For we know that the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22
"Unlike the other rocky planets of the solar system, the Earth is
blessed with a global magnetic field strong enough to deflect bullets. Those bullets are charged particles from the sun and cosmic rays.
blessed with a global magnetic field strong enough to deflect bullets. Those bullets are charged particles from the sun and cosmic rays.
Moving at near relativistic speeds,
--high-energy electrons would tear
through flesh
--and strip away our atmosphere.
Some make it through, but
first they have to get past the bouncers.Those bouncers are neutral
atoms in the ionosphere that hold up shields like mirrors that send them
back where they came from, so to speak.”Our results clarify the unexpected role of the geomagnetic field surrounding the Earth in protecting the atmosphere from high energy electrons,” said a researcher in the following press release.
Geomagnetic Field Protects Earth from Electron Showers (Tohoku University,
3 Aug 2023). The “mirror force” provided by the geomagnetic field
protects earth from high-speed electrons by a factor of ten. Since the
shields impact the electrons higher up than thought, they act like a
first line of defense against the electrons.
The Tohoku team developed a sophisticated software code that focused particular attention on simulating the effects of a relatively unstudied ‘mirror force’ on the electron precipitation. This is caused by the magnetic force acting on charged particles under the influence of the geomagnetic field.The simulations demonstrated how the mirror force causes relativistic electrons to bounce back upwards, to an extent dependent on the angles at which the electrons arrive. The predicted effects mean that electrons collide with other charged particles higher in the ionosphere than previously suspected.
Some of the electrons that make it through give Earth another
benefit: they collide with oxygen molecules to make ozone. The ozone
layer functions to reduce harmful ultraviolet rays that would damage the
tissues of animals and humans.
Katoh emphasizes the key theoretical advance of the research is in revealing the surprising significance of the geomagnetic field and the mirror force in protecting the lower atmosphere from the effects of electron precipitation activities by keeping them further away.
*Scientists have known for a long time that the strength of Earth’s
magnetic field has been declining steadily since it was first measured
by Karl Frederick Gauss in the 1830s. Mainstream geophysicists believe
that the field is generated by an internal dynamo deep in the Earth.
*The
2nd Law of Thermodynamics, however, dictates that the strength of that
dynamo must decrease as energy becomes unavailable. Reversals cannot
stop that decay.
---If the decay can be extrapolated back in time, and if it continues
going forward, it puts severe limits on the length of time the Earth
could be habitable—tens of thousands of years at most, not billions." CEH