Planetary Portals

Until recently, researchers believed solar winds blew high energy particles into the near-Earth atmosphere through a permanent Earth-Sun connection. However, with the help of the European Space Agency and NASA, space physicists have discovered that the Earth-Sun connection is not permanent but actually "brief, bursty, and very dynamic."
The high energy particles flow into the atmosphere when the Earth's magnetosphere presses against the Sun's and forms a portal, known as a flux transfer event; they merge about once every 8 minutes. Space probes have measured the cylindrical portal and the particles flowing through it, which enables researchers to simulate and possibly predict flux transfer events. There's a lot more research to be done, but for now it's cool to think that "meanwhile, high above your head, a new portal is opening, connecting your planet to the sun."
Story suggested by John Jy Harper.
Image: "Earth's Magnetosphere" by Vivek666 on FLickr courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing.
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Is it just me?
not just you
I hadn't thought of that before, but what a great observation!
Erin Shaw
I agree with you in that,
I agree with you in that, I've always found it very logical to conceptualize the grand scheme of things to be of the same makeup throughout, but on different scales of existence. I think it would be easy to conceive of positive and negative charges relative to our sun(protons, neutrons) and planets(electrons)
this oddly relates to Mayan calandar, cosmology and mathematics
good one
And maybe the whole universe is encompassed in a piece of jewelry on the neck of a cat....
On the for real though, Nature's systems repeat themselves all the time for example. The human body transports items it needs through viens and arteries just like the societal body transports what it needs through road,rails, water and airways.
the human nervous system and computers are very similar too. one systems pump 1's and 0's one pumps -'s and +'s to communicate messages. If you connect all the dots the picture will completely fillin.
----The behavior of survival, inhibits connecting to the repository of subconscious truth.
I suppose if you like to paint in broad drunken monkey strokes
I get it now
reality is dependant on, observation of it.
vivi sometimes it's difficult to read your comments, your obviously very intelligent but relaying that intelligence needs some work.
Anyways I would like to hear your take on the speed of awareness, Or how observation will ever be quantified in equations.
Oh yeah one more thing I think will smith makes a great teacher cosmology.... do do do do here come the men in black ...
:-)
--Peace
Actually...
The universe is not contained within jewlery upon a cat's neck... The universe is the cat itself... And its like in 100 billion seperate boxes of perhapsness simultaneously enjoying life, death, vodka martinis shaken whilst also stirred.
I think I may have read that in a Thomas Pynchon novel... or was it Robert Anton Wilson? Could have been both I suppose, or neither. I'd have to ask Schrodinger...he'd maybe know. Then again maybe not.
In any event this proves to be an interesting find... And as for this solar/earth portal equating with the Mayan Calendar we might as well refer to our good friend Dr. Jung.
Trumpets anyone? Who's here got a knowledge for jazz?
-T.B.
units...
Shells and Singularities
This reminds me, a lot, of the Kabbalist sephira Kether, Kether being the center point (undefinable by human instrumentation and poetics)by which all probable existences come to play, and ergo manifest in physical reality. We of course can equate this to the Friedmann models in which gravity collapses to a singularity of infinite density (i.e. black hole). However, the works of quantum mechanics and I believe string/m-theory are going a long way to disprove the notion of a singularity, opting instead for a universe finite in boundary, but infinite in dimension, no singularity having been necessary.
Queerly, or mayhap not so queerly, the kabbalist map for the multiverse encapsulates a macro/microcosm as manifested by ten sapphires (sephiroth)and an eleventh known as the Quiploth, world of shells, corresponding to the cosmogony of a superstring universe. Furthermore, in regards to the portal between earth and sun another syncronistic symbol arises dealing with the Ets Chayyim (Tree of Life): that is the six sepiroth known in Hebrew as Tiphareth, regarded symbolically as the Christ center, the Son, which corresponds to the heart chakra in Kundalini physiology (ala your aforementioned Hunab Ku). Also attributed to this encyclopedia of symbols is the Sun itself. Here in manifestastion is the abstract concept of the force which has been channeled into a single manifestation, i.e. the son of man and or Adam. His/her duty as an objective force of the universe is to channel divine intervention from the initial single point (Kether) to the succesive generations which sprang from his creation, acting, as I see it, as a kind of portal. Come 2012, as I have read, the sun shall be observed as being in the center rift of the Milky Way Galaxy...forming a kind of cosmic cross... there are too many syncronicities here for this to be ignored...in physics, in religion, in recent social behavior, in Mayan cosmogony.
Looking back on what I've just written I can see how vague this must sound. Essentially I was just trying to add another dimension to your point, Vivifidal - that in whatever language, and no matter how confusing, there does seem to be a kind of information transfer being processed from one location to another. And thanks to Bell's theorem all of us it would seem are accomadating and recieving this coded information - whatever it may in fact be. However, being that we all speak different languages and possess different knowledges this information is being filtered as though through a prism - and yet behind the images, behind the gross interpretations remains the same message - hence the syncronicities, vis a vis Jung. In conclusion the Sun may very well be our Jesus, our harbringer...our messiah. No pun intended of course. Well...maybe it was intended. I'm just channeling.
In all, whilst I am adding dimensions to your scientific anaylsis, Vivifidal, you are all the while adding dimension to my own metaphysical ones. It is my orgasm to see the conjunction of different knowledges come to pass...
-T.B.
Crossword puzzles
Life's a game. And a computer can play a helluva game of chess. But does it live? Does it really have mind? -T.B.
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