[marron]

He took as his starting point the work of Attila Grandpierre of the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2005, Grandpierre and a collaborator, Gábor Ágoston, calculated that magnetic fields in the sun's core could produce small instabilities in the solar plasma. These instabilities would induce localised oscillations in temperature.

[betty boop]

These instabilities would induce localised oscillations in temperature.

And these in turn serve as causes for other forms of complex activity on the Sun which, since we live in Sol's close-by neighborhood, have very direct effects here on Earth. As Attila has told me, the Sun "is not 'a hot ball of gas,' nor is it simply a fusion reactor (machine)." Rather, despite the fact that it is not a "carbon-based lifeform," the Sun gives evidence of behaving in ways that we associate only with living systems.

I'm tickled to see my friend, an astrophysicist who specializes on the Sun, cited here! Thank you so very much for the ping, marron!