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no, it isn't. The amount of stuff up there is pretty small, 1/3 of the distance to the moon.
Originally posted by XPLodER
wow this is big,
What a complete crock and misrepresentation to post this baloney in the science forum. The article you cite doesn't even mention "gravity"!! This is a new low for you Xploder! I am disappointed in you. Just when I thought you were trying to get rational in your posts, too.
cold plasma found above earth raises questions of einstiens "gravity is a fundimental force"
This happens frequently when some discovery is made in space. The EU proponents come along and claim that this discovery A or discovery B proves their unfounded theory.
ok just so we know this is big i have added a statment from a member,
"The more you look for low-energy ions, the more you find," said Mats André, a professor of space physics at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala, Sweden, and leader of the research team. “We didn’t know how much was out there. It’s more than even I thought."
"We were surprised at how shallow sunspots are," said Kosovichev. Below 3,000 miles (4800 km) the observed sound speed was higher, suggesting that the roots of the sunspots were hotter than their surroundings, just the opposite of conditions at the surface.
Spacecraft cameras have sent back striking images of the surface of Titan and the bizarre, sponge-like craters of the tiny, chaotically rotating moon Hyperion. The tiny, supposedly dead moon Enceladus was recently caught spewing ice crystals out of cold geysers located near the south pole. While these images hold truly surprising details, SwRI scientists are finding that the invisible plasma worlds of icy Enceladus and hydrocarbon-rich Titan are equally fascinating.
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A second very surprising result is the finding that Titan’s exotic chemistry also creates negatively charged ions of hydrocarbon compounds at a rate of about 0.1 percent of the total.
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During approach and departure phases of the flyby, CAPS measured a large deflection in the direction of flow of the high-speed plasma carried by the rotating magnetosphere. In the same way that an obstacle deflects the flow of a liquid around it, some deflection of the plasma flow was expected. However scientists were surprised to find deflection of the flow starting at a disproportionate distance of 30 Enceladus radii (1 Enceladus radius = 270 km) from the tiny moon.
Although astronomers had studied Jupiter from Earth for several centuries, scientists were surprised by many of Voyager 1 and 2's findings.
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Discovery of active volcanism on the satellite Io was probably the greatest surprise.
Scientists were surprised when an abrupt shock wave - caused when the supersonic solar wind slammed into plasma around the comet - was detected on Giotto's outbound leg, but not clearly identified on the inward journey.
Scientists were surprised to discover that Saturn's bow shock was located at a distance of 3 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Saturn, much farther out than they had predicted.
Cuzzi said Cassini scientists were surprised to find such fine-scale structure nearly everywhere in the rings, forcing them to be very careful about generalizing their findings across the entire ring disk.
"It is the one RHIC observation that deserves the word puzzle or surprise," Platt said.
The first surprise is that there is an unexpectedly strong magnetic field in that surrounding interstellar region, generated by currents in that incredibly tenuous gas. This magnetic field is squashing the bubble of
outflowing gas from the sun, distorting it from the uniform spherical shape space physicists had expected to find.
A second surprise also emerged from Voyager 2's passage through the solar system's outer edge: Just outside that boundary the temperature, although hotter than inside, was ten times cooler than expected.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
no, it isn't. The amount of stuff up there is pretty small, 1/3 of the distance to the moon.
Originally posted by XPLodER
wow this is big,
and the moon would be expected to have a cold plasma zone too, so the distence between the cold plasma reigions of the earth and the moon would be alot closer than you think
cold plasma found above earth raises questions of einstiens "gravity is a fundimental force"
What a complete crock and misrepresentation to post this baloney in the science forum. The article you cite doesn't even mention "gravity"!! This is a new low for you Xploder! I am disappointed in you. Just when I thought you were trying to get rational in your posts, too.
well rational would be to look at all available data and to discuss the implications of those discoveries with others to find what others can conprehend and to bring freash ideas to the subject.
i mentioned gravity because i can see a mecanism that would be at play between the cold plasma boundaries, as the hot plasma travels between them,
not a complete replacement of gravity but a part of the equation.
ok just so we know this is big i have added a statment from a member,
This happens frequently when some discovery is made in space. The EU proponents come along and claim that this discovery A or discovery B proves their unfounded theory.
if the solar wind had any effect on our orbit the fact that the cold plasma "bubble" was larger in diameter than the surface of the earth and hot charged plasma would have to "squeeze" between the two bubbles.
this forces the hot plasma to increase in speed between the constrictin of the cold plasma bubbles,
in a strange sence it would be magneto-hydrodynamics and electro magnetics that would be required to be part of the equations.IMHO
It's also a re-iteration of nonsensical straw-man arguments about "E-fields in space". Of course there can be e-fields in space, and to suggest that only EU people believe this is a straw man argument because real physicists believe it too. The question is, what are the measured/observed e-fields and gravitational effects?
i think you may be missing that the hot plasma and the cold plasma dont really mix all that well,
this causes a "striiping" of electrons by the hot flow at the hot cold boundary,
at that bounday the difference in pressure/density and electrical charge creates an obstruction to flow requiring a change in either pressure denisty or speed of flow, if it was the speed of the hot plasma that changed,
a hydro-dynamic AND electrical attraction occours
This is always there the Eu theory falls apart. It's not supported by evidence, just like the claim in the OP. There's no mention of how much matter exist 1/3 of the way to the moon, what the e-field would be, etc etc etc.
well i think this article goes towards the argument that density seperation and charge difference combined with the hydro dynamics are the ingrediants for what we describe as gravity. in that case if the theory holds,
gravity would not be a fundimental force.
This is just an empty hollow claim with nothing to back it up, no specifics. And the people who fall for this kind of nonsense really should learn to develop some critical thinking skills to tell the difference between science and BS. Heck this isn't even pseudoscience, with the absence of any data presented with this claim.
im sorry you feel that way my friend as im only trying to bring the science to others as i understand it,
usually a debate ensuws and every body supplys contary evidence or supporting evidence.
do you have evidence that hot/cold plasma at different densities doent cause a "boundary"
xp
This is larger than what the planet Earth would weigh if weighed on another Earth. The nuclei in one jug also repel those in the other with the same force. However, these repulsive forces are cancelled by the attraction of the electrons in jug A with the nuclei in jug B and the attraction of the nuclei in jug A with the electrons in jug B, resulting in no net force. Electromagnetic forces are tremendously stronger than gravity but cancel out so that for large bodies gravity dominates.
This is larger than what the planet Earth would weigh if weighed on another Earth. The nuclei in one jug also repel those in the other with the same force. However, these repulsive forces are cancelled by the attraction of the electrons in jug A with the nuclei in jug B and the attraction of the nuclei in jug A with the electrons in jug B, resulting in no net force. Electromagnetic forces are tremendously stronger than gravity but cancel out so that for large bodies gravity dominates.
So let's see how well the standard model is doing these days. Looking at just a handful of science articles, we can see that it predicts nothing and explains nothing.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by mnemeth1
So let's see how well the standard model is doing these days. Looking at just a handful of science articles, we can see that it predicts nothing and explains nothing.
So let's see how EU stacks up. What quantity of "cold plasma" did it predict would be found in cis-lunar space? An exact number, please. Did it predict that this exosphere would extend one third of the way to the Moon? What temperature does it predict for the solar corona? Where does it predict that? Where, exactly, does it predict that Titan would produce negatively charged hydrocarbon ions at 0.1 % of the total. Where does it actually predict volcanism on the jovian moons? You get the idea. EU is very good at explaining things after the fact, but its predictions tend not to fare so well.
It is time to reexamine the predictions I made there about Titan: "We should expect to see family traits amongst the members of the Saturnian family — including the departed Earth, Mars and Venus. For example, the moon Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury, seems to be a close sibling of Venus, probably born from Saturn at about the same time. That Titan may be young is hinted at by its eccentric orbit, which cannot have persisted for billions of years. So we should be alert to similarities between Titan and Venus. It is already known that Titan has the densest atmosphere of any terrestrial planet, after Venus. That is a huge puzzle for scientists. After all, two of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede and Callisto, have no atmosphere yet they are of similar size. So it would not be surprising if Titan had warm spots over the poles, like Venus. Titan also has a global layered haze like Venus. (Haze layers seem to be the condensed form that non-polar molecules take in an electrified atmosphere. They are quite distinct from the vertically moving clouds that polar molecules, like water, form). And just as Mars has a whiff of the Venusian atmosphere, with carbon dioxide and nitrogen as major constituents, we may expect to find that the Titan atmosphere has some of the smell of Venus about it. Both Venus' and Titan's atmospheres, being very young, will not yet be in equilibrium. So calculations about atmospheric constituents that assume equilibrium as a starting point will be wrong. The methane found in Titan's atmosphere is quickly destroyed by sunlight so it has to be replenished. That has led to the suggestion that Titan must have a hydrocarbon ocean for the methane to have lasted for the conventional age of the solar system. However, radar, infrared and radio observations of Titan have not found signs of a hydrocarbon ocean. In fact one radar return was "of a type that we would expect to get back from Venus." Titan is most likely a baby brother of Venus!"'
Originally posted by -PLB-
reply to post by XPLodER
If gravity is a side effect of an electric field, why can't we create gravitational fields in a lab while we can create electric fields in a lab?