The tiny sun used sound waves to simulate the sun's swirling mass of plasma
Physicists have created a mini sun with its own simulated gravity to investigate the causes of extreme space weather.
"Sound fields act like gravity, at least when it comes to driving convection in gas," lead study author John Koulakis , a physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles , said in a statement ."With the use of microwave-generated sound in a spherical flask of hot plasma, we achieved a gravity field that is 1,000 times stronger than Earth's gravity."
The exact details of when and how these storms form aren't clearly known. Previous attempts to replicate the conditions in the heart of the sun have been met with mixed success, mainly because the Earth's gravity tends to disrupt the simulated effects — altering them in unforeseeable ways. "People were so interested in trying to model spherical convection with laboratory experiments that they actually put an experiment in the space shuttle because they couldn't get a strong enough central force field on the ground," study senior author Seth Putterman , a professor of physics professor at UCLA, said in the statement."What we showed is that our system of microwave-generated sound produced gravity so strong that Earth's gravity wasn't a factor.
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