ScienceCasts: Hidden Magnetic Portals Around Earth

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A NASA-sponsored researcher at the University of Iowa has developed a way for spacecraft to hunt down hidden magnetic portals in the vicinity of Earth. These portals link the magnetic field of our planet to that of the sun.

[@toastandcheese1220]

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

[@brogabrerian]

packing my bags now

[@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.

[@justinevirtue1755]

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

[@kabucee]

Not portals but tunnels

[@rigpa44]

Always wondered where our lost luggage went. :-)

[@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.

[@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?

[@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?

[@rx327prime]

Hey ! your message produce a very interesting discussion ! thanks

[@venusbrain]

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

[@nytehawx]

@ScienceAtNASA Is there a journal paper available?

[@ohwhererehwho]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@somethinghairyintheshadows7442]

Sweet Video!

[@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:

[@Brauhlio]

Nice information. New to me.

[@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.

[@r0rozx]

What is transported through these portals naturally ?

[@notasingedmain6312]

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

[@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?

[@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!

[@googlespiritscience6061]

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

[@Bass007]

What are the implications of the portals?

[@RomeBEn20]

Glad someone else notices that too

[@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.

[@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".

[@Ocealuna]

watching this makes me miss Fringe.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@Mayanktaker]

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

[@sintofg]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@mattgic42]

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

[@rx327prime]

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

[@TheRipWire]

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

[@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!

[@marielynch3688]

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

[@coshere]

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

[@TommyBShow]

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

[@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.

[@abbellalove]

Sounds interesting

[@CristianGuerreschi]

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

[@fera89dj]

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

[@rx327prime]

No problem, I can go with this explaination.

[@NSAwatchesME]

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

[@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.

[@JaneenJackson]

Awesome! Beam me up Scotty!

[@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?

[@rx327prime]

Do you know what a "replisome" is ?

[@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.

[@zaboky]

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

[@U2Berror]

Ride the portal energy like a wave!

[@asyraafnasser4873]

Portal to heaven lol

[@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.

[@anon12377]

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

[@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?

[@VTovenaar]

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

[@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!!!

[@codeXenigma]

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

[@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

[@131kimber]

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

[@TheSanzet]

2:08 It's the flying spaghetti monster! It's real!

[@JL-gq6sx]

ikr

[@simlanbg]

this is like the pilot episode of FARSCAPE

[@cutiepie316289]

those were my thoughts exactly! ha ha XD

[@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.

[@Grey80002]

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

[@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."

[@sacris10145]

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

[@Suro_One]

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

[@erikfassett]

portal, portal 2 reference?

[@Catsscratchfever]

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

[@The420Story]

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

[@TrebleSketch]

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

[@AdastraRecordings]

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

[@SlackerSlayer]

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

[@CharlieRaves]

Yeah that totally happened...

[@devaztator01]

I guess this has got something to do with the "portals" that emerged out of thin air at the bigelow ranch?

[@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.

[@RebornLegacy]

So how close are we to portal guns?

[@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.

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Neat videos! This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light and time! Based on just one equation (E= ˠ M˳C²)∞ the Lorentz contraction of space and time is between the energy and mass. The greater the energy the greater the contraction of space and the slower time will run. Mass will increase relative to this and each ref-frame can be seen as a vortex in space formed by the rate that time flows. The brackets represent the boundary condition of the ref-frame within infinity

[@kelvintelford7676]

And then they find out that are already being used.

[@mottdog2002]

This is what Cliff High talked about.

[@theproffessional9]

Daniel !

[@felcas]

YEaaaahhhh I can see the monsters from DOOM coming out of it hauhauahuahauhahau

[@ReySyndicate]

NOW you're thinking with portals.

[@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!