NASA discovers hidden portals in Earths upper atmosphere

What a lot of unintelligible gibberish. It mixes some real science with science fiction and other physical phenomena that are completely unrelated.

The magnetic portal is a "hole" in the magnetic field. The particles of the solar wind can are not deflected. This is not related to "wormholes", "Casinir effect", "faster than light travel", teletransportation, "tunels", ...

If you are interested in reading the real science and experiments, go to http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals....

I didn't really understood in which way this is a "portal". Is this a clear, magnetized path, like a sudden "highway" from sun to Earth; or are we talking about portals like Portal, the game?

Neither this nor the NASA article [1] really explains what's happening. I think it's more like a "highway" or flux tube [2] but I'm not sure at all.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube

Sometimes, when you think "I want some of what he's smoking" it turns out to be quite literal.

If it's this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jay_Brown , I'm thinking some telescope retailer's site bought some filler content and got quite a bit more cosmic value than they expected.