Scientists want to protect the Earth from the solar storm with a giant magnet

To protect the Earth, scientists thought of a "crazy" idea to place a giant magnet in the space between our Mother's Planet and the Sun.

A solar eruption, or solar storm, can emit extremely damaging and radiating waves that radiate to Earth 149.6 million kilometers away.

Many scientists think that the Sun is likely to be the biggest threat to people in the future. The Sun gives life to all things on Earth, but just once a super typhoon happens, it can also bring destruction to all of us. Now, a study at Harvard University speculates that such a threat could hit Earth in the next century.

Solar storm is currently the common concern of many scientists.

The phenomenon of solar storm is no longer considered "probable", but "as long as it happens?" "

The phenomenon of solar storms is still frequent, but they do not always affect the Earth. 150 years ago, super typhoon (also known as the Carrington Event) created a strange aurora phenomenon, making places far south like Cuba and Hawaii suddenly have a colorful sky.

But it is not really great for those who type in telegrams when unfortunately being electrocuted due to the incident and their machines are on fire at the same time. If the Carrington Event happened today, electronics would be completely paralyzed, and could very well lead to the destruction of technology.

Sketch of Richard Carrington about Carrington Event.

Before this dangerous astronomical phenomenon, we should put much hope into the new idea of ​​researchers: placing a giant magnet between the Earth and the Sun to protect human life. This initiative belongs to Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam from Harvard University.

The results of their study show that the strongest solar storms will appear about every 20 million years. We should feel lucky that the Sun storms that hit Earth today are only capable of losing mobile waves for a while. Because of the fact, its greatest destructive power is to destroy the entire ozone layer and even damage the DNA structure of most living organisms. The earth, which we often know, will change forever.

A solar storm is likely to happen soon, but researchers warn that we should be prepared to receive a similar phenomenon to the Carrington Event. It could be a super typhoon that will destroy electricity and satellite systems and cause many consequences in the global supply chain.

In fact, in 2012, NASA revealed that we were fortunate to avoid a strong storm of sun damage comparable to the Carrington Event. If the storm then attacked the planet, the global economic loss would reach $ 2.6 trillion (VND 59 billion) and take between 4 and 10 years to recover.

Solution?Giant magnets placed in the universe.

To minimize the risk, Loeb and Lingam proposed a magnetic, under-magnifying magnet in the form of a giant wire loop that could be placed between the Earth and the Sun. If a solar storm occurs, electromagnets act as a shield to repel toxic radiation particles.

Giant magnets can protect the Earth from the Sun storm.

"The basic idea is to place a magnet ring between the Sun and Earth, with the aim of creating enough magnetic fields to deflect the solar charged particles," Lingam said. "The giant magnet barrier seems to be a feasible idea, even if our technology level is still limited, and will certainly cost a lot to complete."

But in fact, this is an extremely "difficult to swallow" project . According to calculations, the magnet will weigh about 100,000 tons and will cost about 100 billion USD (2.2 million billion VND) if implemented at the International Space Station.

Greg Laughlin, an astrophysicist at Yale University, commented: "I think that diverting resources to build a giant magnet in the universe is an inefficient investment decision. But if Thinking about the harmful effects of solar radiation, we will feel the money for this project is totally worth it. "

Loeb said: "Before spending $ 100 billion to build space magnets, there are many things we can do on the ground, such as finding ways to protect this fragile tool, possibly build more roofs, put it underground or prepare many contingency plans, which will be discussed internationally, similar to the global climate change conference. "