Magnetic slingshot creates aurora on Earth

[GateMessenger]

Yes, charged particles(tiny bits of matter) are being created along the Sun's magnetic reconnection. This explains the age of Saturn's rings and much more.

[mamushi72sai5575]

OH DAMN2009?

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Nice

[mcdimebagedarrell]

other than causes of life and crazy colored lights in the sky.. has anyone ever thought that this energy is used as a means of speeding up space travel... interplanetary sling shots and the gravitational pull of the sun...

[PhilipofPines]

nt true

[keith1y]

RUBBISH magnetic field lines DO NOT RECONNECT. Lines are visualisation aids used to depict a continuous medium. Whoever said this needs to do electrical 101.

Come on this is supposed to be New Scientist, not New Fiction regurgitation. Apply some critical thought to your reporting.

[OsesR]

Not to smash your well established theory, but magnetic field lines are very very real. A simple bar magnet and iron fillings will show this to you.

As for magnetic reconnection, it occurs when two distinct dipoles "break" and then "reconnect" with eachother. This releases a large amount of energy stored in the magnetic field. The actual reconnection doesn't mean the individual lines are reconnecting but that the south of one is connecting to the north of the other and vice versa.

[albedoshader]

Yep, electromagnetic fields aren't a medium, they are vector fields that don't need a medium to exist. The lines only depict the direction of the field.

[Cooksina]

Its funny they mention that the sun has something to do with the Aurora Borealis, because it happens at both poles, whichever pole is facing the sun more, Because of our wabble it changes slightly from the north to the south, anyways the radiation the sun sends is what causes this, hence the two lines reconnection, thats because of the radiation flowing through the planet, because its alittle more hollow then you think. And radiation comes out of both poles in broken down particles in lightform

[The73rdSecret]

cooool! [2]

It makes sense (I guess...)

[ptaba123]

cooool!

[analiasahotmail]

This may seem unrelated but-

this series of events reminds me a whole lot like the sequence required to cause cells to begin dividing. (such as done in cloning, where the empty egg is injected with genetic material and the fertilized egg is zapped with electricity to initiate cell division)

Has anyone ever considered that this type of energy from the sun may be the original causative factor of life on earth?

[Goryal]

Are the Aurora actually that big, or were they exaggerated for this video?

[DEFAULTSProductions]

It is that big. I live in Norway, and at the winter, we see northern lights pretty much every day

[Goryal]

I'm jealous. I saw them once as a kid when I lived in Ohio. I don't know the reasons, but they made it that far south one time, although I can hardly remember.

[DEFAULTSProductions]

Hmm i dont know but, i think there is a different kind of light.. Im not sure though.

[UncleKennybobs]

I DON'T want to hear your fucking spit!

[newbie56k]

(contd.) the steel wool filings will gather around the strongest magnetic field lines.

[newbie56k]

are you guys all nubs (commenters), you can visualize magentic lines easily. get a bottle of mineral oil, take steel wool and cut it up into tine pieces, and suspend these filings into the mineral oil bottle. now take a magnet and hold it up to the mineral oil bottle, and you will see the magnetic lines.

[andreshadee]

racism is created by people who are against racism, it wouldnt be racism unless anti-racists were there to say so LOL

[veyronman]

you're an idiot.

[oishiiloops]

idiocy is created by people who are against idiocy, it wouldnt be idiocy unless anti-idoits were there to say so LOL

[Gicior]

Magnetic field lines are arbitrarily-spaced human-drawn indicators showing the direction of the magnetic field along each line. If you change the spacing between the lines then they will "collide" at different times in the video... so how does that work?

[PerfectBlindness]

Humans remember and interpret only a small spectrum of phenomena. You can remember what a flower looks like and how it smells, but you can't remember how it tastes (assuming you ddn't take a bite). The same is true for magnetic field lines. For a human to understand and remember it, we must draw it on a piece of paper.

[090909as]

thanxx

[DForknargh]

hmm interesting.....yes....

[miragebird]

lol newscientist, you uploaded your newest vids out of order, the round up came before this vid.... any way, cool video.

[dsijion]

magnetic lines don't exist hahahahaha...

it's just thw best way to represent it !!

w t f

[mr3dguy]

A magnetic line broke into my house and stole my dog.

[dsijion]

ya exacly... it stole my fridg

[mark91188]

my english is poor

who can help me translate into chinese??

[trr12]

oh! its easy!

nia ching chong wu wu hao hao ching chong!

[andopolis]

LOL, racism.

[trr12]

no, its not racism, its just taking the mickey.

[djsuperstar717]

cool

[indigochild777]

fuck you

[andrujhon]

Good visualisation - Although either I've been continually lied to about the shape of the earth, or the video is squashed ;)

[dsijion]

not only that... magnetil line don't exist... lines are just the best way to represent magnetisme...

[lunnrecords]

whats the point?

[fortunecookiesamurai]

to inform people? DERRR

[andrujhon]

Good call. Science should give up on the whole "expanding the horizons of human knowledge" thing and just make videos of explosions and animals falling over while mating.

[PsychoMatt01]

practicing for the big hologram show =D

[Kwintus5]

Cool :D BANG!!!

[kakarote2010]

that was greek to me

[thoughtwaretv]

"reseachers" is incorrectly written in the title. its "researchers"

[ssnatcherss]

" 'reseachers' is incorrectly written in the title. its 'researchers' "

"its" is incorrectly written in your comment. it's "it's" :P

[thoughtwaretv]

thanks

[nepalihercules]

is that LHC

[ruthlessx]

Please get a better microphone mate

[chris3443]

I wish I had an English accent :(

[alex3914]

Cool now how do we fly already???

[JeffydimWitt2nd]

that makes sense... O.o lol i actually do get it.

[wongsmokesbong]

Please tell me how magnetic field lines can split into millions of pieces XD (the visualisation looked great but its stretching a bit).

[swyft187]

Good question, could just imagine how many assumptions went into that computer simulation.

[dsijion]

with a program... no problem... in real life haha... line are just a way to represent magnetisme... so that's impossible... In fact there is infinity of line or no lines and just a "champs magnetic"

[GotCowZ]

awesome

[kyberjuice]

1.21 jiga watts

[UncleKennybobs]

wat

[quadstrike]

sweet

[shadling21]

cool!

[kmt112991]

lol in the description he mentions Northern Lights, LMFAO.

[dafttool]

Interesting. I'm surprised the aurora events are brought about by activities so far from the backside of the planet, instead of closer in and on the frontside facing the solar wind.

[superfisto]

CRAZY!

[Spidula]

I have like a greeny brown aurora around my shoes after work?

Any comments appreciated!

[adrastea99]

stop eating acid

[XNewbombTurkX]

do as the sign says and stay off the grass.

[peterene]

how big is the universe energy output in watts?

please answer,google doesn't work!

[peterene]

assuming 156 bly diameter

[scottythedevil]

it's not possible to give an answer to that question...

[adrastea99]

exactly one watt

[mebeingadumbass]

P_sun ~= 4x10^26 W

N_suns ~= 10^21

P_universe ~= P_sun * N_suns > 10^47 W

...

Of course power is the rate of energy flow, and since energy is conserved in the closed system of the universe, net power is technically zero.

[peterene]

well,you have to add quasars and GRB,we know that average output of stars is(1.6+/-0.2)×1035 W Mpc-3,but as I sad,where are the quasars and dark energy? (resp kinetic energy of expanding universe?And what about the volume of our universe?

[Fentanyl3]

Ohh, and a peace of advice, when replying to someone on the internet, why don't you afford the same courtesy as you would in a face to face conversation, by doing so you insure that civility is maintained

[Fentanyl3]

are you serious?

[peterene]

What's the problem?I want some fucking answer and you are attacking me?

[Fentanyl3]

No, i'm not attacking you idiot, I was asking if you are asking a serious question, because you would have to be joking, as there galaxies that we have only begun to discover, therefore without knowing all the factors it would be impossible to calculate, and even if we had a decent idea about total content, it would be an insurmountable equation

Grow up would you... I ask a simple question, and you shit your britches thinking you have been insulted....

[wokmonster]

COOL MORE SPACE STUFF!!!!

5/5

[Zarhejo]

Interesting

[vdubmerc3]

Cool stuff.

[grasseline]

good video guys. one step away from unsubscription.

[MeebleMeeble]

agreed, wtf is this?

[tlb31m]

lmao

[andrujhon]

I'm sure New SCIENTIST will be horrified to lose a subscriber who finds scientific research boring. Unsubscribe.

[xychotic25]

Wow nice video! Is there a possibility that we can see this things even though we live in southeast asia?!! pardon my ignorance...

[ciscokid670]

auroras generally happen towards the Arctic and antarctic poles, though they have reached towards the equator, generally i would assume never get down far enough to reach southeast Asia..

[gph61]

xychotic25, if you can, I think it's a must see in your life.

I've yet to see a video of it that can do it justice. A strong aurora is an incredible and unforgettable sight.

[catchyphrase92]

Impressive as always.

[BoriquaBoy4694]

that is awsome and I am first to comment =) keep studying the earth