Your understanding of both or either math and physics is insufficient. The reality, whether you particularly like it or not, is that mathematics and physics are inseparable. If you can't do one, you can't do the other. The fact is that you do not understand the physics, and because you don't understand the physics you don't know what math needs to be done. So, to hide your own inadequacy, you claim the "moral high ground" by refusing to, as you put it,
bark math on command. But the trick fools nobody but yourself.
The point is that physics is a whole, unified intellectual field. You don't get to throw out and ignore the parts you don't like, but you do that constantly, and it is an intellectually fatal error. You point out that electrical discharges are responsible for gamma ray emission from Earth, and that is correct. Then you assume that the same process must be true for the sun, ignoring the simple fact that the sun and Earth are remarkably different places. You show no indication at all of any willingness to even think for a minute about the physics involved. No, you take a hard line and demand that the physical universe bow to your preconception, and in order to do that you simply ignore any law of physics that gets in your way. You demand "circuit reconnection", without ever explaining in any detail what it is supposed to be, and ignoring the fact that simple circuit reconnection violates the law of conservation of energy. You demand that the sun have some kind of iron "crust", ignoring the laws of thermodynamics that make it impossible. You say ... "
particularly empirical physics is king" ... but you do not know what the word "empirical" means; you re-define the word to suit your tastes, declaring whole fields of science like astronomy to be no longer science.
The things you are doing are not intellectually defensible. That's why it's you against the world and will always be you against the world. For whatever reason you have no concept of how science should actually be done, and not the slightest will to learn. There is no use at all in talking to you, you will never learn, and are not intellectually capable of learning. The only reason I bother with you at all is a hope of protecting non-scientists, who would not be expected to see how weak your arguments really are. I don't want to see the garbage you pass around to get in the way of real learning on the part of people who really want to learn.
Of course we can, and we already have. But you don't care and don't want to know, so you simply pretend it has not happened.
You could readily answer the question yourself, if you really cared about the answer, by
reading a book. I posted this on January 20 but you have yet to respond. Have you read any of these books? have you even looked at any of them? Can you point out specific errors in the physics contained therein? If you are not interested in even opening a book, why should anyone think that you care at all about the truth? These are the sources you could consult, if you cared to, and find the answers to your questions about physical uniqueness of magnetic reconnection and the difference between it and induction.
Well, what's the answer? Have you ever had a class in plasma physics or a related topic? Have you any experience working in a plasma physics laboratory? Do you have any real experience of your own to call on?
You ask what is "physically unique" about magnetic reconnection. You ask for an "empirical demonstration" of magnetic reconnection. You claim that no one has even tried to answer. You know that all of those questions have been answered, but you don't care.
You have been directed to books which cover the physics of magnetic reconnection and include discussions of
controlled laboratory experiments which fully demonstrate the physical reality and the unique physical properties of magnetic reconnection as opposed to induction (e.g.,
Magnetic Reconnection Redux VII &
Magnetic Reconnection Redux V). You have even been directed to papers which describe the experiments, and even directed to the experiments themselves. If you actually cared about the truth you would pursue these leads and either demonstrate their specific failures, or admit there is more to magnetic reconnection than you thought. But in fact you simply ignore all of it, and with ruthless intellectual dishonesty you even dare to claim that no one has even bothered to answer you.
Magnetic reconnection is a real physical process that is unique & demonstrable in a laboratory setting, as well as in observations of nature
in situ (all of which you wrongly reject as not "empirical"). All of this has been demonstrated already in this thread, more than once. You either claim falsely that no such thing has been done, or simply reject everything without reason or thought. You have nothing at all to justify any argument you make. This thread is now dead, condemned to an eternity of you whining that people don't do what they actually do, you constantly repeating the same nonsensical claims, you constantly proclaiming your profound ignorance of science in general & physics in particular, for all the world to see. Be my guest. Show off as much as you want, it's good for the occasional laugh, but will produce nothing of intellectual value from you.
