That is a very obvious lie since you know that Clinger spent a few weeks on the old JREF forum presenting a mathematical tutorial applying Maxwell's equation to an example of magnetic reconnection in vacuum.
No RC, he did not. He spent weeks doing nothing of the sort which is why you and he cannot produce the one math formula that would prove your case, and that's why your run from that request *constantly*. If you had that math, or could produce such math, you'd have done so by now. The fact you haven't ever produced it in more than five years, demonstrates that you *can't* produce that critical mathematical formula.
His "website" is neither published nor peer reviewed RC, and it's not "correct" simply because he posted some nonsense to the internet.
lists the posts that you read 6 or so years ago and could find no mathematical errors:
That's another ridiculously false statement. I pointed out your missing math formula over five years ago, and I'm still waiting for it! That's your mathematical error. You have not mathematical expression for a non zero *rate* of reconnection in a vacuum. You have never produced the correct math to support your claim.
You and Clinger have no idea how even *basic* EM field theory works because if you did, you'd know that you could easily describe all the events taking place in that vacuum *without* the term "magnetic reconnection". That term *only* applies to plasma physics, and you and Clinger don't have a charged particle to your names!
Magnetic Reconnection (updated 24 November 2011
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There is the English in a physics textbook
There's also a diagram that includes *charged particles* (which you don't have) and charge particle acceleration (which you can't do). Apparently all you heard was him use the term "vacuum" and that's all you understood too.
Did you ever sit down and actually read a whole textbook on MHD theory yet RC, or are you *still* arguing this topic from pure ignorance like you were 7 years ago? Have *either* of you read such a textbook yet?
That is another false statement. There are charged particles in Somov's diagram at the x points. You left them out. The charged particles move during the process too, and you can't do that because you don't have any charged particles.
The magnetic reconnection happens halfway between the currents.
False. So much for your degree RC. The field topology changes occur *everywhere* because magnetic fields form as a whole continuum, not tiny little esoteric lines as you seem to believe in your naive understanding of even *basic* EM field theory. Those "lines" he drew are not *real* RC, they're like a topology map that uses lines to denote elevation changes. They don't really exist. The *Field* exists, and the *field topology* changes *everywhere*. The term "reconnection" relates to a transfer of field energy into *particles*. You don't have any particles, so you have no way to get "reconnection", just field topology changes.
Even the fact that you think that those lines are "real" is evidence of your own pitiful grasp of even basic EM field theory. The lines are not "real" lines anymore than the lines on a topology map are real.
The "reconnection" happens *to the particles*.
Plasma is an ionized gas and so expands in vacuum - no 2 parallel lines of plasma
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That degree didn't help you understand physics. When you turn on a plasma ball it forms *filaments* that don't "expand", they actually "pinch" and *contract*. You have no clue about plasma physics. Are you ever going to real book on the topic, or just spew ignorant nonsense forever?
Plasma has no currents across it - no 2 identical currents
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Whatever you think that means......
You even know about several papers describing magnetic reconnection in vacuum as a real physical process or in toy models.
Even Priest called your understanding of the process "toy" understanding. He even explained that the "real" process requires plasma and plasma acceleration, just like the WIKI page and just like Somov's example.
Maybe you should go over and change the Wiki page RC. It's must be wrong too since it claims that the process requires plasma and plasma particle acceleration, and you personally claim it's *optional*. Go change it.
