reply to post by davesidious
OMG! Particles sent out by the Sun is captured into the Earth's magnetic field and spreads along an oval circle centered around the magnetic North
Pole. I promise you the patterns you see doesnot seem to come from the Sun at all, it looks as if it radiates from magnetic North, which it also
does.
And the source of the aurora like blue helix is not close to Earth, but somewhere around 100 km up into the sky as shown by tauristercus in the other
thread. As it happens to be, it is exactly where normal Aurora Borealis occurs. And the same colour as it would have had had it been aurora at that
altitude.
OK, tell me how something with no mass can be bent by gravity. It may seem like it does, but here we must enter the crazy fields of quantum mechanics
and 10-dimentional hyperspace in order to find explanations. With a mirror or a lense you could alter the coarse of photons, but since they have no
mass, it's a classical dilemma as to how it seems black holes are able to pull these light quants back. Since we haven't really been able to observe
it only kina like measure it, it will probably be a dilemma for physicists for at least a couple of decades still, but you naturally have the
solution.