Geophysicists accidentally saw the bars of a cage for our world

Geophysicists accidentally saw the bars of a cage for our world

Published 05.02.2024 | By Йосиф

Geophysicists accidentally saw the bars of a cage for our world

spaceweather.com: Something unprecedented is happening in Earth orbit. The number of satellites has exploded in just a few years, more than doubling since 2020. More satellites were launched in the last year alone than in the first thirty years of the space age. Much of this activity is driven by SpaceX and its growing megaconstellation of Starlink internet satellites.

Environmentalists have already raised many concerns about Starlink, including light pollution in the night sky, potentially dangerous traffic jams in low Earth orbit, and even ozone depletion. Copying Starlink by other companies and countries will only increase these fears.

And now there is a new reason for concern. Large satellite constellations may alter and weaken the Earth’s magnetic field, according to new research by Sierra Salter.

Salter is a PhD student at the University of Iceland working on her PhD in plasma physics. Recently, she drew attention to one important point that for some reason many of her high-ranking colleagues overlook:

“More than 500,000 satellites are expected to emerge in the coming decades, primarily to create Internet megaconstellations,” Salter writes.

To understand the scale of the problem, let’s do some simple arithmetic. So, if you collect all the charged particles in the Van Allen Belt, which is the Earth’s radiation belt, the total mass of these particles will be only 0.00018 kg.

Other components of the magnetosphere, such as the ring current and the plasmasphere, are even less massive. The second-generation Starlink satellite weighs 1,250 kilograms, all of which will become conductive debris when the satellite eventually reaches its end of life.

Thus, the metal debris from just ONE destroyed Starlink satellite is 7 million times more massive than the Van Allen Belt. And their entire megaconstellation is billions of times more massive than the magnetic belt. These ratios point to a larger problem.

“The space industry adds enormous amounts of material to the magnetosphere compared to natural levels of particulate matter,” Salter writes. “Due to the conductive nature of satellite debris, this could disrupt or change the situation.”

There is already evidence of this process in action. A 2023 study using NASA’s high-altitude aircraft found that 10% of aerosols in the stratosphere contained aluminum and other metals from disintegrating satellites and rocket stages. These particles drift down from the “ablation zone” 70 to 80 km above the Earth’s surface, where meteors and satellites burn up.

Salter decided to look for changes in the electrical properties of the ablation zone – and found something. NASA’s upper atmosphere model shows a sharp increase in the “Debye length” exactly where satellites break up as they leave orbit:

The Debye length (Debye radius) is the distance over which the action of the electric field of an individual charge extends in a quasi-neutral medium containing free positively and negatively charged particles (plasma, electrolytes). Outside a sphere of radius of Debye length, the electric field is screened as a result of polarization of the environment (therefore, this phenomenon is also called Debye screening).

Extrapolating the current problem into the future, Salter worries that satellite debris could weaken the Earth’s magnetic field – the same magnetic field that protects us from cosmic rays and solar storms.

“This is a physics problem from an undergraduate textbook,” she explains. “Suppose you placed a conducting shell (satellite debris) around a spherical magnet (Earth). Outside the shell, the magnetic field vanishes due to shielding effects. Of course, this is a very simplified comparison, but in reality we could do this.”

The Big The One Editor’s Comment: The Debye length is a more complex way of saying “Faraday cage”, only in one case the charge is shielded by plasma, in the other by free electrons in the metal.

Medieval theologies and the more advanced conspiracy theorists that replaced them in the 20th century have long suspected that there was some kind of “screen” around the Earth that did not let personnel out of the amusement park trying to escape. The little man runs, glues his flippers together and flies, as he thinks, somewhere to heaven. But the electromagnetic screen picks it up and sends it to reboot.

Maybe this screen is the Van Allen belt, maybe there is something more serious there, some kind of cosmic chemtrails, dispersed after the conquest of the Earth by brothers in mind. But satellites are also a very real thing, and if they are reduced to atoms in the event of a nuclear conflict (the sides’ satellites will be knocked out first), the lattice will become noticeably denser and people will have to maintain the fleet for a long time.

It is possible that the alien brothers are leading us to this, that the grid was built by people themselves, and the owners of the park were, as it were, not within the limits, so we are following the development of events.

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