Radun (11:36:26) : Mr. Leif Svalgaard,
I’ve observed Mr. Vuckevic posts, I have no time for his theories, but I do believe that your attitude is very odd.

Radun, this is really unjust. Since two weeks or so Dr. Svalgaard became the patience itself, especially when reacting on V.’s paraphysical way of thinking. Confer to V.’s response on the point, that “a varying electric/magnetic field cannot penetrate a collision-less highly conducting plasma” . The weakness of Svalgaard’s argument lies in the adjective “highly”, which is uncertain to almost any extend. But you certainly would not take a magnet, a coil and a compass to counter this, evading to consider the plasma and thus the core of the argument.

It is instructive to watch them. What is happening? conservation of momentum and angular momentum is finally synchronizing the two. How? Through the base and some friction.

In the planetary system and the sun, I cannot conceive an analogue of this, with the physics we know. ( science fiction is another story).

People are hand waving planetary magnetic fields. I would like to see numbers, the strength of these fields and the strength of the Sun’s fields. Does anybody have links?

“HasItBeen4YearsYet? (18:45:52) :
I know personally hundreds of researchers and the attitude you describe is rare [at least in my large sample].”

I’m happy for you that the sun is shining in your neck of the woods.

Just a quick note before I depart;
Elsewhere you said, to paraphrase, that solar scientists do not know what sunspots are (where, how and why they are generated, etc). For millennia lack of knowledge has been substitute by a belief, an attribute of very subjective quality, belief of one man cannot be superior to that of the other.

My correlation is good ! ; still stands righteous, despite the relentless assault, while the rest may or may not prove to be a worthless speculation, or as my grandfather would often say:
omnia nihil sunt et reliqua minoris

http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/PolarFields-vf.gif
http://www.geocities.com/vukcevicu/PolarFields-vf.gif

As I understand Vukcevic, I would take this to mean that the oscillation of the planetary magnetosphere above and below the plane of the ecliptic (causes / is related to / modulates); the double cycle (magnetic flip) Hale cycle as opposed to the single 11ish year non-magnetic specified half cycle.

At least, that’s how I read his stuff…

It’s not just damage… The size of the memory cell in modern memory is so small and the charge on it so few electrons that even at ground level particle events can cause a memory cell to flip states. This is a major factor in the move to error correcting memory in the last decade or two in PC’s. ( I remember when I was first told that we needed to make sure we put ECC chips in machines due to cosmic rays being an issue at the new scales used… it was an interesting discussion ;-) While it doesn’t happen often and ECC (error correction code) can fix it, you don’t want this happening in the middle of your bank transactions nor in your real time flight controls!

It is losing mass, but very slowly. In th end, the Sun will begin to lose mass more rapidly and ‘puff’ off about 40% of its mass and become a ‘planetary nebula’: http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/balick/WFPC2/