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Spiraling Magnetic Signal Shows Up In the Cosmic Background

Posted by timothy on from the headline-can-only-hold-so-many-words dept.

pln2bz writes "Astronomers looking for confirmation for emissions from early stellar formation in the cosmic microwave background radiation instead found a signal indicating large amounts of unaccounted-for spiraling magnetic fields in space, but without any accompanying infrared emissions. The discovery possibly dredges up the claims of plasma cosmologists like Eric Lerner, who claim that the intergalactic medium is a strong absorber of the CMB with the absorption occurring in a fog of narrow filaments. These filaments are the result of plasma's natural tendency, as observed within the plasma laboratory and in novelty plasma globes, to form braided, ropelike structures which are collimated by coiled magnetic fields."

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  1. im drunk! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Dredges? by kahizonaki · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did the writer mean 'shores up'? I mean, I guess they're easy to get confused...they both (in at least one sense) have to do with water...though they sort of mean opposite things...

    Dredge up...wow what a great phrase. Does it mean like, 'reminds us of' or 'recalls'?

    I DEMAND A REFUND!

  3. Ropelike structures? Or tubes? by pines225 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "... to form braided, ropelike structures which are collimated by coiled magnetic fields." An unnamed Senator suggested that these ropelike filament structures were "rather like a series of tubes", causing the RIAA to sue each of the world's plasma laboratories on the grounds that "there could be something illegal going on in all that plasma".

  4. Ingnoring the electric field by Eukariote · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The many unexpected and anomalous astronomical observations are not really that surprising given that the astrophysical theories used to predict/interpret them are limited and likely mostly wrong. One big omission is the ignored role of the electric field. For a good overview of what should be (but is not) taken into account, see this site: http://www.electric-cosmos.org/indexOLD.htm

  5. mo3 up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for the project. You need t0 succeed

  6. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff. by ciderVisor · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A man conceived a moments answers to the dream, Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes. As a foundation left to create the spiral aim, A movement regained and regarded both the same, All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you. Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed. Between the picture of time behind the face of need, Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid, Emotion revealed as the ocean maid, All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

    --
    Squirrel!
    1. Re:Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff. by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Juffo-Wup acknowledges the existence of un-Voidable Non

      when we are faced with such, we join, absorb and wait for our opportunity

      to learn the weakness that will allow us to Void the Non.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  7. Furry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You remind me of a furry, and therefore you must be a furry. Die, furry!