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Edited 22 hours ago
So, how tf do planets create magnetic fields? With a bunch of superconducting material like jupiter that sounds easy but just liquid iron?
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Also, wild how celestial bodies just tend to create electricity in a bunch of ways
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@snacks
> but just liquid iron
It's a conductor and it's constantly moving because of the temperature changes shrugAkko
wait many years until it's a cold chunk of solid and there will be basically nothing
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@snowy but, just moving doesn't create electricity. Is it just that some initial magnetic field induced current and it's basically constantly inducing that back to itself?
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@snacks @snowy I believe so yes. With convection providing the energy to keep that going.
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@snacks @snowy Also radioactive decay in Earth's core and tidal friction caused by the moon
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