'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 10: Invisible Earth
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“...On the basis of the evidence presented above, we regard it as established that the great radiation belt around the earth consists of charged particles, temporarily trapped in the earth’s magnetic field … The radiation belt may well be the seat of a distributed ‘ring’ current encircling the earth, and the perturbations of the belt due to arrival of solar plasma may be directly responsible for solar storms. No detailed study of this possibility has yet been made.
What Van Allen had discovered was confirmation of the hypothesis put forward by Kristian Birkeland.
“Furthermore, without apparently fully realizing the significance of what he was saying, Van Allen said that maybe there was a ‘ring current’ around the Earth. This article therefore can be considered as the first appearance in print of physical confirmation of Birkeland Currents in space.
But Van Allen and his colleagues were still struggling with the concept of plasma in space. They persisted in referring to what came from the Sun as a ‘gas’, albeit an ionized gas, “which they hesitantly called a ‘solar plasma’. But at this stage, no one yet understood the true nature of what we today refer to in common parlance as ‘the solar wind’, the massive streaming of plasma from the Sun outwards into the entire solar system, and bathing the Earth.”
“In 2013, a temporary third Van Allen Belt was discovered by NASA, but it was subsequently destroyed by a shock wave from the Sun. Or so the story goes, though it may simply be a cover story to explain its destruction by human interference.
The second and outer Van Allen Belt is now known to consist largely of electrons, whereas the inner and smaller one consists of a mixture of protons and electrons. It was only in 2014 that it was discovered that the inner edge of the outer Van Allen Belt is very sharp and highly defined, and resembles a protective barrier. Scientists are still trying to understand that discovery.
This finding is, however, precisely what one would expect, because plasma regions whether large or small are routinely surrounded by closely fitting plasma sheaths, which are rather thin, and their edges do tend to be very sharp and highly defined, as we now know is the outer Van Allen Belt.”
by Robert Temple
Chapter 10: Invisible Earth
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“...On the basis of the evidence presented above, we regard it as established that the great radiation belt around the earth consists of charged particles, temporarily trapped in the earth’s magnetic field … The radiation belt may well be the seat of a distributed ‘ring’ current encircling the earth, and the perturbations of the belt due to arrival of solar plasma may be directly responsible for solar storms. No detailed study of this possibility has yet been made.
What Van Allen had discovered was confirmation of the hypothesis put forward by Kristian Birkeland.
“Furthermore, without apparently fully realizing the significance of what he was saying, Van Allen said that maybe there was a ‘ring current’ around the Earth. This article therefore can be considered as the first appearance in print of physical confirmation of Birkeland Currents in space.
But Van Allen and his colleagues were still struggling with the concept of plasma in space. They persisted in referring to what came from the Sun as a ‘gas’, albeit an ionized gas, “which they hesitantly called a ‘solar plasma’. But at this stage, no one yet understood the true nature of what we today refer to in common parlance as ‘the solar wind’, the massive streaming of plasma from the Sun outwards into the entire solar system, and bathing the Earth.”
“In 2013, a temporary third Van Allen Belt was discovered by NASA, but it was subsequently destroyed by a shock wave from the Sun. Or so the story goes, though it may simply be a cover story to explain its destruction by human interference.
The second and outer Van Allen Belt is now known to consist largely of electrons, whereas the inner and smaller one consists of a mixture of protons and electrons. It was only in 2014 that it was discovered that the inner edge of the outer Van Allen Belt is very sharp and highly defined, and resembles a protective barrier. Scientists are still trying to understand that discovery.
This finding is, however, precisely what one would expect, because plasma regions whether large or small are routinely surrounded by closely fitting plasma sheaths, which are rather thin, and their edges do tend to be very sharp and highly defined, as we now know is the outer Van Allen Belt.”