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MAGNETIC SCULPTING OF THE COSMOS. “The tail radius and flaring angle (deviation from a cylindrical shape) are to some extent controlled by the interplanetary magnetic field direction, which controls the intensity of reconnection at the nose of the magnetosphere.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

BEYOND COMPUTATION. “There has recently been proposed a limit on the computational power of the universe, i.e. the ability of Laplace's demon to process an infinite amount of information. The limit is based on the maximum entropy of the universe, the speed of light, and the minimum amount of time taken to move information across the Planck length, and the figure was shown to be about 10(120) bits. Accordingly, anything that requires more than this amount of data cannot be computed in the amount of time that has elapsed so far in the universe.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon View in LinkedIn

MAGNETOSPHERE SIZE. “The size and shape of the magnetosphere is controlled by the interaction of the interplanetary magnetic field and solar wind flow with the internal geomagnetic field and the magnetospheric plasma environment. The size is largely controlled by the solar wind dynamic pressure, which is balanced by the magnetic pressure inside the magnetosphere.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

SOLAR PLASMAS. “As the magnetospheric activity conditions are largely controlled by the stability properties of the cross-tail current sheet, and as the magnetotail current sheet shares many of the properties of dynamically important current sheets found e.g. in the solar plasmas, the dynamics of the cross-tail current has been intensively studied in recent years.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

BOILING WITH ACTIVITY. “As this is the region which feeds the inner magnetosphere with both plasma, energetic particles, and magnetic flux, the plasma sheet dynamics is crucially important for space weather applications.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

EXPANDED SCALE. “While such bursts of fast flow can be observed during all magnetospheric activity conditions, they become more numerous, more intense, and have larger scale sizes during magnetically active conditions.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

MAGNETOTAIL PLASMA SHEET. “These flows are most likely created by localized reconnection events initiated either by internal tail processes or by external driving conditions https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

PURE ENERGY. “The magnetotail plasma sheet is a highly dynamic and structured region. Plasma flows in this region are not laminar, and during most times the net Earthward plasma flow imposed by the large-scale convection pattern is composed of short-lived (1–10 min) bursts of fast flow while the ambient plasma velocity distribution is very nearly isotropic.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn