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NASA discovers hidden portals in Earths upper atmosphere

17 points by songzme 13y ago

gjulianm 13y ago
I didn't really understood in which way this is a "portal". Is this a clear, magnetized path, like a sudden "highway" from sun to Earth; or are we talking about portals like Portal, the game? Neither this nor the NASA article [1] really explains what's happening. I think it's more like a "highway" or flux tube [2] but I'm not sure at all. [1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube
- mark-r 13y ago
  It seemed to me like the writer was conflating completely different concepts, perhaps without even realizing it. I'm sorry I wasted 2 minutes of my life reading this drivel.
- MechSkep 13y ago
  By the NASA definition, a portal is an unbroken magnetic path between the earth and the sun. No instant transmission of anything is happening.
- BerislavLopac 13y ago
  Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_transfer_event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_transfer_event
gus_massa 13y ago
What a lot of unintelligible gibberish. It mixes some real science with science fiction and other physical phenomena that are completely unrelated. The magnetic portal is a "hole" in the magnetic field. The particles of the solar wind can are not deflected. This is not related to "wormholes", "Casinir effect", "faster than light travel", teletransportation, "tunels", ... If you are interested in reading the real science and experiments, go to http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals....
Zigurd 13y ago
Sometimes, when you think "I want some of what he's smoking" it turns out to be quite literal. If it's this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jay_Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jay_Brown , I'm thinking some telescope retailer's site bought some filler content and got quite a bit more cosmic value than they expected.

17 points by songzme 13y ago

I didn't really understood in which way this is a "portal". Is this a clear, magnetized path, like a sudden "highway" from sun to Earth; or are we talking about portals like Portal, the game? Neither this nor the NASA article [1] really explains what's happening. I think it's more like a "highway" or flux tube [2] but I'm not sure at all. [1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube

mark-r 13y ago
It seemed to me like the writer was conflating completely different concepts, perhaps without even realizing it. I'm sorry I wasted 2 minutes of my life reading this drivel.
MechSkep 13y ago
By the NASA definition, a portal is an unbroken magnetic path between the earth and the sun. No instant transmission of anything is happening.
BerislavLopac 13y ago
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_transfer_event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_transfer_event

gus_massa 13y ago

What a lot of unintelligible gibberish. It mixes some real science with science fiction and other physical phenomena that are completely unrelated. The magnetic portal is a "hole" in the magnetic field. The particles of the solar wind can are not deflected. This is not related to "wormholes", "Casinir effect", "faster than light travel", teletransportation, "tunels", ... If you are interested in reading the real science and experiments, go to http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals....

Zigurd 13y ago

Sometimes, when you think "I want some of what he's smoking" it turns out to be quite literal. If it's this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jay_Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jay_Brown , I'm thinking some telescope retailer's site bought some filler content and got quite a bit more cosmic value than they expected.