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HISTORY. “In 1864 Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism in his celebrated electromagnetic equations, and 40 years later Lorentz extended the ideas to relatively moving frames of reference, which were incorporated into Einstein’s special theory of relativity in 1905.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

MAGNETISM AS A SYNDROME. “The magnetic field is a syndrome, composed of a number of effects that occur in combination. It is a collection of effects, to which we have attached a name, whose effects extend over space.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

BLOCKBUSTERS. “Magnetic fields in the range ∼ 200 – 25 000 G have been measured in Ap and Bp stars, while in the magnetic white dwarfs the measured fields are in the range ∼3 × 10(4) – 10(9) G.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

THE NEXT POSTS are taken from a vast authority in the field, the late E. N. Parker, from his remarkable book, Cosmical Magnetic Fields: Their Origin and their Activity. https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

OMNIPRESENT. “Magnetic field (and their inevitable offspring of fast particles) are found everywhere in the universe where we have the means to look for them.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

MAGNETIC ETHER. “When we look at the universe on a larger scale, there is a magnetic field in interstellar space, evidently extending around the disk of the galaxy. The field is embedded in the interstellar gas and confines the cosmic rays produced by the stars within it.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

THE MOST MAGNETIC OBJECTS. “Over 200 magnetic stars, with fields in excess of 100 G and ranging up to 34,000 G have come to light. The pulsar is a spinning neutron star with strong pulsed emission of radiation as a consequence of magnetic fields up to 10(12) G.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

TURBULENT JUPITER. “The remarkable conditions surrounding the planet Jupiter, with intense belts of fast particles trapped in an extended magnetic field emitting bursts of protons and relativistic electrons into space with each rotation of the planet...with occasional bursts of radio waves moving near the speed of light in a magnetic field.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

DRIVER OF COSMIC RAYS. “The large cosmic ray variations at earth are the result of magnetic variations in the wind.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

DRIVING SOLAR WINDS. “The solar wind is powerfully affected by magnetic events on the sun, as is the effect of the solar wind on earth. The magnetic sector structure of the wind, the turbulence, the standing shock waves, and the occasional blast wave from a flare all owe their existence to magnetic conditions in the sun.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn