Things that Go Bump in the Light

[Jarvamundo]

The light bursts from colliding aurorae are said to be the result of "magnetic reconnection" events. As the theory states, the solar wind "stretches" our magnetic field like a rubber band. When it "snaps back" the over-stretched magnetic field lines initiate a powerful explosion when some of the "magnetic energy" is converted to heat and light.

I'm in AWE... AWE of the success of the flapping rubber band religion...

The THEMIS "surprise" is best wrapped up by a quote from suede
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/in ... 86458.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... news_rss20
24 July 2008
Surprise sequence
Strung out like a line of buoys in the ocean, THEMIS tracked the true sequence of events. The outermost satellites registered a reconnection, an aurora appeared near Earth, then the inner probes saw a current disruption. This sequence was a surprise, as researchers expected the aurora to occur last.


I'll tell you why it's a "suprise".
Magentic reconnection isn't real and the models are wrong.
That's a pretty huge suprise btw. That's like predicting: egg first splaters, then hammer falls.

Hannes Alfven:
"Of course there can be no magnetic merging energy transfer. Despite.. this, we have witnessed at the same time an enormously voluminous formalism building up based on this obviously erroneous concept.

I was naïve enough to believe that [magnetic reconnection] would die by itself in the scientific community, and I concentrated my work on more pleasant problems. To my great surprise the opposite has occurred: ‘merging’ … seems to be increasingly powerful. Magnetospheric physics and solar wind physics today are no doubt in a chaotic state, and a major reason for this is that part of the published papers are science and part pseudoscience, perhaps even with a majority in the latter group."

Can we start putting down some money on double layers being re-discovered as "relativistic rubber sheets" ?

[jjohnson]

Actually, they are rubber sheets, and they have an orthogonal grid on them (both sides, actually). When something massive is placed on one of these latex current sheets, it curves downward under the influence of gravity, thus using gravity itself to show, somewhat redundantly, that gravity is created by the space-time curvature of these latex currents!

The real-world analogy that is particularly useful for mainstream physics, and often called upon to illustrate gravity interactions in Javascript simulations (the most believable kind possible without supercomputers and really good mathematicians), is kids jumping on a trampoline. If there are three kids jumping, one is almost always explosively ejected from the current sheet. The rebounding sheet is just like the Big Bang, only more so, and the Javascript simulation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Universe is just a series of mass-to-energy-and-back-to-mass conversions, in the famous reversible transcendental equation, E = mc² = m = E/c² where c is the transfinite cardinal number of children on the 3-body 11-dimensioned curved space-time current sheet trampoline.

That's science's Theory of Curved Space-time Current Sheets, and it's very true. If you can't understand this simplified layman's version of the Really Hard to Understand Mathematical Treatise Law, then good.

Hey, a sense of humour gets ya through the rough patches, right? Snapping rubber bands and all...