The Big Bang and Conservation of angular momentum??

Hi, Dennis! Nice hobby you're taking up here.... Weren't you the one who mentioned figure skaters? They tend to not have intrinsic magnetic fields, and, if they do emit gas, do so on an intermittent basis - and lkely very rarely when they are doing a spin. Stars, though, have magnetic fields and stellar winds.Stars, therefore, have a mechanism of slowing their spin that isn't available to skaters: magnetic braking. They send out part of their mass and stay coupled to it. Skaters stick out part of their mass - their arms - and stay coupled to them.Reading is a good hobby, too, Dennis.

Very nice analogy, Dr A!

I'm going to say, without reading up on it, that it's way less for planets because they don't send out a charged wind. Planets' magnetic fields certainly would interact with the solar wind, but a big difference there is that the solar wind is all from one "side" of a planet, where it's all headed straight out from the sun. I'm not sure what that difference really means......Some of my best friends and customers are frac and cement hands, by the way. A few of them in your province, even.

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