Mr_Majestic wrote:The title of this topic sums it up quite nicely.
...They also found that the solar flattening is remarkably constant over time and too small to agree with that predicted from its surface rotation. This suggests that other subsurface forces, like solar magnetism or turbulence, may be a more powerful influence than expected.
And here's the "assumption" that becomes questionable:
The sun rotates every 28 days, and because it doesn't have a solid surface, it should be slightly flattened.
Of course if their assumption about it being nothing but plasma is false, and it does have a solid surface, those results make perfect sense.
It's interesting how many "quantified predictions" of standard theory have been blow out of the water by SDO. The mainstream is now between a rock and a hard place because of SDO. Not only does it demonstrate that the convection speed of the sun is too slow to prevent mass separation, it demonstrates that pretty much *all* of their "assumptions" about the sun are false.
Nowhere is that more obvious that LMSAL's claims about the location of the base of coronal loops which LMSAL claims is about 1200KM *above* the photosphere. That's pure baloney as the 1600A and 1700A SDO images now demonstrate.
SDO shows the effect the coronal loops have of the surface of the photosphere as they rise up and through, and flow back into that surface. The patterns of magnetism on the surface of the photosphere that are caused by the current in the loops, also match up perfectly with the "bright points" seen in 1600A and 1700A, demonstrating a cause/effect link between the loops and the bright areas on that surface.
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/images/sdo/mfield.mp4
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/image ... mi-171.mp4
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/image ... 00-131.mp4
The first image shows the magnetic field alignments on the surface of the photosphere using the HMI gear on SDO, overlaid with two iron ion wavelengths, 171A and 193A. What you'll observe is that the surface of the photosphere is black and white only in the areas where the largest loops are located, and those N/S alignments occur right along the trajectory of the loops, exactly as predicted by a subsurface origin of the loops. The second example demonstrates that this alignment occurs in other iron on wavelengths as predicted as well.
The third image is an SDO HMI continuum (white light) image overlaid with a 171A wavelength. You'll notice that the loops tend to flow right down along the penumbral filaments in this image, at exactly the right angles *if* (and only if) the loops are actually descending down into the photosphere. The orientation of 171 loops with the penumbral filaments is certainly no coincidence, it's directly related the orientation of the penumbral filaments. Again, this image is completely consistent with the transition region/subsurface stratification layer being located far under the photosphere. The alignment of the loops the penumbral filament angles would be meaningless if the loops were located a further 1200KM above the photosphere as LMSAL claims.
Pretty much every major prediction that I made related to coronal loop activity, based on very limited SOHO resolution imagery, has now been confirmed in 16 megapixel, high cadence, SDO images. It's not surprising then that many of their other "assumptions" about the composition of the sun and it's convection rates are falling apart as well. Technology is now their worst enemy.
