Sol88
Philosopher
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Double layers are not magic. They are always less energetic than whatever forms them. They don't contradict what I'm saying, they are central to my point. And you don't understand them at all.
Really? Thought youd need a current to DRIVE a plasma double layer?
Oh, look ELECTRIC CURRENTS!
The Milky Way's mysterious filaments have 'older, distant cousins
Using observations from radio telescopes, Zadeh discovered the mystifying filaments comprise cosmic ray electrons gyrating along a magnetic field at close to the speed of light. Although he is putting together the puzzle of what the filaments are made of, Zadeh still wondered where they came from.
When astronomers discovered a new population outside our own galaxy, it offered new opportunities to investigate the physical processes in the space surrounding the filaments.
"After studying filaments in our own Galactic Center for all these years, I was extremely excited to see these tremendously beautiful structures," he said. "Because we found these filaments elsewhere in the universe, it hints that something universal is happening."
Although the black hole's jet might provide the seed particles needed to create a filament, something unknown must be accelerating these particles along astonishing lengths.
One wonders what could accelerate charged particles? Electric fields, maybe? <rhetorical>
Ummm...THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE!
