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 ...
Oh no it won’t!!
There is no dark side of the sun, really.
Hey now, we’re not in Central London!
Kindly confine yourself to American-style insults and condemnations.
How about staying out of something that is clearly none of your business?
Lighten up, Francis.
IAC, it’s still not as intense as the “conservative” vs “libertarian” wars were...
Hopefully it won’t have the same results...
Right back at ya.
So SUV’s aren’t involved?
I was being “light” the whole time.
Just poking fun at you sounding like a bloody limey!
Riiiight, and it’s not just me you’re “light” with. Get a new hobby.
Why you are still sore at me, I do not know.
Way too cranky.
And, NFN, but you’re the one “lightly” telling people to “sod off”, not me.
It must be your hobby.
I guess I’ll be the next one to be on the receiving end of a foul-mouthed limey-sounding rant from Ol’ Sunkey.
Yay me.
Sore at you, who dogpiled on me, taking the side of another troll? Up yours. Your posting history shows that’s how you get your jollies. You want to stop? Stop replying to me.
Lightheartedly or not, I did butt in. I shouldn’t have done that. I apologize.
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