I love science in general, cosmology and astronomy in particular, but doesn’t it seem kind of strange to be talking about 11-year cycles in a star that is 4.5 billion years old?
*sigh* Anyway, I just turned 57.
“I love science in general, cosmology and astronomy in particular, but doesn’t it seem kind of strange to be talking about 11-year cycles in a star that is 4.5 billion years old?”
Probably not any more strange than talking about pulse rate on a person. :-)
It would be shortsighted to think that eleven year timescales are the ONLY important ones, though. The fact that the Sun has been relatively stable for quite a while is easy to take for granted...