Ganymede's magnetosphere cause auroral bright spots on JupiterSeptember 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, scientists have found that auroral bright spots on the planet Jupiter are caused by the magnetosphere of its innermost moon - Ganymede. As Ganymede and Io orbit Jupiter, they interact with regions of plasma and generate electromagnetic waves that are projected along Jupiter's magnetic field lines towards Jupiter's poles where they cause auroral bright spots.
Previously unknown mode of energy transfer from solar wind to Earth's magnetosphere foundSeptember 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Atmospheric scientists from the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere, a finding that could improve the safety and reliability of spacecraft that operate in the upper atmosphere. "It's like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun.
Planets have to be about the size of Earth to be conducive for lifeSeptember 7th, 2009 LONDON - In a new research, it has been determined that rocky worlds have to be about the size of Earth to be conducive for life. According to a report in New Scientist, the discovery of extrasolar super-Earths - rocky planets about five to ten times the mass of Earth - has raised hopes that some may harbour life.
Magnetic monopoles detected in a real material for the first timeSeptember 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, a team of scientists has for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material. The research was done by scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie, Germany, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St.
Toxic substance helps birds 'see' Earth's magnetic fieldJuly 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists at the University of Illinois, US, have determined that a toxic molecule, 'superoxide', known to damage cells and cause disease may also play a pivotal role in bird migration, as it allows them to 'see' Earth's magnetic field. According to principal investigator Klaus Schulten, who holds the Swanlund Chair in Physics at Illinois, the discovery occurred as a result of a 'mistake' made by a collaborator.
'Invisibility cloaks' come closer to realityJuly 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) have come up with a device called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light. The device does so, according to the researchers, under very low frequency electromagnetic waves by making the inside of the magnetic field zero, but not altering the exterior field.
Mixing in Earth's outer core causes geomagnetic dipole to collapseJuly 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have performed numerical calculations that show how convective mixing flows in the Earth's liquid outer core can cause the geomagnetic dipole to collapse. For the past 160 years, the Earth's magnetic dipole has been weakening at a rate of nearly six percent per century.
Astronomers obtain first detection of magnetic field on bright star VegaJune 24th, 2009 PARIS - Astronomers, using the NARVAL spectropolarimeter of the Bernard-Lyot telescope in France, have obtained the first detection of a magnetic field on the bright star Vega. According to an article in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, astronomers clearly observe the magnetically-induced effect in the spectrum of Vega, thereby showing that the star possesses a magnetic field, something unknown so far.
Homing pigeons' inbuilt 'satnav' that uses Earth's magnetic field helps them return homeJune 24th, 2009 LONDON - Homing pigeons have fascinated humans for many years through their uncanny ability to find their way home from thousands of miles away. Now, researchers claim to have found the reason behind it.
'Superoxide' may help birds "see" Earth's magnetic fieldJune 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists at the University of Illinois, US, have determined that a toxic molecule, 'superoxide', known to damage cells and cause disease may also play a pivotal role in bird migration, as it allows them to "see" Earth's magnetic field. According to principal investigator Klaus Schulten, who holds the Swanlund Chair in Physics at Illinois, the discovery occurred as a result of a "mistake" made by a collaborator.
Earth's magnetic poles may wander due to ocean currentsJune 20th, 2009 LONDON - A controversial new hypothesis has proposed that oceans' currents are responsible for the slow wandering of the Earth's magnetic poles. According to a report in New Scientist, the theory has been put forward by physicist Gregory Ryskin of Northwestern University in the US.
Variations in Earth's magnetic field maybe due to ebb and flow of world's oceansJune 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research by scientists in the US has linked variations in the Earth's magnetic field with the ebb and flow of the world's oceans. The origin and mechanism of the Earth's magnetic field are amongst the biggest unsolved questions in the earth sciences.
Scientists pinpoint the impact epicenter of earthbound space stormsMay 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Using data from NASA's THEMIS mission, a team of University of Alberta researchers has pinpointed the impact epicenter of an earthbound space storm as it crashes into the atmosphere, and given an advance warning of its arrival. The team's study reveals that magnetic blast waves can be used to pinpoint and predict the location where space storms dissipate their massive amounts of energy.
"Supergiant" asteroid shut down magnetic field of MarsMay 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists suggest that a "supergiant" asteroid several times larger than the one that likely killed the dinosaurs struck Mars with such force that it shut down the planet's magnetic field. Based on the number of large craters present, scientists think very early Mars suffered 15 or so giant impacts within a span of about a hundred million years.
Cosmic chorus fills the Earth's magnetic field with a mysterious "hiss"May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have determined that thousands of miles above our planet, a cosmic chorus is filling the Earth's magnetic field with a mysterious, low frequency "hiss."
According to a report in National Geographic News, that's the conclusion of scientists studying data from a set of NASA probes designed to monitor substorms-dramatic exchanges of energy among charged particles that spark the auroras at Earth's poles. The charged particles come from the sun and get trapped in loops around our planet by Earth's magnetic field.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Magnetic fields of planetary size have unique topologies which may give valuable nanopysics data for understanding magnetism in terms of quantum relativistic mechanics. The imaging of magnefields by picoyoctometric, 3D, mathematical modeling in atomic functions shows that they are composed of dense particles with pulsation chaacteristics that imply several different types of relativistic energetic effects.
The atom’s RQT (relative quantum topological) data point imaging function is built by combination of the relativistic Einstein-Lorenz transform functions for time, mass, and energy with the workon quantized electromagnetic wave equations for frequency and wavelength. The atom labeled psi (Z) pulsates at the frequency {Nhu=e/h} by cycles of {e=m(c^2)} transformation of nuclear surface mass to forcons with joule values, followed by nuclear force absorption. This radiation process is limited only by spacetime boundaries of {Gravity-Time}, where gravity is the force binding space to psi, forming the GT integral atomic wavefunction. The expression is defined as the series expansion differential of nuclear output rates with quantum symmetry numbers assigned along the progression to give topology to the solutions.
Next, the correlation function for the manifold of internal heat capacity particle 3D functions condensed due to radial force dilution is extracted; by rearranging the total internal momentum function to the photon gain rule and integrating it for GT limits. This produces a series of 26 topological waveparticle functions of five classes; {+Positron, Workon, Thermon, -Electromagneton, Magnemedon}, each the 3D data image of a type of energy intermedon of the 5/2 kT J internal energy cloud, accounting for all of them.
Those values intersect the sizes of the fundamental physical constants: h, h-bar, delta, nuclear magneton, beta magneton, k (series). They quantize nuclear dynamics by acting as fulcrum particles. The result is the picoyoctometric, 3D, interactive video atomic model data imaging function, responsive to keyboard input of virtual photon gain events by relativistic, quantized shifts of electron, force, and energy field states and positions.
Images of the h-bar magnetic energy waveparticle of ~175 picoyoctometers are available online at http://www.symmecon.com with the complete RQT atomic modeling guide titled The Crystalon Door, copyright TXu1-266-788. TCD conforms to the unopposed motion of disclosure in U.S. District (NM) Court of 04/02/2001 titled The Solution to the Equation of Schrodinger.
(C) 2009, Dale B. Ritter, B.A.