Surprises found at the solar system's edge
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency's Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an unexpectedly strong magnetic field at the boundary of the solar system and outer space.
The radiation was detected by the Plasma Science Instrument developed during the 1970's at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently mounted on Voyager 2.
. The spacecraft is now nearly 8 billion miles from Earth, traveling at 35,000 miles per hour, researchers said. It is crossing the boundary known as the heliosheath, where the electrically charged particles of the solar wind interact with the thinner gas between the stars.
MIT scientists said the existence of a strong magnetic field at the heliosheath is a surprise, as was the finding that the temperature beyond the heliosheath is 10 times less than expected.
MIT scientists theorize the unexpected coolness is the result of energy being absorbed by particles so hot that their temperature cannot be measured by the MIT instrument.
<BB's Commentary>
The interesting thing about this discovery is it pays way to a new and up and coming string of theoretical physics, known as Plasma Cosmology.
Put simply, there are scientists, working with plasma phases to explain certain phenomenons in space that Einsteins theory cannot explain with the gravitational theory alone.
Basically, Plasma Theory dictates that in order to have a magnetic force, there has to be an electric charge, that being said, Plasma Cosmologists theorize that it is actually electric fields that drive the universe rather than gravity alone.
If you want to discuss more, then ask some questions dang it
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency's Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an unexpectedly strong magnetic field at the boundary of the solar system and outer space.
The radiation was detected by the Plasma Science Instrument developed during the 1970's at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently mounted on Voyager 2.
. The spacecraft is now nearly 8 billion miles from Earth, traveling at 35,000 miles per hour, researchers said. It is crossing the boundary known as the heliosheath, where the electrically charged particles of the solar wind interact with the thinner gas between the stars.
MIT scientists said the existence of a strong magnetic field at the heliosheath is a surprise, as was the finding that the temperature beyond the heliosheath is 10 times less than expected.
MIT scientists theorize the unexpected coolness is the result of energy being absorbed by particles so hot that their temperature cannot be measured by the MIT instrument.
<BB's Commentary>
The interesting thing about this discovery is it pays way to a new and up and coming string of theoretical physics, known as Plasma Cosmology.
Put simply, there are scientists, working with plasma phases to explain certain phenomenons in space that Einsteins theory cannot explain with the gravitational theory alone.
Basically, Plasma Theory dictates that in order to have a magnetic force, there has to be an electric charge, that being said, Plasma Cosmologists theorize that it is actually electric fields that drive the universe rather than gravity alone.
If you want to discuss more, then ask some questions dang it
