Correct. May I add that it would be extremely unlikely to have a huge primordial dust cloud with a very small or zero angular momentum. So the rotation of the entire solar system was pretty much there since it formed. Otherwise one would expect the whole thing collapses in one blob point...
You're right, there is a lot more to learn about solar activity and solar-earth interactions than I have even heard of, and I'm only beginning to look into this. I was in part motivated to ask these questions - about sun-earth direct interaction with the geomagnetic field - by the frequently...
Bobbywhy: Thanks for the helpful links.
In one of the wikipedia links is already much of the answer to my question:
"If space were a vacuum, then the Sun's magnetic dipole field, about 10^-4 teslas at the surface of the sun, would reduce with the inverse cube of the distance to about 10 ^...
Hi Davenn -
thanks for the nice picture . I'm aware that the fields are enormously strong and mainly inside of solar spots. As you said, they snap and rebuild - which is probably in interaction with all the "crazy stuff" of magneto-hydro dynamics further down in the interior of the sun. My...
The usual story is that after a solar flair (coronal mass ejection) towards the Earth the Earth's magnetic field gets strongly deformed. It usually takes a few days from the solar event to when the Earth is impacted. But I wonder if there is also a direct interaction: If there is drastic...
The double slit experiment amazes me too, and it blows my mind every time I come across it even through I studied this stuff decades ago as physics student. To see how crazy this really is I would like to know what the result of the following thought experiment should be: Assume we build a...