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There's a wide body of scientific evidence supporting the fact that electromagnetic forces have a significant impact at many scales throughout the solar system
by criticaltinker 5y ago
There's a wide body of scientific evidence supporting the fact that electromagnetic forces have a significant impact at many scales throughout the solar system and cosmos. It has been observed, since at least the early 70s, that the Sun's electric field induces auroras, radiation belts [0], and convection in planetary magnetospheres [1][2]. The OP title might be a little sensational by calling this an energy crisis - but the photos of the heat bands were really interesting IMO.
I admire movements like the Electric Universe Theory [3] for spreading awareness of plasma cosmology, magnetohydrodynamics, etc. I think in the future there will be an ecosystem around solar space weather, [4] is an example of such.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/RG007i001p00421 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/RG00...
[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19700002717/downloads/19700002717.pdf?attachment=true https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19700002717/downloads/19...
[3] https://www.electricuniverse.info/peer-reviewed-papers/ https://www.electricuniverse.info/peer-reviewed-papers/
[4] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
- tomrod 5y agoI'm pretty sure the Electric Universe Theory is fancy pseudoscience. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe
- selimthegrim 5y agoDo they not teach Landau damping in engineering classes?