******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ********************
#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.
#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern.
*****************************************************************
(Just received from Manuel Garcia Jr., a retired physicist, occasional
contributor to Counterpunch, supporter of the Syrian revolution and a
really good guy.)
Hello,
I was tickled by some physics news today.
<><><><><><><>
*Scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the sun:*
Alfvén's magnetic pumping (by hydromagnetic or Alfvén waves), and
hydromagnetic shocks are now recognized by computational physical
science (see article linked below).
In 1942, Swedish physicist and engineer Hannes Alfvén presented his
theory of hydromagnetic waves, for which he won the Nobel Prize in
physics in 1970. Between 1983 and 1985, I tried to convince my supposed
colleagues and science-bureaucrat superiors (timorous bosses and
climbers at Livermore, and also Los Alamos) to study this type of
magnetic wave phenomenon, after I found ample evidence of it in very
elaborate computer simulations of nuclear explosions (simulations of
which was all they knew how to do) driving moderately relativistic
magnetohydrodynamics (which they did not recognize nor understand at
all). This was during the Reagan Administration's sponsorship of "Star
Wars" weapons research projects.
So, I enjoyed reading about the new advances in hydromagnetic wave
physics made by the Queen’s University Belfast.
My cartoon physics monograph on the subject (to the extent I could
understand it), from 1983-1985, is available at my blog under the title
“*Proton Beam Driven Electron MHD*.” One of my favorite works ever.
*Scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the sun*
March 6, 2018, Queen's University Belfast
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-scientists-year-old-mystery-magnetic-sun.html
*Proton Beam Driven Electron MHD*
28 October 2017 (1983-1984)
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2017/10/28/proton-beam-driven-electron-mhd/
<><><><><><><>
Enjoy,
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
http://manuelgarciajr.com
_________________________________________________________
Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm
Set your options at:
http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
