EU Objective: Frozen-In Fields

[BecomingTesla]

I spend a good amount of time thinking about objective, empirically-driven goals that the EU community, myself included, needs to devote legitimate resources and time into for us to make in-bound progress, both within the scientific community and with the public at large - which I consider to be a significantly more critical party.

One of the major issues that I still see standing between us and the astrophysical community is the issue of "frozen-in" magnetic fields within magnetohydrodynamics, as the application of said concept within multiple astrophysical models. Aflven spent the majority of his career raising serious criticisms to the way in which this concept was being applied in astrophysical models, which could be considered as having been ignored by the AP community much in the same way that they ignored the majority of his work - until forced otherwise by empirical observation. Alfven described the development of "magnetic reconnection," and many other concepts developed as on the idea of frozen-in fields to be pseudoscientific, despite their rapid and continued development, even at present. I liken this development to the exact same treatment of Chapman's theories of the aurora, and magnetic storms in the atmosphere. Despite the fact that Chapman's theories of the aurora were incorrect, they were perpetuated and developed as mathematically and theoretically correct theories for fifty years, until it was proven by satellite observation that Birkeland *was* correct. Chapman's theories were similarly pseudoscientific, in that their mathematical legitimacy was irrelevant, because he was describing a physical process which was never taking place to begin with. The same *could* true of the misapplication of the frozen-in theorem and the development of reconnection theory.

So, what needs to be done?
(a) The entire corpus of Alfven's criticism on the frozen-in theory needs to be collected into one body of literature, so that it may be studied and distributed as a single unit, sourced by numerous papers. This criticism can be supplemented by any proceeding criticisms by other plasma physicists and electrical engineers.
(b) This criticism needs to be evaluated empirically as to its validity - Alfven's supposed limitations on when frozen-in fields may be applied *might not* be legitimate, and to remain empirically objective, the limitations he proposed must be tested in a laboratory environment, across multiple scales of plasma. I liken this rigorous amount of testing of the frozen-in field's limitations to the same degree of scrutiny Faraday applied to his study of electromagnetism. The boundaries of the frozen-in theorem need to be dissected, if this has not been done already. This work, likewise, can be supplemented by any work which has already done so in the primary astrophysical and plasma physics literature.
(c) Having compiled both (a) and (b) into a single body of work, present models where the use of frozen-in fields is applied need to be evaluated against our newly developed litmus test, to determine whether they can be considered physical legitimate or not. Models where there is a distinct or strong indication of a misapplication of the theorem need can be determined, and re-evaluated.

I think such a rigorous treatment of Alfven's critique is necessary before anyone will give credence to our ideas about the electrical activity of the Sun, and of the solar system as an electrical machine in general - which it most certainly is. Everywhere we look, from the Sun itself to the magnetospheres of the planets to the "magnetic" flux ropes permeating the plasma in space, to that very plasma in space itself - which whirls like a vortex of electromagnetic fluid - what we have are multiple plasmatic and electromagnetic structures existing as components in a large electrical apparatus, working in sync with one another.

If there are two directions that the EU can move forward with, it is this examination, and the development of more terrella/sollellus experiments to develop kosmoligo machines, which I've discussed here: http://thunderbolts.info/wp/forum/phpBB3/v ... =3&t=15940