Auroras are Gravitationally Powered Lights
Date: Thursday, January 03, 2008 @ 22:23:29 UTC
Topic: Science
The Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis are essentially gravitationally powered fluorescent lights. They occur in two oval shaped rings that encircle the polar regions. These regions represent the optimum intersection of the Earth's gravitational field with the Earth's magnetic field. In the equatorial regions where the Earth's gravitational field intersects the Earth's magnetic field at right angles, the magnetic field is at its weakest. At the magnetic poles where the magnetic field is at its strongest, it is also nearly parallel to the gravitational field.
The Earth's gravitational field is essentially just a weak electric field. This has been shown in section III of 'Gravitational Induction and the Gyroscopic Force' at,
http://www.wbabin.net/science/tombe5.pdf
on the grounds that gravitational and electric sinks are the same sinks. Hence, the Earth's entire atmosphere is an ongoing weak fluorescent light. It has been shown in this article entitled 'Effects of Magnetic Field on Fluorescent Lamps and its Application',
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110001147016/en/
that a magnetic field enhances the action of a fluorescent light. This explains why we only observe the auroras in the oval regions of optimum magnetic field inclination.
It is an illustration of the importance of the magnetic field when it comes to extracting energy from the background electric sea of electrons and positrons.
Yours sincerely,
David Tombe
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