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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It kind of makes sense, there's a large mass of charged particles being deflected by the Earth's magnetic field, so there must be some kind of corresponding force applied back to the field/the dynamo generating it. Interesting that the leading hypothesis is that it manifests piezoelectrically in rock.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Yeah I found the fact that its basically the piezoelectric effect (in reverse of how I'm used to thinking about it) at a massive scale, to be fascinating. I've always been interested in those fans you put on wood burning stoves, which take some heat energy to spin a fan.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    What are the quantitative forces of a CME versus the Earth's fields? I feel like any regular charged particle emissions from the sun would be far weaker than a planetary electromagnetic field, especially in terms of induction.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    I suspect that the electrical-force would be .. insane, given that Quebec Hydro kept having their grid getting millions of volts, from aurora ( popping their systems )..

    & if you've got wet, fractured tectonic-plates, with some fault-zones near-release,

    & then you put a gentle, but IMMENSE geographically, force on them .. then the statistical likelihood of stress-release would go up..

    I'm not presuming piezo, but I'm not saying that's wrong, either..

    I'm just saying that electric-fields have proven, in space, to reach WAAAY farther than we assumed..

    & if we were getting that wrong, then we may be getting it wrong in the Earth, too..

    The primary force would be electric, since it's from positive & negative plasma being pulled to different locations on Earth..

    & then it should all come down to how-sensitive-the-balance-is, among the tectonic faults, & how that electric current affects those zones, including how it flows through mineralized-water..

    ( that 24h-delay means something: there's some process which takes that long, for it to tip the balance.. )

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