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On August 12, 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe was launched from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, beginning its historic journey that would take it closer to the
Sun than any man-made object to date.
In early December, the first scientific papers
were published on the mission's earliest findings.
The first four papers have suggested a number of
"surprising discoveries" including the speed of the solar wind rotating around
the Sun, and the behaviors of dust
particles that the probe has encountered at its perihelion.
From the perspective of the electric Sun model, perhaps the
most intriguing discovery to date is the "unexpected changes" in the Sun's
magnetic field, which the probe encountered as it moved through the plasma environment.
As one news report describes, "Unexpectedly, the probe also
detected a series of flips in the Sun's magnetic fields--dubbed 'switchbacks' -- as
streaming winds of plasma flowed past the spacecraft. During these periods, the
magnetic field suddenly reversed itself by 180 degrees
and then, seconds to hours later, flipped back."
In part one of this two- part presentation, retired
professor of electrical engineering, Dr. Donald
Scott begins his analysis of the Parker Probe data.
Well, about a week or so ago, at a NASA press conference, the
investigators that are in charge of the Parker Solar Probe described their new
findings from the first flybys of that probe.
Now, as far as I have been able to find out, the probe has made
about three closer and closer passages to
the Sun and it will continue to do that for
several years and hopefully, if it doesn't burn up, it'll continue to do that.
But in any event, the NASA press conference included the statement, which
is sort of typical of them, "This is the first time we've been able to fly a
spacecraft into the atmosphere of a star."
They said that last time too, and I commented on that kind of statement.
It all depends on what you call the atmosphere of a star.
What is the Sun's atmosphere?
Well, the Sun's local plasma extends out to the
extent of the heliosphere which is, ends in what we call the heliopause and
that's several times the distance out of Pluto, so by definition, any probe or
satellite that gets out of Earth's atmosphere is in the Sun's atmosphere,
if you familiarize the Sun's atmosphere goes out that far.
But actually, the proper question is: how close to the
Sun's photospheric surface will the Parker Probe get?
Will it get into the Sun's Corona?
Will it get below the Corona- -no, certainly not
below the Corona, and nothing's going to, in the foreseeable future, will ever get
through that kind of temperature, but NASA says that the probe will, in 2025,
get within a distance of four million miles.
OK, I think as I said last time, that four million miles is about nine solar radii.
That is, if you take a picture of the Sun during the full solar
eclipse and see the Corona there, if you look and scale the distance, let's
say from the center of the Sun to the edge of the black dot, the shadow of
the Moon in front of the Sun, that's of course the solar radius.
And so, if you measure out ten times that distance,
that's where closest approach of the Parker Probe will get.
It used to be said that the farthest out that
the Corona extends is about five solar radii.
So I said last time and I still think,
that the Parker probe was not going to
get even close to the outermost regions of the Corona.
But recently NASA says no, the Corona extends out to something like five
million miles, twelve solar radii, and so it could make, get in, depending on
what they guess the feeling of the Sun at the moment is, what it's, how far it
extends its Corona, it may touch the outer reaches of the Corona.
But there is something that it's going to.
The press release goes on to say that the present data that they're getting back
"...hints at the likely birthplace of dynamic solar winds, which bathe our
entire solar system in energy." Well, that's certainly true. They continue to
say, "It describes startling reversals (that is to say switchbacks) in the Sun's
magnetic fields. And it detects dust in the solar wind and it shows that solar
winds spin," and they say of course in their airy frivolous language, "it spins
like children riding on a playground carousel."
Anyway, if you can get through that, whenever you hear about things
spinning, just quietly think about the fact that force-free currents are
collections of counter-rotating spinning magnetic field and current pathways.
I submit and I have submitted for a long while, that they're about the only
natural phenomenon that do consist of concentric counter-rotating cylinders
that do indeed spin or at least twist.
In one of our last Space News segments, we discussed reports that the Voyager
probes have observed unexpected rotation of the
magnetic fields through which it is traveling.
That is the Voyagers, they're out at the end, the other end
of the thing, they're out of the heliopause and my comment at that time
says wow, that's fantastic because that would fit like a hand into a glove with
our Juergens' Electric Sun model, and that would say that yes, they have left the
heliopause or heliosphere, out through the heliopause, but it still hasn't left
the giant Birkeland current that feeds this whole solar system and feeds our Sun,
still seeing them, rotating magnetic fields, within that Birkeland current.
Getting back to the present though, the present report, I feel it's very likely
that the pointed tops of the so-called coronal caps,
regions were the arrays of plasma that are leaving up through the corona,
instead of diverging from a central point, i.e. the Sun, after they leave
they seem to, certain places at least, come back together again and form a
triangular or at least a conical kind of a cap.
But anyway, a long time EU member, good friend of ours, Chris
Reeve apparently asked the question: isn't it possible that these switchbacks
are simply the probe moving through the counter-
flowing Birkeland current cylinders of each filament?
And when I saw that I said, hurrah, thank you Chris!
Yes, absolutely, yes, of course, yes,
it's quite likely that the coronal caps, those
pointed-hat-shapes we observe in the outer regions of the Corona, are exactly
where Birkeland currents form, and those Birkeland currents extend out to places
like the north poles of the planets, so Birkeland currents would explain the
spinning and the reversal of direction of magnetic fields that the Parker Solar
Probe observes and that the investigators
have found so typically surprising.
Scientific reports describe the Parker Probe being bombarded with
dust particles during its closest approaches to the Sun.
A phys.org report states, "Another surprise was a dust that
peppered the spacecraft repeatedly during
each fly-by at perihelion... The dust
particles are likely debris from asteroids or comets that melted near the
Sun and left behind their trapped dust."
But this begs the question: how large an amount of rocky comet and asteroid
material would have to be spread through such an unimaginably vast volume of space?
We asked Dr. Scott how the Electric Sun model of the solar plasma
environment might better explain the presence of such dust?
I think that that explanation is, it's akin to the
typical explanation that they give for why
are there all sorts of different elements?
You know; manganese, calcium, iron, sulfur, oxygen, you name it, all the other
elements in addition to the hydrogen and helium that their model says has to be
there, but their model of nuclear fusion does not produce manganese, calcium,
oxygen, and sulfur and all the raft of other elements.
And so, where does it come from?
In deeper outer cosmic space there are novae explosions, Suns explode and
they pepper the universe with, and Scott adds parenthetically, (fairy dust) that
sprinkles throughout the galaxies and intergalactic space, and that's how all
these other kinds of elements that the Sun doesn't generate, that's how they get
on the Sun, it's like a snowstorm and they come in from deeper outer space.
Now, if you believe that, I've got a bridge that connects Manhattan and
Brooklyn that I would be very willing to sell you.
Alfven and all of the earlier plasma physicists were well
aware that most plasmas are what are called dusty plasmas and that means that
they contain neutrals; a fully ionized plasma is very rare, they say that the
outer regions of the Coronas, of the Corona of our Sun and probably other stars, are
fully ionized plasma, but 99% of most plasmas are not fully ionized.
In fact, Hannes Alfven was quoted as saying,
if the plasma was more than ten percent
ionized, it could be considered a fully ionized plasma because, the forces
between the ions and electrons that were there are so much stronger than the
gravitation between the neutrals that the neutrals,
the gravitational effects just don't count.
So that's a long-winded way of saying sure, plasmas are dusty,
that's where the dust comes from, it comes from within the Sun, as the
ions and the electrons come blasting out of the Sun they bring neutrals with them
and that's where it came from.
I don't think you have to depend on asteroids melting near
the Sun to explain that.
Stay tuned for part 2