Double Layers on Dragon Re-entry?
Watching the broadcast of the Fram2 Space-X re-entry. The image above was taken ( by satellite?) when the vehicle was entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Communications are lost for a few minutes because of the plasma that forms around the vehicle.
It sure looks to me like double layers. The other option is that the camera color-scale is doing a wrap around, as the intensity values increase the color-scale wraps back around to zero.
Up to now I have only thought about electric double layers forming between regions of large voltage difference through which a current is flowing. The voltage difference and the current flow are both necessary for the stability of the system.
If the regions closest to the craft are the hottest, that would make them the most ionized, but that alone would not create a net charge difference.
I could imagine that the freed electrons, being more mobile, could make a net current flow outwards. But the image looks like the double layers are fully engulfing the craft, and if an outward electron flow persisted for 2 minutes, that craft would be enormously charged. I am missing something.
Reminds me of Gustav Doré's painting of Dante and Beatrice in Paradise. Which also reminds me of looking up the inside of a Bc as a star is forming with glowing double layers... which happens to be how Realisation seems, because it is the same principle in space as it is for man when he "sees God face to face".
In this video, Meyl presents a model of a gas molecule that has consists of a nucleus surrounded by an expanded electron shell which separates it from other molecules and gives rise Avogadro's Law. Meyl derives the value of Avogadro's constant from this model.
https://www.k-meyl.de/go/27_Videos/water_motor_theory_EN_pt2.mp4
My hypothesis for the double layers is the formation of concentric ring vortices of alternating polarity.
The molecules adjacent to the rocket are dragged around (not 'along') by 'friction' (field-drag) and form a rotating layer of ring vortices. The concomitant magnetic dipole structure helps organise this. The next concentric layer forms in the opposite direction and the phenomenon radiates at the speed of electromagnetic propagation (close to the speed of light when geometry is factored in).
The effect spreads and self-organisation of the field results in macro sized ring vortices surrounding the rocket. Alternating vortices of varying density give rise to the optical effect. Ring vortices are self-maintaining, self-stabilising and will persist long enough to form a tubular structure of sufficient size to affect the path of photons.
The gas is best viewed as a cellular matrix of (negative) electric field vortices rather than a bunch of charged particles. The laws are the laws of vortex field physics and there is no practical distinction between 'field' and 'particle' here.
Vortices tend to 'accumulate' by inward spiralling and this provides for the stability of the structures.
If the rocket is travelling faster than the speed of sound then 'acoustic' effects such as pressure and heating can be ruled out(?).
I tried to find out how aeroplanes fly but nobody knows. Pressure is surely ruled out for supersonic flight so we are left with something like the above. The wing boundary layer is not a linear shear layer but a rolling vortex layer with strong magnetic forces. The no-slip condition at the boundary is satisfied by the rolling field vortices and 'lift' is explained maybe by a non-coherent magnetic attraction similar to gravity. Note the lift forces are of comparable strength to gravity, not trillions of times greater or smaller.