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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?
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
Is a lie.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
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!
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.
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
O <-- this is the sun.
WHOOSH <-- this is the WHOOSH going over your head.
. <-- you.
o <-- this is the earth.
It doesn't have anything to do with iPods which is exactly why it was tagged NOT iPods.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
So something cool might actually happen when all the planets are aligned? Portal from Sun to Neptune?
Well... it is true at least, right?
Lets add other fun !-tags.
Lets see... !aardvark, !aardwolf, !aargau, !aare, !aaron, !aascu...
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
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?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
But wouldn't it be cool if it did?
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?