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Today, we continue our exploration of the early scientific data from NASA's
historic Parker Solar Probe mission to the Sun.
In part one, Dr. Donald Scott began his analysis of some of the most
intriguing early findings, including the probe's "unexpected" detection of
magnetic reversals as it moved in the plasma solar environment.
As one new 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."
As Dr. Scott continues, he explains why the so-called "switchbacks" could be the
telltale signs of the Birkeland currents hypothesized by the Electric Sun model.
In describing the switchbacks, or magnetic reversals the Parker Probe has
seen, press release stated, "These reversals happen at a high rate of
occurrence. That high rate is surprising. In fact
the nature of these structures remains unknown.
Well, we can help them with that, I think, but anyway, we know
that the Parker Probe is traveling at a speed of approximately 430 thousand miles an hour.
That's fast, it's in fact, it's a hundred ninety kilometers per second.
And so, in a couple of minutes, the probe travels about 15,000 kilometers, so that
distance could very well be the thickness of one of the layers in the
Birkeland current which would be the cause of those magnetic reversals, as it
goes through the Birkeland current.
The press release also announced that, close to the Sun the solar wind seems to get
sped up by powerful "rogue waves" that move through the magnetic field.
The quote from the press release states, "We'd suddenly see a spike in the
flow, where in just a couple of seconds the solar wind would start flowing at
300,000 miles an hour faster."
That's about a hundred and thirty-four kilometers per second increase in the
speed of the solar wind that they're observing, and if the velocity of the
wind is about 400 kilometers a second, the press release said they were
doubling the speed, it's not quite doubling, also they quote, they said there
are jets of plasma in these streamers.
Well, I maintain, the increases in the solar wind
speed may indeed be caused by double layers.
Now, in the past, our viewers have seen this image that I've
included here, of what a double layer looks like.
So just to refresh the viewer, there are three plots there.
The top graph is the voltage that we would measure as a function of radius distance
out from the Sun, so you can see that the
voltage is dropping rather precipitously from point c to d to e, and that results
in the middle plot which is the electric field
that is produced by that sharp drop in voltage.
Now, there's nothing mysterious about that electric field.
It's just the force on a positive ion and if the electric field is positive, as
you see it, there it is, that means that
the force on that positive ion is outward, in the positive direction.
Outward from the Sun, is the positive direction.
So, the bottom plot there is the plot of the charge
distribution that would be there to cause what those other two plots look like.
That's from Maxwell's equations, but if we look at the charge distribution
there, you can see that there are two spherical shells, one of positive ions
and then right on top of that, a shell of negative charges, mostly probably electrons.
And that's why it's called a double layer, the plus and the minus
layer are right there together.
And there are two different spherical shells
in that double layer, the inner half, the
inner one is positive, and the outer half is negative.
And in between, in the center of that, that the layer is at,
is an extremely strong electric field.
Now, that electric field, if it's strong enough, can
actually rip apart any charged intruder into the double layer.
So the SAFIRE experiment, that everybody has
been hearing about, it has worked out so
well for us, that experiment produced an image of a whole series of these double
layers surrounding the anode, the Sun, and the most powerful one is right there
above the, or actually on the surface of the anode, and that's completely
consistent with Juergens' Electric Sun model, because that's the photosphere,
that's where the sunspots all happen and in that
double layer there, all sorts of things occur.
And then, as you go out from that layer outward from
the Sun, the double layers get dimmer and weaker, you can see them finally
disappear off in the distance.
And we don't see any of those double layers around the Sun with our eyes or with
telescopes now, simply because they're, if they're there, they're in the dark mode
of plasma operation, they're in the same mode of plasma operation that surrounds
the North Pole of the Earth and it's dark mode, we don't see that either.
Unless, of course, there's an Aurora at which time the plasma jumps into the
glow mode, and as it did in that photograph that Monty so kindly sent us.
But normally, it's not visible, it's a dark mode plasma and so are those
double layers around the Sun.
Also, and things are happening very quickly these
days, in a new paper entitled "Probing the
energetic particle environment near the Sun," the authors seem to acknowledge that
magnetic reconnection can't actually explain
some of the effects they're observing.
I was waiting, predicting that we would hear about magnetic
reconnection but I'm very pleased that they have
essentially written that off, at least in this paper.
And they said instead, "We find a variety of energetic
particle events accelerated both locally and remotely including by
co-rotating interaction regions, and impulsive events driven by acceleration
near the Sun, and an event related to a coronal mass ejection."
But so, they used the word co-rotating and I wonder if, by using the word co-rotating,
did they actually mean counter-rotating?
Nothing more was said and so, we'll have to wait to see what they have discovered,
but they've discovered, everything that they have discovered is certainly
explainable by Birkeland currents.
Also, incidentally, regarding the question of how all those other elements get onto
the face of the Sun, that we discussed earlier, one of the most important
results of the SAFIRE team was their discovery that in their electrical
plasma discharge, and we remember that was in a
hydrogen atmosphere, just like the Sun, it's hydrogen.
The transmutation of elements occurs, that's the kind of
process that the old prehistoric alchemists were looking, they wanted to change lead
into gold or something like that.
They've actually, SAFIRE has done it in microscopic amounts, but they've done it.
So that in a plasma discharge, hydrogen apparently can give birth to a long list
of other elements, not just water, that were not there before the discharge started.
So that may well be how those other elements got onto the
Sun and get onto the Sun as we speak.
And the point is, fairy dust has nothing to do with it.