If the plasma field around earth was increased 100 fold what would this increas protect us from ?

Question

What effect would the increased denisty of the plasma field have on incomming astroids ? Also how would this effect the solar radiation? Thank you ,Max

Answer 1

Plasma is defined as an assemblage of charged particles called electrons and ions that react collectively to forces exerted by electric and magnetic fields.

Since the plasma field around the Earth has no direction of force, and presently, no know way to direct it as a force, increasing it woyuld have little if any effect on solid matter such as incoming asteroids.

The fact that the Earth has a plasma "sheath" surrounding it is not so much a measure of its protection. Indeed, it is more a measure of the bombardment by such things as solar winds and coronal mass ejections. An increase in plasma state increases the migratory ionic forces that might seek to gradually strip the Earth of an atmosphere.

During periods of intense solar flare activity, the Earth exhibits a "plasma fountain", oxygen, helium, and hydrogen ions that gush into space from regions near the Earth's poles. Faint areas have been detected above the north pole representing gas lost from Earth into space; the aurora borealis is actually an ion return phenomenon -- or plasma energy pouring back into the atmosphere

Answer 2

Get a good high energy/plasma physics book, go to your room and let us know the answer. I'm sure it would disrupt power and communications.