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by qayxc 2180 days ago
Maybe because only specialists even took note of this. The article itself states that it's more like "hearing a pin drop".

If you look at the scales on the included diagrams, you might note that these "ripples" are on the order of a few nT.

The natural variation of the magnetic field can be 2 orders of magnitude higher, so the real story here is that they were even able to pick this up in the first place...

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Cool, thanks.