Published 1984 | Version v1
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Now consider diffusion

Creators

  • 1. Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ

Description

The authors want to talk about future work, but first he will reply to Stan Cowley's comment on his naivety in believing in the whole story to 99% confidence in '65, when he knew about Fairfield's results. Does it matter whether you make the right judgment about theories? Yes, it does, particularly for experimentalists perhaps, but also for theorists. The work you do later depends on the judgment you've made on previous work. People have wasted a lot of time developing on insecure or even wrong foundations. Now for future work. One mild surprise the authors have had is that they haven't heard more about diffusion, in two contexts. Gordon Rostoker is yet to come and he may talk about particles getting into the magnetosphere by diffusion. Lots of noise is observed and so diffusion must happen. If time had not been short, the authors were planning to discuss in a handwaving way what sort of diffusion mechanisms one might consider. The other aspect of diffusion he was going to talk about is at the other end of things and is velocity diffusion, which is involved in anomalous resistivity

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Geophysical Union.
Imprint Place
Washington, DC (USA)
ISBN
0-87590-058-5
Imprint Title
Magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory plasma
Journal Page Range
p. 379.

Conference

Title
Chapman conference on magnetic reconnection.
Dates
3-7 Oct 1983.
Place
Los Alamos, NM (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
19031609
Subject category
S58: GEOSCIENCES;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT; CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT THE; DIFFUSION; EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE; HOT PLASMA; MAGNETOPAUSE; PLASMA DRIFT
Descriptors DEC
EARTH ATMOSPHERE; PLASMA; RADIATION TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT THEORY