Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucf-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcnc!duke!ucf-cs!giles From: giles@ucf-cs.UUCP (Bruce Giles) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Magnetic Pole Drift Message-ID: <1329@ucf-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 13:46:28 EDT Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.1329 Posted: Sun Jun 17 13:46:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 02:32:19 EDT References: <303@intelca.UUCP> Organization: University of Central Florida Lines: 19 >> Random thought : What would it be like living in an equatorial area >> where you were at the bottom of an electromagnetic funnel, as the >> north pole is now? Maybe that is the reason the magnetic poles are always aligned with the rotational poles! How strongly does the earth's magnetic field couple with the solar magnetic field and solar wind? Would pressure from the solar wind alone be enough to quickly force the earth's magnetic field to align? ----------- bruce giles {decvax, duke}!ucf-cs!giles university of central florida giles.ucf-cs@Rand-Relay orlando, florida 32816