• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    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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      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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