Magnetic Reconnection Redux XII
My model is different than Michael's. Don't confuse the 2.
Indeed the models are different. However, your own model (a solid, rigid iron surface) is no more physically possible than Mozina's model, and in reality is even worse, because it is even less consistent with observation, particularly helioseismology. A hard surface would block all gas/plasma flow, separating the sun into distinct above & below regions which would stand out like the proverbial sore thumb. The data are very much inconsistent with such a surface, to the extent that we can declare it to be impossible based on seismology alone. But of course the addition of thermodynamic impossibility produces a double-whammy that destroys either your idea, or Mozina's, on the spot.
Yes, Mozina does have the habit of taking over the band width of any thread he enters, flooding the pages with typical inane babbling. Maybe you should start yet another thread, only this time ban Mozina in the OP, so you can actually talk about your idea in your own thread.
If you want to continue the discussion in that thread, by all means do so. But your continued insisting that "magnetic reconnection" is really "circuit reconnection" is
just plain stupid. I was even able to demonstrate the reality of magnetic reconnection in laboratory plasma experiments (e.g.,
Comments on Magnetic Reconnection III;
Magnetic Reconnection Redux X), but you still reject it.
Magnetic reconnection is a physically real process directly observed in laboratory plasma experiments. Circuit reconnection is stupid and indefensible.
... So they carry current first. When the "reconnection" happens this current stops/switches direction and then reforms the flux tubes along field lines. This is what happens in the lab and at the magnetosphere with FTEs.
No, that's not what happens. It is without doubt the magnetic field that rearranges its topology
before the change in currents. The energy lost to the field is transferred to kinetic energy of the plasma. Electric currents
by themselves cannot all gain energy, that clearly violates the fundamental conservation of energy principle. Rather, there has to be a mix of currents & magnetic fields, and there has to be a transfer of energy from the field to the current. That transfer of energy cannot come from common induction because the time scale for that is too long (see, e.g.,
Magnetic Reconnection Redux V). A rearrangement in the topology of the magnetic field, which can release energy on a much shorter time scale consistent with observation, is the only alternative physical process available. And since we can observe it to happen
in situ in laboratory plasma experiments, despite Mozina's erroneous claims to the contrary, and since there is copious evidence for magnetic reconnection in observed astrophysical plasma (see, e.g.,
Magnetic Reconnection Redux XI), it's the obvious way to go.
Call it what you want but an electric current flowing through the flux tubes is driving the whole process.
No, this is exactly the opposite of what really happens. The magnetic field drives the process and the current goes along for the ride. The field changes
first and the currents gain energy
second, in that specific order. If the currents were actually driving the process, it would work the other way around.
