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Posted on 06/04/2014 9:03:05 AM PDT by fishtank
Saturn's Magnetic Field Auroras: Evidence for Creation
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Over a million people have viewed the NASA video "Walking On Air," which features stunning arctic and Antarctic auroras photographed from the International Space Station.1 They look like glowing green metallic clouds swirling high above broad stretches of Earth's poles. New evidence confirms that, like Earth, Saturn's magnetic field helps create its own auroras. This space spectacle attracts a more fundamental question about where its magnetic field came from in the first place.
Though Saturn is incredibly distant, the Hubble telescope was able to record its auroras in unprecedented detail. It is now clear that Saturn's auroras, best seen in ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, form when solar outbursts collapse its "magnetotail," the portion of its magnetic field and attending electrified gas that flows in the planet's wake.
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Since this is about Saturn, I wonder how many jokes we’ll get about Uranus.
This mercurial discussion could possible facilitate jokes about any planet.
"Secular scientists have had a really tough time explaining all planetary magnetic fields"
From the article:
“Physicist Russell Humphreys recently described this long track record of dynamo model failures in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Creationism.3 He wrote, “In particular, the section above, ‘The heart of dynamo theory isn’t beating,’ offers quantitative reasons why the most viable form of dynamo theory appears to be dead.”3
Dynamo theories that attempt to explain planetary magnetic fields posit metal-rich molten material swirling round and round deep inside a planet. Like the copper coils of a generator, this could induce an electrical current that would produce its magnetic field. “Turbulent dynamo theory” looks like the best candidate among them. However, Dr. Humphreys found that getting its formula to output a millions-of-years-long magnetic field requires inputting totally unrealistic values for one or more required factors.4
In 1984 Humphreys proposed an alternative magnetic model involving God aligning water molecules during the creation week. It accurately predicted the recently measured magnetic field strengths of Uranus, and Neptune, as well as the decay rate of Mercury’s magnetic field.5”
It mars the thread when that happens.
“Though Saturn is incredibly distant, the Hubble telescope was able to record its auroras in unprecedented detail.”
The secular creationists cannot explain how Saturn could be so incredibly distant, maybe even more distant than some other planets and how the auroras could still be visible to the Hubble.
Not to belittle the glory of God— torsion physics.
How soon does Earth’s filed change follow in a similar fashion?
No, it’s not the visibility that is the issue, it’s the fact that the auroras are there. They are caused by planetary magnetic fields, and the article is saying that the current models don’t satisfactorily explain how those fields could stay as strong as they are after millions of years.
not sure.... but it’d be good to see what russell humphreys has written on this....
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