This is quite ignorant since Kristian Birkeland know nothing about plasma physics, Michael, for the simple reason that plasma physics did not exist!The guy with the most "knowledge" in plasma physics, and how it relates to events in space, that can be traced back to the early 1900's was Kristian Birkeland and his team.
What Kristian Birkeland used was electrodynamics - basically Maxwell's equations applied to electrons in a magnetic field.The term "plasma" was coined by Irving Langmuir in 1928,[54]
Wow - you know the amazing fact that scientists like to have observational confirmation of extraordinary theories, Michael !The mainstream *rejected* Birkeland's work and *still* rejects the *bulk* of his work to this very day. They only grudgingly accepted his work with aurora because they were *forced* to do so after satellites in space *showed Birkeland was right*.
The mainstream *still* rejects the *bulk* of his Birkeland's work to this very day for the simple reason that the *bulk* of his Birkeland's work was wrong:
- Galaxies are not Birkeland's electrical discharges !
- Saturn's rings are not Birkeland's electrical discharges!
- Zodiacal light is not Birkeland's electrical discharges!
- Solar activity is not Birkeland's electrical discharges!
- His planetary formation idea was just wrong.
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