The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined

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[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The model of the sun that is used by the Astrophysicists is completely wrong.

On www.reddit.com/r/plasmacosmology/wiki/ (section Sun) I list the 9 clear problems with the sun, and some corrections to it. The list is not extensive.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Your second "problem" there is based on the assumption that electric and magnetic phenomena are separate things. They're not; electromagnetism has been known about for a while.

[–]zyxzevn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Nasa separates it and calls it the magnetic sun, which is completely false. :(

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That sounds really silly of them; I hate it when people simplify stuff like that. (Remember when NASA described CO₂ as a "global thermostat" when talking about solar flares?)

Do you have a link to that NASA article? I can try to make sense of it for you, or alternatively just advise you to ignore it if it's that bad.