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[Grumpy]

All radiant ejections such as Bremsstrahlung, Compton Scattering, Pair Production, Synchrotron Radiation, Cherenkov radiation, and gamma rays are composed of "photons".

This leads me to believe that RE is also made of "photons".

[darkspeed]

All radiant ejections such as Bremsstrahlung, Compton Scattering, Pair Production, Synchrotron Radiation, Cherenkov radiation, and gamma rays are composed of "photons".

This leads me to believe that RE is also made of "photons".

Go Grumpy! electron is two waves inverted and superimposed... two waves of what Blink Blink Blink

All matter is shades of velocity

[darkspeed]

The concept of bogging down electrons was from a time before we could see what was happening. The resistive path does more to order rather than strip or bog.

Think about it this way.. If I handed you a 2"x"10"x8' board and asked you to run across the room with it, you could cary this board in any fashion and easily cross the room because the air at your velocity does not really create much resistance.. you were just a model of an electron flowing through copper..

Ok now I am going to put you in a swimming pool and ask you to do the same thing.. you will instantly learn that to move across the pool at an ideal velocity the board must be in one position only.. parallel with the path. you were just a model of an electron flowing through a resistive substance..

Ok now imagine a room full of people all facing different directions and they are suddenly instructed to walk forward ..  this is electrons flowing in a conductor

If they were all facing the same direction it would be a great source of work. - RE

Consider the electron has two poles and in conventional electricity these poles are randomly orientated to other electrons in the same flow of energy. These poles because there are not all facing the same direction in the flow have a dampening effect of a great deal of the energy potential of the electrons. think of non magnetized material.

Ok Increase this flow of electricity by wavefront and place in its path a resistive substance. For the electrons to flow they will need to line up along their narrow axis in polar order to pass through. You now have a flowing stream of un-dampened unidirectional potential. This new flow is RE

Inject this flow into a highly conductive element such as copper that has a free electron and boom.. delta..

[darkspeed]

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/185591main_f-516.jpg

http://glafreniere.com/sa_electron.htm

[Grumpy]

The classical geomagnetic storm begins with a sudden jump in the Earth's magnetic field followed within hours by a large depression of the magnetic field as the ring current builds up. Then after several days the ring current returns to quiet values. We now know that this period of storminess is initiated when a large bubble of magnetized plasma is ejected from the Sun in a process known as a coronal mass ejection (q.v.). This plasma bubble plows through the solar wind causing a shock wave in front of it. The bubble itself has large magnetic components parallel and anti-parallel to the Earth's field. When the leading shock wave hits the Earth, the magnetosphere is compressed and the surface field jumps. When the region of anti-parallel magnetic field encounters the Earth, strong reconnection begins and much energy flows into the magnetosphere from the solar wind, powering the geomagnetic storm and building up the ring current.