I'm quote confused about z-pinches.. two questions

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I'm quote confused about z-pinches.. two questions

Unread post by folaht » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:28 am

I hope someone can clarify this layman here.

Is a z-pinch a double helix birkeland current filament pair that starts to spirals into each other due to two other currents that creates the same type of magnetic field as the magnetic field between two northpoles of regular magnets?

Do they create spheroids? Like stars, planets and such? If so, why? and how?
Since 1 % 1, 1 * 1 and 1 - 1 do not add up, we must conclude that 1 + 1 is 3.

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Re: I'm quote confused about z-pinches.. two questions

Unread post by Steve Smith » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:29 pm

There's not much hope for "clarity" because no one really understands this stuff. Considering that Birkeland lived 100 years ago and Alfven did his research 50 years ago, there hasn't been a lot of time available to conduct tests.

Tony Peratt has been working at Los Alamos for less than 30 years, and their supercomputers and Particle-In-Cell algorithms are practically brand new. Besides, Dr. Peratt has been involved with plasma cosmology for less than 15 years...who else is there?

However -- a z-pinch occurs when electricity flows through plasma. A self-generated magnetic field compresses the the plasma unevenly along its length. Twin filaments, flowing in opposite directions (because of + and - charges) are attracted to each other, but because of mutual dialectric insulation, they never meet.

Twist two colored wires around each other and that will give you an example of the effect. The insulating sheaths of the wires don't allow the copper insides to touch. In a z-pinch, the areas where the "twists" are the tightest is where the instabilities occur. Plasmoids form at the points of tightest compression.

Along the length of the plasma filaments (a.k.a. "Birkeland currents") the compression varies, so there are variables in the sizes and the densities of the z-pinch zones. Electric Universe theory states that the plasma in those zones can be compressed so tightly that a star will appear as an "arc-mode" plasmoid inside the twin electric current filaments. The Sun is one such plasmoid, as are all stars and galaxies.

No one can "prove" this happens in space, although some researchers have demonstrated the effect on the small scale using laboratory devices. The "Z Machine" and the "Dense Plasma Focus" are two examples.

Some scientists believe that those short-term, low-energy events can be used as metaphors for the larger phenomena that we observe in the universe.

No matter how a magnetic field is generated, it is still a magnetic field. The magnetic fields in Birkeland currents are created by the flow of electricity through dusty plasma. They're the same as the magnetic fields around powerlines.

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