"[The ribbon is] aligned by and dominated by the external magnetic field," McComas said in a briefing Thursday. "That's a huge clue as to what's going on. But still we're missing some really fundamental aspect of the interaction - some fundamental physics is missing from our understanding."
Help me out here guys, am I not seeing more and more articles referencing magnetic/electrical influences on the workings of the universe? Shades of "V"??? Might they be well advised to visit the Thunderbolts site from time to time? I don't spend a lot of time on this stuff but it appears to me the folks there have compelling arguments explaining a lot of what's happened in the past and what we're seeing today.
“From the smallest particle to the largest galactic formation, a web of electrical circuitry connects and unifies all of nature, organizing galaxies, energizing stars, giving birth to planets and, on our own world, controlling weather and animating biological organisms. There are no isolated islands in an electric universe”.