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Wow, I never considered the concept of a planet with a superconducting dynamo. That's a fascinating possibility.
by aqme28 12y ago
Wow, I never considered the concept of a planet with a superconducting dynamo. That's a fascinating possibility.
- throwaway_yy2Di 12y agoEven cooler: there's articles that claim the interiors of neutron stars are superconducting -- the current carried by proton pairs, rather than electron pairs. Maybe this is the source of magnetar dynamos. http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/neutronstar.cfm http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/neutronstar.cfm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar#Origins_of_magnetic_fields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar#Origins_of_magnetic_f...