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'NASA's Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge'http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/dec/HQ_11-402_AGU_Voyager.html"Voyager is showing that what is outside is pushing back. ... Like cars piling up at a clogged freeway off-ramp, the increased intensity of the magnetic field shows that inward pressure from interstellar space is compacting it."
Quote from: mpc755 on 07/12/2011 12:12:35'NASA's Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge'http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/dec/HQ_11-402_AGU_Voyager.html"Voyager is showing that what is outside is pushing back. ... Like cars piling up at a clogged freeway off-ramp, the increased intensity of the magnetic field shows that inward pressure from interstellar space is compacting it."What would Voyager be showing if they had sent it behind the solar orbit, rather than in front of it? Or, perhaps perpendicular to it?
The recent neutrino research will be interesting if it holds up. Perhaps light interacts with "space" more than neutrinos.
If you took a round rod, and moved it through water, what you would see in front, to the sides, and behind the rod would all be different, and at different pressures.Likewise, what is observed in the bowshock of the solar system could be different than what is observed elsewhere.