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Kristian Birkeland

Kristian Birkeland

Norwegian physicist and inventorWikipedia

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Oct 3, 2026

Jack KruseGUEST
22:51
what's happening in the oceans also scales to the north and south pole of our sun.
Jack KruseGUEST
22:56
And that scales to Birkeland currents that connect to the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy.
Jack KruseGUEST
23:05
And those things define the solar cycles, the 11-year cycles that you hear about, and the sunspots that are on the sun These things are all linked by the physics that I just told you about the Marcus inversion effect.
Jack KruseGUEST
23:21
Why? Because it turns out proton and electron tunneling happen in the sun too.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
260:43
At first thought it seems as if a weakened field would cause less deflection of the solar electrons and shift the storms into lower latitudes.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
260:51
On the other hand, certain experiments of Birkeland suggest the opposite possibility, although it is not at all certain that the experiments really have any relation to the present problems.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
261:03
Birkeland's method was to place a small steel globe in a large vessel from which the air had been exhausted and subjected to electrical discharges ranging up to 400 milliamperes in intensity.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
261:14
The lighter the globe, the more noteworthy the results.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
261:18
The main result was a series of small bright spots on the surface of the globe.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
261:48
Moreover, many of the spots showed numerous arms projecting in all directions and curved so that they appeared to indicate vortices.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
261:57
They revolved in opposite directions on the two sides of the magnetic equator.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
262:01
In this respect, and in their zonal distribution parallel to the magnetic equator, and also in their tendency to locate themselves in high latitudes with a weak degree of magnetization and move toward lower latitudes as the strength of the magnetic field increased, There seemed to Birkeland to be an analogy between the little spots on the stool globe and sunspots.
Matthew EhretHOST
76:32
So what you're saying falls right into this pattern.
Rick HinesGUEST
76:36
Yeah, they did that with Birkeland, I think, with his currents.
Rick HinesGUEST
76:38
He was a good scientist, Birkeland.
Matthew EhretHOST
76:40
He was a great scientist, yeah.
Matthew EhretHOST
76:41
Yeah, Christian Birkeland.
Rick HinesGUEST
76:42
So what I'm saying is, you know, people have flood myths, right? I mean, if this thing was a continent at one time, it's proven in ice age in drilling records and stuff, that low-lying floodplains are now like 100 feet underwater because when the glaciers melted, the waters rose all over the world at the end of the ice age, right? Land was lower then.
Rick HinesGUEST
77:05
lower or sea levels were lower back then.

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