Magnetic Effervescence, tubes or bubbles

[jacmac]

I offer that the data from Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 could also be describing them passing through the tubular filamentary shapes of Birkeland currents making up the Solar Wind that is now moving sideways to the movement of V1 and V2, as the Heliosphere has been entered. There might not be any bubbles at all. Would not twisting filaments of currents of random sizes present very similar data as frothy bubbles.

Jack

[mharratsc]

How do you mean, Jacmac? Like the tufts on the surface of the Sun, but on the outside of the heliopause?

[jacmac]

mharratsc,

I was not thinking of activity at the surface of the sun.

There have been press statements in the recent months about the change of direction of the "solar wind" at the current location of the two Voyager crafts. They were then, and probably are still now passing through the very outer region of the heliosphere. The reports were that the solar wind particles were no longer moving out from the sun , but were moving sideways to the path of the Voyagers.

Also, elsewhere I have read reports of studies of the solar wind describe it as filamentary; as a plate of spaghetti with tubular flows of particles.This was in contrast to a previous held notion that the solar wind was more random or erratic.

I was trying to suggest that if a craft passes through the solar wind at approx. 90 degrees to the flow of particles that the changing densities could just as easily be through tubular shapes as bubbles.
The frothy bubbles were also said to be sausage shaped. One persons very long sausage could be another persons description of Birkeland currents in space.

I am sorry to not have links and exact quotes as this is from memory. This should be easy to find on the Voyagers and the solar wind.

Thanks,
Jack