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Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations

SteakNShake writes "Once again professional astronomers are struggling to understand observations of the sun. ScienceDaily reports that a team from Saint Andrew's University announced that the sun's magnetic fields dominate the behavior of the corona via a mechanism dubbed the 'solar skeleton.' Computer models continue to be built to mimic the observed behavior of the sun in terms of magnetic fields but apparently the ball is still being dropped; no mention in the announcement is made of the electric fields that must be the cause of the observed magnetic fields. Also conspicuously absent from the press releases is the conclusion that the sun's corona is so-dominated by electric and magnetic fields because it is a plasma. In light of past and present research revealing the electrical nature of the universe, this kind of crippling ignorance among professional astrophysicists is astonishing."

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  1. Re:whaa? by curious.corn · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Complacent go with the crowd thinker.

    I have this very neat little book about some norwegian Nobel guy called Alfwen... an engineer alas! He criticized all thin "gravity is all there is" approach in cosmology and got the finger from the community. Some "rabid dropouts" picked up the line and followed and have drawn some interesting ideas. Nowhere in this book was it ever assumed that "electromagnetism is all there is", these theorists only dispute that electromagnetism doesn't have anything to do in cosmic interactions as there's a terrible lot of plasma out there (produced by fusion, cosmic ray collisions, etc...) and it moves. I don't think that cheerleading for the current crop of senior scientists has ever done anything good except help careers...

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  2. Re:whaa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Seriously, how long has it been since you've seen a vagina?

  3. Re:whaa? by RespekMyAthorati · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let me guess: you are also anti-evolution and pro-flatearth, too.

  4. Re:electric pot by SteakNShake · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What exactly is "crackpot" about the idea that there is electricity in space and it actually does something? I think you need to close your bible and open your eyes to reality, this is the twenty-first century for fucks sake.

  5. Re:what is unscientific by SteakNShake · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fortunately it takes more than your bald assurance to invalidate a scientific concept.

  6. Re:The electrical nature of the universe by Cherita+Chen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Only utter ignorance of plasma could lead one to the conclusion that the universe is anything but electrically-driven."

    Just as only utter ignorance of natures simultaneous harmonic four-way Timecube deems you an ugly educated "singular-stupid" god-fucker, not fit to live on this planet!

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  7. Re:what is unscientific by SteakNShake · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Plasma science has more than my bald assurance that it is valid. How about several nobel laureates and literally decades (longer than you've been alive to be sure) of experimental verification in the lab. Where is the experimental evidence supporting the self-compressing gas-ball stellar fusion model? We must simply accept on faith that all these processes occur just out of sight and using weird physics that only applies in the hearts of stars and can't be reproduced for study in the lab. Here's a tip, get a dictionary and look up the word "science". I do not think it means what you think it means.