One for the electrical engineers - Dr. Donald Scott talks at NASA

[Jarvamundo]

Dr. Donald Scott was recently (March 2009) invited to present at NASA's Goddard Engineering Colloquium.

Text Summary:
http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/2009-Spring/announce.scott.html

1 Hour Presentation:
http://mediaman.gsfc.nasa.gov/colloquia_asx/public/ENG/2009/ENG20090316.asx

If you've studied anything remotely about electrical phenomina (right hand rules, maxwells equations, amps, volts and EM fields... ie high school physics) and have an interest in astronomy... this is a great presentation @ NASA.

[Jarvamundo]

Edit. This could be why Don Scott was invited to NASA

http://www.australasianscience.com.au/bi2009/301Gaensler.pdf

"Magnets are everywhere, but we don’t know how they got here. "

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take a moment to look at the galaxy image in the pdf, and perrats 1986 magnetic simulations and his animated version (http://www.plasma-universe.com/images/1/16/Peratt-galaxy-simulation.gif). All that is needed is Maxwell's magnetic equations.

Peratt, A. L.; Green, J. C., "On the evolution of interacting, magnetized, galactic plasmas (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1983Ap%26SS..91.. .19P)",FULL TEXT Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 91, no. 1, March 1983, p. 19-33. PEER REVIEWED