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9 pages of results. 31. Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995) [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Fermi nodded and said, Of course. ' The next day the world of physics said. Oh. of course." ' Alfvén versus Chapman: Alfvén became active in interplanetary and magnetospheric physics at a time when a contrary viewpoint prevailed. Alfvén's views were consistent with those of the founder of magnetospheric physics, the great Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland. At the end of the nineteenth century Birkeland had laid out a compelling case-supported by theory, laboratory experiments, polar expeditions, and a chain of magnetic-field "observatories" around the world -that electric currents flowing down along the earth's magnetic fields into the atmosphere were the cause of the aurora and polar magnetic disturbances. However, in the ...
32. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , who observed that the Sun's photosphere behaved in the fashion of an electric arc. If the Sun is powered electrically, as claimed by Juergens, then standard theories of star formation and solar system evolution must be corrected at the level of fundamental assumptions. Two other pioneers whose work leads to a deeper understanding of plasma and electricity are Kristian Birkeland and Irving Langmuir. Birkeland's experiments early in the twentieth century showed how current filaments in plasma join in entwined pairs, now called "Birkeland currents." Langmuir's experimental work gave rise to the word "plasma," due to the life-like behavior of this conductive medium. He demonstrated how the plasma sheath insulates a charged sphere from its ...
33. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - I (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... in 1500 years, assuming an electrical charge of 10^13 coulombs, would require a solar magnetic field at Venus of 210,000 gauss [Pensee IVR VIII, p. 42], a value "some billions of times larger than the greatest values we could conceivably accept as realistic at this time". In 1899, Kristian Birkeland "suggested that electron streams following the Earth's magnetic-field lines were responsible for auroras. . . . The main point of his auroral theory was that electrically charged particles ejected from sunspots are captured by the Earth's magnetic field and directed along the field's lines into the polar regions" [A . L. Peratt, "Birkeland and the Electromagnetic ...
34. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... - published an article demonstrating an astonishing accord between ladder-like forms in ancient rock art and plasma structures produced in high-energy-density experiments. [95] Briefly, Peratt produced a Z-pinch effect in a plasmatic column by applying high-voltage pulses to gas-puffs in order to simulate an aurora-like inflow. [96] The well-known effects of a Z-pinch include the generation of Birkeland currents and the development of toroidal forms along the polar axis. With a sufficient increase in current, the toroids tend to flatten out, thereby presenting the appearance of "rungs" or "steps." Figure Seven, adapted from Peratt's article, offers an example of the ladder-like structures in a stack of toroids generated by high-energy-density experiments ...
35. Thoth Vol I, No. 22: August 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... by electrical energy input. That the Earth participates in this electrical circuit, in its own small way, is shown by the direct correlation between earthly thunderstorm activity and the sunspot cycle. The Great Red Spot (GRS) and white spots on Jupiter may have something in common with sunspots. All are probably the point of connection of a Birkeland current rope from the plasmoid surrounding the planet/sun. The strong vertical magnetic field in sunspots suggests this is so in their case. (Birkeland currents flow along magnetic field lines in a force-free fashion). The long-lived GRS on Jupiter may be associated with some underlying electrical inhomogeneity in the planet resulting from the catastrophic breakup of the ...
36. Thoth Vol II, No. 6: March 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... on the subject of changes in the number of days in a year, which I proposed could be explained by a change in the electrical environment of the Earth. I have also proposed in The Electric Universe that the solar activity cycle is driven externally by the Sun's galactic environment. More specifically, it traces the Sun's passage across the giant Birkeland current threads which energise and define the arms of our spiral galaxy. This interesting report seems to support all of these inter-connections: "Two American workers have recently demonstrated that there is indeed a very remarkable link between the fluctuations in the length of the day taken from a sample over the years 1865 to 1961, and the small variations ...
37. Our Electric Sun [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... in the idea of an electrical sun after reading an article in Industrial Research magazine by Ralph Juergens, on plasmas; the Sun is a plasma (cloud of ionized gas), there are ionized particles (hydrogen ions) in space, but astronomers say this can't happen. But it appears that stars and galaxies tend to form strings: Birkeland currents, with stars being formed where the Z-pinch effect occurs [see "Electromagnetic collapse, problems of stability, emission of radiation and evolution of a dense pinch", Boris E. Meierovich, Phys. Reports 104 259.] Plasmas appear in one of three types: (a ) Dark current (invisible, but gives off ...
38. Electric Currents in Space [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Alien Sky: Part II 11:35 Mel Acheson: Verbal Vignette 11:45 John Chappell: Problems with Modern Physics Electric Currents in Space Tony Peratt ANTHONY PERATT has a doctorate in plasma physics, and studied under Hannes Alfvén (from whom he inherited an interest in the plasma universe), who had in turn been interested by Kristian Birkeland. Tony pointed out that his presentation was also available on the Web [in a lot more detail] at www.theUniverse.ws He kicked off the morning with an introduction to plasma, and plasmas in space, and mentioned that although it was thought that plasmas in space were not generally accepted by the scientific community, on ...
39. Forum: Electric Universe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... plasma either. None are therefore competent to pronounce upon an electric star model. For example, on Laszlo's web site, he purports to have discovered a 5th state of matter in the form of filaments (the 4th being plasma). If he had read Physics of the Plasma Universe [5 ] he would see that his filaments are Birkeland currents. There is no reference in Laszlo's book, The Electric Universe, to these plasma filaments, which are central to plasma cosmology. One cannot construct a theory of electric stars in isolation: it is necessary to explain how a star plugs into the broader cosmic circuit, otherwise it will build up a space charge that will prevent ...
40. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... new physics or phantom particles to force a match with observations. It explains why galaxies naturally favor the beautiful spiral form. Gravity alone can only produce featureless disks. The current theory of planet formation relies on this fact. >> On the left is a series of single frame stills from a computer animation of a cross-section through two interacting Birkeland current filaments. Not shown is the elliptical core of plasma trapped at the geometric center of the simulation. Top right is the form taken by two interacting plasmoids fired at each other across a magnetic field (courtesy of W. Bostik). Below that, side by side to show the striking correspondence between lab experiment and computer simulation ...
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