The Big Flux Tube from the Sun to the Earth

Dr. Steven B Halls | January 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2026-01-05 - view original post.

There is a big flux tube from the sun to the Earth, one of them crosses Earth every 8 minutes, called a "Flux Transfer Event", and these have pulsations, called Alfven waves. (my previous post mentioned flux tubes having pulses, and thus a pulse rate caused by curly vortices travelling with the tube https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16arCqZ9ZP/ ).

A big flux tube runs from the sun to the Earth, one crossing Earth every 8 minutes as a Flux Transfer Event, with pulsations called Alfven waves. Image A came from a YouTube video about Alfven waves, image B's column shows what the ancients knew about flux tubes, and image C is a static frame from the video that Gemini's nano-banana made to visualize this big flux tube.

You can find videos on youtube about Alfven waves. I grabbed image A from one of them. Image B's column is showing what ancients knew about flux tubes. Image C is a static image from a video that Gemini's nano-banana made to visualize this big flux tube. You can click to view how nano-banana visualized it.

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