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In part 1 of this presentation Dr. Michael Clarage,
a scientist on the SAFIRE project team,
proposed an entirely new way of seeing our Solar System
based on the principles of electrical engineering.
In this episode Dr. Clarage further elaborates the idea
of the Solar System as a central core electrical transformer
and he will explain the results from initial experiments to actually build such a transformer.
Now let us return to our image of the Solar System as a collection of nested coils of wire.
We will apply the very basic idea of the electrical transformer
with different numbers of turns for different coils.
Planets that go many times round will transform solar influences to higher voltages,
planets that go fewer times around will transform solar influences into lower voltages.
From a very simple analysis,
looking at the relative times each planet orbits around the Sun,
we get these numbers for the voltages transformed by each planet;
the first column of numbers is the number of times each planet goes around the Sun
in the time it takes Neptune to go around once.
You will see the Earth coils around the Sun 165 times, Jupiter only 14 times.
We are taking this as the relative number of times the wire
wraps around the transformer core.
The second column of numbers gives the relative voltages transformed by each planet.
Those planets that have more turns should have higher electrical tensions.
For the sake of argument we will assign 250 thousand volts to the Earth
as this is roughly the voltage difference on the Earth
between the surface of the Earth and the Ionosphere.
Then Jupiter with its fewer number of turns round the Sun
should only be sustaining about 20,000 volts.
You can take this as a prediction but so far we only have measurements for Earth.
Maybe when the Cassini probe dives into Saturn's atmosphere
we might get some measurement there.
Now of course things in the solar system are much more complicated.
As I've said before, the Solar System is just as complex as the human body;
so all of this is certainly a vast simplification but if it is in the right direction
it will get us thinking about things in the right way
to make new understanding about all planetary systems.
One of the main characteristics of electrical transformers is their oscillation.
Most transformers only work with alternating current.
It is the electromagnetic breathing in and breathing out of the primary coil
that drives the breathing in and breathing out of the secondary coil.
Here's a graph of the pulsations of the Solar Magnetic Field.
The larger cycle is the 22 years sunspot cycle.
The smaller wiggles are the 27 day rotation period of the Sun
and as you can see there are smaller wiggles still on top of that.
In alternating current electrical transformers, oscillations from the primary coil
induce predictable oscillations in all the secondary coils.
So if the Sun is sending out this known oscillatory pattern
then what is being induced in each of the planets?
I was getting motivated to start experimenting with some of this
so i started building my solar system.
Here are three planets represented by coils of wire.
In the very center is my primary sun coil
into which I will push a driving alternating current.
The next coil out is about two inches across and
it has magnet wire wrapped about 20 times around.
The relative sizes of the rings obeys Bode's law,
with the diameter of the next orbit is roughly twice the diameter of the one inside.
The number of turns of each wire in each planet coil obeys Kepler's law;
in other words this little wire setup mimics
Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus over about 240 years.
Now hook up an alternating current to the center sun coil
and measure what sort of signal is induced in the outer Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus coils.
Here's a picture of the full setup
and here is the voltage trace of two of the planets.
Again I'm driving the inner sun coil with an alternating current
and then displaying the induced voltage oscillations inside the outer planet coils.
This system had many strong resonances, just me moving around the room
would cause large changes in the voltages
and I was surprised when the voltage measured in each planet coil was roughly the same.
The inner planet with its much larger number of turns, I thought,
should have a much larger voltage because voltage is proportional to number of turns.
So looking again at Faraday's law of induction I was reminded that the induced voltage
also involves the total magnetic flux through the area in question.
The size of the voltage step-up or step-down also depends upon the size of the orbit
and it is interesting that the area of the planet's orbit increases in a way
that the decreasing number of turns just about cancels out.
Kepler's law plus Bode's law means that the inner planets,
even though they make many more trips around the Sun,
have proportionately smaller orbital areas for the Sun's magnetic flux to fill.
In other words, I might modify my original statement and now say
that each planet experiences roughly the same induced voltage.
That was as far as I got with the experiment.
The next stage would require factoring
in the size and the conductivity of the planets' ionospheres
and also factoring more of what we know about the Sun's oscillations.
And maybe someone else would like to take all this and experiment further.
So thank you for letting me share some of my thoughts and explorations.
I know that seeing the Solar System as a center core electrical transformer
is a huge simplification but I also know that it is in the right direction.
If we're going to understand solar systems, planets or galaxies;
we have to be more flexible, especially with our sense of time.
What our eyes and instruments tell us is enormously biased
by the speed at which we experience the flow of time.
Just because you and I think it takes a long time for Jupiter to go around the Sun
does not mean that the Sun experiences it that way.
To the Sun, a thousand years of our time passes in the blink of an eye.
What to us appears a tiny point moving slowly in a circle
will to the Sun appear as a continuous shimmering conductive sheath.
The Solar System actually is an electrical current transformer.
It's just that so far, it's much too complicated for us to make sense of
but we will get there.
I also want to convey how important it is to look for function.
Our universe is quite economical, very little is wasted.
Systems of great complexity are nested within each other.
That nesting is never random.
Each citizen of the smaller worlds plays very specific roles
within the larger world it inhabits.
200 years ago many scientists thought that cells
were unstructured blobs and had no specific purposes.
Now we know that every cell type performs many unique
and completely necessary functions for the body.
In fact, every few months cellular biologists discover a new type of cell in our body
that performs a new previously unknown function
and at present no scientist would dare say that cells in your body have no purpose.
This is a very big change from 1860 and the words of Haeckel.
Astrophysics is lagging behind biology in this regard
and if astronomy is going to catch up, we must begin cultivating the idea
that different kinds of solar systems have different functions within a galaxy.
Thank you!
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