While I’m in the mood to inspire 3D’s prodigious debunking threads, I get “Space Weather News” (spaceweather.com), a large part of the news is sunspot, coronal holes, solar flares, CME’s and geomagnetic storms, the last three largely being the result of the first two.
Solar flares come from areas of intense activity, usually sunspots, and are energetic outbursts of electro-magnetic radiation travelling at the speed of light (X-rays- extreme UV) so (we are told) they reach us, in the 8 minutes it takes to travel from the RE sun. In the FE world, the sun is 3,000 miles away so 2 hundredths of a second or so. Coronal mass ejections (CME’s) however are ionised plasma released into the solar wind (the magnetic field imbedded in a plasma of photons and electrons flowing out from the sun) and responsible for the Auroras as they interact with the earth’s magnetosphere and although they are released from the same events, they travel at different speeds.
According to what I understand, depending on the energy at release, these interactions occur usually around 3.5 days from release (although extremes from 18 hrs to 6 days have been recorded), which is why the flurry of solar flares from sunspot AR2673 on the 4th (Sept’ 2017) are expected to produce auroras on the 6th & 7th. Although any Aurora activity is usually limited to faint glows at my 52.5 deg’s north, this and the flush of photographic evidence that washes through the other sites I visit at these times, indicates that these two phenomena are linked, if this is so, what sort of energy or effect links solar flares and geomagnetic storms in the FE world, and does it have the backing of two Nobel prize winners for physics (as does the above), for its conclusions?