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Mary Rose
dragonridr
www.webpronews.com...
From your link:
The new paper, published this week in The Astrophysical Journal, proposes that the ribbon is in an area where neutral hydrogen atoms from solar wind cross the galactic magnetic field, stripping away their electrons and changing them into charged ions. The particles then become trapped in the ribbon regions by vibrations in the magnetic field.
From "IBEX—Plasma Ribbon Confirms Electric Sun | Space News":
Are the paper and the video talking about the same magnetic field?edit on 03/06/14 by Mary Rose because: Grammar
poet1b
reply to post by Mary Rose
I think you have a point, a plasma is not really electrically neutral, but institutionalized science seems to need to see plasma as electrically neutral.
We know so little about plasma, we don't have good definitions of the many types of plasma.
All protons in plasma are described as hydrogen, and it seems that the idea that not all protons, or all electrons, are the same, is something that can not be considered. We have no idea why Oxygen and Nitrogen are so different, even though they are next to each other on the periodic table.
I think it would be much more accurate to describe most plasmas as being electrically balanced, or having a charge which is balanced, but capable of reaction.
poet1b
reply to post by dragonridr
Um again, not what I am saying.
Take a look at what science says about the sun and hydrogen.
I am sorry that you don't get it.
All protons in plasma are described as hydrogen, and it seems that the idea that not all protons, or all electrons, are the same, is something that can not be considered. We have no idea why Oxygen and Nitrogen are so different, even though they are next to each other on the periodic table.
Mary Rose
reply to post by dragonridr
I didn't ask what the cause is.
I asked whether the two are pointing at the same place. Is there agreement on where it is.
Dragoon01
Just doing a drive by to point out one thing.
It was mentioned many times on this thread that the EU theory or at least the Electric sun theory suposes a negatively charged Sun and that this is inconsistant with the observed repulsion of "both" types of charged particles.
This is in fact incorrect. Birkeland predicted the repulsion of both charges by the double layer.
Professor Emeritus of the Alfvén Laboratory in Sweden, Carl-Gunne Fälthammar wrote (1986): "A reason why Birkeland currents are particularly interesting is that, in the plasma forced to carry them, they cause a number of plasma physical processes to occur (waves, instabilities, fine structure formation). These in turn lead to consequences such as acceleration of charged particles, both positive and negative, and element separation (such as preferential ejection of oxygen ions). Both of these classes of phenomena should have a general astrophysical interest far beyond that of understanding the space environment of our own Earth."
Birkeland predicted that in his work and its not "counter to the EU" its actually part of the EU model.
Now back to your discussion....
poet1b
reply to post by dragonridr
But I did not say that all atoms were composed of hydrogen.
I said all PLASMA protons are described as hydrogen, which is true, at least when it comes to the sun. You are reading something that isn't there.
What I said has nothing to do with the trivia you brought up.
Again, sorry you can't seem to wrap your mind around what is being posted, and the same with your responses to others.
edit on 6-3-2014 by poet1b because: add last two lines.
Mary Rose
reply to post by dragonridr
Our sun causes the galactic magnetic field?
Scientists think that the core of the Sun is a 15 million degree Celsius plasma, a soup of electrons and protons that are stripped from hydrogen atoms. This "soup," called plasma, makes up 90 percent of the Sun.
The Sun actually consists of 90% hydrogen and a mixture of other gases.
poet1b
reply to post by dragonridr
This is the way the typical web site describes the sun.
www.qrg.northwestern.edu...
Scientists think that the core of the Sun is a 15 million degree Celsius plasma, a soup of electrons and protons that are stripped from hydrogen atoms. This "soup," called plasma, makes up 90 percent of the Sun.
and on the same page.
The Sun actually consists of 90% hydrogen and a mixture of other gases.
Um, the sun can't be 90% plasma, and 90% hydrogen, unless that plasma is considered to be hydrogen.
Maybe the website creator omitted the word "ion", as in "hydrogen ion" to simplify the explanation on his website, because he didn't want to get into explaining ions for people who don't know what they are. It's a fairly simplified explanation at the link you cited, so you have to read it in context accordingly.
poet1b
Um, the sun can't be 90% plasma, and 90% hydrogen, unless that plasma is considered to be hydrogen.
a proton being a hydrogen ion
poet1b
reply to post by Arbitrageur
a proton being a hydrogen ion
This has been my point all along, mainstream science considers all individual plasma protons to be hydrogen, or a hydrogen ion, Hydrogen, being a element that is often positive, and so, an ion.
Dragonrider keeps trying to insist that this isn't true.
If you have an electrically neutral hydrogen atom, and the electron separates from the proton, you have 2 ions, the proton and the electron.
edit on 7-3-2014 by poet1b because: add last line
According to this video, they use hydrogen as the proton source at the LHC, but I know they have several experiments, do they use helium in other experiments? I know in some experiments they use fairly heavy nuclei like gold ions.
dragonridr
Ok im going to make this easy for you and keep it simple. Yes hydrogen can be used to make protons yes there can be hydrogen ions which is plasma.But a free proton is a particle we call them hadrons maybe this is your confusion. For example the hadron collider actually uses helium.
I'm not sure I follow that, but if you ionize helium you get helium ions, that is correct. Helium ions should have two protons (and depending on the isotope, some neutrons) while hydrogen ions should have one proton.
So they make a helium ion then get the protons separated and launch the protons into each other. Being as they were formed by helium they are not hydrogen ions they are helium ions.
Now if that was true that the sun had a positive voltage of several billion volts, one way that could happen is if there was a shortage of electrons, which could give the sun such a potential. However if this were the case, I find it difficult to understand why the solar wind would include a relatively electrically neutral balance of positive and negatively charged particles. With a positive voltage of billions of volts, wouldn't the sun be attracting those negatively charged particles (like electrons) and repelling positively charged particles (like protons)? It doesn't seem to be doing that, and attempts by EU folks to explain why it isn't seem to involve a lot of "hand-waving" and don't make much sense.
The Sun is at a more positive electrical potential (voltage) than is the space plasma surrounding it - probably in the order of several billion volts.