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MONSTROUS VALUES. “Over astronomical dimensions the magnetic field takes on qualitative characteristics that are unknown in the terrestrial laboratory.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

THE WORLD AS MIND. “I seem to feel Napoleon’s influence on our quiet evening in the garden for instance — I think I see for a moment how our minds are all threaded together — how any live mind today is of the very same stuff as Plato’s & Euripides. It is only a continuation & development of the same thing. It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind.” (Written by Virginia Woolf when she was just 21). https://lnkd.in/edRJJw6u View in LinkedIn

DRIVING COSMIC ACTIVITY. “The presence of a weak field causes a small amount of energy to be diverted into generating more magnetic field, and that small diversion is responsible for the restless activity in the solar system, in the galaxy, and in the universe.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

ANALOGY. “A resemblance to temperature in figure 4 is easy to see in solutions to the heat equation…but where temperature originates in linear interactions, the information structure is characterized by something else.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION. “What is this fascinating entity that, like a biological form, is able to reproduce itself and carry on an active life in the general outflow of starlight, and from there alter the outflow of stars and galaxies? “ https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

THE HYPOTHESIS. “In considering an information origin of space-time, the flat space-time structure turns into a boundary value problem, modulus Gaussian profiles.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

OMNIVOROUS CREATURE. “The magnetic field exists in the universe as an ‘organism’ feeding on the general energy flow from stars and galaxies.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

LIVING MAGNETISM. “Magnetism is a little bit like a living organism, because magnetic fields tap into every free energy source they can hold onto and grow. They can spread and affect other areas with their presence, where they grow as well.” https://lnkd.in/eMptbniD View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE for this and next weekend focuses on cosmic magnetic forces, and some of the astonishingly strong sources of this pervasive field. Here is a thumbnail primer on the enormous relative magnitude of the values (in G Gauss) you will see: Earth 0.6 G, Jupiter 10 G, Small permanent magnet 100 G, Ap Bp stars to 25,000 G, Strong electromagnets 10,000,000, Magnetic white dwarfs to 30,000,000,000 G. View in LinkedIn