On 05/15/2011 06:14 PM, [email protected] wrote:
In reply to Mauro Lacy's message of Sat, 14 May 2011 15:49:13 -0300:
Hi,
[snip]
Most probably, the reason is comets are charged bodies. The electric
field of the comet interacts with the electric field of the Sun, and a
CME occurs. The electric interaction is also the reason for cometary
tails, by the way.
The level of denial the academic community is in regard to this, is
simply astounding.
This feels intuitively wrong. If the charge were high enough to cause such
havoc, and were repulsive (as the direction of the tail would imply), then the
whole comet should never get anywhere near the Sun.
If gravitational attraction is greater than electrical repulsion, the
overall effect will still be attraction.
An attractive inverse square law plus another (smaller) repulsive
inverse square law, will still be an attractive inverse square law.
