Actually the "ambient medium" as you're calling it is a *million degree plasma*
!
Er, no. You said *magnetosphere*. I'm sure there are shock waves in *all* types of plasma at *all* temperatures that are possible in plasma.
When will you understand that I do not think that there is any error in his paper, Michael?
Then you have no business claiming Alfven was wrong. You haven't even *read* a single textbook on plasma physics, whereas Alfven literally wrote the book on MHD theory. I trust Alfven. I don't trust you at all.
It is a nice little paper. Very outdated since the evidence for magnetic reconnection causing solar flares has become very strong in the last 46 years.
The actual cause (electricity) of solar flares hasn't changed one iota in the whole of human history, and it has nothing to do with the pseudoscience called "magnetic reconnection".
So answer:
What does the opinion of a dead man stated in a speech decades have to do with the fact that he was basically wrong?
You haven't demonstrated he was "basically wrong" for starters, and his "explanation" doesn't requires us to ignore basic EM field theory which insists that magnetic fields have no beginning, no end, no ability to disconnect from, nor reconnect to any other magnetic line. There are no "monopoles" found in nature. The only way for energy to move from one flux rope to another is by charged particle movement through a *double layer*!
Way to shot yourself in the foot, Michael - you are also not an astronomer.
The difference between us is that *besides* reading the mainstream dogma, I've also read *several* textbooks on the topic of MHD theory, I've read Cosmic Plasma for myself, and I've published papers on astronomy topics.
arXiv.org Search
Which of your papers on astronomy topics might I find on Arxiv?
You are the one use terms like clueless, dead sky deity, yada, yada, yada on astronomy topics when you're not even an astronomer in the first place!
I've since toned it down a bit and I've been sticking to the term "supernatural" as of late. Care to reciprocate?
I have the advantage over you of knowing my limits about the topics I write about.
Pfft. Your comments about electrical discharges being impossible in plasma, combined with the fact you've been playing the role of EU/PC "skeptic" without ever reading Cosmic Plasma demonstrates you don't know your limits at all. You've never read a book on MDH theory. You've never read Perratt's book either. You've never once provided a published reference to back up any of your erroneous statements even though I've asked you for them for *years*.
I can start with a good grounding in physics to graduate level.
Great. When can I expect your to read a textbook on MHD theory then?
I then double check (usually
) my memory with the scientific literature.
Alfven called some of that literature "pseudoscience".
I make mistakes and am prepared to acknowledge them if evidence is produced that I did.
The fact you've never recanted your claim about electrical discharges being impossible in plasma and you've never produced a reference that used the term "impossible" demonstrates that your statement is false.
Then there is you, Michael.
In this thread, you asserted that Guth predicted that the universe is homogeneous on large scales. I pointed out that homogeneity has been an assumption in cosmology well before Guth.
So what? He formally *predicted* it with his theory, and like every other prediction he made, it was *falsified*!
Do you acknowledge that you got it wrong? Not so far (but I live in hope!).
I never denied that Guth *postdicted a fit* in the first place, in fact I've been complaining about it for *years*! I've complained because like every other "bait and switch" technique being used, he *postdicted* a fit, and astronomers kept claiming it was a *prediction* of his theory! It was pure false advertizing to call it a *prediction* to start with.
In this thread, you are asserting that cosmological redshift is caused inelastic scattering processes. But
- That this seems your own opinion (no citations to literature supporting you) raises doublts.
Absolutely and positively false. Even Hubble himself wrote about *two* possible explanations for redshift, not one. I've also provided all sorts of published literature from Chen and many others that demonstrates for a fact that inelastic scattering happens in plasma.
Inelastic scattering causes both redshift and blue shift.
Then please show me where in Chen's lab experiments with scattering where he observed blueshift as well as redshift.
I've ripped on Ned Wright's *unpublished* nonsense for years now. There's no point in doing it again.
When can I expect you to read Cosmic Plasma oh great EU/PC skeptic?
When can I expect you to provide a *published reference* that claims that electrical discharges are impossible in plasma., and actually uses the term "impossible"? Never! Run away from these two questions all you like, but as long as you keep engaging me in debate I will keep asking you those same two questions.
I've provided you with your requested references, but you have *never* produced a published reference to back up your claim about electrical discharges being "impossible" in plasma. Never.