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Originally Posted by renormalised
No Alex, it's not a denial of anything. It also takes a magnetic field to generate an electric current...remember your high school physics.
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The potential of an e-field, or 'charge separation' can cause the movement of a charged particle, and the establishment of an electrical current. It is this movement that establishes a magnetic field, as described by Faraday, and in relationships described Lenz.
In this example, it is charge separation that initiated the m-field.
Yes correct a magnetic field can also then distribute it's energy into and electric current. To initially, at the very start create the m-field charge separation is required. In this sense the m-field can be thought of as the 'decay' field, this helps when moving into the study of dielectrics and electrostatics.
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As far as the names goes, you can call them anything you like. That's neither here nor there.
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I find cross-discipline nomenclature is very important for progress, my comments highlighted by concern for this, much work has been done in lab plasma physics over the past 50 years. It will assist to use common nomenclature, and minimize creative inventions, something which lets face it, modern astronomy has a talent for.
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Just thinking....I wonder how much current is traveling down the flux tube/s. Could figure it out from the intensity of the xray and radio emissions. Be interesting to find out.
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Be careful Carl, you're starting to sound like a plasma cosmologist.
Professor Anthony Peratt from JPL, has developed what is known as the encyclopedia for analyzing the empirics in the way your good intuition is leading.
Anthony Peratt -
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Plasma.../dp/0387975756
Anthony of course was student and colleague of Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfven, who established much of the tools we use today.
No matter your resistive opinions of myself, the crew over at thunderbolts have assisted me in the same questions you now ask curiously. I do not come from there, i started here at IIS, i had the same questions, they had *some* references to material noted above.
We might just find a common character in both our senses of passionate curiosity.