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Old 28-07-2010, 10:37 AM
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Very interesting article, but this in no way proves anything that you might believe in. Anyone with half a brain and enough astrophysical knowledge would know that there'd be some sort of magnetic interaction between the two stars. For a start, they orbit rather close to one another and I think it can be fairly certain that the magnetospheres of both stars are interacting. The boundary sheaths between the oppositely aligned magnetic hemispheres of both stars would be intertwined for a start, as well. I would also say that there is a torus of highly ionised gas connecting both stars and a very highly charged flux tube confining that torus of material. You have almost the same sort of situation with the interaction between Jupiter and Io, except in the case of the two stars it'll most likely be a bit more complicated.

Like I've told you 1000 times, yes, plasmas do play an important part in space but not at the scales you think, nor in some of the situations you might believe they do.
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