Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: Reply with quote
OP "upriver"
Michael Mozina wrote:
This is a link to a closeup of a CME event where we can see streamers of materials coming down into the active region. IMO this process is due to heavier materials (silicon, calcium, iron, etc) that have been kicked out into space from previous or current CME events. As they left the surface in a previous event, these heavy ions may have been more positively charged, and picked up electrons on their journey into space, or they may just be heavy enough that gravity simply pulls them back toward the sun.
Keep in mind that the sun is part of a whole *system* of active suns that shed materials into space. As the sun moves around the galaxy, it runs into these clouds of ejected materials from other suns, and that material is "sucked in" as well. I do not believe however that there is enough material coming back into the sun to explain it's hydrogen atmosphere. IMO there is a huge difference between the outflows and the inflows. While this inflow process undoubtedly helps bring hydrogen back to the sun, I doubt it's enough to explain why the sun's atmosphere doesn't just blow out into space. IMO there must be a hydrogen creation process going on inside the electrified coronal loops. That process IMO is due to z-pinch events inside the coronal loops that causes neutrons to be squeezed out of various plasmas and surface materials that have been ionized in the loops. Those neutrons decay into hydrogen after about 10 minutes. Rhessi images show a definite neutron capture signature inside the large coronal loops. The coronal loops themselves are more like concentric "tubes' that form tornado like vortexes inside the loops. That movement, combined with electron flows themselves provides enough kinetic energy to help pinch out neutrons from the plasma and to initiate fusion processes inside the loops.
I do believe that upriver is correct about the fact that plasma inflows play a role here, I just don't know that the inflows are large enough to explain where all the hydrogen is coming from. I think we have to look to the z-pinch process itself to understand exactly how the sun creates hydrogen and helium in it's atmosphere.
Yes, I agree, see below.
I think that most of the hydrogen is coming from the neutron release processes inside the surface loop, and the helium is being created in the P-P fusion processes that occur inside the coronal loop.
So, we have 2 process that we can say add to the solar wind and keep the solar atmosphere replenished.
So where do the raw materials for the neutrons come from? Neutrons are stopped by 40 ft of iron...
Here is a pretty important find.
They have found what I believe are signs of plasma pinches generating cosmic rays.
"NASA: major step toward knowing origin of cosmic rays."
"Suzaku spectra of RXJ1713.7 provide independent evidence of rapid acceleration.
They show that the hot spots have tangled magnetic fields, which allow particles to bounce back and forth rapidly until they are accelerated to very high energies. Since electrons and protons of a given energy are accelerated at the same high rate, but protons don’t radiate away their energy as electrons do, Uchiyama’s team argues that protons will be accelerated to the higher energies needed to match the energies seen in cosmic rays striking Earth’s atmosphere. "
http://www.physorg.com/news111166810.html
It confirms this hypothesis.
Cosmic ray spectrum above 10^15 eV (a new approach)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ICRC....3..137P
The observations also confirm new matter creation, I think, if the ideas behind that paper are correct.....
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