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solar monopole

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, LUDWIK KOWALSKI wrote:

Hmm, I really turned the computer on to see if somebody had anything
to say about the magnetic field lines of "solar monopole". But let me
refer to this in another message.

Those diagrams of sun's b-field used to set off my "BAD DIAGRAM" mental
alarms. Common textbook misconceptions have a subclass which is hard to
discuss here without GIFs: incorrect or misleading diagrams. I've heard
that some K-6 publishers include diagrams which are not reviewed by
authors of the actual text. This opens a pathway for "telephone game"
distortions, where an artist must interpret what an author writes, but
without any feedback and progressive corrections from the author.

ANYWAY, I think the usual solar diagrams could be fixed by adding little
arrows to the field lines. If the sun contains no monopole, it still
could "radiate" b-field. There just needs to be zero net flux, with
outward-pointing lines looping back at a great distance.

One other thing that plasmas can do: they can pull loops of "lines" out so
far that the loops neck down and pinch off, so a circular "line" stays
with the plasma and the remaining loop "snaps back". It looks similar to
the field pattern of a radiating dipole, but is more akin to the process
of flux-loop trapping in a ring of superconductor.

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