Just touch one of those beams with a weak field and see what happens.
I agree it might be a weaker field but he was utterly dominant.
Therefore the argument that he had a weaker field doesn't quite stack up.
"The one thing he can't afford to do is jump out into a weak field and fail."
So a weak magnetic field would not be expected to create strong flaring.
There are other notable names in a rather weak American field.
Later, he studied the effects of weak electromagnetic fields on human health.
Without a weak magnetic field, the flow would be stable.
All of this changes, however, when even a very weak magnetic field is present.
This leads to a weaker field on the outside than the inside.