The Sun Also Flips: 11-Year Solar Cycle Wimpy, but Peaking
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
In a 3-meter diameter hollow aluminum sphere, Cary Forest, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor, is stirring and heating plasmas to 500,000 degrees Fahrenheit to experimentally mimic the magnetic field-inducing cosmic dynamos at the heart of planets, stars and other celestial bodies.