New research has found out where the portals from the Earth lead.
While you are reading this test, a magnetic portal opens from
the Earth to the Sun, on a distance of 150 million kilometers.
Tons of high-energy particles pass through portal, when you
read this passage. This is called a "flux transfer event" or "FTE",
said space physicist David Seebeck of the Goddard Space
Flight Center. "In 1998 I was sure they didn't exist, but now
the evidence is irrefutable." David Seebeck proved the existence
of magnetic portals and presented this evidence at an international
meeting of space physicists (a seminar on plasma back in 2008 in
Huntsville, Alabama). Later, NASA fully confirmed that the portals
connecting the Sun and the Earth appear every 8 minutes. On the
daytime side of the Earth, the magnetic field is pressed against the
magnetic field of the Sun. Approximately every 8 minutes, these two
fields briefly merge or "reunite", forming a portal through which
particles can pass. The portal has the shape of a magnetic cylinder
the width of the Earth. Four Cluster ESA spacecraft and five THEMIS
NASA probes flew through these cylinders and surrounded them,
measuring the size and registering particles passing through. "They
do exist," said Seebeck. Now that Cluster and THEMIS have directly
explored portals, scientists can use those measurements to simulate
on computers.
Space physicist Jimmy Rader of the University of New Hampshire
presented a paper on one such model. He told his colleagues that
cylindrical portals usually form above the Earth's equator and then
pass over the Earth's winter pole. "I think there are two flavors of
these portals: active and passive." Active portals are magnetic cylinders
through which particles pass fairly easily; they are important
conductors of energy for the Earth's magnetosphere. Passive portals
are magnetic cylinders that offer more resistance; their internal structure
does not allow for such a light flow of particles and fields. Passive
FTEs may not be important, but until we know more about them, we
cannot be sure. There are many unanswered questions: Why do portals
form every 8 minutes? How do magnetic fields inside a cylinder twist
and curl? We are thinking hard about it, "- said Seebeck.
