Yes, he was quite unlike you folks that don't even comprehend what an actual "control mechanism" looks like or the reason that a control mechanism is required in a real "experiment".
As you have no idea what kind of things I have done in my scientific life, this is a bold comment, but anywhooooo
He knew 100 years ago that the sun spewed electrons and ions of every flavor. Your beloved mainstream ridiculed him for 60 or so years until Chapman's elegant but pointless math was put to rest based on in situ satellite measurements of currents in space. Somehow after 100 years, you and the mainstream still remain blind to every other part of his work.
I cannot be held responsible for tha actions of peeps before I was born, dear MM, so I don't frakking care. I am of the opinion that Chapman was totally wrong and out of order with respect to his shutting Birkie out of the (mainly UK) scientific community. So, if you have an axe to grind, take it up with Chapman.
If you had actually read Birkeland's work like a real scientist should do, you would know that he already understood that particles of the sphere were being deposited as "soot" on the sides of his chamber, requiring him clean it periodically. That is why my sig line is not limited to electrons. Then again, you and every other skeptic (save perhaps Tim) wouldn't have a clue because you've never read his work.
How would you know what I have read or not? So now the soot are the ions of the solar wind? RIIIIIIGHT That was just happening because of chemical reaction inside his glass box, and indeed he needed (to let his assistants creap into that box) to clean it.
But ***AGAIN***, a cathode ***CANNOT*** accelerate ***BOTH*** electrons and ions, so the idea that the sun is a cathode and the heliosphere is the anode is totally rediculous to explain the solar wind.
Not half as much as Birkeland was, when in Egypt. I am just considering that MM and Sol88 are the same persons.
What "real" stuff? Unlike Birkeland you folks have *NEVER* created a working model, you don't have a clue why solar wind accelerates, you don't have any evidence that "magnetic reconnection" is fundamentally (at the level of actual physics) any different from "circuit reconnection" or "particle reconnection" mixed in with a wee bit of induction. All you can do is blind yourself to the obvious reason why a solar atmosphere act like any other atmosphere and releases x-rays and gamma-rays, namely due to electrical discharges. Instead you're hopelessly confused by your own math formulas, you don't have a clue what a 'control mechanism' looks like or what purpose it serves.
Real stuff as in like ***YOU*** calculating something, instead of showing nice pics (another thing you have in common with Sol88, the "look at the pretty pic, I do not understand it, but it definitely shows that I am right" kind of "physics").
Interestig you start talking about reconnection, because, inadvertently, I found this process near Venus, and lo-and-behold, the data from VEX showed almost exactly what a numerical model (that I did not know beforehand) said should happen. Your ever and ever complaint about reconection, wanting it to be called "circuit reconnection" (which is not so terrible) or "particle reconnection" (which is outright ludicrious) is fine, but you never ***EVER*** explain how the topology of the magnetic field as observed in simulations, experiments and space happens in your preferred model (but that is a whole other thread that we need not put into this one here, it already exists)
By the way MM, have YOU ever worked in a plasma laboratory? (I have)
It means that the core of the sun releases free electrons and protons. The electrons discharge themselves toward the heliosphere (case in Birkeland's experiments) and they drag the protons and other ions along for the ride. Birkeland already knew all of this by the way. He explains this in his book, but alas one has to actually read it.
Could you please show how these puny electrons with a mass of 1/1836 of a proton can do such a thing? That they would be able to pull along a few protons, I could believe, but ***THE SOLAR WIND IS ELECTRICALLY NEUTRAL***, so I really would like you to show us how this is being done, equal amounts of electrons and protons, with also all the other known parameters of the solar wind like temperatures, velocities etc. etc.
(well that ain't never gonna happen, getting MM to really calculate something and show that it can be done, he'd rather handwave, with very very big waves)
Huh? What does that have to do with Birkeland's solar theory.
Ah, you see, this thread is NOT about Birkeland. He is interesting, but this whole thread is about the
Electric Universe. ***YOU*** turned it into a Birkie thread, because of your narrow view of "space physics." These were general questions for the EU proponents (of which ***YOU*** apparently are one).
If you'd read Birkeland's book, you'd know that no external currents may be required save perhaps some positively charged interstellar wind. He proposed an internal fission type process and mentioned uranium by name. Not bad for 100 years ago.
HELLOOOOOOOOO, somebody pick up the clue phone, we ARE NOT discussing Birkie. According to the EU stars are created from big intragalactic currents that create a z-pinch and then there is a star, which is an arc, or something silly like that. So the question to the EU peeps is
what creates these huge intragalactic currents and what is the strength needed to create a z-pinch and a star.
MM this has NOTHING to do with fission of uranium in the sun, the EU could not care less about Birkies ideas on that kind of stuff, stars are z-pinches in intragalactic current channels. Get updated dude!
I can certainly explain these images qualitatively right down to small detail. In four years I've yet to see any of you hotshots put your money on the table and explain the actual details of this actual image even qualitatively. I don't even want to see your math until I hear your physical explanation of this process.
Well, looking at your pc screen for 4 years, will certainly damage your eye sight, so that is probably why you come up with all this nonsense, and then of course the fact that you do not understand how bandpass filters work and how images of bandpass filtered pics have to be interpreted (e.g. black does not mean that there is nothing there, it means there is nothing there
that emits in that wavelength band)
There you go trying to stifle the conversation by closing the thread. You guys can't handle an open and honest debate. If you could, you would simply explain the various details of these two images and that would be that.
This is no debate, sorry, it is merely turning into a schoolyard brawl, and until you show that indeed you understand physics, bandpass images, the real greateness of Birkie, and lost more, there is nothing to discuss about anymore, your errors have been shown again and again and again here and on BAUT. The fact that you are "steadfast" in your "defence" of Birkie is good, but it should not blind you to any mistakes that you may have made.