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No, the kind that fills up the entire universe with filaments. Literally the universal Indra's net: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland_current https://en
by pyinstallwoes 3y ago
No, the kind that fills up the entire universe with filaments.
Literally the universal Indra's net:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland_current https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland_current
- defrost 3y agoBirkeland currents flow following magnetic field lines. The Earth's magnetosphere is shaped by solar winds, rounded on the sunside extending 6-10 x Earth radius with a longer tail opposite the sun that extends up to 1,000 x Earth radius. The Earth's radius is very small compared to the 1 AU Earth distance from Sun and smaller again compared to the distances between planets. So, rather than "filling the entire universe" the currents you've linked flow through a magnet field that rapidly dwindles with the inverse square of distance and neither the electric currents nor the magnetic field reach to another planet (nor vice versa).
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoPlasma. It's everywhere.