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The Magnetic Universe
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What I believe is obvious flies in the face of the current view of the Universe. I see a magnetic Universe. I cringe every time I see a professional scientist standing in front of a picture of a black hole, explaining the power of the black holes gravity, where not even light can escape; hence the name black hole.
The problem with the picture is that there is a jet coming from a disk, and the jet is going at or near the speed of light. Am I missing some thing? Light canâ™t escape, but a jet doing the speed of light is leaving the black hole?
To in know way diminish a heroic efforts to understand the Universe in the domain of theoretical mathematic and known physic. History has shown us their equations sometimes force them away from reality. Computer models are a perfect analogy to Platoâ™s shadows on the cave wall. The Magnetic force is reality no matter what their equations say. Just look at the images from the great telescopes.
What do we really know about magnetic force? The entire tests that we have conducted in the applied science of Electromagnetic energy have been here on earth. We know a small range of force in universal terms of the magnetic force, in a rare atmospheric medium, of low energy here on Earth, not in its natural medium high-energy plasma of interstellar space.
We donâ™t even known Earths magnetic field, where are the magnetometers, where are the magnetic maps. Has any body noticed that a galaxy and a hurricane look alike? The inverse squared law is more like a rule then a law, when it comes to interstellar magnetic fields, unlike gravitational fields always obey the inverse squared law. The controlling force on mass goes Newton, Maxwell, and Alfven, plus.
You will see TV shows on all kinds of exotic ideals: black holes, wormholes, and dark matter. Iâ™m not sure the universe understands how important the theoretical mathematical equations are, when they are based on mass/gravity and Electromagnetic Radiation and almost nothing on the Electromagnetic force, radiation big brother.
Before I start, let me talk about magnetism in general. The first thing, I donâ™t know what a magnetic line is, or how it works. Itâ™s all inferred from what we have learned about Electromagnetic Energy, Electromagnetic Radiation and what NASA tells us about space. Iâ™m not without some credentials. I will grant you my experience it is in applied sciences. When I retired I held five FAA ratings, commercial pilot & A&P mechanic. The truth is, they donâ™t know also.
The problem with the magnetic force is that itâ™s an invisible local force; we canâ™t see or smell nor feel it. You need a tool to detect it. You can go to the library and look up the magnetic force and find almost nothing. In my latest edition of a high school or college chemistry textbook, not one chapter in 55 deals with the magnetic force - an odd paragraph, maybe. You can go to the net and what do you find; very little, and what is there needs correction. Thatâ™s not true for the electron; each electron acts like a tiny magnet.
What makes this doubly strange is that the one place where the science is trying to be advanced is Hannes Alfven magnetohydrodyamics theory, and the support is being cut. Itâ™s almost like the magnetic force is intentionally forgotten about; except that everything that buzzes, turns, or moves in our daily lives is run by the magnetic force made up of magnetic lines.
What Iâ™m about to propose I do not know if any has any truth to it, and none of this is mine. I got it off the net and four decades of Science News, but I feel sure itâ™s the right direction, as opposed to creating things out of whole cloth that only a few understand or can test, that offends the mindâ™s eye when they show the images and explain their theories.
One more thing; if you are trying to understand a subject like the Earthâ™s weather, you would think that you would check all the properties that are known. Why donâ™t weather indicators show a magnetic vector and electric vector? Or am I to believe that the Electromagnetic force plays no part in our weather? How do you know, if you donâ™t look.
â Now a magnetic tale of connecting the dots in deep time.â
The Lona Hypothesis of a Magnetic Universe
A permanent magnet needs no outside input to produce a strong energetic magnetic field today, tomorrow, or next year; itâ™s in the rocks. All that needs to happen is that the spin of the electron stays the same.
In the beginning of deep time, and at the start of a star or planetâ™s life, when first current found that path that completed the energy loop, magnetic lines of force were created. As the mass grew so did the magnetic system.
The magnetic system grew, so did the magnetic structures until at least two types of magnetic lines were created; the magnetic lines with an ion attached, and the ones without the attached ion.
When an ion orbits a magnetic line, it forms a magnetic torus that is called a bead on a string. A magnetic field induces electric currents, which in turn generates magnetic fields, and in this respect it behaves like a magnetohydrodyamics dynamo, so long as the electron maintains the same spin.
Therefore: A magnetic line with an attached ion can be infinite in length and time. Only limited by the number of ions attached to the magnetic line, it becomes one of the oldest and longest things in the Universe.
The ability of deep time to grow, stir, and reconnect magnetic structures is still to be learned. If this line of reasoning has merit, then it should explain some of what we detect with our tools or see with our eyes, but is a not-understood phenomena.
We learned from Vera Rubin that the galactic rotation is wrong for gravity. It turns more like a large flat, tapering plate, plus we have learned that the gas surrounding the galactic plate is also turning.
The gas that rotates with the galactic disk is a galactic bead on a string; Hydrogen is a par-magnetic atom.
If Earth has a short magnetic tail, and Jupiter has a very long magnetic tail, then the Sun has an enormous magnetic tail that travels down its arm in the galactic disk, reconnecting magnetic lines, as everything rotates in the galactic plane for the last 4.6 billion years.
The galactic disk shape implies structure. The defining properties of magnetic energy are the elastic and the directional attractive and repulsive force on mass, some types of mass more than others. The galactic disk is thinnest at the edge of the disk. If it is, the magnetic tension creates by mass and centrifugal force. It follows that the faster a galaxy turns the flatter the central bulge. The barred spiral galaxy Sba-d looks like a bar magnet with a sheet of paper and some iron filing. If the galaxy were a magnetic structure then as it moves in the universe you would expect it to pick up metals.
The two types of solar wind both start with magnetic reconnection at or near the sunâ™s surface. The slow solar wind generally travels along the solar elliptical plane. The fast solar wind generally comes from the sunâ™s higher latitudes. Following the same reasoning, the slow solar wind connected to objects in the elliptical plane have less distance to return to the originating electron. The fast solar wind is connected to originating electrons in objects outside the solar system.
The solar wind accelerates from the surface of the sun; when it hits the earthâ™s magnetic field it slows down, generates heat, and then accelerates again. Thatâ™s the action of magnetism. If the solar wind has a polar vector impact event when it hits the earth magnetic field, the reconnection is between two magnet systems of the sun and the earth, a flux transfer event occurs, then reconnects again and accelerates away.
Where does the moon of Jupiter Io get itâ™s heat from? Moving a mass in a magnetic field will generate electric current, in turn, heat. We can see the current flow between Jupiter and Io.
Cosmic rays that came in groups, and the first had less energy than the latter, could be inferred as a magnetic line releasing the tension from a distant reconnection and imparting momentum on the attached ions.
The Sun changes the North Pole to the South Pole every 11 years. The first question: is the cause internal or external or a combination of both? That question leads to so many more questions that answers at present are unknown. The parts or the language for cosmic magnetism has not been discovered or invented up to now. I know how we do it; when it comes to flipping an electron here on earth we introduce a stronger external magnetic field.
Rupert L Lona
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Posted by Rupert Lona on Wednesday 02nd Apr 2008 (02:24 UTC)
Rupert, I haven't read your entire post because I'm in the middle of a conference but I'll answer a couple of your early questions.
Yes, you are missing something. The jets that astronomers talk about don't come from inside the black hole. They originate outside the event horizon so there is no need for them to be travelling faster than light.
On a general point, many astronomers do think very hard about magnetic fields and there are many routine observations of the magnetic fields in various objects and structures.
Posted by Stuart on Wednesday 02nd Apr 2008 (14:19 UTC)
Stuart I konw of only one magnetic obseratory in the US.
This is the second time that the problem inside or outside event horizon has come up. I think that miss the point of the outline. I do not konw how the universe dose it's magic, what I'm saying is that the magnetic force is a big player. Our konwage of the magnetic force in the universe is small.
Maybe you can help me with what a magnetic line, or field is.
Thank you for replying.
Rupert
Posted by Rupert Lona on Wednesday 02nd Apr 2008 (20:18 UTC)
Rupert, there is no dedicated astronomical observatories for magnetism as far as I know. The point is that by studying the light from objects in the universe we can work out the strength of the magnetic field. In the galaxy we can work out the galactic magnetic field by looking at polarized light.
For more info about magnetic fields find a first year university physics textbook or one on electromagnetism.
Sorry I can't give more of an answer now but I'm in a conference.
Posted by Stuart on Thursday 03rd Apr 2008 (15:39 UTC)
Stuart I probably wrote or taught that textbook. Itâ™s a trick question no one on the planet can. There is a âœphoton to photonâ exchange Hypothesis. Ask anybody you know, anybody at your conference. It is a simple question. What is a magnetic line or field?
Not how it works.
Posted by Rupert Lona on Thursday 03rd Apr 2008 (19:03 UTC)