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Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by lancesells »

nonethewiser wrote: post #13
razodactyl wrote: post #10

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Is there any correlation between these cycles and earth temperature? This seems to suggest yes? > The atmospheric temperature spike, which was caused by successive geomagnetic storms, suggests the "solar maximum" is fast approaching. https://www.space.com/earths-thermosphere-highest-temperatur... And would something like El Nino be included in this effect or is it separate? Don't get me wrong - the earth has obviousl…

> help but feel like recent high temperatures are getting vastly oversimplified

I could see this if it was just a regular person that you know weighing in on climate change and temperatures, but there seems to be a pretty overwhelming global concensus of experts for maybe 50 years saying this. I'm sure timelines are wrong, studies are sometimes wrong, but I'm going to put my faith in the experts that recent high temperatures are the result of humans.

I'm also going to place a bet that this is only going to rise and get worse as we're offloading our own internal energy and capabilities to things like robots and AI, everything using extra energy to connect to the internet, non-replacable batteries, locked devices, fast fashion, and junk stores like Temu and Amazon.

I can buy a speaker from 1970 and it works. I won't be able to buy a speaker from 2020 and have it work 50 years from now. New tech has much better qualities than old tech but the tradeoff is comsumption increases as nothing is repairable.

Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by temp0826 »

I think there is a more interesting (and longer scale) trend that is less talked about, that the last couple solar cycles have been overall less intense (less activity/spots at the maximums)-

http://solen.info/solar/images/comparison_recent_cycles.png

I wish that chart went further back to see if there is a greater cycle at play. At a glance it looks like this cycle is a slight rebound over the last.

Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by ck2 »

michaelteter wrote: post #17
HumblyTossed wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that doesn't earn you a lot of clicks...

In a cosmic timescale, it's practically instant.

On a solar scale though earth goes through a full orbit in just a year, Mars two years.

It is interesting that Jupiter has an 11 year orbit and that kind of matches the flip, might just be coincidence but that mass has a huge tug though. Sun is only 1000 times the mass of Jupiter, if you think of it like a "failed star" it's kinda like a pseudo binary? Eh I am grasping at straws.

Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by raylad »

nikso wrote: post #20

If you're open to exiting an novel theories on why this happens, check out Dr. Robitaille liquid sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZ0Obpihbc

Very interesting hypothesis. Anyone here with more expertise want to comment?

The summary is that the sun is actually metallic hydrogen, which forms a lattice similar to layers of graphite. This both explains the black-body radiation of the sun and provides a mechanism to explain sunspots and the solar maximum and pole flip: sunspots are non-hydrogen elements that are excluded from the metallic hydrogen lattice and push it upwards as they migrate to the surface and are ejected.

Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by gavindean90 »

raylad wrote: post #24
nikso wrote: post #20

If you're open to exiting an novel theories on why this happens, check out Dr. Robitaille liquid sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZ0Obpihbc

Very interesting hypothesis. Anyone here with more expertise want to comment? The summary is that the sun is actually metallic hydrogen, which forms a lattice similar to layers of graphite. This both explains the black-body radiation of the sun and provides a mechanism to explain sunspots and the solar maximum and pole flip: sunspots are non-hydrogen elements that are excluded from the metallic hydrogen lattice and p…

I am not an expert but boy does that feel right based on the available evidence that I’ve seen.

Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by causality0 »

raylad wrote: post #24
nikso wrote: post #20

If you're open to exiting an novel theories on why this happens, check out Dr. Robitaille liquid sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZ0Obpihbc

Very interesting hypothesis. Anyone here with more expertise want to comment? The summary is that the sun is actually metallic hydrogen, which forms a lattice similar to layers of graphite. This both explains the black-body radiation of the sun and provides a mechanism to explain sunspots and the solar maximum and pole flip: sunspots are non-hydrogen elements that are excluded from the metallic hydrogen lattice and p…

He's a retired radiologist who knows nothing about astrophysics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo

Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by dotps1 »

causality0 wrote: post #27
raylad wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very interesting hypothesis. Anyone here with more expertise want to comment? The summary is that the sun is actually metallic hydrogen, which forms a lattice similar to layers of graphite. This both explains the black-body radiation of the sun and provides a mechanism to explain sunspots and the solar maximum and pole flip: sunspots are non-hydrogen elements that are excluded from the metallic hydrogen lattice and p…

He's a retired radiologist who knows nothing about astrophysics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo

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Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by sneak »

dotps1 wrote: post #28
causality0 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's a retired radiologist who knows nothing about astrophysics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo

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causality0 was making statements about his credentials and expertise, not his personal characteristics. I think ad hominem definitionally has to be irrelevant. “x knows nothing about topic y” is not ad hominem even if it is a false statement.

Re: The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

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Post by JALTU »

causality0 wrote: post #27
raylad wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very interesting hypothesis. Anyone here with more expertise want to comment? The summary is that the sun is actually metallic hydrogen, which forms a lattice similar to layers of graphite. This both explains the black-body radiation of the sun and provides a mechanism to explain sunspots and the solar maximum and pole flip: sunspots are non-hydrogen elements that are excluded from the metallic hydrogen lattice and p…

He's a retired radiologist who knows nothing about astrophysics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo

Einstein.
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