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The Surface of the Sun

The sun's surface has "a hard and rigid ferrite surface," according to Michael Mozina at his Surface of the Sun web site. He had this insight while studying unprocessed SOHO images. The current assumption is that the sun is a ball of gas.

Based on Doppler imaging techniques, SOHO has demonstrated that the the sun has a solid, electrically conductive, ferrite surface, just below the observable photosphere which rotates uniformly every 27.3 says. The uniformity of this movement is unlike anything we find in the photosphere. It's rigid. It moves UNIFORMLY from equator to pole. It is being dynamically reshaped and eroded by continual electrical arcing between magnetically polarized points along the surface. These arcs emit light consistent with a number of iron ferrite ions, suggesting this surface is composed of ferrite based materials. This electrical erosion process continually eats away at the surface like an arc welder melts the ends of a welding rod and the surface where the arc touches.

Eventually the surface is melted away, sometimes along very long "fault lines" ultimately resulting in cracks along the surface and "sunquakes". Sometimes these resulting sunquakes release massive solar tsunamis that are visible across the sun's photosphere and result in magnificent coronal ejections.

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Hey Jon, thanks for this link. Just blew my mind. I sent it to my friends in Palenque, Mexico, who are studying the heirophanies built into the Maya temples there 1400 years ago.

This, and the news that there's a parrot who understands the concept of zero, just made my week.

Oh, those two and a look at a contact sheet of the original session of Janis Joplin photos (naked except for bracelets and necklaces - remember that one?) in a photographer's collection.

Yeah, it's been quite a week. Did I mention Dave Winer's OPML demo in New York?

Posted by: Dave Pentecost | July 14, 2005 8:08 PM

I was looking for a good reference to blog re. the OPML session, and I wondered if the parrot does negative numbers?

BTW may years ago... many, MANY years ago... I had a Janis poster on my wall from that same session!

Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | July 15, 2005 8:52 AM

Try this post from David Weinberger:

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004232.html

He describes a demo of OPML very similar to what I saw.

Posted by: Dave | July 16, 2005 11:20 PM