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The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared (1)
“An unprecedented solar wind disruption took place on May
10, 1999. From late May 10, 1999 to early May 12, 1999, NASA's
ACE and WIND spacecraft observed that the density of the
solar wind dropped by more than 98 percent.”
Did GRB 990510 Disrupt the Solar Wind?
Robert S. Fritzius
Shade Tree Physics
Here are five Burst And Transient Source
Experiment (BATSE) prompt emission light curves
for GRB 990510. The double spiked GRB occurred
about two hours prior to the onset of the
decreasing solar wind density. Note that the height
of salient features in the first spike tend to
decrease toward disappearance with increasing
energy.
"According to observations from the ACE spacecraft,
the density of helium dropped to less than 0.1% of its
normal value, and heavier ions, held back by the Sun's
gravity, apparently could not escape at all.“
Photodissociation/Disentegration of
"Heavy" Nuclei
A 1951 article dealing with photodissociation of
nuclei by high energy Gamma-Rays(6 ) showed
photodissociation cross sections that reached their
maximum somewhere below 50 Mev. The experiment
involved studying the stars [nuclear disentegrations]
and proton tracks in a photographic emulsion exposed
directly to a beam of high energy synchrotron gamma
rays. The results indicated not only the existence of the
free meson effect [in nuclear interiors] but also the
existence of another [un-named] effect whose cross
section is comparable with the free meson effect.
I propose that this “other effect” has to do with a
1920’s version (7)(8) of neutron structure wherein
neutrons were considered to be comprised of protons
with closely bound electrons.
The following calculation indicates that bare
(unbound) 1920s neutrons might have photodissociation cross section peaks at about 123 Mev.
The Light of 5 Billion Billion Suns(2)
Gamma-Ray Burst 990510
“The power reaching Earth from the gamma ray burst
observed at Sutherland and around the world was in
the top 4% of those observed by BATSE, and ranks
fourth among those which BeppoSAX has been able to
localize.”
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The abrupt decrease in the ratio He/H (bottom trace,
first figure) which occurred at about 11:30 UT (three and
a half hours after GRB 990510) might be explained by
invoking a very high energy Gamma-Ray spike which
disassembled the remaining helium nuclei in the solar
wind. The GRB catalog(9) lists no burst at that time.
References
(1) The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-atnasa/1999/ast13dec99_1/
(2) The Light of 5 Billion Billion Suns
http://www.saao.ac.za/no_cache/publicinfo/news/news/article/117/
(3) Ritz, W., Recherches critiques sur l’ Électrodynamique
Générale, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 13, 145
(1908). English translation at:
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/crit/1908a.htm
(4) Sekerin, V.I. “Gnosiological Peculiarities in the
Shedding New Light on the Problem
“Reacting quickly to an international alert,
astronomers at SAAO Sutherland imaged the fading
glow of a 'gamma ray burst', the most powerful type of
explosion known in the Universe, on May 10. It began at
10:49 SAST [08:49 UT] when the Burst and Transient
Source Experiment (BATSE) on NASA's Compton
Gamma Ray Observatory registered an intense burst of
gamma rays from a direction less than 10 degrees away
from the south celestial pole, in the constellation called
the Chameleon.” …
I speculate that the highest energy in the first peak of
GRB 990510 (E >>330 Kev) induced photo-dissociation
of the majority of solar wind heavy ions, leading to a
diffuse solar-system-wide nuclear explosion. This
explosive solar system wide event led to the decreasing
density of the solar wind and the apparent
disappearance of its heavier ions. (The ions didn’t get
“held back” by solar gravity, they just blew away.)
If neutrons are actually comprised of protons with
orbiting electrons then gamma radiation of the
appropriate energy could “stir the stick” so to speak
and induce photodissociation of nuclear neutrons.
Heavy nuclei, bereft of their neutrons, would be highly
explosive.
Ritz’s 1908 source velocity dependent speed of light
relativity(3) predicts arrival time aberrations in light
arriving from spectroscopic binary stars which can make
them look like variables. This includes GRBs with double
spike curves. In the case for double spiked curves both
spikes generally match each other (height-wise) in all
energy regimes. (4)(5) In Ritzian relativity the double
spiked GRBs, which are produced by two time reversals
would briefly contain frequencies approaching infinity.
If GRB 990510 originally had more or less equal height
spikes (all the way through the > 330 keV band) then the
energy in first spike could have been absorbed by the debris
from the photo-dissociated solar wind ions. The closer to the
photo-dissociation energy regime the greater the absorption.
The absorption process would have occurred in a very small
fraction of a second while the”departing” nuclear fragments
were behaving as expanding plasma pockets. The second
spike would have few plasma pockets to encounter and would
thus retain most of its original amplitude.
Interpretation of Observations (For Example the Observation
of Binary Stars) [Translated from Russian]
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/sekerin.htm
(5) Fritzius, R. “A Ritzian Interpretation of Variable Stars”
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/binaries.htm
(6) Seishi Kikuchi, “Nuclear Photodissociation by High
Energy Synchrotron Gamma-Rays,” Phys. Rev., 86, 41
(1952)
(7) Harkins, W. D., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 42, 1956 (1920)
(8) Rutherford, E., Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 97, 374 (1920)
(9) The BATSE Current Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/batse/grb/catalog/curre
nt/tables/basic_table.txt
Contact Info.
Robert Fritzius [email protected]
http://www.shadetreephysics.com