discoveries of powerful auroras on the outer planets which are located so far from the sun that any solar wind reaching them at that distance is far too weak to cause their auroras, scientists have begun looking for another power source that could cause the auroras.

One report stated, “Another mystery is the huge glow in the atmosphere of Uranus which spreads upwards as far as two Uranian radii or 50,000 km. Scientists checking UV emissions have dubbed the phenomenon ‘electroglow,’ but are at loss to explain the mechanism behind it. The bright halo, originally detected by the International Ultraviolet Explorer, was thought to be similar to the northern lights or aurora on Earth. It is now thought to be similar to the glows detected by Voyager when it passed Jupiter and Saturn.”

The report concluded that the electron beam that produces the “glow” cannot originate from space. Therefore, it must originate from the planet itself. “The glow, generated when electrons collide with hydrogen molecules, has several peculiarities. The low energy electrons do not come from deep space as would occur with an aurora. Also, again unlike an aurora, the glow is found only on the sunlit side of the planet. The Sun is not the power house for the glow, although it does provide the energy needed to free electrons from the hydrogen atoms. But the Sun’s energy is too weak to accelerate the electrons — that is the mechanism that is not understood. Voyager detected an aurora on the night side of the planet near the magnetic pole.” (New Scientist, January 1986, p. 21)

The mystery to scientists stems from their assumption that an aurora must be powered by a solar wind that comes from the Sun. Upon approaching a planet they have assumed that “somehow” the solar wind gets through the planet’s magnetic field. This assumption is faulty because, first of all, the sun’s solar wind is deflected around a planet by its magnetic field and cannot enter it at all. And second, the outer planets are too far away from the Sun and the solar wind too weak to cause their auroras. In fact, the Sun’s solar wind is too weak to even cause the Earth’s aurora to light up.

First of all, the energetic particles are observed to emit from the polar regions with sufficient energies to cause the atmosphere to light up the auroras. Then the particles with ever decreasing energies stream outward from the earth’s surface and away from the poles following the earth’s electromagnetic field lines. Secondly, our sun’s solar wind could not cause the auroras nor the Van Allen radiation belts because they are much lower energetically. The solar wind is composed of protons with energies of about 1,000 electron volts and electrons with about 10 electron volts compared to the source of the auroras with electron volts of 10,000 to 100,000. So scientists are faced with a dilemma: What solar wind could cause the auroras if it doesn’t come from our Sun? The New Scientist report read, “the Sun’s energy is too weak to accelerate the electrons — that is the mechanism that is not understood.”

The simple fact that the outer planets have strong auroras is proof that the solar wind that causes them cannot come from our Sun, but must originate from the planets themselves.

The report in Astronomy magazine of Voyager’s passage through Uranus’ magnetic field bow shock confirms that our Sun’s solar wind is deflected by Uranus’ magnetic field and cannot, therefore, be the power source of the auroras. “Ten hours, thirty minutes before closest approach, Voyager crossed the bow shock; three hours later it entered the magnetic realm of Uranus. The bow shock is where the solar wind first encounters the magnetic field of a planet, the magnetopause is the transition from primarily solar to primarily planetary material.” (Astronomy, April 1986, p. 15) So now, if auroras, “electroglows” and radiation belts are caused by the Sun’s solar wind, how can radiation in the magnetosphere be “primarily planetary material”? So here is a scientific admission that auroras are caused primarily by planets and not the Sun.

The report continued, “A glowing hydrogen corona above the pole was also detected. The energy source for these glows could not be sunlight — Uranus radiates 15 times more energy in ultraviolet than it receives in sunlight.” Here again, scientist are now admitting that the energy source of the auroras has to come from the planet itself. Voyager found that Jupiter, Saturn and now Uranus all emanate more energy than they receive from the sun.

For example, the Astronomy report said, “To find out how much heat Uranus radiates from its deep interior, Voyager must measure total ingoing and outcoming total Sunlight, and the total ingoing and outcoming infrared radiation. The planet’s internal energy is the residual that can’t be accounted for on the energy balance sheet.” Scientists can’t account of the extraordinary amount of energy coming out of the outer planets because they do not take into account their hollow nature containing interior suns that emit this energy to light up their auroras and populate their magnetospheres with high energy particles.

The reported continued, “Voyager found two distinct ‘populations’ of ions: one is a dense, ‘warm’ population at a temperature of a hundred thousand degrees Kelvin and a density of 1 ion per cubic centimeter. These ions are trapped by the magnetic field and rotating with the planet. The other is a 10 times less dense plasma at a temperature of 10 million degrees Kelvin.” Then Astronomy magazine asks, “Where could these hot ions come from? The solar wind, one possible source, is deflected around Uranus.” So here Astronomy magazine admits that the Sun’s solar wind could not be the source of these hot ions because it is deflected by the planet’s magnetic field upon approaching the planet. We must conclude that the only possible source of these hot ions, auroras and electroglows (which are auroras on the sunlit side of the planet) is a sun suspended within the hollow interior of Uranus which emanates these energetic particles out through polar openings.

Radiation at the Poles of Uranus

Voyager offered evidence indicating that Uranus has polar openings from which heat radiation is emitted from its interior sun. From Astronomy magazine we read, “Over the sunlit south pole of Uranus, the ionosphere reaches a temperature of 750 degrees Kelvin. Over the dark pole, it reaches 1,000 degrees Kelvin. What heats the gas to such high temperature is not evident. The source of energy is not sunlight because the dark pole is hotter, so it probably derives its energy from the magnetosphere.” (Astronomy, April 1986, p. 10) So we see that scientists are admitting that these auroras cannot be caused by the solar wind from the Sun, which is deflected around the magnetic field of a planet, so in their attempt to explain the greater temperature of the particles emitting from the dark pole, they latch onto the magnetosphere as a possible source of the energy that powers the planet’s auroras. Scientists are contradicting themselves in this, because the particles populating the magnetosphere come from the planet, not the other way around.

A pole-on image of Uranus noted that the polar region, relative to the rest of the planet, is slightly reddish and surrounding the pole is a broad yellowish ring. “A wide bright ring around the pole, imaged through the methane filter, indicated a region of aerosol or haze particles upwelling from below. The polar region, though, was very dark where air was sinking.” A circulation pattern such as this would be exactly what would be expected if warm air were emanating from a polar opening beneath the Uranian clouds.

Conclusions

The New Scientist of January 1986 summarized these unexpected findings of Uranus from Voyager’s fly-by and concludes that, “internal dynamics within the planet rather than atmospheric phenomena could account for the unexpected findings.” (p. 22)

So in final analysis, even space scientists are beginning to admit to evidence that can only be explained if planets are hollow with interior suns and polar openings that emit radiation to the exterior that light up their auroras. With a density and surface gravity similar to Earth, with oxygen and clouds in its atmosphere, Uranus is an excellent candidate for conditions on its interior congenial to life forms made possible by the heat and light provided by an interior sun which Voyager found radiates radio, infrared and ultraviolet radiation through polar openings as well as a powerful inner solar wind that produces auroras at both magnetic poles. The Hollow Planet theory provides answers to these unexpected findings that Voyager uncovered about Uranus which orthodox science can only wonder about.