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Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by CLPrime
No, actually it doesn't.
It can't even fully describe our own Sun without postulating all manner of insanity.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by GaryN
You do realize that the guy who came up with the electric theory won the Nobel Prize in physics right?
Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by CLPrime
Alfvén literally wrote the book on astrophysical plasma modeling. In fact, that is what he won the Nobel Prize for. So when the guy who WROTE THE BOOK on plasma modeling tells the scientific community that their models are wrong, it is certainly worth noting.
edit on 2-3-2011 by mnemeth1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by GaryN
You don't know what you are talking about either.
You do realize that the guy who came up with the electric theory won the Nobel Prize in physics right?
You don't know what you are talking about either.
Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once thought. The findings, made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will help astronomers make even more precise measurements of the size, age and expansion rate of our universe.
Standard candles are astronomical objects that make up the rungs of the so-called cosmic distance ladder, a tool for measuring the distances to farther and farther galaxies. The ladder's first rung consists of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables, or Cepheids for short. Measurements of the distances to these stars from Earth are critical in making precise measurements of even more distant objects. Each rung on the ladder depends on the previous one, so without accurate Cepheid measurements, the whole cosmic distance ladder would come unhinged.
Now, new observations from Spitzer show that keeping this ladder secure requires even more careful attention to Cepheids. The telescope's infrared observations of one particular Cepheid provide the first direct evidence that these stars can lose mass—or essentially shrink. This could affect measurements of their distances.
Everything crumbles in cosmology studies if you don't start up with the most precise measurements of Cepheids possible," said Pauline Barmby of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, lead author of the follow-up Cepheid study published online Jan. 6 in the Astronomical Journal. "This discovery will allow us to better understand these stars, and use them as ever more precise distance indicators."
Throughout the Universe, jets of subatomic particles are ejected by three phenomena: the supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies, smaller black holes or neutron stars consuming material from companion stars, and young stars still in the process of gathering mass from their surroundings. Previously, magnetic fields were detected in the jets of the first two, but until now, magnetic fields had not been confirmed in the jets from young stars.
"Our discovery gives a strong hint that all three types of jets originate through a common process," said Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, of the Astrophysical Institute of Andalucia Spanish National Research Council (IAA-CSIC) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
If the standard theorists are to remain true to the physical laws of the universe, then they must acknowledge that the detection of magnetic fields in star formation and galaxies must be accompanied by associated electrical currents.
Any theory that says magnetic fields can exist in space without a constant flow of electrical current violate the known laws of physics.
Any theory that says currents can flow in space plasmas without completing a circuit also violate the known laws of physics.