If in the first public trial it came to light that the DOJ of the government had a way to decrypt any iPhone, the secret would then become public knowledge. So far there has been no such trial.
Your parents aren't criminals and probably your girlfriends aren't either. They would not have any information on the phone, that, which is the cops knew about, would earn decent people a long prison term. Criminals, at least smart ones, would likely make good use of encryption to thwart law enforcement.
Judge to defendant: “If you do not reveal the password, you will be held in contempt of court and jailed until such time as you do give that password”. Defendant: “I do not remember the password, but I had it written down on the sticky note under the keyboard”. Judge: “so what happened to the note?” Defendant: “the police took my computer, keyboard and all. They must have it”. Prosecutor: “Detective Holmes swears that no such note was attached to the keyboard”. The defendant insists that it was there. Does the defendant spend the rest of his life in jail because nobody can find that sticky note anywhere?
There is one other aspect in this water vapor scenario that you neglected to mention. Water vapor is lighter than air and CO2 is heavier than air. Water-vapor therefore tends to rise to such a level in the atmosphere where it can condense because there are still sufficient particles of dust around which it can condense. If the temperature of the earth as a whole would go to about 85F - 95 F, that condensation level would be above where there is sufficient dust to allow condensation. This means that water vapor could no longer condense and therefore would keep on accumulating above the present atmosphere. That layer of water vapor would then carry the excess heat to its upper layers where it would be radiated into space. Eventually an equilibrium would be established. A significant fraction of the Earth's water would be in and above the atmosphere, exposing most if not all of the continental shelves. The continuation of the Amazon River channel on the South American continental shelf and the very existence of fossil fuels is evidence that such conditions existed once upon the earth. There are other places on earth, where great rivers have carved channels into the continental shelf before plunging into the deep ocean basins beyond.
It is no coincidence that life processes become optimum at just above that temperature around 95 to 105 F as evidenced by the internal temperatures of mammals. Therefore, global warming, if it proceeded to its ultimate limit would be beneficial to most life forms, especially humans. Ocean levels would actually be lower, greatly increasing the usable land resources and reducing the energy requirements of the entire planet's populations. The vast polar regions of the earth would become warm and habitable. Since violent weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes is spawned by temperature differences, those weather phenomena would be eliminated because temperature differences in the lower atmosphere would be small or nonexistent. Global warming, bring it on!
CO2 is definitely a greenhouse gas, but so is water vapor, H2O. Since there is about 100 times as much water vapor in the atmosphere than CO2, it has a much greater effect on temperature, other things being equal. This tremendous effect of water vapor as a greenhouse gas is amply demonstrated to the millions of people on the East Coast and the West Coast of the United States. The CO2 content of the atmosphere in both places is approximately the same. In the last couple weeks, while the East Coast was sweltering with unusually high temperatures, it was also quite toasty here on the West Coast. The daytime peaks were actually about the same. At nighttime, at midnight, where my daughter lives in North Carolina, it was still over 90F, while here it was about 60F or slightly below at midnight our time. I will let you Google the average humidities of the West and East coasts, but I am sure you know there is a great difference.
What conclusions can you draw from that as to the relative importance of water vapor and CO2 as greenhouse gases?
The average temperature of the earth is determined by the difference between how much the sun heats the earth and how much energy is radiated away into space. The whole premise of AGW is that CO2 reduces the amount of heat escaping from the earth, thus raising the average temperature. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but only comprises about 395 ppm of the atmosphere. Water vapor, H2O is also a greenhouse gas, but it makes up about 40,000 ppm (4%) of the atmosphere (above the oceans). Which of those 2 greenhouse gases do you suppose affects the balance between received energy and radiated energy more? Is it possible, just maybe, in your thinking, that the average temperature of the earth is affected much more by the received solar energy and the much higher concentration of water vapor than so much smaller amount of CO2?
Peer reviewed equals consistent with the majority worldview. The movie “Expelled” brings this out in another controversial area. Any scientist who brings out uncomfortable facts that are contrary to the worldview or lifelong theories of the majority of other scientists or powerful political figures, will not get published in a “mainstream” Journal. In former times, scientists such as Copernicus and Galileo were even persecuted for coming up with evidence that was contrary to the worldview of the powers-that-be of their day. At least in our culture we have mostly progressed past executing those who disagree with the majority view of the power elite. The Internet has made it possible for both geniuses and crackpots to get their ideas before a much wider audience, than it was possible in earlier times.
I guess you didn't read my reply very carefully or understand it. Lots of people willing to die for what they believe. What nobody is willing to die for is something they KNOW to be a falsehood. The disciples of Jesus had seen him in his resurrected glory. The apostle Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 15 that the resurrected Jesus Christ appeared to 500 people at once.
People continually repeat the refrain, “the Bible cannot be trusted to be historically accurate”. There are people today that deny the historicity of the Holocaust. There are people today that refuse to believe that any human being ever walked on the moon. Anyone who does not WANT to believe something they are told, will not believe, no matter how much evidence they are presented with.
The followers of Jesus did indeed believe that Jesus rose from the dead, because they saw him with their very own eyes. All of them, except for John, died a horrible death for this belief. People do not go to their death for proclaiming something they know to be an out right lie. If Jesus had not resurrected from the dead, there would be no Christianity today.
How do you know he wasn't telling the truth? When someone tells you something you cannot personally verify, how do you know that person is telling the truth? When Jesus was on trial for his life, Pilate the Roman governor who had the power of life and death in that society asked that question. Jesus was not only telling the truth, but he made an incredible claim. He claimed to be the very embodiment of truth. In the end, we have no alternative except to either believe or disbelieve. It is a choice that everyone of us must make.
How do you know any historical information is accurate? There are people today who deny the fact that the Holocaust really happened. Just study the historical record of the resurrection of Jesus. Did it really happen?
This topic cannot really be studied scientifically, because science is limited to the physical human senses. For those who only believe that what is physical, touchable, viewable etc., this is a great waste of time and money. Whether there is life after death can only be grasped by faith.
Jesus Christ came and made the claim that he is God. The people of his day, especially the religious ones were unbelievably upset by this claim. They were torqued out of shape enough to conspire with the Roman governmental authorities to have Jesus executed. Jesus proved his claim to deity by resurrection from the dead. All religions, but one, are human efforts to reach God. There is only one faith that makes an exception to this. That is the Christian gospel where God becomes a human being in order to make it possible for him to confer eternal life to all humans who are simply willing to believe this. God reaches down to man, rather than man reaching up to God.
Anyone who studies the biblical record of the resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ, will realize that Jesus is a physical being, capable of all the normal physical activities normal humans are able to do. There were however also activities which show that Jesus existed not only on the earthly plane, but also a higher spiritual level or dimension. He was no longer subject to time and space in the same way that we are right now. He could materialize in and out of our time–space dimension, which is a technology that most scientists can't even talk about, because they don't believe in any dimensions beyond our own. When he finally ascended into “heaven”, he did not need a thundering rocket, but was quietly lifted up from the earth and disappeared into a cloud. He promised that everyone who believes and trusts him, will at some point in time inhabit a body just like his resurrection body. This body is no longer subject to entropy or decay or death.
Modern Olympics are about making money. The sports competitions just happen to be a means to that end. The Olympics sports events are not the only ones that to make big bucks from athletic competitions. Most of the so-called “sports” have less to do with athletic competition and winning a game, than they have to do with the big business of making lots of money.
"This world only has a Finite amount of resources."
If all of the human resources spent on controlling and containing evil would be directed toward true human needs, then the resources on earth would allow for the world population of at least 20 billion. If all military, police and prisons were to become unnecessary, then the world could be a beautiful paradise. If human selfishness and greed were gone, disease and poverty would disappear also.
Do you really think that the government agencies that would do this spying are interested in your inane communications with your girlfriend or whoever? It is more likely that if these people have even the slightest suspicion on you, they might be monitoring your e-mails and sending them through text filters that would flag certain words or phrases. There are a number of “flag lists” that have certain words on them, that might actually bring your totally uninteresting e-mail to the attention of an actual human person. Anyone who suspects they are being monitored by the government, can just randomly pepper their conversations and e-mails with some of these words, just to “Play with the System” a little. Anyone who does this for a while, will probably end up on an “ignore this kook” list.
Most people THINK they do not have anything to hide, such as when they talk about the antics of their 3-year-old grandson or other inane conversations. Therefore most people would not switch or quit using Skype. Anyone who does have deep dark secrets they wish to hide from the KGB, FBI, NSA, Gestapo or other such agencies, would not be using Skype or any other easily intercepted communication system.
"Back in the 1980's, NASA announced that with the Space Shuttle space travel was now perfectly safe"
That is a foolish statement coming even from a second-rate moron. Nothing is perfectly safe, especially your bed. It is statistically true that more people die in bed than anyplace else. Therefore, bed is the most dangerous place to be. Don't go to bed tonight!
This is indeed a perfect example that there are a lot of a irrational people in this world. The trouble is that the rational, thinking ones have not been able to save humanity either in all this time we've had on this planet. At every level, there have been murder and strife, at family level, tribal and international wars. So there is no one left except for God to save us humans from ourselves. This is what the God who created time said will happen before time will be no more.
You and mainstream scientists keep talking about gas. The solar corona and atmosphere do not consist of gas as we usually think of it, but of electrically conducting plasmas. Such a plasma is a much better conductor of electricity than any metal. The laws of physics that apply to gas, such as Boyles law and other gas laws to not apply in any way. As the galactic electrical current flows toward the sun and away from it, it first has to flow through the corona, which as you say is much less dense than the solar atmosphere further down. Because the corona is less dense, its plasma particles excited by the electric current can travel much faster. The speed of particles is the very definition of temperature. Most of the heat of the sun is generated by electricity the same way as it is on Earth by lightning or an electric arc welder. No one has ever generated a magnetic field by anything other than moving charge. It is these current impinging on and circulating in the sun that produce the enormous magnetic fields we observe.
Electricity is a force 10^39 times stronger than gravity. The only time gravity controls the motion of heavenly bodies, is when these are, fortunately for us, mostly electrically neutral. Most of the universe however is definitely NOT electrically neutral so that most matter exists not as solid, liquid or gas, but in the form of highly ionized plasma. I am an electrical engineer by profession, not a physicist or cosmologist. I am familiar with the laws of electricity and magnetism. What we observe on the sun and in the universe as a whole operates mostly by these laws because of the overwhelming overpowering strength of the electric interaction against gravity. If the rules of electricity and magnetism are taken into account, such fictitious purely mathematical constructs as dark energy, dark matter and black holes are not needed to explain the motion and behavior of stars and galaxies. Novas and supernovas can be explained in terms the dumping of electrical energy triggered by the interruption of inductive electric circuits. Mainstream scientists, especially cosmologists don't study electrical laws and plasma theories. Most of their models are based on the gravitational interaction which applies only to electrically neutral objects. If you want to know more about the electrical activity in the universe, you can look here:
There are other websites, but many of them go into esoteric math and field equations. The above-cited website gives a picture more in keeping with the knowledge that someone might have that is not specially schooled in electrical theory.
Here we are not talking about a gas. The corona is an extremely hot plasma, heated by an electric current on its way to the solar atmosphere. Only a small fraction of the energy carried by the galactic electric current is dissipated in the Corona, but is nevertheless sufficient to produce incredibly high temperatures therein. Most of the electrical energy is dissipated in the form of electric arcs similar to lightning or a welder's torch.
The iron filings experiment is the where that whole idea of “lines” of magnetic fields comes from. It is a convenient way of describing the intensity and direction of the magnetic field, but the lines themselves do not exist. Weather maps are often depicted with isobar lines, showing the locations of equal pressure in the atmosphere. There are no such lines in the atmosphere of course. Such isobar lines do not break or reconnect, neither do magnetic “lines”. Any explanation that requires the “reconnection” of magnetic fields is bogus.
For centuries, people have assumed that the sun is nothing more than a big campfire in the sky. When scientists learned more about chemistry and the energies involved, they realized that the energy output is far too large to be supported by any chemical process known. Just at the time when that realization hit, humanity discovered atomic energy. So the natural assumption was that the energy source of the sun was the atom. Subsequent observations of the sun, including this latest one contradict the theory that the sun is heated from the inside out. The fact that the corona is much hotter contradicts well-known facts of thermodynamics. Sunspots are dark because they are holes in the solar atmosphere allowing the cooler solar interior to be seen through them. The fusion reaction supposedly happening in the interior of the Sun produces copious amounts of neutrinos. However, the number of neutrinos that should be measured here on earth from the sun are far below what we should see if the fusion model were correct. Although the energy output of the sun in the light and heat spectrum, that we depend on for survival, is remarkably constant, this is not so in other parts of the solar spectrum. During the 11 year cycle of the sun, the output in ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays varies widely.
Lines of magnetic fields do not exist anymore in reality than the lines of equal altitude on a map. Therefore the theory of reconnecting lines of magnetic energy is totally bogus. The EU theory has it that the sun and all stars are externally powered by immense galactic electric currents. All observations of the sun fit the theory that the sun is externally powered. I think the electric universe theory deserves a closer look, because it seems to explain solar observations. The EU theory also does not require dark matter, dark energy and black holes and other mathematical constructs which have never been observed in reality.
"how long till they pass a law requiring you to buy a smart phone"
According to the US Supreme Court, such a law will just be another tax.There is already a law on the books requiring a GPS device in every car and eventually they will require a chip to be implanted in every baby and later in every adult. 666 It is not only possible, but will be a reality in the not too distant future.
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If in the first public trial it came to light that the DOJ of the government had a way to decrypt any iPhone, the secret would then become public knowledge. So far there has been no such trial.
Your parents aren't criminals and probably your girlfriends aren't either. They would not have any information on the phone, that, which is the cops knew about, would earn decent people a long prison term. Criminals, at least smart ones, would likely make good use of encryption to thwart law enforcement.
Judge to defendant: “If you do not reveal the password, you will be held in contempt of court and jailed until such time as you do give that password”.
Defendant: “I do not remember the password, but I had it written down on the sticky note under the keyboard”.
Judge: “so what happened to the note?”
Defendant: “the police took my computer, keyboard and all. They must have it”.
Prosecutor: “Detective Holmes swears that no such note was attached to the keyboard”. The defendant insists that it was there. Does the defendant spend the rest of his life in jail because nobody can find that sticky note anywhere?
There is one other aspect in this water vapor scenario that you neglected to mention. Water vapor is lighter than air and CO2 is heavier than air. Water-vapor therefore tends to rise to such a level in the atmosphere where it can condense because there are still sufficient particles of dust around which it can condense. If the temperature of the earth as a whole would go to about 85F - 95 F, that condensation level would be above where there is sufficient dust to allow condensation. This means that water vapor could no longer condense and therefore would keep on accumulating above the present atmosphere. That layer of water vapor would then carry the excess heat to its upper layers where it would be radiated into space. Eventually an equilibrium would be established. A significant fraction of the Earth's water would be in and above the atmosphere, exposing most if not all of the continental shelves. The continuation of the Amazon River channel on the South American continental shelf and the very existence of fossil fuels is evidence that such conditions existed once upon the earth. There are other places on earth, where great rivers have carved channels into the continental shelf before plunging into the deep ocean basins beyond.
It is no coincidence that life processes become optimum at just above that temperature around 95 to 105 F as evidenced by the internal temperatures of mammals. Therefore, global warming, if it proceeded to its ultimate limit would be beneficial to most life forms, especially humans. Ocean levels would actually be lower, greatly increasing the usable land resources and reducing the energy requirements of the entire planet's populations. The vast polar regions of the earth would become warm and habitable. Since violent weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes is spawned by temperature differences, those weather phenomena would be eliminated because temperature differences in the lower atmosphere would be small or nonexistent. Global warming, bring it on!
CO2 is definitely a greenhouse gas, but so is water vapor, H2O. Since there is about 100 times as much water vapor in the atmosphere than CO2, it has a much greater effect on temperature, other things being equal. This tremendous effect of water vapor as a greenhouse gas is amply demonstrated to the millions of people on the East Coast and the West Coast of the United States. The CO2 content of the atmosphere in both places is approximately the same. In the last couple weeks, while the East Coast was sweltering with unusually high temperatures, it was also quite toasty here on the West Coast. The daytime peaks were actually about the same. At nighttime, at midnight, where my daughter lives in North Carolina, it was still over 90F, while here it was about 60F or slightly below at midnight our time. I will let you Google the average humidities of the West and East coasts, but I am sure you know there is a great difference.
What conclusions can you draw from that as to the relative importance of water vapor and CO2 as greenhouse gases?
The average temperature of the earth is determined by the difference between how much the sun heats the earth and how much energy is radiated away into space. The whole premise of AGW is that CO2 reduces the amount of heat escaping from the earth, thus raising the average temperature. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but only comprises about 395 ppm of the atmosphere. Water vapor, H2O is also a greenhouse gas, but it makes up about 40,000 ppm (4%) of the atmosphere (above the oceans). Which of those 2 greenhouse gases do you suppose affects the balance between received energy and radiated energy more? Is it possible, just maybe, in your thinking, that the average temperature of the earth is affected much more by the received solar energy and the much higher concentration of water vapor than so much smaller amount of CO2?
Peer reviewed equals consistent with the majority worldview. The movie “Expelled” brings this out in another controversial area. Any scientist who brings out uncomfortable facts that are contrary to the worldview or lifelong theories of the majority of other scientists or powerful political figures, will not get published in a “mainstream” Journal. In former times, scientists such as Copernicus and Galileo were even persecuted for coming up with evidence that was contrary to the worldview of the powers-that-be of their day. At least in our culture we have mostly progressed past executing those who disagree with the majority view of the power elite. The Internet has made it possible for both geniuses and crackpots to get their ideas before a much wider audience, than it was possible in earlier times.
I guess you didn't read my reply very carefully or understand it. Lots of people willing to die for what they believe. What nobody is willing to die for is something they KNOW to be a falsehood. The disciples of Jesus had seen him in his resurrected glory. The apostle Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 15 that the resurrected Jesus Christ appeared to 500 people at once.
People continually repeat the refrain, “the Bible cannot be trusted to be historically accurate”. There are people today that deny the historicity of the Holocaust. There are people today that refuse to believe that any human being ever walked on the moon. Anyone who does not WANT to believe something they are told, will not believe, no matter how much evidence they are presented with.
The followers of Jesus did indeed believe that Jesus rose from the dead, because they saw him with their very own eyes. All of them, except for John, died a horrible death for this belief. People do not go to their death for proclaiming something they know to be an out right lie. If Jesus had not resurrected from the dead, there would be no Christianity today.
How do you know he wasn't telling the truth? When someone tells you something you cannot personally verify, how do you know that person is telling the truth? When Jesus was on trial for his life, Pilate the Roman governor who had the power of life and death in that society asked that question. Jesus was not only telling the truth, but he made an incredible claim. He claimed to be the very embodiment of truth. In the end, we have no alternative except to either believe or disbelieve. It is a choice that everyone of us must make.
How do you know any historical information is accurate? There are people today who deny the fact that the Holocaust really happened. Just study the historical record of the resurrection of Jesus. Did it really happen?
This topic cannot really be studied scientifically, because science is limited to the physical human senses. For those who only believe that what is physical, touchable, viewable etc., this is a great waste of time and money. Whether there is life after death can only be grasped by faith.
Jesus Christ came and made the claim that he is God. The people of his day, especially the religious ones were unbelievably upset by this claim. They were torqued out of shape enough to conspire with the Roman governmental authorities to have Jesus executed. Jesus proved his claim to deity by resurrection from the dead. All religions, but one, are human efforts to reach God. There is only one faith that makes an exception to this. That is the Christian gospel where God becomes a human being in order to make it possible for him to confer eternal life to all humans who are simply willing to believe this. God reaches down to man, rather than man reaching up to God.
Anyone who studies the biblical record of the resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ, will realize that Jesus is a physical being, capable of all the normal physical activities normal humans are able to do. There were however also activities which show that Jesus existed not only on the earthly plane, but also a higher spiritual level or dimension. He was no longer subject to time and space in the same way that we are right now. He could materialize in and out of our time–space dimension, which is a technology that most scientists can't even talk about, because they don't believe in any dimensions beyond our own. When he finally ascended into “heaven”, he did not need a thundering rocket, but was quietly lifted up from the earth and disappeared into a cloud. He promised that everyone who believes and trusts him, will at some point in time inhabit a body just like his resurrection body. This body is no longer subject to entropy or decay or death.
Modern Olympics are about making money. The sports competitions just happen to be a means to that end. The Olympics sports events are not the only ones that to make big bucks from athletic competitions. Most of the so-called “sports” have less to do with athletic competition and winning a game, than they have to do with the big business of making lots of money.
"This world only has a Finite amount of resources."
If all of the human resources spent on controlling and containing evil would be directed toward true human needs, then the resources on earth would allow for the world population of at least 20 billion. If all military, police and prisons were to become unnecessary, then the world could be a beautiful paradise. If human selfishness and greed were gone, disease and poverty would disappear also.
Do you really think that the government agencies that would do this spying are interested in your inane communications with your girlfriend or whoever? It is more likely that if these people have even the slightest suspicion on you, they might be monitoring your e-mails and sending them through text filters that would flag certain words or phrases. There are a number of “flag lists” that have certain words on them, that might actually bring your totally uninteresting e-mail to the attention of an actual human person. Anyone who suspects they are being monitored by the government, can just randomly pepper their conversations and e-mails with some of these words, just to “Play with the System” a little. Anyone who does this for a while, will probably end up on an “ignore this kook” list.
Most people THINK they do not have anything to hide, such as when they talk about the antics of their 3-year-old grandson or other inane conversations. Therefore most people would not switch or quit using Skype. Anyone who does have deep dark secrets they wish to hide from the KGB, FBI, NSA, Gestapo or other such agencies, would not be using Skype or any other easily intercepted communication system.
"Back in the 1980's, NASA announced that with the Space Shuttle space travel was now perfectly safe"
That is a foolish statement coming even from a second-rate moron. Nothing is perfectly safe, especially your bed. It is statistically true that more people die in bed than anyplace else. Therefore, bed is the most dangerous place to be. Don't go to bed tonight!
This is indeed a perfect example that there are a lot of a irrational people in this world. The trouble is that the rational, thinking ones have not been able to save humanity either in all this time we've had on this planet. At every level, there have been murder and strife, at family level, tribal and international wars. So there is no one left except for God to save us humans from ourselves. This is what the God who created time said will happen before time will be no more.
You and mainstream scientists keep talking about gas. The solar corona and atmosphere do not consist of gas as we usually think of it, but of electrically conducting plasmas. Such a plasma is a much better conductor of electricity than any metal. The laws of physics that apply to gas, such as Boyles law and other gas laws to not apply in any way. As the galactic electrical current flows toward the sun and away from it, it first has to flow through the corona, which as you say is much less dense than the solar atmosphere further down. Because the corona is less dense, its plasma particles excited by the electric current can travel much faster. The speed of particles is the very definition of temperature. Most of the heat of the sun is generated by electricity the same way as it is on Earth by lightning or an electric arc welder. No one has ever generated a magnetic field by anything other than moving charge. It is these current impinging on and circulating in the sun that produce the enormous magnetic fields we observe.
Electricity is a force 10^39 times stronger than gravity. The only time gravity controls the motion of heavenly bodies, is when these are, fortunately for us, mostly electrically neutral. Most of the universe however is definitely NOT electrically neutral so that most matter exists not as solid, liquid or gas, but in the form of highly ionized plasma. I am an electrical engineer by profession, not a physicist or cosmologist. I am familiar with the laws of electricity and magnetism. What we observe on the sun and in the universe as a whole operates mostly by these laws because of the overwhelming overpowering strength of the electric interaction against gravity. If the rules of electricity and magnetism are taken into account, such fictitious purely mathematical constructs as dark energy, dark matter and black holes are not needed to explain the motion and behavior of stars and galaxies. Novas and supernovas can be explained in terms the dumping of electrical energy triggered by the interruption of inductive electric circuits. Mainstream scientists, especially cosmologists don't study electrical laws and plasma theories. Most of their models are based on the gravitational interaction which applies only to electrically neutral objects. If you want to know more about the electrical activity in the universe, you can look here:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/eg-contents/
There are other websites, but many of them go into esoteric math and field equations. The above-cited website gives a picture more in keeping with the knowledge that someone might have that is not specially schooled in electrical theory.
Here we are not talking about a gas. The corona is an extremely hot plasma, heated by an electric current on its way to the solar atmosphere. Only a small fraction of the energy carried by the galactic electric current is dissipated in the Corona, but is nevertheless sufficient to produce incredibly high temperatures therein. Most of the electrical energy is dissipated in the form of electric arcs similar to lightning or a welder's torch.
The iron filings experiment is the where that whole idea of “lines” of magnetic fields comes from. It is a convenient way of describing the intensity and direction of the magnetic field, but the lines themselves do not exist. Weather maps are often depicted with isobar lines, showing the locations of equal pressure in the atmosphere. There are no such lines in the atmosphere of course. Such isobar lines do not break or reconnect, neither do magnetic “lines”. Any explanation that requires the “reconnection” of magnetic fields is bogus.
For centuries, people have assumed that the sun is nothing more than a big campfire in the sky. When scientists learned more about chemistry and the energies involved, they realized that the energy output is far too large to be supported by any chemical process known. Just at the time when that realization hit, humanity discovered atomic energy. So the natural assumption was that the energy source of the sun was the atom. Subsequent observations of the sun, including this latest one contradict the theory that the sun is heated from the inside out. The fact that the corona is much hotter contradicts well-known facts of thermodynamics. Sunspots are dark because they are holes in the solar atmosphere allowing the cooler solar interior to be seen through them. The fusion reaction supposedly happening in the interior of the Sun produces copious amounts of neutrinos. However, the number of neutrinos that should be measured here on earth from the sun are far below what we should see if the fusion model were correct. Although the energy output of the sun in the light and heat spectrum, that we depend on for survival, is remarkably constant, this is not so in other parts of the solar spectrum. During the 11 year cycle of the sun, the output in ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays varies widely.
Lines of magnetic fields do not exist anymore in reality than the lines of equal altitude on a map. Therefore the theory of reconnecting lines of magnetic energy is totally bogus. The EU theory has it that the sun and all stars are externally powered by immense galactic electric currents. All observations of the sun fit the theory that the sun is externally powered. I think the electric universe theory deserves a closer look, because it seems to explain solar observations. The EU theory also does not require dark matter, dark energy and black holes and other mathematical constructs which have never been observed in reality.
"how long till they pass a law requiring you to buy a smart phone"
According to the US Supreme Court, such a law will just be another tax.There is already a law on the books requiring a GPS device in every car and eventually they will require a chip to be implanted in every baby and later in every adult. 666 It is not only possible, but will be a reality in the not too distant future.
So your definition of a PC is any device over which you have total control to program it in any manner you wish. Is that correct?