ScienceCasts: Hidden Magnetic Portals Around Earth

[@hogriderforlife]

all magnetic fields have portals, even the human body, this earth diagram is a large scale. i am a healer and truly understand where their going with this cool.

[@toastandcheese1220]

It looks like the Nazca lines of Peru, the one that looks like a spider.

[@brogabrerian]

packing my bags now

[@kabucee]

Not portals but tunnels

[@Aldurnamiyanrandvora]

ughhh, so what are they?? I know how they formed, by why are they 'portals'? They can't transfer mass instantaneously and therefore faster than the speed of light, because people would be jumping out of their seats if such things were possible. I don't understand DDDD:

[@Tonyrosama]

Yes or no question obviously needs to be made here. Do the particles travel through space faster than light in a vacuum? Do the electro-magnetic lines warp space and conserve the speed of light?

[@rigpa44]

Always wondered where our lost luggage went. :-)

[@notasingedmain6312]

Maybe portals that lead in other solar systems millions of years away and in new civilisations?

[@grangersmith]

Oh according to the article, X-points or electron diffusion regions places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere They found five simple combinations of magnetic field and energetic particle measurements that tell when they come across a X-point. A single spacecraft, properly instrumented, can make these measurements.

[@nillchen]

Yeah, if public relations could stop comparing sci-fi portals to magnetic reconnection, that'd be great. Apart from that, amazing video, thanks NASA!

[@AbysMaul1]

OK this is all very interesting and all but what I want to know is; when do we get the portal gun and will there be talking turrets?

[@you2tooyou2too]

The video did not describe the 'signposts', but I presume he meant that the archive data allowed them to build field interaction models which allow them to better predict where the current constellation will find the targets.

[@Bass007]

What are the implications of the portals?

[@EastendBillythekid]

Portals exist I want to know how to open them safely. Incredible when they found out during a high energy type of explosion. Simply baffling how this system universe works.

[@brnmbrns]

Yes, and one Sunday morning I was laying out my trampoline as a child and looking up at the sky when a friend of mine and I noticed something in the sky moving very quickly. It suddenly left our sight as far left as it could go, and within a matter of a couple minutes it was back in the sky on the right traveling to the left sky again. This repeated maybe 10 times before it disappeared. Satellite? Didn't think they orbited our planet that quickly.

[@ohwhererehwho]

This is a revolutionary portal into "finding things out"! Kudos to NASA!

[@Ocealuna]

watching this makes me miss Fringe.

[@fnb16]

Magnet space portals?? It's pretty neat that there's still outlandish science to be discovered.

[@CosmosPrivateer]

These people have been renaming things for thousands of years. Thanks for the insight.

[@justinevirtue1755]

Food for thought. Not the portal types I was looking for. But could be a clue to some of my questions.

[@TheRipWire]

Good To See The MMS System Are "Still Alive".

[@mattgic42]

Cool discovery. Now, who on this earth is brave enough to go through one of those? Can I volunteer? lol

[@pisceanqueen1]

I love the picture of the magnetic field lines @ 2:15...it's so amazing to visualize the invisible. It gives way to all sorts of symbolic imagery; the child in utero; the 7 chakras of the human body (and perhaps all lifeforms?); a tree-like organism whose crown and roots spread wide to support life...indeed, if it were not for Earth's core and subsequent magnetic field, life may not exist here on Earth at all. Truly Awesome!

[@yabbyincoridor]

I hope this explains the phenomena of why we get more Auroras at times of the equinox which, I believe, a mechanism has never been well described. Looking forward to hearing more about this.

[@SlackerSlayer]

His comment was not removed from view if anyone wanted to read it. See that blueish word called "show"? You click on that word and it magically opens up in full.

[@RomeBEn20]

Glad someone else notices that too

[@CQPkytty]

Hello there from December 21st, 2012! Nothing has happened to us so far, I think everyone's going to be just fine. Thanks for your great imagination! :D

[@mharratsc]

The "criss-cross" or "X-point" shown in this video at T3:00 is a two-dimensional depiction of a bi-directional, cylindrical current sheet in plasma undergoing a Bennett pinch. It is the breakdown of that double-layer in the plasma that explosively releases the stored energy in the 'circuit', and not anything that was formerly conjoined suddenly "reconnecting".

[@fabmd8]

Your posting is the only one of all of the comments that actually seems like you are explaining the video correctly. I usually understand the NASA videos, but this portal one perplexed me. So, using your explanation, if the purpose of this study sources back to mitigating near disaster from space weather,i.e. if these portals are like insta-steroids for plasma, then I 'get it'. Thanks for your explanation. Hope you are right --- it helps to remind me just how important NASA is.

[@marilynmason678]

Congratulations for explaining in easy to understand terms and graphics or artists renderings just what is happening here. This is complex and exciting and I do hope I live long enough to see the applications of this most amazing phenomenon which the wonderful world of sic-fi writers have guessed at. I think this is great! Thanks NASA. You are doing a wonderful job.

[@sacris10145]

yes velcrow, 3-d printers, more renewable energy, better torches (LED LED EMITTING DIODES) THE LIST GOES ON

[@venusbrain]

I was also thinking something along those lines, but couldn't put it into such a coherent thought.

[@coshere]

Certainly explains the small perterbations in planetary orbits, and suggests the sun holds bodies within a certain region.

[@zaboky]

ApertureScience: Oh no, we shot one of our portals in the sky!!!

[@56goinon15]

What this video does its best to obscure is that these "portals" are only "shortcuts" if you're a teensy, electrically charged particle constrained to spiral around magnetic field lines. If you're lucky enough to be in a space ship, then the magnetic fields don't constrain your motion and the "portals" are irrelevant to you.

[@googlespiritscience6061]

how can I follow only this project and not go always on the nasa web reading every projects info

[@Flyingtart]

cont: If you ask for sources for an seemingly poor written and unbelievable essay or article, it's up to the writer to give you them. It's not up to you to find them. Especially not when chances are that there ARE no sources at all, but just something that's made up. I hope you follow. Burden of proof is on the one making extraordinary statments, always! And this is a fact in science.

[@SystemError51]

Cave Johnson here. Instead of moon rocks, we may kinda jump in on your mission and see if we can figure this damn thing out. We may need to sue nature to come up with Portals before we did, but that's fine. Anyway - we'll get to the bottom of this and improve our existing technology. How about you folks portaling your shuttle into orbit, instead of launching? That sound good? Thought so. NASA, let's have a meeting tomorrow. Thanks, Cave.

[@MsTobuscus]

YOU ARE AWESOME! Although I think the guy you replied to was trolling..

[@DaniRockandFire]

Someone said portal and my science senses were tingling so I came to help testing.

[@asyraafnasser4873]

Portal to heaven lol

[@Brauhlio]

Nice information. New to me.

[@marielynch3688]

sun spot cycles could affect extreme weather and other events on earth perhaps..

[@somethinghairyintheshadows7442]

Sweet Video!

[@rx327prime]

You are right, and in my opinion, you have good intuition. Universe is deeply electric.

[@JusticeRetroHunter]

wow first comment that actually poses intriguing insight into this. I was thinking the same, as other places could also have this type of behavior, and not just planets but mega black holes or huge stars.

[@TheFrenchMansControl]

And if that turns out to be correct - then surely this could lead to 'start-star' small craft travel - where the craft is able to increase the probability of the fields connecting by having it's own polarized magnetic field in sync with the ones of the 2 stars it is trying to join?

[@SlackerSlayer]

In other words, despite their faith they have succeeded in finding valuable tools and understandings for a better life.

[@fabmd8]

Well, that's why I was confused. I thought they were going to come right out and say something like 'portals for time travel' when I saw the word 'portal' being used. But, it seems to be more of a magnifying glass effect for the plasma. I am not sure, though.

[@rx327prime]

Hey ! your message produce a very interesting discussion ! thanks

[@Grey80002]

Coming soon ... Astrology 101, The effects of constellation's magnetic fields on the human body.

[@Suro_One]

This explains all those weird massive alien ships sighted near the sun.

[@VTovenaar]

Great discovery! When i eat magic mushrooms i always imagine how i fly into space, go through wormholes to see other dimensions.

[@NSAwatchesME]

how has this only got 185k views????

[@sintofg]

It could actually help with time for space satellites and such .

[@hiphopknights]

Nasa wants to create wormholes that will enable them to travel between galaxies. We're just now beginning to understand technology that the ancients already knew.

[@Mayanktaker]

Yes I played and Portal 2 is my fav game. :)

[@The420Story]

please tell me more. Especially about "Science will Always disprove the Theory of evolution...."

[@TheFrenchMansControl]

Is there any possibility that Stars are able to experience the same magnetic portal between them - possibly leading to a theory of how a galaxy is 'clumped' together? Perhaps ridding the need for the elusive dark matter? However unlikely the occasion would be - surely if there is nothing in the way, their fields must eventually cross?

[@simlanbg]

this is like the pilot episode of FARSCAPE

[@sukhbirsingh3556]

You're right my friend...not sure what happened here! My heart spoke and it hit a youtube nerve..I instantly rec'd somesort of an attack when I was just voicing an opinion. If your in the know your computer is most likely monitored especially through public domain such as youtube. Be well and take care!

[@reidhb1]

From Transcript of this video : "Observations by NASA's THEMIS spacecraft and Europe's Cluster probes suggest that these magnetic portals open and close dozens of times each day. They're typically located a few tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth where the geomagnetic field meets the onrushing solar wind. Most portals are small and short-lived; others are yawning, vast, and sustained. Tons of energetic particles can flow through the openings, HEATING Earth's upper atmosphere, sparking geomagnetic storms, and igniting bright polar auroras."

[@kelvintelford7676]

And then they find out that are already being used.

[@AdastraRecordings]

NASA have also just gone public with the Electric Sun model...

[@DudeWheresMyCardz]

Are these portals a shortcut to the Earth's atmosphere? From the Sun's point of view it's just a shortcut for it's light intensity? Am i right in saying this?

[@131kimber]

Wonder if the spirals drawn in caves around the globe are referring to visible magnetic "portals" appearing in the sky?

[@thetrialshot]

I wonder what will be our knowledge about the universe after 20 years.. And then I was like WTF?! I'm old by that time!!!

[@TommyBShow]

Figuring out how it works is the first step in creating our own.

[@jolgiiis]

Not sure if they mentioned it in the video and I missed it so I'm just gonna ask it here. Where do these portals go?

[@drkstrong]

That's NASA's idea. I think it undermines the point of the agency - the science is interesting in and of itself. It does not need PR tricks to sell it.

[@nicoalinghifan]

I don't know, he said some were "vast", but the meaning of vast without proper scale order is irrelevant I agree

[@fera89dj]

Search for Pierluigi Ighina and his theories. He talked about this long time ago

[@charlesblanco7591]

How and why are Earth's climate and the environment changing? How and why does the Sun vary and affect Earth and the rest of the solar system? How do planets and life originate? How does the universe work, and what are its origin and destiny? Are we alone? 1: either another portal is opening, a big one. And, we need to change with the poles.

[@Flyingtart]

The god particle? It's called Higgs Boson, and is in no way justifying a creator. It might learn us about how big bang happened for example, and that's why it's researched. "The model predicts that there are certain elementary particles even smaller than protons and neutrons. As of the date of this writing, the only particle predicted by the model which has not been experimentally verified is the “Higgs boson,” jokingly referred to as the “God particle.”

[@mariaashot5648]

And what do you do when you discover they lead exactly Nowhere?

[@Catsscratchfever]

WOW...So is this to say different Particle's are hitting the earth from different parts of the universe through said portals...

[@anon12377]

Try watching Stargate SG-1. Just pray we don't run into the Goa'uld!

[@TerrAkon3000]

Please give me your definition of the word 'portal'. I can imagine in that context it only says that there is a certain path from sun to earth charged paticles can take at almost the speed of light. My pesonal notion of a portal would be a bit different. What i'd really like to know is how long it takes a particle form sun to reach the earth though on of those portals.

[@mottdog2002]

This is what Cliff High talked about.

[@TrebleSketch]

I saw the MMS launch! Who else did? #nasa #rocket

[@TurtleShotty]

Back to the subject at hand but if they can find a way to us the portal. They talked about it be connected to the sun so what use would it be or did I missunderstand?

[@drkstrong]

These things were called cusps for decades which is a more accurate and less emotive term. This is just some researchers trying to grab the headlines by renaming cusps which does not sound so exciting as portals. Why NASA goes along with this sort of stunt is beyond me, it debases what they do.

[@codeXenigma]

i use to have this picture, its cool, one way it looks like a wine glass, or on its side a spider

[@4752764]

Can matter travel through these "portals"? And if it can, Does the matter travel at light speed. And if it can, will it disintegrate?

[@cutiepie316289]

Look, I'm not smart, and I may be an "average Jill", but I love learning. No, it doesn't make me feel smar to watch and read about this, but these things always amaze me. And thanks to NASA "dumbing it down" I am able to learn things I would normally not be able to learn. Maybe one day I will be able to understand the more complicated things, but for right now, this is what keeps me interested. Other wise I would just be a confused mess.

[@r0rozx]

What is transported through these portals naturally ?

[@Flyingtart]

Sorry for spamming you. Myself I studied social sciences at the Gymnasium, and will probably study law soon, so I'm pretty crap at science. Religion, philosphy, psychology, history and stuff like that is my thing. But I know that using deduction and rationalism it's easy to disqualify claims on a creator. If a creator exists, then it's likely just an energy we have not discovered yet, just like electricity was once (magic). But any point of view should be respected imo.

[@RicardoSantiagoNetto]

Más allá del título, este video sirve para tomar una idea de cómo el campo magnético terrestre desvía la radiación solar y cómo se forman la aurora boreal.

[@U2Berror]

Ride the portal energy like a wave!

[@ichigotrevorsaki]

sure... like meteors... we never see them during the daytime... or comets... can't see them during daytime can you... oh??? we can? oh ? OK! Looks like me and Spamazoid are wrong, but you are RIGHT Span... you cannot see deep space objects, but you can see outside our atmosphere depending on the size an illumination of the object

[@q7winq7]

So where is my cheap electric car? Electric motorcycle / bicycle? I don't need to go into space - I need to go to the grocery store. .

[@CristianGuerreschi]

so this is a portal to the sun? equal, a portal to death....

[@Commack08]

At 1:26 where is that image / video from and can it be accessed from the web ? Looks like a good indicator of aurora visibility.

[@SlackerSlayer]

Yes you are absolutely correct Sir, but with only one major problem. Your imagination does not equate to reality.

[@ichigotrevorsaki]

I can agree with that... hopeing ISON will be big enough to see more than just the cloud or the actual bright combustion point of the surface releasing gases in reaction to UV rays... though ISON may not be in the proper position in the sky for us to see in the U.S., though I am hopeful... considering how bright it shines at the distance it was first seen, I hope is an indication of it's visibility... though not TOO big I hope... don't need it dragging asteroids from the belt with it, lol

[@seapeddler]

Another tip would be to place a level on your knees whilst sitting on the john. Make sure the bubble always is centered, and you'll feel better after. Magnetic portals my foot. The world, she is a flat, sayeth Chris Columbus.

[@tinsol89]

Why not try to reproduce these events in a laboratory ? I mean, we know how to build electro magnets and we know how to make a "solar wind", like with electrons or protons guns. Obviously, i can't say that it'll work or is really possible since im only a 17 sci-fi lover. But trying to master flux transfer events sounds cool :)

[@MagnaCartaTwo]

Portal out, starboard home.

[@BEEHALBEE]

Look at 2:42 of the Drawing of a polar Satellite.... then Google the North or South Pole. I think they have drawn that just right wouldn't you say?

[@rx327prime]

No problem, I can go with this explaination.