Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields connect, disconnect and reconfigure explosively, releasing bursts of energy that can reach the order of billions of megatons of trinitrotoluene (commonly known as TNT). These explosions can send particles surging through space near the speed of light.Well, I'm fucking glad to receive the brand new and exciting information that trinitrotoluene is commonly known as TNT. EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS THIS, and everybody who might read a science article has a general sense of megatons in the context of nuclear bombs. It's as old and familiar as grams or kilometers. YOU DON'T FUCKING NEED TO TELL US THIS. But what I DIDN'T know, and STILL DON'T KNOW after reading this crap, is whether your magnetic reconnections are a known and real phenomenon or a schizy delusion. If they're as big as you say, it seems like we should have experienced them, and you should be able to point to some event in Earth's long history that was probably caused by these things.
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