Feb 22,
2007
Electric Sunspots
Conventional theorists look to magnetism to solve the
problem of solar energy distribution. If they were to open
their eyes to the electrical cause of magnetism, the
solution would suddenly become visible.
This recent
image of a sunspot utilized an advance in adaptive optics
that enables ground-based telescopes to detect fine details
that previously only space telescopes could detect. The
announcement of this technical feat included this
conventional theoretical interpretation:
“The dark cores
of penumbral fibrils and bright penumbral grains are seen as
well in the sunspot penumbra (the fluted structures
radiating outward from the spot). These features hold the
key to understanding the magnetic structure of sunspots and
can only be seen in ultra high-resolution images such as
this one. Magnetism in solar activity is the ‘dark energy
problem’ being tackled in solar physics today.”
The problem is
dark to conventional solar physicists because they shut
their eyes to the fundamental law that magnetism is the
result of electric currents. Seeing the difference between
gas (which does not contain free charged particles and is
electrically inactive) and
plasma (which does contain free charged particles
and can be electrically very active) admits the first
glimmer of illumination on the problem: Sunspots are not the
result of convection of gas modified by magnetism. Sunspots
are electrical structures.
To understand
why penumbral “fibrils” have dark cores, one must see that
they also have a twisted structure that maintains a fairly
constant diameter over great distances. They resemble
glowing tornadoes. This is the structure of a “charge
sheath vortex”: Rapidly rotating charged
particles generate strong electric and magnetic fields. The
charged particles are concentrated in a thin skin, or
“double layer”, at the periphery and their motion is
stretched out into a spiral. If the vortex has enough energy
to glow, as it does on the Sun, the edges will appear
brighter.
Of course, a
sunspot is only a tiny part of the much larger phenomenon of
the Sun. If the spot is electrical, so must be the entire
Sun. Hence to see electricity in any part of the
cosmos is to see that all current astrophysical theories are
“in the dark”. The technical proficiency of space programs
and new instruments is discovering a flood of surprising
data about the effects of plasma in space. But progress in
understanding this data is vitiated by a theoretical
parasitism of obsolete ideas.
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