Something I noticed about the Oort Cloud.

The Oort Cloud description:

The Oort cloud (/ɔːrt, ʊərt/), sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, first described in 1950 by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, is a theoretical concept of a cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 au (0.03 to 3.2 light-years).

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Here's a diagram that is not to scale.

Now here's a NASA object density plot of the Oort Cloud. Presumably, the objects represented by white dots are the higher mass objects.

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The lighter colored areas represent higher object density and the darker areas area regions with lower object density.

In the absence of any force but gravity, the distribution of the objects ought to be random. If anyone wants to debate or discuss this point, go right ahead. My own position is based on the principle of Entropy acting to randomize object distribution over time.

You will notice that the object density in not uniform. This is important. Why?

Because gravity acts equally in all directions. The center of Mass in the Solar System is the Sun and, as far as we know, the Sun's Gravity field is a uniform sphere.

In the Solar System, the 8 planets orbit the Sun in a plane... and they all go in the same direction.

But the Oort Cloud objects orbit the Sun in a sphere. But, as we saw in the NASA object density graph, the sphere is uneven.

Everyone should be able to see that, while the distribution is not even, it is also non-random. There is a significant structure visible in the Cloud.

I see a symmetrical "density disk" that roughly tracks the solar equatorial plane. And I also see symmetrical regions of reduced density to the North and South (or above and below) the center.

Now time for some conjecture.

Remember that the Oort Cloud objects ought to form a randomized or uniform sphere. Based on gravity alone, the objects should be more dense closer to the Sun and less dense farther out. But you'd still expect to see uniformity in all directions.

If gravity is perfectly even in all directions, the Oort Cloud should look more like this. In this image, the Solar System and the Sun would be the little white dot in the center of the red cloud.

Now conventional thinkers are going to insist that these symmetrical differences are explained by unknown effects, or by whatever circumstances in the early Solar System. Maybe and maybe not. And here's where I'll suggest a more rational (but far less believable) alternative.

Remember the symmetrical and non random structure of the disk?

Here's something similar . Also symmetrical and non random pattern of object density. And most people will remember this cool iron fillings experiment from school.

So what's the point?

When you see a pattern where there should be randomness, it must be due to some influence or force. In the case of the iron fillings, the pattern is due to the magnetic lines of force.

In the case of the Oort Cloud, we don't know.

But is there perhaps a clue?

Is there anything we can see in that picture that reminds us of anything with a similar structure. Is there anything at a significant location that also generates a force and a structure with the same shape and size?

There sure is.

It's the Sun's North and South Magnetic fields and the Solar Electric Field strength. In basic physics, a magnetic field accompanies an electric field.

With the Sun, you get a north south field that looks like this

Here is a picture of the electric and magnetic properties of the Sun.

So the Sun puts out North and South Magnetic fields that go way into space. And if my understanding is correct, it produces a field of electric charge that is orthogonal to the magnetic field.

The idea is that there is a paired electromagnetic field with a structure that matches that of the Oort Cloud.

Maybe I'm wrong here. But what it possibly looks like is that the North and South magnetic field regions of the Sun are creating matching regions of slightly lower gravity in the Oort Cloud... as well as a disk shaped region of slightly higher gravity around the equatorial plane.

If this hypothesis is true, do observations match up with what is predicted?

In an equatorial disk with higher gravity, you'd expect to see increased object density. And that's what the Oort Cloud shows.

It's also what we see with all of the planets.

I'm even going to suggest Saturn's rings as an example. Why? Because Saturn is the only planet in the Solar System where...

the magnetic field is almost exactly aligned with its rotation axis, and the dipole field lines emanate from a massive electrically conducting metallic hydrogen core

Source

Perhaps the reason Saturn has its rings is because it has an equatorial region of slightly increased gravity? And perhaps the North/South Magnetic fields have something to do with those strange polar hexagons?

The other way of looking at this is that the North South regions of magnetic field density (or perhaps magnetic flux) are creating regions of slightly lower gravity, and over time the normal equatorial gravity tends to accumulate objects in orbit.

If that's true, we've got an alternative mechanism for object capture by electrically/magnetically active bodies like the Sun, Saturn and Jupiter.

And it just so happens that the most magnetically/electrically active bodies in the Solar system all have objects in orbit around them.

Jupiter, with its powerful magnetic field, is practically a miniature solar system with dozens of very large moons.

I have this other theory about how entropy acts in scalar and vector fields, but I'm only going to mention it briefly here. In a vector field, entropy either pushes for charge reduction (repulsion) or it pushes for charge cancellation (attraction). In a scalar field, entropy pushes against energy concentration or accumulation.

So this could be some kind of weak interactive effect between magnetism and gravity. Some kind of balance where a stronger magnetic field or higher magnetic flux produces a proportional weakening in the gravity field?

And the region where the field or flux is lower has little/no effect on gravity...

And this is why the Oort Cloud looks the way it does. And maybe it's why all the planets orbit in a flat plane.

And maybe there's a way to use magnetism (and maybe electricity) to either reduce or increase the effect of gravity.

I'm still thinking about the possible effects of an ultra high voltage static electrical field (scalar) to produce an increase... which would also promote orbital capture.

One last look at the Oort Cloud Is this also what the gravity field around the Sun actually looks like?

If it is, a lot of Star Trek/scifi stuff becomes possible. We're looking at the basic principle for artificial gravity, gravity neutralization, even deflector shields and tractor beams.

Sorry, no phasers or transporters... yet.

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