Magnetic Fields Doing Cartwheels on the Sun? Oy!

[FS3]

Hopefully...

But we all know that a common way for destroying new ideas is to mix them with some trash - and empty the baby out with the bath.

The combination of a superconductor, electromagnetic mechanisms and black ´oles might be such a powder-keg, capable of blowing up the whole idea alltogether...

Don´t we ever learn?

FS3

[substance]

You seem right to me, FS3, but that still doesn`t mean that someone can`t enlighten the guy or at least give him some links to read a little of "our" cosmology.

[seasmith]

The "cantaloupe ridges" are magnetic in nature. They outline giant, bubbling convection cells on the surface of the sun called "supergranules." Supergranules are like bubbles in a pot of boiling water amplified to the scale of a star; on the sun they measure some 30,000 km across (twice as wide as Earth) and are made of seething hot magnetized plasma.
Magnetic fields at the center of these bubbles are swept out to the edge where they form ridges of magnetism. The ridges are most prominent during years around Solar Max when the sun's inner dynamo "revs up" to produce the strongest magnetic fields. Solar physicists have known about supergranules and the magnetic network they produce for many years, but only now has RHESSI revealed their unexpected connection to the sun's oblateness.

These results have far ranging implications for solar physics and theories of gravity," comments solar physicist David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. "They indicate that the core of the sun cannot be rotating much more rapidly than the surface, and that the sun's oblateness is too small to change the orbit of Mercury outside the bounds of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... ist1066595
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