Anyone familiar with David Talbott's Saturn Theory knows of the configuration of Saturn at earth's pole. What I would like to show is that if a coplanar system like our's enters z-pinch, it will tend towards not only being collinear, but coaxial as well. All the planets will go from orbiting and rotating in one plane (close to what we see now),to aligned and spinning on one axis.
It would be easier if I could find a correct diagram of a Birkeland current, but all I have seen are fundamentally flawed. The diagrams I see do not show field lines perpendicular to the filaments. They show field lines from both filaments being coplanar, but if the filaments are spiraling around each other, the field lines should cross. It's only when they show the combined fields that the orientation is correct. Can anyone help with a better diagram?