by BeAChooser » Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:56 pm
Couldn't open your link.
Try this one:
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-may- ... tic-tunnel.
Very interesting.
Probably deserves a thread all it's own.
UPDATE:
Here’s another link to an article by the university hosting this research:
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-astron ... lar-system , and a link to the scientific paper authored by the discoverer, Jennifer West, et al:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14720.pdf . The paper contains a lot more details about the discovery and is quire interesting.
What a shame, however, that the authors appear to be a mainstream gnome believers. They don’t mention electric or Birkland currents, although at one point they do state “We still do not fully understand the origin and evolution of regular magnetic fields in galaxies and how this field is maintained. In this picture, where long-lived filaments are elongated along the field lines, they could be one source where electrons are trapped, and contribute to maintaining such a regular field (Heiles 1998).” Electrons. So close ... so far. And the lead author, Jennifer West is quoted in the utoronto paper saying “Magnetic fields don’t exist in isolation”. So close to the truth but yet still so far, since the author appears to believe in “frozen-in” fields and all the other nonsense that mainstream astrophysics universities teach. Maybe an obstacle to her understanding is that the paper doesn’t even contain the word “plasma”? Wonder what she thinks these filaments are made of if not plasma?
Or maybe the obstacle is the insistence (assumption?) in the paper and model that the filaments are parallel. They came close to breaking this preconception at one point on pages 13 and 14 of the paper, when talking about the North Polar Spur (NPS) and two other loops (IX and Is). They observed that brightness gradients along the length of the filaments “could be due to variations in magnetic field orientation” and that filaments inclined to the galactic plane 30 degrees show a better correspondence between model and data. Then, importantly, they state “
This could be produced if the filaments consist of a bundle of finer filaments with a twisted or helical structure”. OH … OH SO CLOSE. But then they go on to say “
even though the case where β = 30◦ shows a better correspondence for the brightness along the NPS, we choose to discuss the β = 0◦ case for the remainder of this paper." They just can’t look past the blinders, can they? What a shame. But I do love the author being quoted at the end of the article saying something at end which only a decade or two ago would have resulted in absolute derision from other gnome believers: “
I think it’s just awesome to imagine that these structures are everywhere whenever we look up into the night sky.”
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https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-may-be-surrounded-by-a-giant-magnetic-tunnel==== !!!!
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Couldn't open your link.
Try this one: [url]https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-may-be-surrounded-by-a-giant-magnetic-tunnel[/url].
Very interesting.
Probably deserves a thread all it's own.
UPDATE:
Here’s another link to an article by the university hosting this research: [url]https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-astronomer-s-research-suggests-magnetic-tunnel-surrounds-our-solar-system[/url] , and a link to the scientific paper authored by the discoverer, Jennifer West, et al: [url]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14720.pdf[/url] . The paper contains a lot more details about the discovery and is quire interesting.
What a shame, however, that the authors appear to be a mainstream gnome believers. They don’t mention electric or Birkland currents, although at one point they do state “We still do not fully understand the origin and evolution of regular magnetic fields in galaxies and how this field is maintained. In this picture, where long-lived filaments are elongated along the field lines, they could be one source where electrons are trapped, and contribute to maintaining such a regular field (Heiles 1998).” Electrons. So close ... so far. And the lead author, Jennifer West is quoted in the utoronto paper saying “Magnetic fields don’t exist in isolation”. So close to the truth but yet still so far, since the author appears to believe in “frozen-in” fields and all the other nonsense that mainstream astrophysics universities teach. Maybe an obstacle to her understanding is that the paper doesn’t even contain the word “plasma”? Wonder what she thinks these filaments are made of if not plasma?
Or maybe the obstacle is the insistence (assumption?) in the paper and model that the filaments are parallel. They came close to breaking this preconception at one point on pages 13 and 14 of the paper, when talking about the North Polar Spur (NPS) and two other loops (IX and Is). They observed that brightness gradients along the length of the filaments “could be due to variations in magnetic field orientation” and that filaments inclined to the galactic plane 30 degrees show a better correspondence between model and data. Then, importantly, they state “[b]This could be produced if the filaments consist of a bundle of finer filaments [color=#FF0000]with a twisted or helical structure[/color][/b]”. OH … OH SO CLOSE. But then they go on to say “[b]even though the case where β = 30◦ shows a better correspondence for the brightness along the NPS, [color=#FF0000]we choose to discuss the β = 0◦ case for the remainder of this paper.[/color][/b]" They just can’t look past the blinders, can they? What a shame. But I do love the author being quoted at the end of the article saying something at end which only a decade or two ago would have resulted in absolute derision from other gnome believers: “[b]I think it’s just awesome to imagine that these structures are everywhere whenever we look up into the night sky.[/b]” :)