The torus, the helix, the golden braid

I've only read portions of the Golden Braid by Douglas Holfstadter, but it's basically a variation on the whole everything is one vibration idea. In particular, it dealt with the mechanism of self-referential phenomena, mental feedback loops and the like. I might get into it later, right now I want to further explore one of the phenomena associated with the Electric Universe, my favorite new infatuation.

This phenomenon is the plasma torus, which very well might be both the hearts of galaxies and black holes. We've already discussed the way in which plasma natural aggregates into Birkeland filaments. The image below is actually the magnetic field generated by a solenoid, but illustrates some of the geometry of a Birkeland filament if we assume the yellow metal below to be the magnetic field induced by the ionic current in the plasma.

The next energetic step in cosmoplasmology is the torus. Basically a ring of plasma held together by field lines is fed electric energy from its surroundings (accretion disk in the case of black holes, arms in the case of galaxies). The torus has two axes, toroidal (blue) and poloidal (red):

The torus acts very much like the solenoid above in that it accelerates matter through its center according to this diagram:
Matter enters the bottom, and is accelerated by the field lines (j) in the polar direction (a). Sometimes the matter escapes, but usually it is recaptured to add to the current (H). This explains the x-ray jets projected from poles of black holes, and the quasars that extend axially from most galaxies.

The big problem with this is that it disproves the big bang theory. It suggests that redshift is not intrinsic, and that there are a plethora of light-years wide particle accelerators that change the redshift of galaxies naturally. I'm going to talk about the fantastic redshift stuff I found over at Thunderbolts.info in a later post.