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Old 06-February-2004, 04:42 PM
VanderL VanderL is offline
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I think the answers go together, in that a binary system is really only an extreme example of the kind of stuff we see in our own solar system. Electrical & magnetic phenomena, and plasma physics, do shape the solar system, and in some sense even define what it is. But this is all well known, and thoroughly documented over the decades, in books & papers. One could easily discover this without any reference to the electric cosmos model.
I'm sorry Tim, but I honestly think that there is nothing easy about finding out how the plasma and electric phenomena shape our solar system. There is mention of magnetism on the Sun's surface and there is mention of a solar wind, but basically that's where it stops and you need to really dig to get any coherent information at all. I'm happy that you made the effort to clarify what is known, and provide all the links to websites and books. And I hope you continue to look into the subjects being discussed in this forum.
Is it known what the defining property of a star is for the strength of it's stellar wind?

Another question and I'm not sure that you've already answered it earlier, is about Io's volcanoes; could it be possible that these are electric phenomena?

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So thanks to VanderL for raising the subject, and thanks to Tim for explaining the counter arguments
I think this is the way to learn something, and I hope to learn a lot more.
Thanks.