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Giovanni On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <[email protected]>wrote: > Astronomers are aware of Alfven's work. I have myself few books that are > written by him and some of his students. > > As I said modern astrophysics models do indeed include EM fields in > simulations of stellar formation, planetary disks, galactic collisions and > so on. > There are interesting things to learn from this but they are usually small > effects and they don't take away the leading role of gravity at large > scales. > > Also we are talking about the electrical and magnetic properties of plasma > and not some magnetic iron dust magnetized particles. While yes, magnetism > is important in our understanding of astrophysical process it is not a > direct non trivial contribution but more of a subtle effect. > > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/galaxy-magnetism-lab-simulation/ > > Giovanni > > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:55:12 -0500 >> (EST): >> Hi Dave, >> [snip] >> >> See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLPvs3JTyA . >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> >
