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Posted on 03/27/2022 8:47:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets... the surface of the Sun starts at 6000 degC, but over a short distance of only a few hundred kilometers, it suddenly heats up to more than a million degrees, becoming its atmosphere, or corona...
The popular theories are based on heating caused by turbulence, and heating caused by a type of magnetic wave called ion cyclotron waves.
“Both, however, have some problem – turbulence struggles to explain why Hydrogen, Helium and Oxygen in the gas become as hot as they do, while electrons remain surprisingly cold; while the magnetic waves theory could explain this feature, there doesn’t seem to be enough of the waves coming off the Sun’s surface to heat up the gas,” Dr Meyrand says.
The group used six-dimensional supercomputer simulations of the coronal gas to show how these two theories are actually part of the same process, linked together by a bizarre effect called the ‘helicity barrier’.
This intriguing occurrence was discovered in an earlier Otago study, led by Dr Meyrand...
For this latest study, the group stirred the magnetic field lines in simulations and found the turbulence created the waves, which then caused the heating...
Effects which result from solar wind’s interaction with the Earth’s magnetic field is called ‘space weather’, which causes everything from Aurora to satellite-destroying radiation and geomagnetic currents which damage the power grid.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
I imagine the dark side would be cooler. The polar regions too.
If we ever decide to land there, we should do it at night.
Indeed.
As humans, we are SO lucky!
If we evolved on a planet with much different solar and environmental conditions we would still be lucky.
The explanation of the reason for the very large increase in the amount of heat sounds just like how an induction coil works.
“Luck” can’t explain evolution. In fact, “luck” is akin to a lack of a rational reason. You evolutionists out there seem to abdicate your thinking faculties to the hope(belief) that something can create itself from nothing.
Maybe that would work to fund your retirement? LOL
This topic isn't about evolution, so sod off.
Global warming is real and happening soon; scientists predict that in only three months North America will be markedly warmer than it is now.
Duh!
I suggest you go at night to check it out!
LOL!
And there's a counter-Earth over beyond the dark side of the Sun. ;^)
Excellent studies...
Any subsequent Nobel will need to go to the supercomputer...
Maybe the concept of merging two competing theories to find a solution could be applied to the current FR flame-war over the Russo-Ukraine war...
One of the purported drawbacks to the big collider in Switzerland (and predicted drawbacks to the failed superconducting supercollider) was that Nobels in Physics would have to be shared among dozens or perhaps hundreds. Historically, I think most are shared. There's only one physicist in history to win it twice, and it was in different areas of physics, and he shared it with two others both times.
I’ve always thought going in the winter would be better,also
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