Are Sunspots Caused By Comet , Asteroid, and/or Meteor Strikes? | |
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KY6 User ID: 71464 United Kingdom 06/04/2006 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No and No. Sunspots are surface manifestations of deeper workings within the sun. Some are really huge (Jupiter sized) and a comet or other space material just wouldn't have enough mass to affect the Sun in any way that would be visible from Earth |
X100-Flare (OP) User ID: 91783 United States 06/04/2006 07:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | KY6, I think your wrong. How do you explain this Quicktime video... [link to www.cnn.com] Here's the link to the article... [link to www.cnn.com] |
KY6 User ID: 71464 United Kingdom 06/04/2006 07:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The sun, in an apparently unrelated event after the collision on Tuesday, spewed out a mass of solar gas from its interior, the scientists said. The gas eruption is called a Coronal Mass Ejection. |
X100-Flare (OP) User ID: 91783 United States 06/04/2006 08:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | KY6, it's very convenient to state that it's "an apparently unrelated event." And, scientists know this how? Because they have a firm grasp of the sun's workings?It's apparently unrelated because it goes against current solar mechanics orthodoxy. Anyone with eyes and a brain can make the connection that two comets hit the sun and triggered two CME events and are related in some way. It's simple logic based on observations and facts derived from the video evidence. There's plenty of other video evidence which shows the same cause and effect from comet strikes on the sun and sunsequent CMEs. |
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KY6 User ID: 71464 United Kingdom 06/04/2006 08:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wikipedia > Sunspots [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 91783 United States 06/04/2006 08:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | KY6, taken from your link. Sunspots are depressions on the sun's surface. Hmmm...I wonder where a depression would come from. "Physics A sunspot viewed close-up in ultraviolet light, taken by the TRACE spacecraft.Although the details of sunspot generation are still somewhat a matter of research, it is quite clear that sunspots are the visible counterparts of magnetic flux tubes in the convective zone of the sun that get "wound up" by differential rotation. If the stress on the flux tubes reaches a certain limit, they curl up quite like a rubber band and puncture the sun's surface. At the puncture points convection is inhibited, the energy flux from the sun's interior decreases, and with it the surface temperature. The Wilson effect tells us that sunspots are actually depressions on the sun's surface. This model is supported by observations using the Zeeman effect that show that prototypical sunspots come in pairs with opposite magnetic polarity. From cycle to cycle, the polarities of leading and trailing (with respect to the solar rotation) sunspots change from north/south to south/north and back. Sunspots usually appear in groups." |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 91783 United States 06/04/2006 08:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Postman, I can't prove anything when even the experts that you claim to put your faith in don't know the answer themselves. "Although the details of sunspot generation are still somewhat a matter of research, it is quite clear that sunspots are the visible counterparts of magnetic flux tubes in the convective zone of the sun that get "wound up" by differential rotation." |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 91783 United States 06/04/2006 09:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And, btw...I'm just curious. What would be the harm if comets actually are the cause of solar flares and sunspots anyways?? Why is there always this intellectual resistance to any theory that runs counter to prevailing thought? Isn't scientific knowledge about the continual search for scientific truth wherever that leads? |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 91783 United States 06/04/2006 10:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Postman, what if it has been hasn't been reported as such. For some reason any tenets embraced by the scientific community as a whole are vigorously defended even if disproved by valid scientific discovery. Now why is that? Hint: $$$ |
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Halcyon Dayz User ID: 84549 Netherlands 06/06/2006 01:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you had thought that through you would know that that is a silly idea. If science were wedded to the status quo and had means to enforce it, there would be NO progress. In real life however tens of thousands of new discoveries are reported each year. Doing original research, however mundane, is necessary to earn a Ph.D. and to getting noticed. It's where the money is. [link to en.wikipedia.org] However, if you come up with a new idea that conflicts with existing knowledge, people are not going to take it for granted. Reaching for the sky makes you taller. Hi! My name is Halcyon Dayz and I'm addicted to morans. |
Q User ID: 95924 Japan 06/06/2006 06:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | me thinks electromagnetic forces are at play. Maybe attractions with distant and powerful objects or even the interaction of plasma between the celestial bodies of our solar system. Maybe the galactic arm or core has some small connection in this orchestra too. Comets too small and infrequent to account for the numerous sunspots that appear. Watch late 2006 into 2008 and you may learn more as we all will. |
Halcyon Dayz User ID: 84549 Netherlands 06/06/2006 07:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think scientists understand the Sun well enough not to have much need for speculation. Did you know that they can 'see' the other side of the Sun? [link to soi.stanford.edu] [link to en.wikipedia.org] [link to en.wikipedia.org] Reaching for the sky makes you taller. Hi! My name is Halcyon Dayz and I'm addicted to morans. |
eagle User ID: 24274 United States 06/06/2006 08:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes, it does appear, in that 2001 video, that the sunflare was caused by the object colliding with the sun back then. It has nothing to do with sunspots. |
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