About substorms, April 1, 1998

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This message was sent by Prof. Kamide (Y. Kidme?) after the Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4) in Japan:: This year's substorm conference was one of the most successful yet with over 250 in attendance. All existing paradigms were discussed at length and during the wrap-up session it was realized that only the time of the events within 2 minutes of onset were still seriously under debate. Since it seems somewhat foolish for a couple of hundred scientists to travel half way around the world to argue over two minutes of geomagnetic activity, the substorm problem was declared solved and no more substorm conferences are being planned.