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Parker Solar Probe
The Eugene Parker Solar Probe has just launched
to investigate close up solar magnetic and electric fields. In his book: "Conversations on Electric and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos" Dr Parker notes: a SI charge non 'mass, length and time' definition as coulomb is a limitation for dimensional analysis of such EM problems. One wonders if his 'mass, length and time' analysis of such EM problems in cgs units system provided him with scientific reasoning in regards to solar EM fields deemed crazy by his peers at the time 50 years ago but which are currently accepted as true and the basis for his named solar probe. Richard D Saam [[Mod. note -- Actually, there's very little dimensional analysis in Parker's 1958 paper. That paper can be read online (open-access!) at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1958ApJ...128..664P -- jt]] |
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