Is Iron Causing All the Flares?

Universe Today ^ | 11/18/03

[RadioAstronomer]

Hey! I have not forgotten you guys. Just been terribly busy and have had a time getting the data together for the best and least expensive design. :-( SORRY!

[RadioAstronomer]

ROFL! :-) You keep watching static for hours on end, and folks might think you are a radio astronomer!

[js1138]

Does someone publish a schedule? I mean five minutes will tax my attention span.

[RadioAstronomer]

Does someone publish a schedule? I mean five minutes will tax my attention span.

LOL! A number of years ago, you should have seen the stares I was getting from other folks in a ground station as I was intently looking at a spec-A for over an hour trying to find a spike above the noise floor. Found it too! Was a local LO that was leaking RF. :-)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Just to name drop, while waiting for my ride today, I was leaning up against "Herr Auge," Reine and Cowan's neutrino detector. (It's in a plastic case next to the door.) It first detected a neutrino in 1955.

(For the lurkers:) Neutrions were proposed by Pauli in 1930 but not detected for 25 years. "Dark Matter" may yet be analyzed.

[JoeSchem]

Wow, bizarre. A neutron star at the core of the Sun? So how long do we have left? Not four billion years, I take it.

Personally, I think I'll be lucky to hit a hundred.

[RightWingAtheist]

Here's a relevant link regarding a new neutrino observatory that just started running in Minnesota. Of course, it probably won't be long before the Greens and New Age Wackos declare it "Sacred Indian Ground" (anyone here get the joke?): http://www.ur.umn.edu/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=unsreleases/releasesdetail.html&-RecID=33439&-Find

[Calvin Locke]

...an increase of static.

Are you sure it's not from lightning?

[RadioAstronomer]

Are you sure it's not from lightning?

Yup I am sure. The Crab pulsar is one of only three pulsars to emit super strong giant RF bursts. These are second only to the sun in intensity (brightness) in the sky. It is also the first pulsar to be discovered that emits visible light pulses as well.

Remember the Crab Nebula is only about 6500 light years away.

[flying Elvis]

It's like an ogre, it has many layers.

[farmfriend]

I got a ping for this for the rights farms environment list. Think if fits?

[this_ol_patriot]

He ought to go on Art Bell, has he already?

Nah, on Coast-to-Coast it's comets being propelled into the Sun, that and something sinister happening on the "dark" side of the moon.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You'd think we'd have noticed the gravity of the situation.

LOL! Especially since neutrino oscillation is the solution to the solar neutrino problem.

[Cold Heat]

avoiding the gaseous and molten iron.

LOL! I seem to be getting a lot of replies regarding the gas statement so I will reply to you and do it one time.

Vaporized and gas are different in a major way.

You can certainly vaporize iron with a large amount of heat, but it is forever destroyed and is no longer iron. It cannot be reclaimed.

A spectrometer does this to a iron or steel sample and is a good example of destructive testing.

If a element can be said to be in different forms like a gas or solid, it must remain an element and not be destroyed.

I hope this clarifies what I said. I will put my phaser back in it's holster now.

[Cold Heat]

All elements can exist in a plasma state.

And once converted to plasma, they really are broken down to ions/electrons, are they not? They cannot be converted back to their normal state as a pure element once they have converted, and can no longer be called anything but plasma, if my brain is working correctly this morning.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, but it's a lot of fun to mess with peoples little pea brains.

[Lazamataz]

Yup I am sure. The Crab pulsar is one of only three pulsars to emit super strong giant RF bursts. These are second only to the sun in intensity (brightness) in the sky. It is also the first pulsar to be discovered that emits visible light pulses as well.

It might serve the same purpose as a lighthouse.

[Cold Heat]

mess with peoples little pea brains.

My pea is in distress as it is 20 days since I have smoked a cig or taken in any nicotine.:-)

As to iron gas, I have a problem with that. In my years of work in the steel industry, I worked around large arc furnaces. If iron was to become as gas without converting to a compound or being otherwise destroyed, it would happen in that furnace.

The furnace has a dust collector that will suck a man into it. It collects all the emissions. I analyzed those emissions frequently for environmental reasons and never found pure Fe. I found all kinds of compounds, and oxides. If gaseous iron was sucked up into the collector, it must have changed to iron oxide because it never showed up as pure iron. Also, the weight of the dust bags (fairly light material) in the collector did not reflect metallic dust, but more carbon stuff.

So, my thinking is that once gasified, iron would not condense as iron, but some other compound or whatever.

So, how a sun have iron as a core is beyond my pea brain and hopefully (non-smoker) comprehension.

[Lazamataz]

What is the maximum temperature of your arc furnace, in Centigrade?

[Doctor Stochastic]

No. Plasmas revert to ordinary states when cooled. This is the problem with things like the tokamak and other fusion wannabees. Plasmas only strip (varying numbers of) electrons from a nucleus. They don't affect the nucleus itself.