THE SUN IS A DYING STAR -- DO I REMEMBER THAT RIGHT FROM GRADE SCHOOL?

When I was in grade school -- maybe fourth or fifth grade -- I remember being struck with great fear when our teacher informed the class that the sun was a dying star.

The JAXA/NASA photo above gives plain old picturesque evidence that the sun is doing something out there. Maybe exploding out into space. Is that a prelude to imploding into itself. Will the sun do something nova-like and just fade out? (JAXA stands for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.)

Don't know. And neither do you. Not for sure, any of you. Not yet. And especially Owlgore doesn't know. At the very most, all any of us can do is make an educated guess. But some scientists think they're better guessers than other scientists.

I personally reserve judgment until some big-brained astrophysicists weigh in for a debate. And I mean a real debate where they do point-counterpoint discussions according to rules of order. Not like those talking heads on TV who won't even give each other the courtesy of not interrupting. They're too immature for me and too annoying to listen to. So I don't.

What I do find most interesting is the joint project that was launched last September by the U.S., European and Japanese space agencies and Britain's Particle Physics Astronomy Research Council.

Now, this group promises to bring new scientific data. The spacecraft they launched is called Hinode. It's from the Japanese word which means sunrise.

So if this new study is going to allow us the ability to look at how the sun is layered and what effect such information may have on our planet, we ought to be able to get some good answers to questions about how solar storms blisters the earth.

Hurry please! Because in the meantime, all we have down here on earth is the old tried and true -- Owlgore selling panic and snake oil. He can't seem to get much credibility going for him in the real scientific community so now he's up there on Capitol Hill talking to the domed ones sucking up the oohs and ahs of the Senate's Kabuki Court. Dr. Owlgore's diagnosis: the earth has a fever.

Like fever as in heat? Like heat from solar storms? Or would that be heat from Owlgore's megamansion, and Feinstein's baronial estate and the release of senatorial gasses going up to the sky?

Please hurry, Mr./Ms. Scientists. I'm not sure the planetary plebes down here can swallow much more snake oil.

I'd rather wait for a report from Hinode. It's an international mission that uses a suite of three scientific instruments -- the Solar Optical Telescope, X-ray Telescope and Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer.

And since my husband Quint's specialty was in spectrometry in his studies in physics/chemistry at Colorado State University, I'll wait and see what he has to say when the data comes in, rather than ordering an Owlgore snakeoilshake.

So let's not panic yet, folks. The sun probably has a few dozen millenia left. And maybe the earth will be around that long too. What I do know, for certain, is that there is only one person who knows for sure and that is God above. My Bible says that only God knows when the end of time will be.

Not Owlgore. In fact, he sounds sacreligious, doesn't he? Or is he getting close to blasphemy?

http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Rev/Rev016.html#top
Rev 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

Rev 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
Rev 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat,

http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Rev/Rev021.html#top
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;

I have it on good authority, (Issac Asimov), that the sun is still shining in the Galactic Era 11502! Of course that is based on his Foundation Series but he did write non-fiction and his book on the Sun's neutrinos suggest that the the estimate of 5 Billion years plus or minus a few hudnred million is in the ball park!

Come to the 2007 International Space Development Conference in Dallas over the Memorial Day Weekend, (www.nss.org) and follow the logic for venturing out into space, colonizing the Moon and Mars and establishing our footprints throughout the Galaxy.

From the looks of things AlBloat will explode before our Sun!

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050906solarpower.htm

Solar Power, Internal or External?

Electric Universe proponents claim that solar radiation energy production is external not internal. This is one way of clarifying the difference in approach and merit, between the prevailing gravity-only cosmology versus plasma cosmology.

What's inside the sun? Scientists do not know and can only theorize, but we have significant clues that prevailing theories are misguided.

Major phenomena such as pulsation and periodicity, sunspots and sunspot cycles, variable solar wind, scant neutrino emission, polarity reversal, temperature increase with altitude, slower velocity of an internal shell, increasing rotation rate from poles to equatorial region, non-convective surface features, the toroid hovering over the equator, and the plasma plume being ejected from the poles are just not expected from the internal nuclear furnace model.

Some further examples of features that cause headaches for standard theories are excerpted from Aeon Journal, Vol IV No. 5, p.17:

"Our present Pole Star, so long the epitome of stability, has been found to have brightened by 250 per cent over the past two millennia. And astronomers cannot explain why the anomalously rapid rate of increase. As Edward Guinan, an astronomer at Villanova University in Pennsylvania announced, 'It should not be getting that bright that fast. It's not behaving as expected. It's kind of scary.'"

And:

"Like our Pole Star, Neptune is not only getting brighter, it is also changing its color. Like Saturn and Jupiter, it radiates more heat than it receives and, at present, is actually warmer than Uranus which is closer to the Sun."

The above is just a small sampling of the enigmatic phenomena of the sun. Explaining such phenomena is quite a challenge for the currently popular theories in astrophysics: They must generally look for a mysterious internal cause powered ultimately by the weak force of gravity.

The features listed above have rather simple explanations when the energy source is posited to be an external virtual cathode operating on a positively charged body. In the Electric Universe scheme of things, stars (including brown dwarfs and gas-giant planets) are formed and powered by external agencies: electric fields and plasma currents. The sphericity of our sun is also explained by internal electric forces that simply overwhelm gravitational and centrifugal forces that otherwise should make the sun oblate..

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