World Science Database Home Scientists Abstracts Books Events Journals Experiments Topics Index More Find Login Scientists Interests Profession Websites Notables Countries World Map Recent Memorials Memorial More Tim Erney timsolrey@gmail.com Tel: 541-753-9507 Corvallis, OR United States Map It View count: 28 Erney, Timothy Ray (Easy Link: http://www.worldsci.org/people/Timothy_Erney) Topics: Electric_Universe Interests: Electric Universe, Resonance Nationality: USA Age: 46 Born: Wednesday, November 4, 1964 Related Websites: [LINK] Universal Currents Abstracts Online: 2011 The Drift-Alfvén Model for a Magnetized Plasma Applied to Saturn's Polar Vortices Event Attendence: 2011-07-06 18th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference Conference will attend 2010-11-27 The Natural Philosophy of the Electric Universe Video Conference _________________________________________________________________ Papers by Tim Erney The Drift-Alfvén Model for a Magnetized Plasma Applied to Saturn's Polar Vortices (2011) Tim Erney Corvallis, OR, United States; timsolrey@gmail.com, 541-753-9507 [LINK] (2 pages) 2011, 18th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference, College Park, MD, United States Abstract: The hexagon above Saturn's north pole, and its long lived state of equilibrium, may be the result of a pinched plasma column aligned with Saturn's magnetic axis and coupled to the conductive upper atmosphere. Cassini data analyzed by Gurnett et al. describes field aligned currents as a possible mechanism for coupling between magnetospheric plasma and the conductive layer of Saturn's upper atmosphere. The hexagon and its stability can be explained by the drift-Alfvén model for a magnetized plasma due to the near perfect alignment of Saturn's magnetic and rotational axes. The alignment of the magnetic and rotational axes results in a smooth transfer of angular momentum from magnetized plasma in Saturn's ionosphere to the denser conducting fluid layer of the upper atmosphere's polar circulation.