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Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth
MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered evidence of magnetic portals connecting the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through.'"
"Magnetic Portals Connect the Solar Wind and the Earth's Magnetosphere" would be much better.
Now you're thinking with portals!
Is the Earth-Sun distance. Coincidence?
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Naw them ain't probes, them is aliens.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
Now we just need to find Daniel Jackson.
Really? How fascinating!
From what I gather from one quote in the article, scientists always suspected these; it's the fact that it's not a constant connection that was news.
Please, for the love of Helios and Demeter, spell out throw-away acronyms in summaries. It's annoying to read "Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form", and not being told what an FTE is. I really shouldn't have to RTFA[1] to discover that FTE = "Flux Transfer Event". It throws me off track when I read "how FTE are formed", and my brain translates to "how Frozen Talking Elephants are formed".
[1] If you need this acronym spelt out, perhaps you should be on digg.
the main plot device for next summer's blockbuster movie (tentatively titled "Star Portal").
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FTA:
"the cylindrical portals tend to form above Earth's equator and then roll over Earth's winter pole"
I wonder if that's why the aurora borealis seems to crawl across the sky. I seem to remember (from when I lived in the high north) that it happened in fairly regular intervals. The "every eight minuets" seems to ring true as the time between each pass of the light though I haven't been there in eight years so I might just be remembering it wrong.
It is 93 million miles, or 8.32 light minutes, separating Sun and Earth (center to center) -- the magnetosphere will be slightly less. Coincidence? I hope they are investigating some sort of possible resonance or standing wave that is directly related to this distance.
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o <-- this is the earth.
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So something cool might actually happen when all the planets are aligned? Portal from Sun to Neptune?
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In the sun's magnetic portal,
and I'm still alive.
They're using their grammar skills there.
Well... it is true at least, right?
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This article is about magnetic portals. Portal is also the title of a first-person adventure game for PC developed and published by Valve. One of the catchphrases from Portal is "The cake is a lie!", hence sokoban's comment "The summary is a lie".
(a) this is Slashdot, and (b) this is Halloween. How on Earth do you expect to find a sensible summary given a juxtaposition like that?
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Dude. You've been watching wayyy too much SG-1. Really.
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The moon does not have a giant molten core of metal being continuously entagled in the sun's magnetic field and forced to rotate by the constant orbit of the earth around the sun to generate more heat and its own counter-field.
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> (a) this is Slashdot, and (b) this is Halloween. How on Earth do you expect to find a sensible summary given a juxtaposition like that?
(c) That headline is too long.
It's (c) that kills a lot of good headlines, honestly, but there's only so much space on the front page for those headlines to fit.
These portals I suspect are just a series of tubes.
The sun is just like a big truck that dumps particles into these tubes and it can be an enormous amount of material.
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But wouldn't it be cool if it did?
I predict this is the key that will finally unlock the secret of teleporting matter! Unfortunately, it will only allow us to teleport things directly to the sun...
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That would be a terribly depressing eight minute journey. Unless you became a human comet and smashed into Mercury or something, which would just be badass.
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Wow. Another response lacking any hard information. What a complete surprise.
> Perhaps it is time to review some basic physics.
And electrodynamics. Remember Faraday? Maxwell?
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Seriously, can anyone answer the question?
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On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun),
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Exactly!
Could this be used to detect planets (which have a magnetic field)? The delay between subsequent magnetic portal anomalies should give approximate distance from central Sun to the planet.
And do other planets (with magnetic fields) exhibit this magnetic portal as well? Then the Sun should somehow contain a magnetic "signal" which is a superposition of all of those. With Fourier analysis we should be able to make out the components, thus finding out how many planets (with magnetic fields) there are and their distances from the central star.
And a bit more sci-fi idea: could we use this for communication purposes - make the Sun or the portal "ring" with our message? Kind of like lighting a big enough lamp to be seen from a further distance.
And something to think about: how do binary stars behave... Are they in resonance?
And if you combine with a solar flare at the right time do we get to go back to 1969 in the age of cheap intel shares, and cheap pot and free lsd?
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Looks related to this research done in the late seventies.
C.T. Russell and R.C. Elphic. ISEE observations of flux transfer events at the dayside mangetopause. Geophyiscal Research Letters, vol. 6, pp.33-36, 1979.
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