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Scientists finally admit plasma is responsible for magnetic fields in space!
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Discovered by a German astronomer in 1950, the Biermann process predicts that a magnetic field can spring up spontaneously from nothing more than the m
otion of charged particles. Plasma, or charged particle gas, is abundant in space.
Scientists believe that large clouds of gas collapsing into galaxies sent elliptically shaped bubbles of shockwaves through the early universe, touching off flows of electric current in the plasma of the intergalactic medium.
Anyone who has built an electromagnet in middle school science class is familiar with this concept, Drake said.
"If you can make current flow, you make a magnetic field," Drake said.
The question in astrophysics was what could have generated the current. This experiment demonstrated that such asymmetrical shockwaves could do the job.
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It's about time they began to take plasma cosmology seriously and stop believing in the creation myth that is the standard theory of the big bang.
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