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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 08:15 AM
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How cosmic dust shape and gas shape galaxy evolution
Edited on Thu Nov-25-10 08:15 AM by HysteryDiagnosis
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101122172012.htm


ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2010) — Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it the universe would be devoid of stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable ingredient for making stars and for understanding how primordial diffuse gas clouds assemble themselves into full-blown galaxies.



What they don't say is where the spin comes from... Los Alamos Labs does say in no uncertain terms. The longer they ignore the role of Birkeland currents in space and their endproducts, the longer they will scratch their heads in wonderment.



http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/anatomy.html

The simplest geometry for galaxy formation, two adjacent Birkeland currents of width 35 kiloparsecs separated 80 kiloparsecs across. By scaling the current flows in astronomical objects by size, it is determined that the average flow in a galactic Birkeland current is approximately 1019 amperes; IA, the Alfvén galactic current.

In contrast to the experiment above, where the plasma currents are 30 millimeters in length, the galactic currents may extend 400 megaparsecs or more.

Economy in simulation, gained from observing laboratory experiments, suggests that the active region, where large electric fields build up, is about 10 kiloparsecs in length. That is, the salient phenomena can be modeled with two stubby pinches. The pinches are driven, of course, by the energy carried in the long length currents.

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Uben Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:12 AM
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1. I read a couple of days ago......
...where the universe started out as a liquid. What evaporated the liquid and where did all that dang dust come from? Inquiring minds want to know.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:22 AM
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2. Bounty, the quicker pickerupper???? Who knows. n/t
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