More about the Tayler Instability:<p><a href="https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=55138&pNid=226&pLang=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=55138&pNid=226&pLang=en</a><p>The Tayler instability is known to limit the scalability of liquid metal batteries. Whenever an electric current flows through a liquid conductor, the Tayler instability may appear. If the electric current exceeds a value in the order of kiloampère (depending on the material), it will drive a fluid flow.<p>The plasma of the sun behaves like a magnetized highly conducting fluid. (Magneto-Hydrodynamics)
And now I wonder what of earth's quirks (?) are driven or influenced by our position relative to the other planets, as well as our moon.<p>Furthermore, is a planet's ability to sustain life also a function of other planets in that solar system? Perhaps, at that level, the earth's system (if you will) is more unique than we realize?
I was thinking to myself as I began reading "I bet Jupiter has something to do with this, I just know it"<p><i>present new findings, indicating that the tidal forces of Venus, Earth and Jupiter influence the solar magnetic field</i><p>Gravitational and tidal forces are such fascinating things to read about as we find new ways of measuring the phenomena
I am most impressed that they are able to model the sun's surface activity well enough to see a match; and that effects from the interior are tiny enough that tides can overcome them.