Recent scientific reports warn of a devastating solar storm that may hit the planet within the next two years, destroying the infrastructure of Internet networks, as the sun is close to reaching the largest heat wave in history, according to scientists.
According to those reports published by newspapers such as the "Washington Post" and "Daily Star", since 2012, large solar storms have been absent, as the sun reaches its cycle every 11 years, and the sun will reach the maximum solar energy in the next 2025, and the cycle will be the most intense and influential. On the ground.
Although it's regular cycles that have occurred 25 times since records began in 1755, experts are terrified that the current cycle has ramped up much faster than usual, and has seen more sunspots and flares than expected. Experts warn that the cessation of Internet services due to such a possible storm will have a disastrous impact on various aspects of life and its vital and productive sectors.
What is happening?
International environmental expert Ayman Haitham Qaddouri says, in an interview with Sky News Arabia:
- Solar storms are generated as a result of the intersection of magnetic fields that result from the movement of plasma inside the body of the sun, which is a major component of space weather. The plasma begins to rotate inside the sun and intense magnetic activity called sunspots arises.
- The magnetic field that is generated around these spots is described as irregular and is subjected to enormous pressure as a result of the continued movement of the solar plasma, the collision of ions and electrons in the field of the sunspot, which is also called the coronal hole, due to the accumulated magnetic activity in the field of these holes, energy consisting of solar plasma (protons and electrons) is released. They are called coronal mass ejections.
- The closest thing that can be described to this energy is a plasma projectile that increases in speed to 1.3 million kilometers per hour, taking the form of a snake and heading towards the planets facing the southwestern part of the sun, the site of the most active sunspots, to reach the Earth's atmosphere within approximately 24-48 hours.
- When the solar storm reaches the Earth's magnetosphere, it begins to repel this projectile, then the storm merges with that cover that extends above the Earth's surface from a height of 60 km to reach more than 1000 km (the ionosphere). Meanwhile, a process of attraction and repulsion occurs between solar protons and electrons with their terrestrial counterpart, forming A two-way path towards Earth's north and south poles.
- Solar storms are classified into 5 levels by recording their diameter and velocity, from G-1, the weakest, to G-5, the most severe and dangerous to human life.
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