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MAGNETIC SUNSPOTS. “The entire sunspot cycle with its quasiperiodic cycle of 11 and 22 years is a magnetic phenomenon. The magnetic fields on the sun represent a diversion of less than 10(-4) of the total solar output, yet they are responsible for qualitative effects on the environment in space and on earth.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS. “The magnetic field may refrigerate its surroundings, as in the sunspot where the temperature is reduced to two-thirds the surrounding 6000 K. Or it may cause intense heating, as in the enhanced chromosphere and corona above regions where magnetic field emerges through the surface of the sun.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

ASSUMED PARITY. “Maxwell’s equations have not been critically tested over large astrophysical dimensions, but are applied without hesitation to the earth, the sun and the galaxy.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

GENERATOR OF COMPLEXITY. “Once the energy is invested in fields, the possibilities for further complexity are almost limitless.” (Read carefully and contemplate!) https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

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