On Mar 16, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Bob Fickle wrote:
You miss the point.
Right you are - I missed that point.
They're not coming here- they're spiralling in circles about the size of the solar system, 150,000 light-years from here. They will eventually drift throughout the galaxy, but on a timescale thousands of times larger than a direct path would take.
They should in part tend to follow the field lines. However, the initial EMP gradient should serve to reunite a significant amount of the nuclei with their electrons. The neutral H atoms should still carry roughly the kinetic energy of the protons, and not be deflected. This gives:
(1-0.999999)*150000y = 0.0015 year = 55 days for the neutrals to start showing up. Horace Heffner
