Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth

During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn’t believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again, around the time you reach the end of the page. It’s called a flux transfer event or ‘FTE’, says space physicist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Centre. Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn’t exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible