Yes they do. So what has this to do the Sun's astmosphere?
It works that way there too, as well as on every other planetary body in the solar system.
That is because plasma is not air.
No plasma is composed of 100% ionized particles. Most plasmas are "dusty" and even the atmosphere of Earth can and does at times act as a "dusty plasma" It contains ionized particles too, just not as many of them as the photosphere.
Magenetic ropes are .... magnetic ropes.
Hannes Alfven on the topic of magnetic ropes from his book Cosmic Plasma:
"However, in cosmic plasmas the perhaps most important constriction mechanism is the electromagnetic attraction between parallel currents . A manifestation of this mechanism is the pinch effect, which was studied by Bennett long ago (1934), and has received much attention in connection with thermonuclear research . As we shall see, phenomena of this general type also exist on a cosmic scale, and lead to a bunching of currents and magnetic fields to filaments or `magnetic ropes' . This bunching is usually accompanied by an accumulation of matter, and it may explain the observational fact that cosmic matter exhibits an abundance of filamentary structures (II .4 .1) . This same mechanism may also evacuate the regions near the rope and produce regions of exceptionally low densities."
In other words, it's a "current carrying filament undergoing a "Bennett pinch".
Plasma dfilaments can form over great distance (1000's of light years). They are not electic currents.
Yes, it's the currents that form them in the first place which is why we find helix shaped magnetic fields in them, otherwise known as "Birkeland currents".
They are filaments of plasma formed by magnetic fields.
The filaments are "pinched" by the magnetic fields that are "caused" by the current flow through the filament. Turn off the electricity and the party is over.
First the Sun is the Earth and now it is a toy plasma globe? Make up your mind MM
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I love how you guys ignore the obvious comparisons. A plasma globe demonstrates that filamentary threads are a direct result of "current flow" inside the plasma. It's not the "magnetic lines" that power the ball, it is "electrical current" that powers the ball.
Plasma globes have filaments and conduction between the ball and their glass. How many 1000 kilometer plasma globes heated to thousnads of K have you seen?
I've seen evidence of magnetic ropes connecting the sun to the Earth. What exactly should I be looking for here if not nature for answers?
No assuption - the physisc of plamas states this.
Baloney. Magnetic fields are not the only things to make plasma move. You've chosen one part of a two part process. And *EM* field is capable of moving plasma in a highly efficient manner and electrical current is what causes the filaments to form in plasma. While the magnetic field acts to constrict the flow into a small thread, the current flow drives the parade. Turn off the switch and the magnetic field dissipates almost instantly.
There you go again with your idiotic "Earth's atmosphere". The Sun's atmosphere is not the Earth's atmosphere.
They are not as different as you think. They both radiate as substantially less than the 160,000 degrees necessary to emit 171A light or gamma rays or x-rays, yet both atmospheres emit that light.
When you stop demonstrating that you are ignorant of physics and delusional, I will stop labeling you as ignorant of physics and delusional.
When you stop wallowing in the gutter and show off some knowledge of physics let me know. So far you're totally missing some key points as it relates to what you claim to know something about. That "solar wind" isn't just composed of neutral atoms, it's composed of fast moving charged particles, in other words, "current flow". We're sitting in the middle of a discharge process between the sun and the heliosphere and you seem to be utterly oblivious to this fact.
When you stop being idiotic enough to think that features of the Earth's atmosphere have to be replicated in the Sun's atmosphere without any evidence, I will not have to label you as an idiot.
Rhessi has already provided us with such evidence. It sees gamma rays from the Earth's atmosphere which have been traced to discharges in the Earth's atmosphere. It also sees gamma rays from the bases of coronal loops.
All you have to do is learn and comprehend some basic physics.
All you need to do is learn some new debate tactics. Your heavy reliance upon personal insults is making you look bad and pitifully desperate.
All you have to do is stop being obsessed with trying to apply inappropriate physics to the Sun and apply the actual plasma physics.
The "actual plasma physics" I'm talking about was all lab tested over 100 years ago. You aren't talking about "actual" plasma physics, you're talking about make believe plasma physics that only works in a computer simulation, not in the real world.
