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SAfire project
SAFIRE is one of the most consequential experimental challenges to standard solar physics ever attempted by an independent team. The project claims direct laboratory replication of solar surface phenomena — including structured plasma shells, anomalous energy gain, and apparent elemental transmutation — that standard fusion-and-gravity models cannot easily account for. If the team's reported results hold under independent replication, they would constitute empirical support for the Electric Universe / plasma cosmology framework that conventional astrophysics has long dismissed without laboratory counter-evidence.
Evidence
- The SAFIRE Project — Stellar Atmospheric Function In Regulation Experiment — was developed by Montgomery Childs and an interdisciplinary engineering team under the auspices of the EU-Canada collaboration associated with Electric Universe proponents.
- What the team reported across multiple phases was striking: the plasma spontaneously organized into discrete, nested luminous shells — directly mirroring the layered structure observed in the solar atmosphere — without any external forcing to produce that geometry.
- Per a June 2026 summary at Open Mind Space, the project is described as doing what almost no heterodox theory attempts: building physical apparatus to test its own predictions.
- The core apparatus placed a positively charged anode sphere inside a plasma chamber and allowed the plasma to self-organize around it, directly modeling the Electric Sun hypothesis advanced by Kristian Birkeland, Ralph Juergens, and later developed by Wal Thornhill and Donald Scott.
- Standard plasma physics had no ready prediction for this self-organization.