The Sun

[LightEye]

dear friends,

do you get the feeling that they just don't know....here's an earlier article concerning the next solar cycle;

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060306_solar_cycle.html

new model predicts more intense solar storms ahead
by ker than
staff writer
posted: 06 march 2006
03:42 pm et

a new computer model which accurately simulates the sun’s past few solar cycles predicts that the next cycle will be up to 50 percent stronger than its predecessor and begin a year later than expected, scientists announced monday.

link to article;

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/4/7/1

be well, be love.

david

mild forecast for next solar cycle
11 april 2007

astronomers have long known that the sun's "activity" rises and falls in cycles that last roughly 11 years each. now a team of scientists from china and india has developed a theoretical model of solar activity that suggests that the next cycle, which is due to begin in about 2011, will be relatively mild. the model -- the first to confirm predictions based purely on experimental records of solar activity -- is good news because high levels of activity can disrupt satellite communications (phys. rev. lett. 98 131101).

the fact that the sun goes through cycles of activity was first noticed in the 18th century when astronomers began charting the number of cool, dark patches or "sunspots" on the solar surface where magnetic activity is intense. however, in the mid-1970s -- when the first accurate data of the sun's polar magnetic field started being recorded -- astronomers found evidence for a possible link between the minimum value of the field in one cycle and the peak field of the next cycle. if such a link does exist, one could then predict the strength of future cycles based on past data. indeed, the polar field is so low in the current solar cycle that the next cycle is predicted to be the weakest for 100 years.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.borderlands.com/sun/whatsun.htm

be well, be love.

david

what is going on with our sun?
are hysterical claims really true?

"not since _______, have such violent outbreaks been seen
on the surface of the sun as have been reported this year."

by m. theroux and james borges

the quote is from harlan true stetson, the date in the blank is august 1917, and the year stetson wrote this was 1937. it sounds like it could have been written today. i'm a little dismayed at the hysteria being generated by the media about our current solar condition. we seem to be witnessing "grasping at straws" attempts to point the finger at anything suspect of causing total chaos as we approach the new millennium. at first it was y2k that was supposed to end the world as we know it, and as that died out due to challenges and rational thought from real computer experts and industrialists (note: the computer industry is preparing for sales in the year 2000 — not the end of the world), now the sun is the most recent victim to blame for our upcoming armageddon. mind you, most of these claims are coming from the alternative media, who again treasure alternative media sources for their documentation and confirmation. these media types do not consult scientists who are respected in the fields in which they work, rather they consult with so-called alternative spokespersons, prophets, and pseudoscientists (yes, i said that dreaded word) who profess "radical changes are a coming" and "head for the hills" mentality.

a classic example of this kind of behavior was presented to us at bsrf last year. we received several faxes from a couple of groups who had claimed that there was an extraordinary seismic event that occurred and had lasted for hours. they suggested that it had originated from deep inside the earth, and was unprecedented in that it was not felt by anyone. they had also suggested that it was probably a precursor to other potentially devastating seismic events. i perused the seismic databases in search of this anomaly and found nothing, so i asked the group if they could provide any data on the event. i received another fax with several seismograms from the internet's live seismic server which appeared to detail this event with a statement from the group that the usgs was silent on the event — that they may be involved in a coverup. after a quick glance at the seismograms it was easy to correlate the data exactly with a known event that had occurred on the day in question, and that their speculation on the duration of the event had stemmed from their inability to properly interpret the seismograms! needless to say, after i replied to the group with the correct analysis, it was never mentioned again.

of course, the usgs was not involved in any coverup — they simply had no idea what these groups were talking about and chalked it up to more lunatic hysteria — as do many mainstream scientists when confronted with such data. i can hardly blame them for their reactions as this is becoming more commonplace as the millennium approaches. many in the scientific community are being bombarded with allegations of covering up data and research even when they try to present their findings openly. in order for the alternative science community to properly liaison with mainstream science this will have to cease. it is our hope that these attacks do not encourage elements of quantitative science to withhold rather than reveal.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11635-sound-waves-reverberate-through-solar-pipes.html

be well, be love.

david

sound waves reverberate through solar 'pipes'
00:01 19 april 2007
newscientist.com news service
david shiga

sound waves reverberate through loops in the sun's outer atmosphere in response to explosions from down below, a new study reveals. the sound waves should help scientists understand the sun's still mysterious outer atmosphere, or corona.

the waves are observed vibrating in structures called coronal loops – long filaments of charged gas that are attached to the sun at both ends. they trace the sun's magnetic field in its outer atmosphere.

watch two movies of the waves in the corona, one showing a view from above and the other showing a side view, both made with data from nasa's transition region and coronal explorer (trace) satellite.

the coronal loop oscillations were first reported in 2002, but it was not clear until now whether they were purely magnetic fluctuations or giant sound waves.

new observations with the solar and heliospheric observatory (soho) confirm that they are associated with pressure fluctuations in the loops, making them sound waves. youra taroyan of the university of sheffield in the uk led the team that analysed the observations.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/singing.html

be well, be love.

david

the singing sun

"the sun is playing a secret melody, hidden inside itself, that produces a widespread throbbing motion of its surface. the sounds are coursing through the sun's interior, causing the entire globe, or parts of it, to move in and out, slowly and rhythmically like the regular rise and fall of tides in a bay or of a beating heart." (kenneth r. lang)

hear the sun sing

have you ever wondered what the sun would sound like if you could hear it?
our sun lies 93,000,000 miles away, surrounded by the vacuum of space. sound won't travel through space, of course. but with the right instrument, scientists can "hear" pulsations from the sun.

the entire sun vibrates from a complex pattern of acoustical waves, much like a bell. if your eyes were sharp enough, you could see a bell's surface jiggle in complex patterns as the waves bounced around within it.

likewise, astronomers at stanford university can record acoustical pressure waves in the sun by carefully tracking movements on the sun's surface. to do this, they use an instrument called a michelson doppler imager (mdi), mounted on the soho spacecraft, circling the sun 1,000,000 miles from earth.

the sun's acoustical waves bounce from one side of the sun to the other in about two hours, causing the sun's surface to oscillate, or wiggle up and down. because these sound waves travel underneath the sun's surface, they are influenced by conditions inside the sun. so scientists can use the oscillations to learn more about how the structure of the sun's interior shapes its surface.

the sun's sound waves are normally at frequencies too low for the human ear to hear. to be able to hear them, the scientists sped up the waves 42,000 times -- and compressed 40 days of vibrations into a few seconds. what you'll be hearing are just a few dozen of the 10 million resonances echoing inside the sun.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/news/stereo3d_press.html

be well, be love.

david

press conference on first 3-d images of the sun

nasa's solar terrestrial relations observatory (stereo) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the sun. for the first time, scientists will be able to see structures in the sun's atmosphere in three dimensions. the new view will greatly aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics and there by improve space weather forecasting. this web page contains 3-d anaglyph video and images. this 3-d video can be seen with red and cyan + 3-d paper glasses.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070426_solar_cycle.html

be well, be love.

david

sun's next cycle of fury delayed
by tariq malik
staff writer
posted: 26 april 2007
12:12 p.m. et


the sun’s next cycle of solar storms will brew up later than expected, though astronomers are split on just how strong the star’s tempests will be.

initially expected to begin last fall, the sun’s 11-year storm season is now pegged to begin in march 2008 and hit its peak near the end of 2011, according to a new forecast compiled by a panel of solar experts for the space weather center at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa). the 12-member panel split into two equal camps, one predicting a weak season while the other expects a strong one, though both facets are not anticipating the sun set any new records in coming years.

“by giving a long-term outlook, we’re advancing a new field – space climate – that’s still in its infancy,” said retired u.s. air force brig. gen. david johnson, director of noaa’s national weather service in boulder, colorado. “issuing a cycle prediction of the onset this far in advance lies on the very edge of what we know about the sun.”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news97326842.html

be well, be love.

david

new evidence for the 'solar oxygen crisis'
by laura mgrdichian

scientists have published new evidence supporting the recent discovery that the sun contains about half as much oxygen as previously thought, an issue some scientists have dubbed the solar oxygen crisis. this is a potentially huge scientific problem because scientists have used the particular prior measurement as a platform for understanding the inner workings of other stars.

oxygen is the third most abundant atom in the universe and the element most frequently produced in the “nuclear furnaces” of stars. in many astrophysical situations, oxygen is linked to the abundances carbon, nitrogen, and neon. if the oxygen abundance in the sun is half as much as scientists thought, these other elemental abundances may also be off by a factor of two.

“the abundance of solar oxygen serves as a key reference for the chemical composition of other stars,” lead scientist hector socas-navarro, of the national center for atmospheric research, explained to physorg.com. “we thought we had very solid measurements of this abundance since the 1980s, but recent evidence indicates that we've been overestimating it by almost a factor of two. the implications of this are incredibly important.”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.esa.int/esasc/semozpu681f_index_0.html

be well, be love.

david

has soho ended a 30-year quest for solar ripples?
3 may 2007

the esa-nasa solar and heliospheric observatory (soho) may have glimpsed long-sought oscillations on the sun’s surface. the data will reveal details about the core of our star and it contains clues on how the sun formed, 4.6 thousand million years ago.

the subtle variations reveal themselves as a miniscule ripple in the overall movement of the solar surface. astronomers have been searching for ripples of this kind since the 1970s, when they first detected that the solar surface was oscillating in and out.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/03/suncore_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070503140030&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000

be well, be love.

david

sun's core spinning fast
larry o'hanlon, discovery news

may 3, 2007 — a close look at 10 years of the sun's trembling surface may have unveiled a surprise about its core: it's rotating about five times faster than the rest of the fiery orb.

if that difficult finding can be confirmed, it would provide a new window into one of the most inaccessible places in the solar system.

the observation was made using what are called the vibration modes of the entire sun, which are sort of like various ways it can ring like a bell. some of those harmonic modes correspond to what computer simulations predict would be created by a core rotating at particular rates.

"we were expecting a core rotating even faster than we see today," said french solar researcher rafael garcia. that expectation, of a core rotating 20 times faster than the sun's surface, was based on the idea that the sun's original rotation rate, when it first formed out of gas and dust, was a lot faster.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070510-solar-system.html

be well, be love.

david

solar system is "bullet shaped"
brian handwerk
for national geographic news
may 10, 2007

our solar system flies through space in the shape of a speeding bullet, according to data from nasa's two voyager spacecraft.

the sun and its planets are known to streak through the void of space at approximately 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) an hour.

the system travels within a bubble of solar wind—made of charged particles from the sun—called the heliosphere.

the edge of this bubble collides with the milky way galaxy's magnetic field at a distance some 200 times farther from the sun than earth is.

a research team led by merav opher at virginia's george mason university found that, just outside the solar system, this interstellar magnetic field is inclined at a 60-degree angle relative to the plane of the milky way.

the solar system takes on its streamlined shape as it strikes the magnetic field at this angle, opher explained.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/coming-through-in-stereo

be well, be love.

david

seeing sun storms in stereo
twin satellites give a 3-d view of solar explosions before they hit earth.
by niels tadlie


thanks to the solar terrestrial relations observatory (stereo), astrophysicists are getting an unprecedented three-dimensional view of the sun. the twin satellites are now beaming back their first pictures of explosive events on the solar surface. slightly separated from each other, the two can image events on the sun’s surface simultaneously, allowing depth perception. before stereo, astrophysicists had no way of tracing the front of a solar storm as it traveled from the sun to earth, so they had to guess when a storm would hit. stereo’s detailed in-depth view will give them a forecast accurate to within a couple of hours.

one of stereo’s most important tasks will be tracking solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion-megaton nuclear bomb and are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. these turbulent events also send out a burst of solar wind—energetic subatomic particles—that strikes earth’s magnetic field within 21 hours, creating a geomagnetic storm. that can translate into space weather severe enough to knock out radio communications and satellites, and even overload terrestrial power grids. nasa scientists estimate that a worst-case solar storm could have an economic impact similar to that of a category 5 hurricane or a tsunami: one scenario shows that the cost of lost satellites could be as much as $70 billion. knowing when such storms are coming helps protect astronauts as well as ground communications: physicists estimate that a 1989 solar outburst released enough radiation to expose astronauts on the mir space station to their yearly dose in just a few hours.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://spaceweather.com

be well, be love.

david

solar sounds: on may 19th at 12:52 universal time, a magnetic filament erupted on the sun. the blast sent shock waves billowing through the sun's atmosphere; those waves, in turn, generated strong type ii solar radio emissions. amateur astronomer thomas ashcraft heard them in the loudspeaker of his 21 mhz ham receiver. click on the image to listen:

"it was 6:52 am here in new mexico, and the sun was just rising over the mountains," says ashcraft. "i was lucky to catch the full power of the radio emission, which was peaking at the heart of my observing frequencies."

the sun has been remarkably "radio-active" lately. want to tune in? visit nasa's radiojove site to learn how you can build your own radio telescope.

[alchemikey]

wow...that sounds a whole lot like waves of water

[soup]

it sounds like a rainstorm to me, as if some natural way of cleansing the atmosphere of all those toxic emissions of one sort or another.

[pyramidnj]

thanks for this "opportunity" david! as i listened to the sound of the solar activity, i was inspired to shift my consciousness to the sun, within the center and the root of those energy bursts, to experience the fullness and beauty of what was transpiring. the sound served as a beacon to allow me to make that shift and it was an amazing experience, allowing me to infuse feelings of love with that sound as the energy was spewed forth. new experience for me! i am feeling a bit "winded" after that cosmic frolicking....

dancing in the light and sound,
jo anne

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/25may_costep.htm?list29945

be well, be love.

david

the ions are coming!
05.25.2007

may 25, 2007: a scientist using the solar and heliospheric observatory (soho) has found a way to forecast solar radiation storms. the new method offers as much as one hour advance warning, giving astronauts time to seek shelter and ground controllers time to safeguard their satellites when a storm is approaching.

"solar radiation storms are notoriously difficult to predict—they often take us by surprise," says physicist arik posner who developed the technique. "but now we've found a way to anticipate these events."

right: artist's concept of a radiation storm approaching earth. [more]

posner is a member of the research staff of the southwest research institute in san antonio, texas; he also works at nasa headquarters in washington, dc. his study, up to one-hour forecasting of radiation hazards from solar energetic ion events, appears in the journal space weather.

solar radiation storms are swarms of electrons, protons and heavy ions accelerated to high speed by explosions on the sun. here on earth we are protected from these particles by our planet's atmosphere and magnetic field. astronauts in earth orbit are fairly safe, too; earth's magnetic field extends out far enough to shield them. the danger begins when astronauts leave this protective cocoon. the moon and mars, for instance, have no global magnetic fields, and "astronauts working on the surface of those worlds could be at risk," says posner.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/astrophysicists_find_fractal_image_of_solar_storm_ season_imprinted_on_solar_wind_999.html

be well, be love.

david

astrophysicists find fractal image of solar storm season imprinted on solar wind

researchers have detected fractal patterns in the solar wind.
by staff writers
warwick uk (spx) may 29, 2007

plasma astrophysicists at the university of warwick have found that key information about the sun's 'storm season' is being broadcast across the solar system in a fractal snapshot imprinted in the solar wind. this research opens up new ways of looking at both space weather and the unstable behaviour that affects the operation of fusion powered power plants.

fractals, mathematical shapes that retain a complex but similar patterns at different magnifications, are frequently found in nature from snowflakes to trees and coastlines. now plasma astrophysicists in the university of warwick's centre for fusion, space and astrophysics have devised a new method to detect the same patterns in the solar wind.

the researchers, led by professor sandra chapman, have also been able to directly tie these fractal patterns to the sun's 'storm season'. the sun goes through a solar cycle roughly 11 years long. the researchers found the fractal patterns in the solar wind occur when the sun was at the peak of this cycle when the solar corona was at its most active, stormy and complex - sunspot activity, solar flares etc. when the corona was quieter no fractal patterns were found in the solar wind only general turbulence.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://physorg.com/news99672854.html

be well, be love.

david

magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire

research explains century-old mystery about the interior of the sun

sound waves escaping the sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun's atmosphere which appears as a ruby red "ring of fire" around the moon during a total solar eclipse, according to research funded by the national science foundation (nsf) and nasa.

the results are presented today at the american astronomical society's solar physics division meeting in hawaii.

this region, called the chromosphere because of its color, is largely responsible for the deep ultraviolet radiation that bathes the earth, producing the atmosphere's ozone layer.

it also has the strongest solar connection to climate variability.

[soup]

i'm tryiing to understand this - it seems as if there is a possibility that magnetic fields near the surface of the sun form acoustical waveguides that allow energized material from the interior to erupt outward in a way that there appears a temperature gradient which turns cooler inside of that hot spewed material; it seems as if there's magnetic volcanos actively spewing to the suns high atmosphere.

[soup]

this reminds me of phi - the idea that phi raised to the zero power corresponds to one earth year, and phi raised to the fifth power corresponds to to the sun spot cycle (i.e. phi as a divine fractal.)

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2007/solarmodel.shtml

click this link for more images;

http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2007/solarmodelvisuals.shtml

be well, be love.

david

sun's deep interior revealed by new computer model;
research provides clues to the inner dynamics of stars
may 28, 2007

boulder—a new computer model simulates convection patterns in the deep interior of the sun in unprecedented detail. the patterns, known as giant cells, play a critical role in solar variability, influencing magnetic storms that take aim at earth.

the model was developed by a team of scientists led by mark miesch of the national center for atmospheric research (ncar).

"this model provides us with an unprecedented view of how the solar interior works," says miesch, a scientist in ncar's high altitude observatory. "it opens a window on a number of important solar processes, including the delicate balance of forces that causes the sun's equator to rotate faster than its poles."

the team, which has submitted its findings to the astrophysical journal, will present the research at the american astronomical society meeting in honolulu on monday, may 28.

"this is our first indication of what the chaotic interior of a star looks like," miesch explains. "stars are the building blocks of the universe, and understanding what goes on within them is critical to understanding diverse aspects of astrophysics."

[Muldurath]

an interesting article posted by canada.com:

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&p=4

despite this clear and repeated correlation, the measured variations in incoming solar energy were, on their own, not sufficient to cause the climate changes we have observed in our proxies. in addition, even though the sun is brighter now than at any time in the past 8,000 years, the increase in direct solar input is not calculated to be sufficient to cause the past century's modest warming on its own. there had to be an amplifier of some sort for the sun to be a primary driver of climate change.

indeed, that is precisely what has been discovered. in a series of groundbreaking scientific papers starting in 2002, veizer, shaviv, carslaw, and most recently svensmark et al., have collectively demonstrated that as the output of the sun varies, and with it, our star's protective solar wind, varying amounts of galactic cosmic rays from deep space are able to enter our solar system and penetrate the earth's atmosphere. these cosmic rays enhance cloud formation which, overall, has a cooling effect on the planet. when the sun's energy output is greater, not only does the earth warm slightly due to direct solar heating, but the stronger solar wind generated during these "high sun" periods blocks many of the cosmic rays from entering our atmosphere. cloud cover decreases and the earth warms still more.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://spaceweather.com/

be well, be love.

david

sunspot 963: over the weekend a new sunspot emerged and "it is a beauty," says gianluca valentini of rimini, italy, who photographed the active region this morning:

the sunspot's two dark cores are each larger than earth, and they are connected by an unstable magnetic field that crackles with c-class solar flares. the eruptions have been entertaining onlookers. "i watched in amazement for hours as the magnetic loops swayed back and forth," says larry alvarez of flower mound, texas. he made a movie of the action using his solarmax90 solar telescope. click on the snapshot to watch:


see the movie: small (600 kb gif) or large (6 mb avi)

meanwhile in zanesville, ohio, the sunspot almost made artist erika rix late for her brother's wedding. "i just couldn't tear my eyes away from the eyepiece," she explains. "one eruption reminded me of a rock plopping in the water." using strathmore paper and white conte' crayon, erika sketched what she saw: image. "as a last minute gift idea, i framed the first sketch of this sequence and gave it as a wedding present....starting their new lives together with a bang."

the show continued on july 8th when the international space station flew in front of the sun with sunspot 963 as backdrop:


photo details: meade 8" lx90gps, orion solar filter, philips spc900nc webcam

david lerner took the above photo from an abandoned driving range near vincetown, new jersey. "i saw something flash across the screen," he says. "i opened up the video file and was thrilled to see i had captured both the iss and sunspot 963. imagine my delight to later discover i captured 3 frames of the space station passing by."

more images: from milan antos of jablonec nad nisou, czech republic; from pavol rapavy of rimavska sobota, slovakia; from howard eskildsen of ocala, florida; from len marek of parma, ohio; from guenter kleinschuster of feldbach, austria; from pete lawrence of selsey, west sussex, uk; from john m candy of whitely bay, north tyneside, uk; from jean-marc lecleire of torcy, france.

[Chris Hamilton]

anything to do with our sun.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.esa.int/esasc/semjjyul05f_index_0.html

be well, be love.

david

moving to the rhythm of the sun
17 august 2007

scientists from the ulysses mission have proven that sounds generated deep inside the sun cause the earth to shake and vibrate in sympathy. they have found that earth’s magnetic field, atmosphere and terrestrial systems, all take part in this cosmic sing-along.

david thomson and louis lanzerotti, team members of the hiscale experiment, on board ulysses, together with colleagues frank vernon, marc lessard and lindsay smith, present evidence that proves that earth moves to the rhythm of the sun. they show that distinct, isolated tones, predicted to be generated by pressure and gravity waves in the sun, are present in a wide variety of terrestrial systems.

using highly sophisticated statistical techniques, thomson and colleagues have discovered these same, distinct tones emitted by the sun, in seismic data here on earth. they have also found that earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere, and even voltages induced on ocean cables, are all taking part in this cosmic sing-along.

although these tones are all around us, it would not be possible for us to hear them, even if we listened very closely. their pitch is too low for the human ear, typically 100-5000 microhertz (1 microhertz corresponds to 1 vibration every 278 hours). this is more than 12 octaves below the lowest note audible to humans. for comparison, the note to which orchestras tune their instruments (a above middle c on a piano) corresponds to 440 hertz.

[P-Bass]

there's a very interesting article at http://www.rense.com/general77/newx.htm

any connection to the transition into 4th density?

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.robertus.staff.shef.ac.uk/movies/uksp-nam2007/manymodes.au

also this video;

http://www.robertus.staff.shef.ac.uk/movies/uksp-nam2007/wang_mov1.avi

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

i forgot to include this article;

http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/dexsol_article.htm

be well, be love.

david

deus ex sol

solar logos and helioseismology depicted in crop circle formations
by kris sherwood

'let there be light'

nearly every year since crop circles began appearing in the english landscape what can be seen as solar symbols, conceptual representations of 'the sun as god', and aspects of solar physics have been found referenced in the designs of many formations that have been considered to be created by the source of the genuine crop circle phenomenon. 'solar logos' has been a recurring theme that my research partner, and husband, ed sherwood first observed in 1990 and later made me aware of when we began our mutual research in 1995. since then in my own research into discovering and deciphering what 'messages' are being stated in authentic crop circle symbols, i have continued to discover more extraordinary connections to solar metaphors appearing repeatedly in the formations, including precise depictions of current understandings of helioseismology, the science of solar seismology, which i observed in some of the most complex crop circle pictograms of 2000.

ed has long known that one of the major references repeatedly being stated in the formations is to the various principals of physics that are instrumental in their creation. layered into these brilliantly conceived designs are also symbolic references indicating the 'intelligence' that is behind their ingenious crafting. included in some of ed's as yet unpublished research is the fact that he has long known and understood the role solar activity and cycles play in genuine crop circle creation, and he has monitored and observed the effects of the sun (and planets) in the crop circle fields. he has been giving this information in talk presentations and sharing it with researchers since discovering it in autumn of 1991, and is currently working on several projects to document this research. i am grateful for and acknowledge the insights ed's research has offered toward my further understanding and ability to identify the information manifesting in the formations. our individual research overlaps so much at times and to fully make a point, the other's contributions occasionally have to be mentioned and described in the context. with that understanding, i will try to focus in this article on particular observations i've made about certain crop circle formations that revealed the remarkable statements they were making about the sun and its theoretical and physical realities, while adding further to the body of corroborating evidence that solar symbols have continued to appear in authentic formations yearly through the current year of 2001.

because the sun is literally our life sustaining energy source, it is the obvious symbol to be used to represent the creator, or 'god'; whatever that means to you individually. worldwide cultures throughout the millennia have metaphorised this universal concept as the sun, and the genuine crop circle phenomenon, the biblically proportioned spiritual manifestation of these historic times, has continued to carry on this tradition. the urgent need to perceive our role in a cocreated reality seems to have reached a critical mass and that the creation force is making itself known with a message for all.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

way cool... ;-)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/18sep_trilobite.htm

be well, be love.

david

magnetic trilobite
09.18.2007

sept. 18, 2007: "we've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist lika guhathakurta from nasa headquarters.

last week she sat in an audience of nearly two hundred colleagues at the "living with a star" workshop in boulder, colorado, and watched in amazement as saku tsuneta of japan played a movie of sunspot 10926 breaking through the turbulent surface of the sun. before their very eyes an object as big as a planet materialized, and no one was prepared for the form it took.

"it looks like a prehistoric trilobite," said marc de rosa, a scientist from lockheed martin's solar and astrophysics laboratory in palo alto, calif. "to me it seemed more like cellular mitosis in which duplicated chromosomes self-assemble into two daughter cells," countered guhathakurta.

[One 66]

lighteye,

way cool is putting it lightly, how about awesome!!!

out of darkness comes light! is what it reminds me of when that sun spot pops up from the negative polarity. inteligent infinity becoming individuality in pure energy :cool:

one 66

awesome!

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6934

be well, be love.

david

solar wind warming up earth?
by yury zaitsev
global research, september 30, 2007
ria novosti - 2007-09-28

paleoclimate research shows that the chillier periods of the earth's history have always given way to warmer times, and vice versa.

but it is not quite clear what causes this change. this is what makes predicting climate change so difficult. although everyone agrees that the climate is changing very fast, hardly anyone can say whether it will be warmer or colder in the next 100 years. at the moment it is getting warmer. the majority attribute this change to human impact on the environment. but are they right?

lev zeleny, director of the institute of space research at the russian academy of sciences and an academy corresponding member, believes that before making kyoto protocol-like decisions, we should thoroughly study the influence of all factors and receive more or less unequivocal results. in order to treat an illness, we must diagnose it first, he insists.

yury leonov, director of the institute of geology at the russian academy of sciences, thinks that the human impact on nature is so small that it can be dismissed as a statistical mistake.

until quite recently, experts primarily attributed global warming to greenhouse gas emissions, with carbon dioxide singled out as the chief culprit. but it transpires that water vapor is just as bad.

[Liam]

very interesting, the warming of the climate is very obvious to most people across the world, although some continue to deny that it is actually happening. it's been noticeable here in the uk- we've had a cool summer but the past few years have seen remarkable consistency in temperature and this october looks like following suit. being in the us recently i noticed even more marked warmth, i noticed boston reached 93 degrees in late september which is quite something. personally the warming is not a problem for me being in a country that needs the warmth and having a preference for warmer temperatures! what do people think about this- will the climate continue to warm up as we head towards 2012 and will weather and climate still be a factor after 2012?

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3223603.ece

be well, be love.

david

could the sun's inactivity save us from global warming? david whitehouse explains why solar disempower may be the key to combating climate change
published: 05 december 2007

between 1645 and 1715 sunspots were rare. it was also a time when the earth¿s northern hemisphere chilled dramatically
something is happening to our sun. it has to do with sunspots, or rather the activity cycle their coming and going signifies. after a period of exceptionally high activity in the 20th century, our sun has suddenly gone exceptionally quiet. months have passed with no spots visible on its disc. we are at the end of one cycle of activity and astronomers are waiting for the sunspots to return and mark the start of the next, the so-called cycle 24. they have been waiting for a while now with no sign it's on its way any time soon.

sunspots – dark magnetic blotches on the sun's surface – come and go in a roughly 11-year cycle of activity first noticed in 1843. it's related to the motion of super-hot, electrically charged gas inside the sun – a kind of internal conveyor belt where vast sub-surface rivers of gas take 40 years to circulate from the equator to the poles and back. somehow, in a way not very well understood, this circulation produces the sunspot cycle in which every 11 years there is a sunspot maximum followed by a minimum. but recently the sun's internal circulation has been failing. in may 2006 this conveyor belt had slowed to a crawl – a record low. nasa scientist david hathaway said: "it's off the bottom of the charts... this has important repercussions for future solar activity." what's more, it's not the only indicator that the sun is up to something.

sunspots can be long or short, weak or strong and sometimes they can go away altogether. following the discovery of the cycle, astronomers looked back through previous observations and were able to see it clearly until they reached the 17th century, when it seemed to disappear. it turned out to be a real absence, not one caused by a lack of observations. astronomers called it the "maunder minimum." it was an astonishing discovery: our sun can change. between 1645 and 1715 sunspots were rare. about 50 were observed; there should have been 50,000.

[Jasper]

hi all,
last june i posted a thread regarding an article i found about a battery that draws free energy from the everywhere. some people contacted me for the link to the information, i hope you found it interesting.

today this headline popped into view,

free-energy battery inventor killed at airport?

a quote in the article reads,

"degeus was the inventor of a thin wafer-like material/device that somehow specially aligned the atoms or electron currents ongoing in that material, so that the wafer produced a constant amperage at a small voltage – continuous real power, or in other words a strange kind of “self-powering battery”.

this sounds like the electrinium battery to me.

here's the link to the news bulletin. http://pesn.com/2007/12/05/9500463_self-powered_battery_inventor_dead/

anyone who wants to read the original document can contact me for the link.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/06dec_xrayjets.htm?list29945

be well, be love.

david

the sun is bristling with x-ray jets
12.06.2007

dec. 06, 2007: astronomers using japan's hinode spacecraft have discovered that the sun is bristling with powerful "x-ray jets." they spray out of the sun's surface hundreds of times a day, launching blobs of hot gas as wide as north america at a top speed of two million miles per hour. these jets add significant mass to the solar wind and they may help explain a long-standing mystery of astrophysics: the superheating of the sun's corona.

"this is awesome and very much unexpected," says jonathan cirtain of the marshall space flight center who was a key figure in the discovery. he recalls how it happened: "we found them a year ago in nov. 2006. hinode had just been launched and its instruments were coming online." to calibrate the spacecraft's x-ray telescope, mission controllers in japan pointed the telescope at a dark hole in the sun's atmosphere--a "coronal hole." cirtain analyzed the data and "there they were!"

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/ap-080103-new-sunspot-cycle.html

and this article from nick;

http://lunarplanner.com/holycross.html#solar_mag_field

be well, be love.

david

new sunspot cycle begins
by the associated press
posted: 4 january 2008
5:30 p.m. et

washington (ap) — a new solar cycle is under way.

the national oceanic and atmospheric administration said friday that the first sunspot of a new 11-year cycle has appeared in the sun's northern hemisphere.

the frequency of sunspots rises and falls during these cycles, and the start of a new cycle indicates they are likely to begin increasing.

sunspots, areas of intense magnetic activity on the sun, can affect earth by disrupting electrical grids, airline and military communications, gps signals and even cell phones, the agency said. during periods of intense sunspot activity, known as solar storms, highly charged radiation from the sun may head toward earth.

"our growing dependence on highly sophisticated, space-based technologies means we are far more vulnerable to space weather today than in the past,'' said noaa administrator conrad c. lautenbacher, jr.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080122-st-sunshine-hinode.html

be well, be love.

david

sun’s magnetic secret revealed
by jeremy hsu
staff writer
posted: 22 january 2008
06:04 am et

powerful magnetic waves have been confirmed for the first time as major players in the process that makes the sun's atmosphere strangely hundreds of times hotter than its already superhot surface.

the magnetic waves — called alfven waves — can carry enough energy from the sun's active surface to heat its atmosphere, or corona.

"the surface and corona are chock full of these things, and they're very energetic," said bart de pontieu, a physicist at the lockheed martin solar and astrophysics laboratory in california.

the sun contains powerful heating and magnetic forces which drive the temperature to tens of thousands of degrees at the surface — yet the quieter corona wreathing the sun reaches temperatures of millions of degrees. scientists have speculated that alfven waves act as energy conveyor belts to heat the sun's atmosphere, but lacked the observational evidence to prove their theories.

de pontieu and his colleagues changed that by using the japanese orbiting solar observatory hinode to peer at the region sandwiched between the sun's surface and corona, called the chromosphere. not only did they spot many alfven waves, but they also estimated the waves carried more than enough energy to sustain the corona's temperatures as well as to power the solar wind (charged particles that constantly stream out from the sun) to speeds of nearly 1 million mph.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://ibdeditorial.com/ibdarticles.aspx?id=287279412587175

be well, be love.

david

the sun also sets
by investor's business daily | posted thursday, february 07, 2008 4:20 pm pt

climate change: not every scientist is part of al gore's mythical "consensus." scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your suv — the sun.




back in 1991, before al gore first shouted that the earth was in the balance, the danish meteorological institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.

to many, those data were convincing. now, canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.

and they're worried about global cooling, not warming.

kenneth tapping, a solar researcher and project director for canada's national research council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.

solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. but so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. the lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a maunder minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

such an event occurred in the 17th century. the observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

this solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in northern europe.

tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the northern hemisphere.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

the calm before the storm?

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/where-have-all-the-sunspots-gone/

be well, be love.

david

where have all the sunspots gone?
13 02 2008

i’m writing this after doing an exhaustive search to see what sort of solar activity has occurred lately, and i find there is little to report. with the exception of the briefly increased solar wind from a coronal hole, there is almost no significant solar activity.

the sun has gone quiet. really quiet.

it is normal for our sun to have quiet periods between solar cycles, but we’ve seen months and months of next to nothing, and the start of solar cycle 24 seems to have materialized (as first reported here) then abruptly disappeared. the reverse polarity sunspot that signaled the start of cycle 24 on january 4th, dissolved within two days after that.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-04/st_spaceweather

be well, be love.

david

prepare for the worst, because solar storms are about to get ugly
by erin biba 03.24.08 | 6:00 pm

every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. it breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward earth at nearly the speed of light. these solar windstorms have been known to knock out power grids and tv broadcasts, and our growing reliance on space-based technology makes us more vulnerable than ever to their effects. on january 3, scientists discovered a reverse-polarity sunspot, signaling the start of a new cycle — and some are predicting that at its peak (in about four years) things are gonna get nasty. here's a forecast for 2012.

[brentcochran]

astronomers have captured the first footage of a solar "tsunami" hurtling through the sun's atmosphere at over a million kilometres per hour.

"in half an hour, we saw the tsunami cover almost the full disc of the sun." - david long


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7326097.stm

[weboy78]

sun like "hole" in space...have you some articles, study, references, etc..on this question ? thanks

[litllady]

hello to all,

im sure many of you if not all of you have heard of the green flash from the sun. the myth goes that the green flash was gateway to the underworld or some other world....whatever the myths may be, below is a link to a beautiful picture of the green flash from the sun.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

peace to all,
lynette

[weboy78]

solar flares set the sun quaking

18 april 2008
data from the esa/nasa spacecraft soho shows clearly that powerful starquakes ripple around the sun in the wake of mighty solar flares that explode above its surface. the observations give solar physicists new insight into a long-running solar mystery and may even provide a way of studying other stars.

the outermost quarter of the sun’s interior is a constantly churning maelstrom of hot gas. turbulence in this region causes ripples that criss-cross the solar surface, making it heave up and down in a patchwork pattern of peaks and troughs.


“the signal we saw was like someone occasionally walking up to the bell and striking it, which told us that there was something missing from our understanding of how the sun works,” karoff says.

so they began looking for the culprit and discovered an unexpected correlation with solar flares. it seemed that when the number of solar flares went up, so did the strength of the 5-minute oscillations.

“the strength of the correlation was so strong that there can be no doubt about it,” says karoff.

a similar phenomenon is known on earth in the aftermath of large earthquakes. for example, after the 2004 sumatra-andaman earthquake, the whole earth rang with seismic waves like a vibrating bell for several weeks.

http://www.esa.int/esasc/sem4sb4xqef_index_0.html

[weboy78]

http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html

habibullo abdussamatov, the head of space research at st. petersburg's pulkovo astronomical observatory in russia, recently linked the attenuation of ice caps on mars to fluctuations in the sun's output. abdussamatov also blamed solar fluctuations for earth’s current global warming trend. his initial comments were published online by national geographic news.

“man-made greenhouse warming has [made a] small contribution [to] the warming on earth in recent years, but [it] cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance,” abdussamatov told livescience in an email interview last week. “the considerable heating and cooling on the earth and on mars always will be practically parallel."

[charran]

in the book "the hidden laws of earth" edgar cayce said that light and sound are, in essence, by products of electromagnetism... so i don't see how the scientists can say that they are purely sound waves in the article since sound waves come from electromagnetism.

love,

charran




sound waves reverberate through solar 'pipes'


the coronal loop oscillations were first reported in 2002, but it was not clear until now whether they were purely magnetic fluctuations or giant sound waves.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

it's the calm before the storm...

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html

be well, be love.

david

thee sunspot enigma: the sun is “dead”—what does it mean for earth?

dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. these strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be indicating for our future.

although periods of inactivity are normal for the sun, this current period has gone on much longer than usual and scientists are starting to worry—at least a little bit. recently 100 scientists from europe, asia, latin america, africa and north america gathered to discuss the issue at an international solar conference at montana state university. today's sun is as inactive as it was two years ago, and solar physicists don’t have a clue as to why.

"it continues to be dead," said saku tsuneta with the national astronomical observatory of japan, program manager for the hinode solar mission, noting that it is at least a little bit worrisome for scientists.

dana longcope, a solar physicist at msu, said the sun usually operates on an 11-year cycle with maximum activity occurring in the middle of the cycle. the last cycle reached its peak in 2001 and is believed to be just ending now, longcope said. the next cycle is just beginning and is expected to reach its peak sometime around 2012. but so far nothing is happening.

"it's a dead face," tsuneta said of the sun's appearance.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/07/02/2292281.htm?site=science&topic=latest

be well, be love.

david

planetary line-up excites the sun

wednesday, 2 july 2008 marilyn head
abc

australian astronomers may have found a solution to how far-away jupiter and saturn drive the sun's solar cycle.

in a paper published in the publications of the astronomical society of australia, astronomer dr ian wilson and colleagues from the university of southern queensland, suggest jupiter and saturn affect the sun's movement and its rotation, and hence its sunspot activity.

every 11 years the sun undergoes a period of intense solar activity, marked by flares, coronal mass ejections and sunspots. this period is known as the solar maximum and occurs twice each solar, or hale, cycle.

"the sun can be thought of as a large bar magnet," says wilson.

"the equatorial region of the sun spins more rapidly than the poles, and this differential rotation winds up the magnetic field lines like a rubber band."

wilson says sunspots typically appear wherever these magnetic field lines bubble to the surface.

"once the peak in sunspot activity is reached, a huge amount of energy is released, the magnetic poles are reversed and a new cycle begins," he says.

[Ceara]

on the typed transcript on project camelot of "jump room to mars," bill says that henry deacon said, "the way the sun works is not the way they teach you at school." and david said, "oh yeah."

now, i seem to recall somewhere, it was said that energy goes into the sun. the black spots are black and might indicate that energy is input, not output, because if energy was output, wouldn't there be a brighter color in the spot instead of black?

i hope i'm making sense here. but really want to find the source of that information. can anyone help me out?

[Berry Chastain]

today, august 1, 2008, there was a total eclipse of the sun which was visible from far north canada all the way to the central part of china.

here is a link to a video of the eclipse from somewhere in china, showing the entire procession. at about 37 minutes the totality occurs which is overwhelming.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/2008/index.html

enjoy,

[sundari]

"newly discovered" technology allows for unlimited use of solar power to meet energy needs...


http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html

[moderator-this will be placed in the 'the sun' category after a few days]

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.dailytech.com/sun+makes+history+first+spotless+month+in+a+centur y/article12823.htm

be well, be love.

david

sun makes history: first spotless month in a century
michael asher (blog) - september 1, 2008 8:11 am

drop in solar activity has potential effect for climate on earth.

the sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.

the event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots -- is an influencing factor for climate on earth.

according to data from mount wilson observatory, ucla, more than an entire month has passed without a spot. the last time such an event occurred was june of 1913. sunspot data has been collected since 1749.

when the sun is active, it's not uncommon to see sunspot numbers of 100 or more in a single month. every 11 years, activity slows, and numbers briefly drop to near-zero. normally sunspots return very quickly, as a new cycle begins.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

no link to when nasa will hold the press conference though...

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/news-nasa-to-hold-press-conference-on-the-state-of-the-sun/

be well, be love.

david

news: nasa to hold press conference on the state of the sun
19 09 2008

this is unusual. a live media teleconference on the sun. even more unusual is this statement:

the sun today, still featureless

the sun’s current state could result in changing conditions in the solar system.

as you may recall, i posted an entry about the ulysses mission back on june 16th and the findings of a lowered magnetic field in the sun, from the jpl press release then:

ulysses ends its career after revealing that the magnetic field emanating from the sun’s poles is much weaker than previously observed. this could mean the upcoming solar maximum period will be less intense than in recent history.

we live in interesting times.

[Acoumoboy]

for quite some time now i have been observing the sun. intuitively i can tell that it is indeed getting brighter, and possibly bigger. i do believe it all ties in with the 2012 alignment with our solar sytem and the cosmic "center" of the milky way. just the same way that planets are made by clumping together of matter so is the solar system, galaxy and universe. since we are now entering a more matter filled section of the milky way all of the planets are reacting and absorbing the new materials floating in space (cosmic dust). the sun of course will be collecting and absorbing and burning the most energy (it is the largest body in our solarsytem so therefore it has the most gravity), hence the brighter larger sun we will get. also i have indeed noticied that all of the planets plainly visble to the human eye are glowing more intensely than i have ever witnessed in my 28 years of life. this is staggering considering all of the added pollution in our atmosphere over the years both from light and human based gaseous emissions.

just something to think about.

freshly englightened,
lee

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/sep/hq_08241_ulysses.html

be well, be love.

david

ulysses reveals global solar wind plasma output at 50-year low

washington -- data from the ulysses spacecraft, a joint nasa-european space agency mission, show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available. the sun's current state could reduce the natural shielding that envelops our solar system.

"the sun's million mile-per-hour solar wind inflates a protective bubble, or heliosphere, around the solar system. it influences how things work here on earth and even out at the boundary of our solar system where it meets the galaxy," said dave mccomas, ulysses' solar wind instrument principal investigator and senior executive director at the southwest research institute in san antonio. "ulysses data indicate the solar wind's global pressure is the lowest we have seen since the beginning of the space age."

the sun's solar wind plasma is a stream of charged particles ejected from the sun's upper atmosphere. the solar wind interacts with every planet in our solar system. it also defines the border between our solar system and interstellar space.

this border, called the heliopause, surrounds our solar system where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the wind of other stars. the region around the heliopause also acts as a shield for our solar system, warding off a significant portion of the cosmic rays outside the galaxy.

[geoform]

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/23sep_solarwind.htm

key extracts:
in a briefing today at nasa headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power.
"this is the weakest it's been since we began monitoring solar wind almost 50 years ago."
flagging solar wind has repercussions across the entire solar system—beginning with the heliosphere.
the heliosphere is our solar system's first line of defense against galactic cosmic rays. high-energy particles from black holes and supernovas try to enter the solar system, but most are deflected by the heliosphere's magnetic fields.
there are controversial studies linking cosmic ray fluxes to cloudiness and climate change on earth. that link may be tested in the years ahead.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

much better article with graphics.

http://www.esa.int/esacp/semr9mq4kkf_index_0.html


be well, be love.

david

sept. 23, 2008: in a briefing today at nasa headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power.

"the average pressure of the solar wind has dropped more than 20% since the mid-1990s," says dave mccomas of the southwest research institute in san antonio, texas. "this is the weakest it's been since we began monitoring solar wind almost 50 years ago."

mccomas is principal investigator for the swoops solar wind sensor onboard the ulysses spacecraft, which measured the decrease. ulysses, launched in 1990, circles the sun in a unique orbit that carries it over both the sun's poles and equator, giving ulysses a global view of solar wind activity:

[sundari]

the first new sunspot emerged yesterday...

"this new spot has both the magnetic orientation and the high-latitude position of a sunspot belonging to the new solar cycle, cycle 24. will this be the harbinger of more solar changes to come and mark the beginnings of a rise in solar activity in the near future"?

http://www.physorg.com/multimedia/pix1819

[Acoumoboy]

i wonder why the sun has decreased it's solar wind activity. i know about the cycles, maybe it is preparing to enter it's new cycle by conserving energy?

[sundari]

"galactic cosmic rays carry with them radiation from other parts of our galaxy," said ed smith, nasa's ulysses project scientist from the jet propulsion laboratory in california, usa. "with the solar wind at an all-time low, there is an excellent chance that the heliosphere will diminish in size and strength. if that occurs, more galactic cosmic rays will make it into the inner part of our solar system."


as far as why the solar wind is decreasing, as i understand it (from a metaphysical perspective), it's part of the cosmic trend towards more energy reaching us from the central sun. as our galaxy gets nearer to the central sun, it's pull will exceed the ability of the solar wind to maintain it's heliosphere. eventually the growing intensity of this energy will make life on 3d earth impossible, which is when we go through the shift into 4d.
-sundari

[sundari]

"(physorg.com) -- scientists using nasa’s rhessi spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. they find that it is not a perfect sphere. during years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin “cantaloupe skin” that significantly increases its apparent oblateness: the sun’s equatorial radius becomes slightly larger than its polar radius. their results appear the oct. 2nd edition of science express.

“the sun is the biggest and therefore smoothest object in the solar system, perfect at the 0.001% level because of its extremely strong gravity,” says study co-author hugh hudson of uc berkeley. “measuring its exact shape is no easy task.”

the team accomplished the task by analyzing data from the reuven ramaty high-energy solar spectroscopic imager, rhessi for short, an x-ray/gamma-ray space telescope launched in 2002 on a mission to study solar flares. although rhessi was never intended to measure the roundness of the sun, it has turned out ideal for the purpose. rhessi observes the solar disk through a narrow slit and spins at 15 rpm. the spacecraft’s rapid rotation and high data sampling rate (necessary to catch fast solar flares) make it possible for investigators to trace the shape of the sun with systematic errors much less than any previous study. their technique is particularly sensitive to small differences in polar vs. equatorial radius or “oblateness.”

“we have found that the surface of the sun has rough structure: bright ridges arranged in a network pattern, as on the surface of a cantaloupe but much more subtle,” describes hudson. during active phases of the solar cycle, these ridges emerge around the sun’s equator, brightening and fattening the “stellar waist.” at the time of rhessi’s measurements in 2004, ridges increased the sun’s apparent equatorial radius by an angle of 10.77 +- 0.44 milli-arcseconds, or about the same as the width of a human hair viewed one mile away".

see complete article below:

http://www.physorg.com/news142177077.html

[mwr1026]

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/the-milky-way-c.html

i'm wondering:



could our approach to the galactic plane be suppressing solar activity?
if the heliosphere protects our solar system from outside cosmic radiation, might this weakening/shrinking of the heliosphere actually be one of the factors that increases the effect of the passage through the galactic plane?

we have been assuming that there would be an increase in solar activity approaching 2012 but might it be that the sun becomes quiet, reducing it's shielding effect, and allowing increased intensity of the storm that comes not from the sun but rather from the galaxy? it seems pretty clear that we really don't know much about how all of this will play out. very interesting stuff.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2237/sun-not-a-perfect-sphere

be well, be love.

david

the sun is not a perfect sphere
friday, 3 october 2008
science@nasa

not so smooth: "cantaloupe ridges" on the sun. the glowing white magnetic network is what decreases the roundness of the sun during times of high solar activity. (los angeles astronomer gary palmer took this picture in 2005, using a violet calcium-k solar filter.)



credit: nasa/gary palmer



sydney: scientists using a space observatory orbiting the sun, have calculated the star's roundness with unprecedented precision, and found that it is not a perfect sphere. the research could lead to techniques for measuring the sun's elusive internal core.

though the sun is more perfectly round than any of the planets, their new study – reported today in the u.s. journal science – shows that in years of high solar activity it develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly changes how wide it is around the equator.

strong gravity

"the sun is the biggest and smoothest natural object in the solar system, perfect at the 0.001 per cent level because of its extremely strong gravity," said study lead author hugh hudson of the university of california, berkeley, in the usa. "measuring its exact shape is no easy task."

the team achieved the calculation by analysing data from nasa's reuven ramaty high-energy solar spectroscopic imager (rhessi), an x-ray/gamma-ray space telescope launched in 2002 to study solar flares.

although rhessi was never intended to measure the roundness of the sun, it has turned out ideal for the purpose. the telescope observes the solar disk through a narrow slit and spins at 15 rpm.

the telescope's rapid rotation and high rate of sampling have made it possible for investigators to trace the shape of the sun with a remarkably low error rate. the technique is particularly sensitive to small differences in the sun's polar and equatorial diameters.

friday, 3 october 2008
science@nasa

not so smooth: "cantaloupe ridges" on the sun. the glowing white magnetic network is what decreases the roundness of the sun during times of high solar activity. (los angeles astronomer gary palmer took this picture in 2005, using a violet calcium-k solar filter.)



credit: nasa/gary palmer



sydney: scientists using a space observatory orbiting the sun, have calculated the star's roundness with unprecedented precision, and found that it is not a perfect sphere. the research could lead to techniques for measuring the sun's elusive internal core.

though the sun is more perfectly round than any of the planets, their new study – reported today in the u.s. journal science – shows that in years of high solar activity it develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly changes how wide it is around the equator.

strong gravity

"the sun is the biggest and smoothest natural object in the solar system, perfect at the 0.001 per cent level because of its extremely strong gravity," said study lead author hugh hudson of the university of california, berkeley, in the usa. "measuring its exact shape is no easy task."

the team achieved the calculation by analysing data from nasa's reuven ramaty high-energy solar spectroscopic imager (rhessi), an x-ray/gamma-ray space telescope launched in 2002 to study solar flares.

although rhessi was never intended to measure the roundness of the sun, it has turned out ideal for the purpose. the telescope observes the solar disk through a narrow slit and spins at 15 rpm.

the telescope's rapid rotation and high rate of sampling have made it possible for investigators to trace the shape of the sun with a remarkably low error rate. the technique is particularly sensitive to small differences in the sun's polar and equatorial diameters.

[sundari]

"the first nasa spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch oct. 19. the two-year mission will begin from the kwajalein atoll, a part of the marshall islands in the pacific ocean.

called the interstellar boundary explorer or ibex, the spacecraft will conduct extremely high-altitude orbits above earth to investigate and capture images of processes taking place at the farthest reaches of the solar system. known as the interstellar boundary, this region marks where the solar system meets interstellar space.

the interstellar boundary regions are critical because they shield us from the vast majority of dangerous galactic cosmic rays, which otherwise would penetrate into earth's orbit and make human spaceflight much more dangerous," said david j. mccomas, ibex principal investigator and senior executive director of the space science and engineering division at the southwest research institute in san antonio.

the story of the outer solar system began to unfold when the voyager 1 and voyager 2 spacecrafts left the inner solar system and headed out toward the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.

"the voyager spacecraft are making fascinating observations of the local conditions at two points beyond the termination shock that show totally unexpected results and challenge many of our notions about this important region," said mccomas.

"other spacecraft have continued the exploration of the interstellar boundary region. recently, a pair of nasa sun-focused satellites, the solar terrestrial relations observatory mission, detected a higher-energy version of the particles ibex will observe in the heliosphere. the heliosphere is an area that contains the solar wind. it stretches from the sun to a distance several times the orbit of pluto."

full article below:

http://www.physorg.com/news142520582.html

[sundari]

if you have a myspace page, check out the totally awesome song by donna delory (on her profile page music-player) that incorporates recordings of the sounds of the sun throughout (the very end of the song is the best part, so i suggest playing it straight through).

it's called "in the sun" and is #4 on the player.

sense the amazing merger of science and love as you listen to this!

you have to be signed in to myspace in order to listen to the song.
the myspace url is:

http://www.myspace.com/donnadelory

[moderator note - i didn't have to sign in to listen.]

[LightEye]

dear friends,

nice images...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html

be well, be love.

david

the sun

the sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minimum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. the solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. scientists are unsure of the significance of this unusual calm, but are continually monitoring our closest star with an array of telescopes and satellites. seen below are some recent images of the sun in more active times.

[KassandraLoves]

these are hands down the coolest images of the sun ive ever seen! :d

thanks for sharing!!!

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3222476/suns-protective-bubble-is-shrinking.html

be well, be love.

david

sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking

the protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, nasa scientists have warned.

new data has revealed that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years ago.

scientists are baffled at what could be causing the barrier to shrink in this way and are to launch mission to study the heliosphere.

the interstellar boundary explorer, or ibex, will be launched from an aircraft on sunday on a pegasus rocket into an orbit 150,000 miles above the earth where it will "listen" for the shock wave that forms as our solar system meets the interstellar radiation.

[Golden Mean]

more "data" for the bank!


"new data from the ulysses deep-space probe show that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years ago"

link (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/protective-shield-of-the-sun-is-shrinking/2008/10/19/1224351057111.html)

peace, love & light!
~golden mean

[Alixandra]

hi all:

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/wcruttenden2.htm

walter cruttenden theorizes of the sun as a binary star. i saw this almost a year ago and cannot remember if it was he or a colleague who made a rather strong case for the sun as a magnetic field (rather than the fission/fusion) model we have now.

for example, one piece of data was that as we move in towards the center of the sun the temperatures drop which is inconsistent with the current model.

there are more pieces of evidence given.

much love and light,

alixandra

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30oct_ftes.htm

be well, be love.

david

magnetic portals connect sun and earth
10.30.2008

oct. 30, 2008: during the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. a magnetic portal will open, linking earth to the sun 93 million miles away. tons of high-energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again, around the time you reach the end of the page.

"it's called a flux transfer event or 'fte,'" says space physicist david sibeck of the goddard space flight center. "ten years ago i was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible."

indeed, today sibeck is telling an international assembly of space physicists at the 2008 plasma workshop in huntsville, alabama, that ftes are not just common, but possibly twice as common as anyone had ever imagined.

[litllady]

hello all,

images that contain the breathtaking beauty of this world and beyond can be a spark of inspiration and love for all that is. i just wanted to share the beauty in the following,

astronomy picture of the day....

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

lynette

[litllady]

for the link i posted for the image of the sun's ray's, you will now have to type in and search the date at the astronomy's picture of the day to find the pic. i posted. the link automatically updates to a new picture everyday. anyways, all the images are wonderful but i wanted to note why the picture i spoke of does not come up with the link. sorry about that, this has happened in several of my posts without realizing that the image i am posting will update to a new image.

lyn

[C-JEAN]

hi all.

here it is:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081116.html

and yessssss ! totaly beautiful !

? right litllady ?

blue skies.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/earthbreathing.html

love and light.

david

sun induces strange 'breathing' of earth's atmosphere
by alexis madrigal december 15, 2008 | 7:17:42 pmcategories: agu 2008, climate

san francisco, california — new satellite observations have revealed a previously unknown rhythmic expansion and contraction of earth's atmosphere on a nine-day cycle.

this "breathing" corresponds to changes in the sun's magnetic fields as it completes rotations once every 27 days, nasa and university of colorado, boulder, scientists said monday at the american geophysical union annual meeting.

the sun's coronal holes, seen as dark regions in the image above, direct plasma away from the sun and out into the solar system. when these particles get to the earth, they heat the upper atmosphere, causing the outer atmosphere to expand and contract.

"what's going on in the solar side is indeed mysterious and challenges the solar physics understanding," said stan solomon, a scientist at the national center for atmospheric research who was not involved in the research.


the finding emphasizes the many ways that solar activity impacts the earth — and its increasingly space-utilizing humans.

"from the earth's perspective, we're in the sun's outer atmosphere," said jeffrey thayer, an aerospace engineer at uc-boulder.

the new discovery could help scientists and engineers design better satellites that account for the changing conditions in the ionosphere. eventually, it might be possible to predict the severity of ionospheric storms and protect the world's communication infrastructure.

the scientists used changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere to pinpoint this previously unknown pattern. as the atmosphere contracts or expands, it also gets more or less dense, respectively. in response to the "hills and valleys of density," satellites subtly speed up or slow down, recording those motions with on-board accelerometers. and that's the data that allowed the scientists to back into the discovery of this new atmospheric cycle.

solomon said that while the cycle on earth is interesting, the really strange aspect of this work is what it says about our local star.

"what's going on in the sun that's causing all this?" solomon said. "it's not entirely clear. that part of it is quite mysterious."

[angiem]

has anyone heard of the explosion that was on the opposite side of the sun... i had read on another forum that spaceweather.com reported on this and everyone is at a loss as to what caused it. any info anyone?

[Berry Chastain]

check the archive on spaceweather.com for december 16. that is where the brief article is located. not much there except surmise that there may have been a great cme occurance. the observation craft was not pointing in the right direction at the time so whatever happened is a mystery right now.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3mgmbbnmee

we are light made solid.

david

the sun is going through dynamic changes and transformations. these changes in the sun assist in your capacity to access your consciousness awareness of enlightenment and your personal transmutation. pay attention and access this sacred energy frequency that bathes you daily in its light!

[BenOne]

preceding the coronal mass ejection on the 16th was a "bubble" of energy which occured on dec 8th. it is possible that this is the same active region as it would take 9 days to transit one 3rd of the way around the sun. this being said, it is possible that this active region would be facing earth in 9 days from the 16th or around the dec 25th. stay tuned

dec 8th "bubble" (http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?phpsessid=d9oodk92v29j46llh01hs8rnm0&month=12&day=09&year=2008&view=view)
dec 16th cme (http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?month=12&day=16&year=2008&view=view)

[EricLyman]

this is quite interesting:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/17/earth-magnetic-field.html

of particular interest is this:


the sun has an 11-year cycle, which is next expected to peak in 2011 or 2012. during maximum periods of activity, the sun produces more flares and geomagnetic storms, which can blast earth with powerful streams of electrically charged plasma.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/2008_now_ranks.pdf

we are all light made solid.

david

2008 now ranks #2 since 1900 in # sunspotless days
by joseph d’aleo, ccm, fellow ams

with the number of sunspotless days reaching 16 so far this month, we have now exceeded 1912 as the 2nd quietest sun year since 1900. only 1913 ranked higher with 311 days. with 12 more days this month as of this writing, we could reach as high as 266 days. note that 2007 also ranked in the top 10.

sunspotless days (sidc)

this is the month by month comparisons of sunspotless days this solar minimum (red) through november and the last minimum in the mid 1990s (blue).

the geomagnetic activity has also been extremely low. this is the ap index. this plot displays monthly average ap values and 13-month running smoothed ap values. the most recent data are always usaf estimates; official values are included as they become available.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/03/state-of-the-sun-year-end-2008-alls-quiet-on-the-solar-front/

we are all light made solid.

david

the noaa space weather prediction center updated their plots of solar indices earlier today, on january 3rd. with the exception of a slight increase in the 107 centimeter radio flux, there appears to be even less signs of solar activity. sunspots are still not following either of the two predictive curves, and it appears that the solar dynamo continues to slumber, perhaps even winding down further. of particular note, the last graph below (click the read more link to see it) showing the average planetary index (ap) is troubling. i thought there would be an uptick by now, due to expectations of some sign of cycle 24 starting up, but instead it continues to drop.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/04/solar-geomagnetic-ap-index-now-at-lowest-point-in-its-history/#more-4817

we are all light made solid.

david

as many regular readers know, i’ve pointed out several times the incident of the abrupt and sustained lowering of the ap index which occurred in october 2005. the abrupt step change seemed (to me) to be out of place with the data, and the fact that the sun seems so have reestablished at a lower plateau of the ap index after that event and has not recovered is an anomaly worth investigating.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/07/space_katrina/

we are all light made solid.

david

nasa warns of 'space katrina' radiation storm

a study funded by nasa has flagged up yet another terrible hazard for those no longer able to get excited about nuclear war, global pandemics, terrorism, climate change, economic meltdown and asteroid strike. top space brainboxes say that even if the human race survives all those, there is a serious risk of civilisation being brought crashing to its knees by a sudden high-intensity solar radiation storm.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

now solar cycle 24 is going to be less than cycle 23...

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml

we are all light made solid.

david

solar cycle prediction
(updated 2009/01/05)

predicting the behavior of a sunspot cycle is fairly reliable once the cycle is well underway (about 3 years after the minimum in sunspot number occurs [see hathaway, wilson, and reichmann solar physics; 151, 177 (1994)]). prior to that time the predictions are less reliable but nonetheless equally as important. planning for satellite orbits and space missions often require knowledge of solar activity levels years in advance.

a number of techniques are used to predict the amplitude of a cycle during the time near and before sunspot minimum. relationships have been found between the size of the next cycle maximum and the length of the previous cycle, the level of activity at sunspot minimum, and the size of the previous cycle.

among the most reliable techniques are those that use the measurements of changes in the earth's magnetic field at, and before, sunspot minimum. these changes in the earth's magnetic field are known to be caused by solar storms but the precise connections between them and future solar activity levels is still uncertain.

[10tealeaf]

hi guys,
i woke up and found this article on the front page of the australian 9news website titled:



'catastrophic' sun storm possible, nasa warns (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/717066/catastrophic-sun-storm-possible-nasa-warns)

13:00 aest sat jan 10 2009
2 hours 22 minutes ago
by ninemsn staff

http://images.ninemsn.com.au/resizer.aspx?url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/img/2009/technology/1001_solar_sp_lg.jpg&width=310

a once-in-a-century solar storm would threaten catastrophic destruction if a worst-case scenario event transpired, a new nasa report has found.

governments would be powerless to curb the loss of crucial infrastructure including power grids, potable water and sewage disposal, the report said, potentially crippling our way of life for months.

the forecast is based in part on a similarly sized solar storm that took place in 1859, which melted telegraph wires and ignited widespread fires in europe and the united states, fox news reports.

if a repeat event happened now, scientists warn the consequences would be far more serious — even "potentially catastrophic" — because modern technologies have made our infrastructure more inter-reliant.

the danger lies in the sun emitting solar flares so intense that they produce magnetic pulses with the force to destroy power grids by melting transformers.

the power outages could spur a series of devastating consequences:

"impacts would be felt on interdependent infrastructures with, for example, potable water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; immediate or eventual loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, transportation, fuel resupply and so on," the report writes.

"emergency services would be strained, and command and control might be lost."

the sun operates on an 11-year cycle, with the next "active" phase due in 2012 likely to present the nearest danger.

though worst-case storms are only expected to occur once every hundred years, smaller solar flares have caused major disruptions in modern times.

in 1989, a sun storm was so powerful it blacked out the whole province of quebec in canada — an area almost the size of queensland.

another event in 2003 knocked out two satellites circling the earth and destroyed a piece of equipment on a mars orbiter.

"obviously, the sun is earth's life blood," nasa spokesman richard fisher was quoted as saying.

"to mitigate possible public safety issues, it is vital that we better understand extreme space weather events caused by the sun's activity."
i'm just quoting what the "unaware people" will be reading, this is "nasa" we're talking about here. use discernment...
(i'm not sure if this has appeared on american news or has been posted here already...apologies if so)
-10tl

[moderator: this article looks like it was adapted from the link in #83 post in this thread]

[angiem]

was wondering around on my normal sites and this is currently being reported with links and everything on ufo blogger.
latest nasa report support hopi,mayan and web bot 2012 predictions ;)
and
space news,nasa warns catastrophic sun storm possible by 2012

now they seemed to be reporting "fully" on this subject as of now. i mean correct me if i am wrong, i think david mentioned that nasa were not intially reporting on this, or if they did it was only small tid bits that were given, and the full story was not really known by us plebs, now it seems to have gone a complete circle and its turned into a major event for them.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.alexansary.com/editorial/sun%20spots%20and%20a%20weakened%20magnetic%20fiel d.html

be well, be love.

david

the emerging sunspot cycle 24 and a weakening magnetic field
what does this mean for our planet and species?
alex ansary
february 25, 2009

introduction

if you were thinking that the only things we have to be concerned about include wars, famines, and economic crashes, think again.

new scientific discoveries are indicating that this next solar flare cycle could potentially be powerful enough to distrupt our planet's entire electric grid. in this report, i will document the number of changes taking place with our magnetic field, the sun and our solar system while expaining some of the concerns that today's leading scientists have voiced. i will also be examining how humankind may also be affected energically.

[newbold]

isn't that really the most positive application of haarp and the other field generators around the world?

[Deambor]

thank you , light eye, for your relentless enlightening posts. this is again one of them - great article.

inded, i folund mysel;f recently staring at night sky. have you noticed how bight venus is (look at southwest from the sunset up until 9 pm) - it's amazing. oppsite of it, towards east in the sky, - it's jupiter.

first time i noticed, what later i learned as venus, i was really in shock. i thought it was ufo or some such thing. even with the naked eye, it appears huge, you can almost make out the shape of it - it's huge.
then my son and i took out our very basic kids size telescope, and we looked at it - we could see it appearing as large as the moon.

truly amazing.

love to all

deambor

[weboy78]

beaming solar power from space
http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoref=sp080912_solar-satellite&mode=

[Berry Chastain]

thank you , light eye, for your relentless enlightening posts. this is again one of them - great article.

inded, i folund mysel;f recently staring at night sky. have you noticed how bight venus is (look at southwest from the sunset up until 9 pm) - it's amazing. oppsite of it, towards east in the sky, - it's jupiter.

first time i noticed, what later i learned as venus, i was really in shock. i thought it was ufo or some such thing. even with the naked eye, it appears huge, you can almost make out the shape of it - it's huge.
then my son and i took out our very basic kids size telescope, and we looked at it - we could see it appearing as large as the moon.

truly amazing.

love to all

deambor

hi deambor,

i agree, venus has been exquisite this winter and has been in one of the closest positions she ever approaches the earth. she has also conjuncted the moon twice since december and will again during these few days come close to our night light.

if i may make a correction. i think that the bright star you are seeing in the eastern sky is probably sirius, near the constellation of orion, not jupiter. right now jupiter is just emerging from behind the sun and is not yet visible because it is in the bright glow of the setting or rising sun. we will soon be able to see it just above the horizon after sunset and though it will be bright it will not be as bright as venus is now. some are saying that jupiter will someday become our second sun in our solar system, and that it is already heating up in preparation for ignition. wouldn't that be a sight, to have a second sun moving through our solar system. wow.

[Deambor]

thanks for correction, berry.
so venus and sirius, then. great!

well, someday we'll visit all these places, not just look at them from here.
i have a craving and a hunger for the skies. it definitely calls me.

love to all.

deambor

[Purple Dragon]

hi guys,
i woke up and found this article on the front page of the australian 9news website


i came across this article that is similar to the article you posted a while ago. the emerging sunspot cycle 24 and a weakening magnetic field (http://www.alexansary.com/editorial/sun%20spots%20and%20a%20weakened%20magnetic%20fiel d.html) was written on feb 25th, 2009 so still fairly recent. it has a lot of good links to other articles pertaining to the activity going on in our sun.


cosmic rays are slamming earth

an international team of researchers has discovered a puzzling surplus of high-energy electrons bombarding earth from space. the source of these cosmic rays is unknown, but it must be close to the solar system and it could be made of dark matter. their results are being reported in the nov. 20th issue of the journal nature.

sunspot cycle 24 peaking around 2012 could be one of the strongest in centuries

the next sunspot cycle will be 30-50% stronger than the last one and begin as much as a year late, according to a breakthrough forecast using a computer model of solar dynamics developed by scientists at the national center for atmospheric research (ncar). predicting the sun's cycles accurately, years in advance, will help societies plan for active bouts of solar storms, which can slow satellite orbits, disrupt communications, and bring down power systems.

i don't know if the cosmic rays talked about relates back to the dna talks we have heard david tell us about, which could be part of our next evolution? if so, these sun spots could actually be our savior not our destruction. it is very possible we just need to be ready when the time comes so our human consciousness field is ready to do whatever it needs to do at this time. still trying to figure that part out ...

[weboy78]

star explodes, and so might theory
by space.com staff

a massive star a million times brighter than our sun exploded way too early in its life, suggesting scientists don't understand stellar evolution as well as they thought.

"this might mean that we are fundamentally wrong about the evolution of massive stars, and that theories need revising," said avishay gal-yam of the weizmann institute of science in rehovot, israel.

according to theory, the doomed star, about 100 times our sun's mass, was not mature enough to have evolved a massive iron core of nuclear fusion ash, considered a prerequisite for a core implosion that triggers the sort of supernova blast that was seen.

the new study involves old images that have just been compared. it is one of the rare instances where the progenitor of an exploded star has been found...
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090322-supernova-soon.html

[weboy78]

it is midnight on 22 september 2012 and the skies above manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. few new yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. then all the lights in the state go out. within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the us is without power.

a year later and millions of americans are dead and the nation's infrastructure lies in tatters. the world bank declares america a developing nation. europe, scandinavia, china and japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event - a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun.

it sounds ridiculous. surely the sun couldn't create so profound a disaster on earth. yet an extraordinary report funded by nasa and issued by the us national academy of sciences (nas) in january this year claims it could do just that...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

it's just the calm before the storm...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm?list29945

be well, be love.

david

deep solar minimum
04.01.2009

april 1, 2009: the sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.

2008 was a bear. there were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). to find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: plot. prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008.

maybe not. sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. as of march 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).

it adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "we're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist dean pesnell of the goddard space flight center.

"this is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert david hathaway of the marshall space flight center.

[starborne]

does anyone else remember the aurora show that was seen in or around the new england area back on halloween in either 2003 or 2004? i remember it well, as it was during trick or treat.

i noticed when looking through the trees to the northern horizon that the sky seemed to be a glow with that purplish color you would see during sunset. i then remembered that sunset had already happened like 2 hours before that.

i then looked up to the middle of the sky and noticed that the whole northern half of the sky, right up to and a bit past the zenith point was this shimmering purple curtain of light. the edge of the purple curtain was trimmed with a greenish, whitish band that waved and flowed like a sheer fabric being blown by the wind. :eek: :rolleyes: (my approximate reactions, respectivly)

without a doubt, the most strikingly beautiful site i've ever had the pleasure to see in my life! it was exquisitly breathtaking. i also alerted everyone i was with to look up immediatly. i ran next door to my house and got my parents to come out and look, as well as the trick or treaters along the way. i was astonished, as was most of everyone who watched it.

words just cannot do this scene justice. i only wish i had a camera to capture it in all it's majestic glory.

[Aghsan Branch]

wow starborne, i didn't know that happened all the way down here. i was in nc at the time but it'll be fun to ask around and see if anyone saw it...thanks for the re-collection.

hopefully the next one you see won't preceed a coronal mass ejection :cool:

agh!@

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?id=1545&category=science

be well, be love.

david

longest solar minimum since 1913

© 2009 by linda moulton howe

“it's a fascinating time. it's the quietest sun in a century, since the solar cycle of 1902 to 1913. ”
- mark miesch, ph.d., ncar's high altitude observatory

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-missing-sunspots-is-this-the-big-chill-1674630.html

be well, be love.

david

the missing sunspots: is this the big chill?

scientists are baffled by what they’re seeing on the sun’s surface – nothing at all. and this lack of activity could have a major impact on global warming. david whitehouse investigates
monday, 27 april 2009

the disappearance of sunspots happens every few years, but this time it's gone on far longer than anyone expected - and there is no sign of the sun waking up

could the sun play a greater role in recent climate change than has been believed? climatologists had dismissed the idea and some solar scientists have been reticent about it because of its connections with those who those who deny climate change. but now the speculation has grown louder because of what is happening to our sun. no living scientist has seen it behave this way. there are no sunspots.

the disappearance of sunspots happens every few years, but this time it’s gone on far longer than anyone expected – and there is no sign of the sun waking up. “this is the lowest we’ve ever seen. we thought we’d be out of it by now, but we’re not,” says marc hairston of the university of texas. and it’s not just the sunspots that are causing concern. there is also the so-called solar wind – streams of particles the sun pours out – that is at its weakest since records began. in addition, the sun’s magnetic axis is tilted to an unusual degree. “this is the quietest sun we’ve seen in almost a century,” says nasa solar scientist david hathaway. but this is not just a scientific curiosity. it could affect everyone on earth and force what for many is the unthinkable: a reappraisal of the science behind recent global warming.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

me thinks that they just don't know and that that's got them worried...

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?id=1557&category=science

be well, be love.

david

long minimums usually mean weaker maximums, but sun could still have big x-flares in 2011 to 2012
© 2009 by linda moulton howe

“if this solar minimum keeps going past thirteen years, we’ve only had one cycle before that lasted nearly fourteen years. that was about the time of our american revolution! solar cycle 4 started in 1785, and went from then to almost 1800.” - david hathaway, ph.d., heliophysics
team leader, nasa marshall space flight center

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090504-sun-global-cooling.html

be well, be love.

david

sun oddly quiet -- hints at next "little ice age"?
anne minard for national geographic news
may 4, 2009

a prolonged lull in solar activity has astrophysicists glued to their telescopes waiting to see what the sun will do next—and how earth's climate might respond.

the sun is the least active it's been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. the lull is causing some scientists to recall the little ice age, an unusual cold spell in europe and north america, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.

the coldest period of the little ice age, between 1645 and 1715, has been linked to a deep dip in solar storms known as the maunder minimum.

during that time, access to greenland was largely cut off by ice, and canals in holland routinely froze solid. glaciers in the alps engulfed whole villages, and sea ice increased so much that no open water flowed around iceland in the year 1695.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/solarcycle/

be well, be love.

david

big solar flare portends sun’s return to normal
by alexis madrigal

the sun has a new spot, and it could signal the long-awaited beginning of the next solar cycle.

solar flares rise and fall on an 11-year cycle, and last year marked what scientists thought was the solar minimum. but through the beginning of 2009, the sun stayed unusually quiet. that changed yesterday, when a major sunspot appeared on the backside of the sun, where it was captured by nasa’s stereo instrument.

“this is the biggest event we’ve seen in a year or so,” said michael kaiser, research scientist with the heliophysics division at nasa goddard space flight center. “does this mean we’re finished with the minimum or not? it’s hard to say. this could be it. it’s got us all excited.”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/08/noaa-swpc-solar-cycle-24-prediction-update-released-may-8-2009/

be well, be love.

david

noaa swpc: solar cycle 24 prediction update released may 8, 2009

hot off the press from noon today, published at 12:03 pm. looks like a peak of 90 spots/month in 2013 now. place your bets on whether that will be an overshooting forecast or not. – anthony

http://www.spaceweather.com/headlines/y2009/08may_noaaprediction.htm

may 8, 2009: a new active period of earth-threatening solar storms will be the weakest since 1928 and its peak is still four years away, after a slow start last december, predicts an international panel of experts led by noaa’s space weather prediction center. even so, earth could get hit by a devastating solar storm at any time, with potential damages from the most severe level of storm exceeding $1 trillion. nasa funds the prediction panel.

solar storms are eruptions of energy and matter that escape from the sun and may head toward earth, where even a weak storm can damage satellites and power grids, disrupting communications, the electric power supply and gps. a single strong blast of solar wind can threaten national security, transportation, financial services and other essential functions.

the panel predicts the upcoming solar cycle 24 will peak in may 2013 with 90 sunspots per day, averaged over a month. if the prediction proves true, solar cycle 24 will be the weakest cycle since number 16, which peaked at 78 daily sunspots in 1928, and ninth weakest since the 1750s, when numbered cycles began.

the most common measure of a solar cycle’s intensity is the number of sunspots—earth-sized blotches on the sun marking areas of heightened magnetic activity. the more sunspots there are, the more likely it is that solar storms will occur, but a major storm can occur at any time.

[AmelieJolie]

nasa sounds of the sun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csqxpnnods0


interesting...the tonal vibration of "om" projected into sound looks similar to the water crystal!

http://www.glassartists.org/images/thumbnails/000056000/110/thm56211_cymaticohm1.jpg

apparently the sun creates the tonal vibration of "om" exactly....this is the water crystal which formed when given the sounds of the sun:

http://colettebaronreid.com/newsletter/images/soundofsun/water_sunsound.jpg

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://spaceweather.com/glossary/sunspotplotter.htm?phpsessid=fgv4a6jtaabehnh6v1lha cc5f3

and you can check out if maurice's work passes the "test";

http://www.mauricecotterell.com/synopsis01.htm

be well, be love.

david

sunspot plotter

the sunspot plotter is easy to use. for example, select your birth date from the pull-down menus and the plotter instantly shifts to the day you were born:

the red curve traces monthly-averaged sunspot numbers tabulated by the solar influences data center in belgium. data points go all the way back to 1755, so you can investigate the relationship between solar activity and many historical events: do stocks crash during solar minimum? (some people think so.) did nasa send astronauts to the moon during solar max? how do sunspots affect the length of mini-skirts? if you find any interesting coincidences, be sure to tell the webmaster.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news162653480.html

be well, be love.

david

new solar cycle prediction: fewer sunspots, but not necessarily less activity

(physorg.com) -- an international panel of experts has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle, stating that solar cycle 24 will peak in may 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. led by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa) and sponsored by nasa, the panel includes a dozen members from nine different government and academic institutions. their forecast sets the stage for at least another year of mostly quiet conditions before solar activity resumes in earnest.

"if our prediction is correct, solar cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when solar cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman doug biesecker of the noaa space weather prediction center, boulder, colo.

it is tempting to describe such a cycle as "weak" or "mild," but that could give the wrong impression. "even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," says biesecker. "the great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17228-why-is-the-earth-moving-away-from-the-sun.html

be well, be love.

david

why is the earth moving away from the sun?
18:22 01 june 2009 by kelly beatty, skyandtelescope.com

skywatchers have been trying to gauge the sun-earth distance for thousands of years. in the third century bc, aristarchus of samos, notable as the first to argue for a heliocentric solar system, estimated the sun to be 20 times farther away than the moon. it wasn't his best work, as the real factor is more like 400.

by the late 20th century, astronomers had a much better grip on this fundamental cosmic metric – what came to be called the astronomical unit. in fact, thanks to radar beams pinging off various solar-system bodies and to tracking of interplanetary spacecraft, the sun-earth distance has been pegged with remarkable accuracy. the current value stands at 149,597,870.696 kilometres.

having such a precise yardstick allowed russian dynamicists gregoriy a. krasinsky and victor a. brumberg to calculate, in 2004, that the sun and earth are gradually moving apart. it's not much – just 15 cm per year – but since that's 100 times greater than the measurement error, something must really be pushing earth outward. but what?

one idea is that the sun is losing enough mass, via fusion and the solar wind, to gradually be losing its gravitational grip (see astronomical unit may need to be redefined). other possible explanations include a change in the gravitational constant g, the effects of cosmic expansion, and even the influence of dark matter. none have proved satisfactory.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/13/sunspots-today-a-cheshire-cat...

and of course this from maurice cotterell;
http://www.mauricecotterell.com/synopsispage00.htm

sunspots today: a cheshire cat – new essay from livingston and penn
13 06 2009

this arrived in my email tonight from bill livingston. it is hot off the press, date june 11th. i believe wuwt readers will be some of the first to see this. – anthony

guest essay by:
w. livingston, national solar observatory, 950 n. cherry ave, tucson az 85718;
m. penn, national solar observatory, tucson az

physical conditions in the infrared at 1.5 microns, including maximum magnetic field strength and temperature, have been observed spectroscopically in 1391 sunspots 1990 to 2009 (1). we emphasize the quantitative difference between our ir sunspot measurements and the visible light results from most solar magnetographs employed world-wide. the latter are compromised by scattered light and measure flux, not field strength. a lower limit of ~1800 gauss is required to form spot umbra. the umbral maximum field strength has declined over the above interval, perhaps because spots have on average diminished in size. the present condition of solar activity minimum has more spotless days than since the 1910s (2). the cheshire cat behavior is related to magnetic surface fields often appearing without accompanying dark spots.

sunspots recently are behaving like a cheshire cat: the smile is there (magnetic fields) but the body is missing (no dark markings). we are unsure about past cycles but at present sunspots, with their usual umbrae and penumbrae, are failing to materialize. for hundreds of years the sun has shown an approximately periodic 11-year alteration in its activity where the number of sunspots increases and then decreases. sunspots are dark regions on the solar disk with magnetic field strengths greater than 1500-1800 gauss. the last sunspot maximum occurred in 2001. magnetically active sunspots at that time (figure 1a) produced powerful flares, caused large geomagnetic disturbances, and disrupted some space-based technology.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17jun_jetstream.htm?list29945

be well, be love.

david

mystery of the missing sunspots, solved?
06.17.2009

june 17, 2009: the sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.

at an american astronomical society press conference today in boulder, colorado, researchers announced that a jet stream deep inside the sun is migrating slower than usual through the star's interior, giving rise to the current lack of sunspots.

rachel howe and frank hill of the national solar observatory (nso) in tucson, arizona, used a technique called helioseismology to detect and track the jet stream down to depths of 7,000 km below the surface of the sun. the sun generates new jet streams near its poles every 11 years, they explained to a room full of reporters and fellow scientists. the streams migrate slowly from the poles to the equator and when a jet stream reaches the critical latitude of 22 degrees, new-cycle sunspots begin to appear.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://solarcycle25.com/index.php?id=41

be well, be love.

david

the critical importance of solar cycles - by stephen wilde
sunday, june 28th 2009, 5:39 am edt

introduction.

the sun was dismissed by the ipcc as a contributor to the apparent warming of the earth’s climate during the period from 1975 to 2000.

it seems to be accepted that the warming that occurred in the early part of the 20th century was more likely solar induced but it is asserted that in the late 20th century man made influences took over and forced a rise in global temperatures that would not otherwise have happened naturally. however it is notable that the highest recorded us mainland temperatures were recorded in the 1930s and not the 1990s. that interesting fact was obscured until recently when the data was investigated and the records corrected.

i have already dealt with the likelihood that the ipcc was in error regarding solar influence in my article for climaterealists.com and which can be found here:

the death blow to anthropogenic global warming

[Bill]

so, just out of curiosity, where was the coronal mass ejection that was predicted for the sun on 7/7/09? i see that there was a sun spot generated on the 6th, but thought we were going to see some massive solar flares and interruption on earth?

[Berry Chastain]

;)
so, just out of curiosity, where was the coronal mass ejection that was predicted for the sun on 7/7/09? i see that there was a sun spot generated on the 6th, but thought we were going to see some massive solar flares and interruption on earth?

from what i have read regarding previous crop circles predicting cmes they have been pretty close within the timeframe of their appearance. when i say close i mean within a few days one way or the other the announcement. for example on july 15 of 2004 at south field and a couple of weeks later at tan hill the circles told of a major solar storm which lit up the earth's skys with bright auroras on july 26 & 27. those circle didn't specify a date but the cmes happened within 10 to 12 days of their appearances.

there acutally were 2 minimal cmes already which we were not advised of. one on june 24 and the second on june 28.
( http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/ ) look at the image for around 11:29 ut to see the influx of solar radiation from the june 24th cme.

i still expect to see some activity and this link above provides daily records of solar activities in a form that noaa doesn't provide. ;)

[Berry Chastain]

bill,
i no more than posted my last note regarding the july 6-7 solar activity and went to my email and was presented with this interesting and confirming article. we did indeed have not one but three solar flares and cmes occur on the predicted date.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-honolulu-exopolitics-examiner~y2009m7d8-crop-circle-accurately-predicts-solar-storms

"the solar heliospheric observatory (soho) confirms that on july 6, 2009, a very large coronal mass ejection (cme) was emitted by the sun. this was followed by what appears to be a smaller cme being emitted by a solar flare on the morning of july 7, and another large cme emitted on july 8. the cmes are partial confirmation for a coded prediction found in a crop circle discovered in milk hill england that evolved in three stages from june 21 to 30."

[Bill]

again, i wonder what happened to the projected solar interruptions that were supposed to hit earth on the 12th? i witnessed no interruptions, but have not been able to find any news of whether something did occur...

[aqcheryl]

again, i wonder what happened to the projected solar interruptions that were supposed to hit earth on the 12th? i witnessed no interruptions, but have not been able to find any news of whether something did occur...

i dont know about the 12th, if it was a solar eclipse, but as for the 7th - i was wondering if it was possible that its not a coincidence this solar flare happened during an eclipse.

an eclipse being when the moon comes between the sun and the earth - thereby for that amount of a time its a shield...

my other thought here is what if the crop circle was not warning something that will happen to earth directly? what if instead it affects another planet, and since all planets in the solar system affect each other(?), it would affect us indirectly...

or perhaps it wasnt a warning at all - but them trying to prove to us that they are telling us the truth - and seemingly they knew it was going to happen before our own scientists began predicting it, thus pointing even further that its extraterrestrial intelligence communicating with us...

[ds37ds]

longest solar eclipse of the 21st century


july 20, 2009: one one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand...

continue counting and don't stop until you reach 399 one-thousand.

did that feel like a long time? six minutes and 39 seconds to be exact. that's the duration of this week's total solar eclipse--the longest of the 21st century.

the event begins at the crack of dawn on wednesday, july 22nd, in the gulf of khambhat just east of india. morning fishermen will experience a sunrise like nothing they've ever seen before. rising out of the waves in place of the usual sun will be an inky-black hole surrounded by pale streamers splayed across the sky. sea birds will stop squawking, unsure if the day is beginning or not, as a strange shadow pushes back the dawn and stirs up a breeze of unaccustomed chill.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/20jul_longestsolareclipse.htm

[Loungin]

longest solar eclipse of the 21st century


july 20, 2009: one one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand...

continue counting and don't stop until you reach 399 one-thousand.

did that feel like a long time? six minutes and 39 seconds to be exact. that's the duration of this week's total solar eclipse--the longest of the 21st century.

the event begins at the crack of dawn on wednesday, july 22nd, in the gulf of khambhat just east of india. morning fishermen will experience a sunrise like nothing they've ever seen before. rising out of the waves in place of the usual sun will be an inky-black hole surrounded by pale streamers splayed across the sky. sea birds will stop squawking, unsure if the day is beginning or not, as a strange shadow pushes back the dawn and stirs up a breeze of unaccustomed chill.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/20jul_longestsolareclipse.htm

a friend, who lives in japan, took this picture of the solar eclipse.

http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq52/aspenusmc74/eclipse07-2009.jpg

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/sun_run_of_41_days_without_a_spot_enters_the_top_1 0_longest/

be well, be love.

david

sun run of 51 days without a spot now among the top 5 longest
by joseph d’aleo

sunday, august 30th marks the 51st straight day without a sunspot, one of the longest stretches in a century. one more day and we have a spotless month (we had some by some accounts one last august but a few observatories thought they saw a spot on the sun for a few hours one day). it would be either the first or second spotless month since 1913 depending on whether you count last august as spotless.

[mahstar]

ok, tried to post this ages ago, but it wasn´t possible due to technicality. repeat!

hi, i came to the forum to share this article:
http://www.physorg.com/news164550243.html

anyway, i was wondering, how does this "solar minimum" work towards proving david´s theories (that whole solar system is increasing in temp inc earth)?
as far as i understand, the reason why temps are going up is not (or at least, not only) global warning and human activity, but the fact that the sun is more active now than ever before, so the solar winds deflect the cosmic radiation, which doesn't make it to earth where it would hit water particles and make clouds. ok, so i got it this far, and then i've also read that this has been going on for a few decades at least. now... if the sun is loosing energy and has no sun spots, how does this support david's arguments?
does it mean that it is still more luminous than 40 years ago, but at a minimum from the last cycle? but this is the weakest cycle in nearly 100 years, so how does this work out? does the fact that this article expects solar activity to pick up again, mean that by 2012 the solar system will have gone to the new vibrations phase within the galaxy, and the sun will show that with a new powerful cycle?
this has been tormenting me for a while, and i would like to understand it better. mainly, because i think of myself as a person with 'green' ideals, and when i heard of global warming i felt it was almost god-sent, because maybe now everyone would take our impact on the environment seriously...
then when i found out about the theories describing gw as a manipulation story, it took me a year to even dwell and consider them seriously (just contemplating the thought!) because i felt we needed that kind of serious danger to start changing! now i have reconciled myself between these two apparent opposites; love and desire for higher respect for mother earth, without believing that our emissions of co2 are changing the weather. ive come to realize we cause enough damage as it is, and if the melting glaciers are not our fault, then the empty seas, 90% decrease in forest worldwide, decrease in biodiversity, acid rain, desertification, and pollution of drinking water certainly are enough to worry about...
but i would really like to understand the sun factor in this equation, so i can explain it to friends with real understanding, and without apparently contradicting factors.
summary as i understand it: no sun spots mean the sun is less active, this activity is part of a cycle (11 yrs) of which we are at one of the lowest ever. now, at the same time, temps are going up. and solar rays help in that because they knock off the cosmic rays which make clouds when they enter the atmosphere (which in turn reflect sun rays). so, aren't these two processes contradictory?
anyone who could answer would help me out! thank you! thkr

[weboy78]

so, just out of curiosity, where was the coronal mass ejection that was predicted for the sun on 7/7/09? i see that there was a sun spot generated on the 6th, but thought we were going to see some massive solar flares and interruption on earth?
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/waylandsmithy/comments.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvay-oo-8pe


watch this

[Truth180]

ok, tried to post this ages ago, but it wasn´t possible due to technicality. repeat!

hi, i came to the forum to share this article:
http://www.physorg.com/news164550243.html

summary as i understand it: no sun spots mean the sun is less active, this activity is part of a cycle (11 yrs) of which we are at one of the lowest ever. now, at the same time, temps are going up. and solar rays help in that because they knock off the cosmic rays which make clouds when they enter the atmosphere (which in turn reflect sun rays). so, aren't these two processes contradictory?
anyone who could answer would help me out! thank you! thkr

in my opinion the earth is effected by many things including things far out in space that we cannot see. just like when you throw a small pebble in the ocean, the pebble still replaces the water which moves the water leve up. even though its very little and not noticed. we can't forget that anything that is disturbed any where in the universe is going to be felt. weither it started here or there so everything is connected.

what matters is that the futurre is not written in stone and the people of the planet have the power to change the future if they want it. what really matters is "us" all of us. if there weren't for people here what would be the point. what is causing these changes? we are.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/solar-wind-suprise-this-discovery-is-like-finding-it-got-hotter-when-the-sun-went-down/#more-10728

be well, be love.

david

solar wind surprise: “this discovery is like finding it got hotter when the sun went down,”
10 09 2009

this gives a whole new meaning to “total solar irradiance”. instead of tsi, perhaps we should call the energy transfer that comes from the sun to the earth tse for “total solar energy” so that it includes the solar wind, the geomagnetics, and other yet undiscovered linkages. jack eddy is smiling and holding up the patch cord he’s been given at last, wondering how long it will be before we find all the connectors.

from the ucla newsroom: by stuart wolpert

ucla atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the earth’s magnetosphere. the research, federally funded by the national science foundation, could improve the safety and reliability of spacecraft that operate in the upper atmosphere.

“it’s like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun. this discovery is like finding it got hotter when the sun went down,” said larry lyons, ucla professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and a co-author of the research, which is in press in two companion papers in the journal of geophysical research.

the sun, in addition to emitting radiation, emits a stream of ionized particles called the solar wind that affects the earth and other planets in the solar system. the solar wind, which carries the particles from the sun’s magnetic field, known as the interplanetary magnetic field, takes about three or four days to reach the earth. when the charged electrical particles approach the earth, they carve out a highly magnetized region — the magnetosphere — which surrounds and protects the earth.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/solarminimum.jsp

be well, be love.

david

solar cycle driven by more than sunspots; sun also bombards earth with high-speed streams of wind
september 17, 2009

boulder—challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the sun's impact on earth over the course of the 11-year solar cycle. the study, led by scientists at the high altitude observatory of the national center for atmospheric research (ncar) and the university of michigan, finds that earth was bombarded last year with high levels of solar energy at a time when the sun was in an unusually quiet phase and sunspots had virtually disappeared.

"the sun continues to surprise us," says ncar scientist sarah gibson, the lead author. "the solar wind can hit earth like a fire hose even when there are virtually no sunspots."

the study, also written by scientists at noaa and nasa, is being published today in the journal of geophysical research - space physics. it was funded by nasa and by the national science foundation, ncar's sponsor.

scientists for centuries have used sunspots, which are areas of concentrated magnetic fields that appear as dark patches on the solar surface, to determine the approximately 11-year solar cycle. at solar maximum, the number of sunspots peaks. during this time, intense solar flares occur daily and geomagnetic storms frequently buffet earth, knocking out satellites and disrupting communications networks.

[weboy78]

cayce: gravitation and polarity '
q-what would be more conclusive argument to prove that the sun is hot on the ...surface? r-the disintegration of the rays, just as has been described, as it absorbs and emits, being both positive and negative. 195-70

http://translate.google.it/translate?u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.edgarcayce.it%2fmedia %2fgravitaz.htm&sl=it&tl=en&hl=it&ie=utf-8

haramein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jclbgra4m4&feature=playlist&p=d5561e92307be798&playnext=1&playnext_from=pl&index=2

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=74fgmwne

be well, be love.

david

electric sun verified

“is it likely that any astonishing new developments are lying in wait for us? is it possible that the cosmology of 500 years hence will extend as far beyond our present beliefs as our cosmology goes beyond that of newton?”
—fred hoyle, the nature of the universe

nasa's ibex (interstellar boundary explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the boundary between the sun’s environment (the heliosphere), and interstellar space. the results, reported as a bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin which bisects the maps, have taken researchers by surprise. however, the discovery fits the electric model of stars perfectly.

the meter-wide, hexagonal ibex monitors the edge of the solar system from earth orbit by “seeing” the heliosphere’s outer boundary in the “light” of energetic neutral hydrogen atoms (ena’s). the news releases of october 15 highlighted the difficulties this discovery causes. “the thing that’s really shocking is this ribbon,” says ibex principal investigator david mccomas of southwest research institute in san antonio, texas. researchers had expected gusts in the solar wind blowing against the boundary to create 20% or 30% variations in ena emissions, but the ribbon is 10 times that intense—a narrow band blazing across the sky like some milky way on fire. charged particles have apparently become bunched along the ribbon near the boundary, says mccomas, but how they got there “is still a big mystery. our previous ideas about the outer heliosphere are going to have to be revised." “i’m blown away completely,” says space physicist neil murphy of nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. “it’s amazing, it’s opened up a new kind of astronomy.”

[LightEye]

dear friends,

paste the link to read the whole article.

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?id=1635&category=science

be well, be love.

david

how long will our sun remain quiet and cosmic rays increase?
© 2009 by linda moulton howe

“we don’t have records prior to 1874 that give us details about the sun. compared to the past 130 years, our sun now is unprecedented as far as how slow this solar cycle 24 is taking off - or not taking off!”
- david hathaway, ph.d., nasa heliospheric team leader

october 30, 2009 huntsville, alabama - for twelve years, nasa has had a satellite positioned a million miles in front of earth with the sun about 92 million miles beyond. its mission has been to study particles that come near earth from our sun, the solar system and the galaxy. the satellite is called advanced composition explorer, or ace, and some of the highly energetic particles ace has been monitoring are cosmic rays.

the number of cosmic rays reaching earth are lower when the sun is active and has a strong, turbulent magnetic field that interferes with cosmic ray travel. but when the sun is not active, more cosmic rays reach earth. the sun is supposed to be in an increasingly active period of solar cycle 24 with a solar maximum originally expected in 2011 to 2012. but the sun has been abnormally quiet. scientists have not seen such a persistently low sunspot number for at least a century. further, the magnetic field of the sun is at the lowest strength measured in at least 50 years.

beginning six months ago, ace satellite data showed a rise in cosmic rays reaching earth from the milky way galaxy. by now, cosmic ray intensity has increased 19% because our sun is so quiet that its reduced magnetic field isn’t deflecting cosmic rays like it has the past few decades. if our sun remains quiet, there could be a 30% increase in cosmic rays reaching earth in the next year or so – an intensity not seen since 1960. increased cosmic rays can damage electronic systems and even dna in living creatures.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news176369111.html

be well, be love.

david

solar winds triggered by magnetic fields
november 2, 2009

(physorg.com) -- solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by ucl (university college london) researchers based on the latest observations from the hinode satellite.

scientists have long speculated on the source of solar winds. the extreme ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (eis), on board the japanese-uk-us hinode satellite, is now generating unprecedented observations enabling scientists to provide a new perspective on the 50-year old question of how solar wind is driven. the collaborative study, published in this month’s issue of astrophysical journal, suggests that a process called slipping reconnection may drive these winds.

deb baker, lead author from ucl mullard space science laboratory, says: “solar wind is an outflow of million-degree gas and magnetic field that engulfs the earth and other planets. it fills the entire solar system and links with the magnetic fields of the earth and other planets. changes in the sun’s million-mile-per-hour wind can induce disturbances within near-earth space and our upper atmosphere and yet we still don’t know what drives these outflows."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/12/another-parallel-with-the-maunder-minimum/#more-12768

be well, be love.

david

another parallel with the maunder minimum
guest post by david archibald

in a presentation dated 22nd september, 2009, dr svalgaard produced a graphic which can be interpreted to predict the timing of the solar cycle 24 maximum.

that presentation is available here: http://www.leif.org/research/predicting%20the%20solar%20cycle.ppt

dr svalgaard annotated altrock’s orgininal figure with the red and aqua arrows. what is significant is that the solar cycle 24 arrow is 15 years after the solar cycle 23 arrow. with the maximum of solar cycle 23 in march 2000, that line suggests that the solar cycle 24 maximum will be in 2015.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news177872248.html

be well, be love.

david

mystery of the solar tsunami -- solved (w/ video)

the unique orbit of stereo's twin spacecraft allowed scientists to confirm the existence of solar tsunamis. credit: nasa

(physorg.com) -- sometimes you really can believe your eyes. that's what nasa's solar terrestrial relations observatory (stereo) is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar tsunami."

years ago, when solar physicists first witnessed a towering wave of hot plasma racing across the sun's surface, they doubted their senses. the scale of the wave was staggering: it rose up higher than earth itself and rippled out from a central point in a circular pattern millions of kilometers in circumference. skeptical observers suggested it might be a shadow of some kind—a trick of the satellite's eye—but surely not a real wave.

"now we know," says joe gurman of the solar physics laboratory at nasa's goddard space flight center. "solar tsunamis are real."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/02/the-sun-falling-into-an-even-deeper-funk/

be well, be love.

david

the sun: falling into an even deeper funk
2 12 2009

with climategate sucking all the oxygen out of the blogosphere, we’ve neglected some of our regular reporting duties here at wuwt.

thanks to paul stanko, who has been tracking sunspots for wuwt for awhile now who writes in with this update. it looks like we’ll soon surpass 2008 for the number of spotless days. – anthony

guest post by paul stanko

with november now in the past, i’ve got a fresh set of statistics, and it looks like this cycle is falling ever further into an even deeper funk. the attached graphics are revamped according to leif’s impromptu peer review and i believe are
much improved. they are a few days old, though.

the 2009 spotless days are now 262 and the cycle 24 spotless days are now 774. on the cycle graph, i now calculated three different sets of spotless days per cycle. minimum just counted the actual observed and reported days of zero sunspots. maximum assumed that all missing obs were zero sunspot days. likely assigned spotless days to the missing obs in the same ratio as the reported obs for that year.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nasa-shows-quiet-sun-means-cooling-of-earths-upper-atmosphere-79432252.html

be well, be love.

david

nasa shows quiet sun means cooling of earth's upper atmosphere
hampton, va., dec. 16 /prnewswire-usnewswire/

new measurements from a nasa satellite show a dramatic cooling in the upper atmosphere that correlates with the declining phase of the current solar cycle. for the first time, researchers can show a timely link between the sun and the climate of earth's thermosphere, the region above 100 km, an essential step in making accurate predictions of climate change in the high atmosphere.

scientists from nasa's langley research center and hampton university in hampton, va., and the national center for atmospheric research in boulder, colo., will present these results at the fall meeting of the american geophysical union in san francisco from dec. 14 to 18.

earth's thermosphere and mesosphere have been the least explored regions of the atmosphere. the nasa thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere energetics and dynamics (timed) mission was developed to explore the earth's atmosphere above 60 km altitude and was launched in december 2001. one of four instruments on the timed mission, the sounding of the atmosphere using broadband emission radiometry (saber) instrument, was specifically designed to measure the energy budget of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. the saber dataset now covers eight years of data and has already provided some basic insight into the heat budget of the thermosphere on a variety of timescales.

the extent of current solar minimum conditions has created a unique situation for recent saber datasets. the end of solar cycle 23 has offered an opportunity to study the radiative cooling in the thermosphere under exceptionally quiescent conditions.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~liepert/research/globaldimming.html

be well, be love.

david

dimming the sun ... cover for global dimming animation
is our planet becoming a darker place?


as recorded by an array of hundreds of instruments deployed around the earth, the period from the late 1950s through the early 1990s witnessed a clear and measurable decline (as much as 5% globally) in the amount of sunlight reaching the ground. in some regions the drop was even steeper. in the united states, for example, sunlight decreased 10 percent over that period. in hong kong, the figure was a shocking 37%.

what is going on? in a word, pollution. satellite measurements show that although the sun remains as bright as ever, less sunlight has been penetrating through the atmosphere to the ground, accounting for the phenomenon now known to scientists as “global dimming.”

pollution dims sunlight in two ways. first, it bounces incoming light off the airborne particles and back into space. second, the pollution causes more water droplets to condense out of the air, leading to darker, thicker clouds—which, of course, block more sunlight. global warming also contributes to dimming: warmer air holds more water, and when condensed the warmer clouds are heavier and darker. for that reason, the dimming appears to be more pronounced on cloudy days than sunny ones.

recent studies suggest that the phenomenon of global dimming may have slowed or stopped in the 1990s, probably due to efforts in several developed countries to clear up air pollution. indeed, satellites measured less global cloud coverage from the early 1990s to 2002. these findings, however, add a new level of mystery to the debate on global dimming and its causes.

less sunlight, after all, should mean lower ground temperatures. but this notion runs counter to the expectations of global warming. on the other hand, climate simulations suggest that global warming and solar dimming can coexist. sunlight is used for warming our planet’s surface and for keeping the water cycle running. hence a suppressed water cycle with less rain would be very likely in a dimmer world. also, dimming might have slowed global warming.

if that is so, then clearer and sunnier days from reducing pollution levels could mean bad news yet: without the cloudiness and pollution to counter rising temperatures, more sunshine could be expected to accelerate the process of global warming.

[Raveninns]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pohkmqg0dw

just a short vid i found on a link from the rense site....

essentially, a fella was perusing the nasa site and found spherical objects around the sun's corona, (3), and he estimates that they're about the size of earth.

i have no idea if this is a fake or not,or just anomolies in the photographs, so i'm hoping the more scientifically adept can s'plain this to me? i'd really really like to know.....

i'm going to check out the addys he shows, if i find out more, i'll post.

cheers, raven

[Chris Hamilton]

from the link you gave us, i also cross-checked with spaceweather, which usually comments on any anomalies. i found at that exact same time, there was a comet that evaporated into the sun. remembering that we are looking at uv pics here and not visible light, that little ball could well be the comet.

this is at 20:05 (the pic will enlarge, just click on it)
20100121_200530_n7eub_195.jpg

the next pic is at 20:35 and the object is gone.

here is the pic of the visible light. the last time stamp is 20:18, and it just appears to vaporize:

http://spaceweather.com/images2010/21jan10/stereoa_comet_anim2.gif?phpsessid=as7rmpuqohannigf n982nj93c6

understanding that the visible light and uv cameras are positioned differently in space would explain why the entry angle is slightly different i would imagine. chris

[Chris Hamilton]

here are the positions of a and b stereo:

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where.shtml

[eagleye]

whether it is a comet or not, has anyone noticed that this object is about the size of venus or earth?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0r3cahsams

these are by no means “little balls”. don’t you think that merits some media attention, instead of them just dismissing it as a “normal” comet? the fact that they are not saying anything about the massive size of these gigantic objects (plural) is very telling in itself.

something else that blew me away were the pictures of the some of the spheres within the suns corona. for those of you who don’t know, the sun’s corona is more than 200 times hotter than the actual surface of the sun. in fact i looked it up and it is measured at a range anywhere from 1,800,000 degrees fahrenheit (999,982 c) to 5,400,000 degrees fahrenheit (2,999,982 c)! that’s million with six zeros. yet as we can see in the picture, the spheres are still completely intact within the corona. they should have been immediately reduced to liquid molten rock as they approached the corona, and then instantly vaporized when hitting it. the fact that the spheres are in the corona, shows they were not vaporized as they should have been when hitting those kinds of temps. it should be physically impossible to have these spheres intact within the sun since we know that rock melts at much lower temps, yet there they are in the picture. this tells me they cannot be natural objects made of rock such as a comet because they would not be existing in the suns corona.

i think it would be good for us to be skeptical of anything nasa is calling a comet since they have proven many times over that they cannot be trusted. if fact i am skeptical when it comes to anything nasa says these days. :)

[Raveninns]

thanks, i was beginning to believe that i was the only one who thought this was crazy...

i went to the ahead/behind site at nasa and checked out all the time lapsed photos, and they're in one, then 10 mins later they're not then 10 mins later they're in another quadrant. it is very strange.....

*something* is very definitely going on.

cheers, raven

[JoshERTW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df8ahplyenk&feature=player_embedded

another summary of this nasa sun-telescope orb phenomenon, this one even has some video footage. look at the dates on the pictures too, this has been going on since 2000. it seems like its
ramped up since 2010 started, there seems to be orbs almost daily now, and certainly an increased interest from the public. nasa has also tried doctoring some of the photos.

check this one out for nassim haramein's explaination of whats going on, this is an old video, but again, this phenomenon is only gaining some wider attention right now as it seems to be ramping up, much like world wide ufo sightings (and interest):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhm4yulwsyq&feature=player_embedded

[Chris Hamilton]

from raveninns:


went to the ahead/behind site at nasa and checked out all the time lapsed photos, and they're in one, then 10 mins later they're not then 10 mins later they're in another quadrant. it is very strange.....

*something* is very definitely going on.

again, we need to use our noodles here and not just go wow!. the shots are all from different angles. if you use that sunspot on the 20th as a reference point, you can see the different angles these shots are taken from. many shots are duplicates, taken at one point from the behind camera and another from the front camera. it does take some 'spatial' acuity, which i was never good at;) but, using that sunspot does help you see one shot taken at different angles. this is an ultraviolet picture too. remember, our visual sees a sunspot as a black patch, but ultraviolet sees it bright. the blue, red, and green ultraviolet images that soho and stereo take all measure a different elemental ion and its corresponding temperature. the pictures are sent to earth in black and white and then colored to correspond to the temps/ions, so when someone "enhances" the pics we are seeing other objects that correspond in temperature to the uv image being taken too.

ok, go from there guys! enjoy! chris

[eagleye]

i came across this article today on the huffington post: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7009735.ece

isn’t it interesting that nasa all of a sudden has an unprecedented interest in viewing the sun up close? in nine days they will be launching a solar dynamics observatory (sdo). according to this article, the new equipment they plan to launch into orbit will have a clarity ten times clearer than high- definition television and is like a “giant microscope” that will allow them to see every detail around the sun.

my guess is that the real reason they are launching this equipment has something to do with the giant spheres seen in the photos.

[moderator: just as a reminder, the orb comments can be found in the ufo thread where the pics are]

[Rich1111]

hi all, has anyone seen walter cruttenden's videos and website? he is quite sure we have a binary star system, sirius is said to be the twin star of our own sun... and it's a 24,000 year cycle.. perhaps it's a 26,000 year cycle?
http://binaryresearchinstitute.org/

this could be huge news, if not already mentioned on here.. sorry if it has..
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/wcruttenden.htm mods:this was already offerred in post 70 in this thread, but we will let thru again.

if true, would shed a lot more light on 2012 and perhaps answer some important questions. one that comes to mind is this; the 2000 years of light that it talked of.. could this be because we are moving towards sirius (at speeds that were previously incorrect..).. having 2 suns could well mean no night time.. maybe, maybe not. i might get some blockout curtains either way : ) could it be the light from this star that upgrades dna? it seems to be a cycle, logical?

the queens chamber in the giza pyramid shaft point to sirius.. it is mentioned many times and has relevance to some degree, how much i am unsure.. hmm either way this is some food for thought.. a binary star system, how amazing would that be!

regards,
rich

[weboy78]

http://www.aanda.org/content/view/438/42/lang,en/
a new 3d map of the interstellar gas within 300 parsecs from the sun

astronomy & astrophysics is publishing new 3d maps of the interstellar gas in the local area around our sun. a french-american team of astronomers presents new absorption measurements towards more than 1800 stars. they were able to characterize the properties of the interstellar gas within each sight line.
this week, astronomy & astrophysics publishes new 3d maps of the interstellar gas situated in an area 300 parsecs around the sun. a french-american team of astronomers presents new measurements of the absorption by the interstellar gas in the sun's local area. knowledge of the interstellar medium properties, including the spatial distribution, dynamics, and the chemical and physical characteristics, allow astronomers to better understand the interplay between the evolution of stars and their exchange of matter with the ambient interstellar medium. the local area around our sun has been studied with many surveys at various wavelengths, but the whole picture is still far from being either complete or fully understood.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=124125001#commentblock

be well, be love.

david

solar storms could be earth's next katrina
by jon hamilton
february 26, 2010

a massive solar storm could leave millions of people around the world without electricity, running water, or phone service, government officials say.

that was their conclusion after participating in a tabletop exercise that looked at what might happen today if the earth were struck by a solar storm as intense as the huge storms that occurred in 1921 and 1859.

solar storms happen when an eruption or explosion on the surface of the sun sends radiation or electrically charged particles toward earth. minor storms are common and can light up the earth's northern skies and interfere with radio signals.

every few decades, though, the sun experiences a particularly large storm. these can release as much energy as 1 billion hydrogen bombs.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.terracycles.com/joomla/sections/1-earth/27-solarearthquakeevidence.html

be well, be love.

david

solar earthquake evidence
written by david thomson
saturday, 06 february 2010 19:58

after a solar storm strikes the earth a geomagnetic storm erupts. the increased magnetic field strength of the magnetosphere pushes down on the ionosphere, which pushes against the oceans. it is due to the electromagnetic properties of sea water that the oceans become temporarily heavier. the extra heaviness of the sea water, coupled with the daily tidal forces of the sun and moon cause greater than normal forces to press against both the eastern and western boundaries of the pacific plate, but more so the western boundary in the south pacific islands region.

below are earthquake maps showing global earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater for the five days following a geomagnetic storm. notice the clear pattern of quakes in the south pacific islands region along with activity around the pacific rim. there is also a clear pattern of earthquake activity along the fault running from greece to the pacific plate.

the five dates selected below were the first five dates i found for geomagnetic storms and were selected completely at random. there is a list of solar storms where you can choose a date and check the earthquake database yourself to verify this theory.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

this is way cool...

link to article;

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/scientists_now_listen_to_the_solar_wind_999.html

link to music;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krycbfrjcyk

be well, be love.

david


scientists now listen to the solar wind
by staff writers
ann arbor, mich. (upi) mar 2, 2009
u.s. scientists say they have "sonified" solar wind data, allowing researchers to listen to the solar wind that's usually represented as numbers or graphs.

university of michigan researchers said they created an acoustic, or musical, representation of the solar wind in order to hear information that their eyes might have missed in solar wind speed and particle density data gathered by nasa's advanced composition explorer satellite.

the solar wind is a stream of charged particles emanating from the sun.

the process of sonification isn't new, the researchers said, noting that is the process used by geiger counter radiation detectors that emit clicks in the presence of high-energy particles.

"what makes this project different is the level of artistic license i was given," said composer and recent school of music alumnus robert alexander.

the product, which alexander says is "in between art and science," uses a drum beat to represent the rotation of the sun, and the voice of a singer -- his sister -- to represent the charge state of carbon atoms.

"every piece of scientific data tells a story. i'm expressing this story through music," alexander said. "these sonifications present scientific data in a way that is immediately visceral."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3356/full

be well, be love.

david

solar storms create 'killer electrons'
thursday, 18 march 2010
by heather catchpole
cosmos online

sydney: 'killer electrons' - electrons circling earth that wreck satellites and can cause cancer in astronauts - are created when solar storms create shockwaves in the earth's protective magnetic bubble, scientists said.

the earth's magnetic field abounds with charged, fast moving particles that orbit up to 64,000 km above the surface. when a severe solar storm - a stream of energetic particles emanating from the sun - hits the earth's magnetic field, it creates a shockwave that boosts the number of particles by up to ten times as much.

these highly energetic negative particles, which scientists have dubbed 'killer' electrons, can penetrate satellites and spacecraft and cause miniature lightning storms within the electronics. they also pose a health risk to astronauts.

particle energy amplified

until now, scientists were unsure what was causing the electrons to accelerate to such high speeds. an international team led by space physicist qiugang zong from peking university in china and the university of massachusetts lowell in the u.s. says waves within the magnetic field itself amplify the energy of the particles to the point where they become a serious hazard.

as the waves travel through earth's magnetic field, it causes the charged particles to accelerate - first in one direction, then in the opposite direction.

because the particles are oscillating in phase with the waves they begin to speed up - this is like sloshing back and forth in the bath in time with the reflected waves, causing them to get bigger.

[ds37ds]

some lovely images of the sun.

it takes a while to download but it's worth the wait.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/21apr_firstlight/

first light for the solar dynamics observatory

april 21, 2010: warning, the images you are about to see could take your breath away.
at a press conference today in washington dc, researchers unveiled "first light" images from nasa's solar dynamics observatory, a space telescope designed to study the sun.
"sdo is working beautifully," reports project scientist dean pesnell of the goddard space flight center. "this is even better than we could have dreamed."
launched on february 11th from cape canaveral, the observatory has spent the past two months moving into a geosynchronous orbit and activating its instruments. as soon as sdo's telescope doors opened, the spacecraft began beaming back scenes so beautiful and puzzlingly complex that even seasoned observers were stunned.

"we've seen solar prominences before—but never quite like this," says alan title of lockheed martin, principal investigator of the atmospheric imaging assembly (aia), the observatory's main telescope array. "some of my colleagues say they've learned new things about prominences just by watching this one movie."
sdo is the first mission of nasa's living with a star (lws) program. the goal of lws is to understand the sun as a magnetic variable star and to measure its impact on life and society on earth. program scientist lika guhathakurta of nasa headquarters envisions big things for the new observatory:

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/video-solar-butterfly-effect/

be well, be love..

david

video: the butterfly effect on the sun’s surface
by lisa grossman
may 25, 2010 |
7:11 pm
new data from nasa’s solar dynamics observatory shows that on the sun, little changes can have big consequences. high-resolution images of layers of the sun’s surface show how small flares can trigger larger flares and coronal mass ejections hundreds of thousands of miles away.

“we are in essence watching the butterfly effect on the sun,” said w. dean pesnell of nasa’s goddard spaceflight center at a press briefing at the american astronomical society meeting in miami on may 25.

the images were taken with sdo’s atmospheric imaging assembly, which takes images of the full disk of the sun at eight different temperatures from 10,000 to 36 million degrees fahrenheit. they show a small flare in the right part of the screen, which sets off a magnetic instability that cascades across the surface of the sun at hundreds of thousands to millions of miles per hour. this wave builds as it travels, culminating in a flare that triggers a large loop of hot, charged plasma at the top left of the sun’s disk.

“for the first time, we’re beginning to be able to see these connections,” said alan title of the lockheed martin advanced technology center. “we still don’t know how far these cascades go. aia is showing us that these cascades in fact exist.”

video: sdo/nasa/aia consortium

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=solar-minimum-forecasting

and this;

why nasa keeps a close eye on sun's irradiance

[please see post 147 for link]

be well, be love.

david

solar scientists agree that the sun's recent behavior is odd, but the explanation remains elusive
the most recent solar minimum was both long and pronounced. but why?

miami—in very rough terms, the sun's activity ebbs and flows in an 11-year cycle, with flares, coronal mass ejections and other energetic phenomena peaking at what is called solar maximum and bottoming out at solar minimum. sunspots, markers of magnetic activity on the sun's surface, provide a visual proxy to mark the cycle's evolution, appearing in droves at maximum and all but disappearing at minimum. but the behavior of our host star is not as predictable as all that—the most recent solar minimum was surprisingly deep and long, finally bottoming out around late 2008 or so.

[Saidin]

i found this very interesting in conjunction with david's blog today and his announcement that he was told the dates of june 7-8 were to be significant.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

coronal hole: nasa's solar dynamics observatory is monitoring a dark rift in the sun's atmosphere. the spacecraft's atmospheric imaging assembly (aia) took this extreme ultraviolet picture just hours ago:

it's a "coronal hole," a vast region where the sun's magnetic field has opened up and allowed the solar wind to escape. indeed, a solar wind stream flowing from this hole is heading toward earth, due to arrive on june 7th or 8th. high latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras on those dates.

hi-res bonus #2: "i was examining the dark rift on the sun, when i noticed a peculiar and familiar image," says micheal french of washington dc. "at 1988x2645 on the high-res image, there is a design that looks like a human eye

pretty interesting coincidence!

have a great weekend all!

namaste

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627640.800-whats-wrong-with-the-sun.html?full=true

what's wrong with the sun?
14 june 2010 by stuart clark

sunspots come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. for centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months. thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb and flow in cycles lasting about 11 years.

but for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise. "this is solar behaviour we haven't seen in living memory," says david hathaway, a physicist at nasa's marshall space flight center in huntsville, alabama.

the sun is under scrutiny as never before thanks to an armada of space telescopes. the results they beam back are portraying our nearest star, and its influence on earth, in a new light. sunspots and other clues indicate that the sun's magnetic activity is diminishing, and that the sun may even be shrinking. together the results hint that something profound is happening inside the sun. the big question is what?

[Versica]

"nasa warns the earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013."

"national power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the sun reaches its maximum power in a few years."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7840201/music-of-the-sun-recorded-by-scientists.html

be well, be love.

david

music of the sun recorded by scientists

the sun has been the inspiration for hundreds of songs, but now scientists have discovered that the star at the centre of our solar system produces its own music.

by richard gray, science correspondent
published: 9:00pm bst 19 jun 2010

astronomers at the university of sheffield have managed to record for the first time the eerie musical harmonies produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun.

they found that huge magnetic loops that have been observed coiling away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument.

in other cases they behave more like soundwaves as they travel through a wind instrument.

using satellite images of these loops, which can be over 60,000 miles long, the scientists were able to recreate the sound by turning the visible vibrations into noises and speeding up the frequency so it is audible to the human ear.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/dark-matter-sun/

be well, be love.

david

dark matter may be building up inside the sun

* by lisa grossman email author
* july 9, 2010 |
* 1:48 pm |
* categories: physics, space
*

the sun could be a net for dark matter, a new study suggests. if dark matter happens to take a certain specific form, it could build up in our nearest star and alter how heat moves inside it in a way that would be observable from earth.

dark matter is the mysterious stuff that makes up 80 percent of the matter in the universe, but doesn’t interact with electromagnetic forces. although the universe contains five times as much dark matter as normal matter, dark matter is completely invisible both to human eyes and every kind of telescope ever devised. physicists only know it’s there because of its gravitational effect on normal matter. dark matter keeps galaxies spinning quickly without flying apart and is responsible for much of the large-scale structure in the universe.

current dark matter detectors are looking for wimps, or weakly interacting massive particles, that connect only with the weak nuclear force and gravity. based on the most widely accepted theories, most experiments are tuned to look for a particle that is about 100 times more massive than a proton. the chief suspect is also its own antiparticle: whenever a wimp meets another wimp, they annihilate each other.

[12thUranus]

dark matter may be building up inside the sun.

right! because science has such a firm grasp on dark matter, and science knows all about the sun. i think if we can monitor the sun, we will be more able to manipulate its effects.
:rolleyes:

[ILoveCoffee]

"nasa warns the earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013."

"national power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the sun reaches its maximum power in a few years."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html

yeah, i think it could happen. it was so hot when i had to go back to my home state. it was just so hot and humid there that i wouldn't be surprised if it was caused by some kind of heat wave. then, they said that a heat wave moved to the ne. when i came back up here to virginia, it was much cooler. however, i also heard that there was some activity like this about 20 or 20 years ago, and that many people had heat strokes then. unless it was a made up story. it would be nice if there was a place that had a decent year round temperature. there have been times when the air was out, but i still don't recall it being that hot.

[11wanderer11]

when probing the deepest reaches of the cosmos or magnifying our understanding of the quantum world, a whole host of mysteries present themselves. this is to be expected when pushing our knowledge of the universe to the limit.

but what if a well-known -- and apparently constant -- characteristic of matter starts behaving mysteriously?

this is exactly what has been noticed in recent years; the decay rates of radioactive elements are changing. this is especially mysterious as we are talking about elements with "constant" decay rates -- these values aren't supposed to change. school textbooks teach us this from an early age.

this is the conclusion that researchers from stanford and purdue university have arrived at, but the only explanation they have is even weirder than the phenomenon itself: the sun might be emitting a previously unknown particle that is meddling with the decay rates of matter. or, at the very least, we are seeing some new physics.

http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-emitting-a-mystery-particle.html

[12thUranus]

http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-emitting-a-mystery-particle.html


yes!! definitely one we've been waiting for.

[weboy78]

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html
it's a mystery that presented itself unexpectedly: the radioactive decay of some elements sitting quietly in laboratories on earth seemed to be influenced by activities inside the sun, 93 million miles away.

[Natho]

its amusing that they state "these values are not suppose to change". when was it determined that our 'third density' knowledge of our solar system gained 100% clarity of its situation i wonder lol.

sixth density ra, "all begins and ends with mystery". ;)

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news203746768.html

be well, be love.

david

sunspots could soon disappear for decades: study
september 15, 2010 by lin edwards sunspots could soon disappear for decades: study


(physorg.com) -- sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. they predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades. the last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the little ice age.


sunspots are regions of electrically charged, superheated gas (plasma) on the surface of the sun, formed when upwellings of the magnetic field trap the ionized plasma. the magnetic field prevents the gas from releasing the heat and sinking back below the sun’s surface. these areas are somewhat cooler than the surrounding sun surface and so appear to us as dark spots.

sunspots have been observed at least since the early 17th century, and they are known to follow an 11 year cycle from solar maximum to solar minimum. the solar minimum usually lasts around 16 months, but the current minimum has already lasted 26 months, which is the longest minimum in a hundred years.

[ds37ds]

solar storms can change directions, surprising forecasters

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/21sep_zigzag/

sept. 21, 2010: solar storms don't always travel in a straight line. but once they start heading in our direction, they can accelerate rapidly, gathering steam for a harder hit on earth's magnetic field.

so say researchers who have been using data from nasa's twin stereo spacecraft to unravel the 3d structure of solar storms. their findings are presented in today's issue of nature communications.

"this really surprised us," says co-author peter gallagher of trinity college in dublin, ireland. "solar coronal mass ejections (cmes) can start out going one way—and then turn in a different direction."

the result was so strange, at first they thought they'd done something wrong. after double- and triple-checking their work on dozens of eruptions, however, the team knew they were onto something.

"our 3d visualizations clearly show that solar storms can be deflected from high solar latitudes and end up hitting planets they might otherwise have missed," says lead author jason byrne, a graduate student at the trinity center for high performance computing.

the key to their analysis was an innovative computing technique called "multiscale image processing." gallagher explains:

"'multiscale processing' means taking an image and sorting the things in it according to size. suppose you're interested in race cars. if you have a photo that contains a bowl of fruit, a person, and a dragster, you could use multiscale processing to single out the race car and study its characteristics."

in medical research, multiscale processing has been used to identify individual nuclei in crowded pictures of cells. in astronomy, it comes in handy for picking galaxies out of a busy star field. gallagher and colleagues are the first to refine and use it in the realm of solar physics.

"we applied the multiscale technique to coronagraph data from nasa's twin stereo spacecraft," gallagher continues. "our computer was able to look at starry images cluttered with streamers and bright knots of solar wind and zero in on the cmes."

stereo-a and stereo–b are widely separated and can see cmes from different points of view. this allowed the team to create fully-stereoscopic models of the storm clouds and track them as they billowed away from the sun.

one of the first things they noticed was how cmes trying to go "up"—out of the plane of the solar system and away from the planets—are turned back down again. gallagher confesses that they had to "crack the books" and spend some time at the white board to fully understand the phenomenon. in the end, the explanation was simple:

the sun's global magnetic field, which is shaped like a bar magnet, guides the wayward cmes back toward the sun's equator. when the clouds reach low latitudes, they get caught up in the solar wind and head out toward the planets—"like a cork bobbing along a river," says gallagher.

once a cme is embedded in the solar wind, it can experience significant acceleration. "this is a result of aerodynamic drag," says byrne. "if the wind is blowing fast enough, it drags the cme along with it—something we actually observed in the stereo data."

past studies from other missions had revealed tantalizing hints of this cme-redirection and acceleration process, but stereo is the first to see it unfold from nearly beginning to end.

"the ability to reconstruct the path of a solar storm through space could be of great benefit to forecasters of space weather at earth," notes alex young, stereo senior scientist at the goddard space flight center. "knowing when a cme will arrive is crucial for predicting the onset of geomagnetic storms."

[mawk109]

hi one and all,

more validation for david and richard's work:

http://www.helium.com/items/1837151-why-earth-may-be-entering-a-new-ice-age

by terrence aym


"all data points to the sun as the primary source of short-term and long term climate change on earth. while volcanic eruptions such as the current one in iceland can affect short-term weather conditions over a region, planetary climate is governed by solar activity-or lack of it."

love and light,

mawk

[Tim Bravo]

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html
it's a mystery that presented itself unexpectedly: the radioactive decay of some elements sitting quietly in laboratories on earth seemed to be influenced by activities inside the sun, 93 million miles away.

while many will read this and extrapolate that all carbon dating is now questionable, i see further meaning: solar radiation affects the behavior of physical matter on the subatomic level. the rate and type of particles streaming from the sun directly affects physical matter on our planet, no matter where that matter is.

as above, so below. if solar radiation works this way, what about radiation streaming into our solar system from the center of the galaxy? what if there's similar radiation coming at us from a universal level? and this is only one way we've just now discovered that matter is affected by these streaming energies. this was an accidental find. scientists were looking for a way to generate random numbers and just so happened to find out the radioactive decay of these elements was not random! perhaps there are other ways in which matter is affected we have yet to discover.

it might seem like a stretch to some, but here i see evidence that the energetic structure of physical matter is directly tied to solar and maybe even extra-solar energies. after all, drill down into matter far enough and you find underneath it all is nothing but energy; vibration of light.

so let's say 4th density energy is streaming into our solar system from the center of our galaxy. this creates a pull at the 3rd density geometric structure. that pull is toward 4th density geometric structure. this affects the entire solar system, including the sun. let's continue to postulate that as the sun finally snaps into 4th density a huge conflagration of solar flares erupts, sending a giant burst of energy throughout the solar system.

could this be the event that tips the scales? just a thought. i'm no scientist.

[NegaNova]

while many will read this and extrapolate that all carbon dating is now questionable, i see further meaning: solar radiation affects the behavior of physical matter on the subatomic level. the rate and type of particles streaming from the sun directly affects physical matter on our planet, no matter where that matter is.

as above, so below. if solar radiation works this way, what about radiation streaming into our solar system from the center of the galaxy? what if there's similar radiation coming at us from a universal level? and this is only one way we've just now discovered that matter is affected by these streaming energies. this was an accidental find. scientists were looking for a way to generate random numbers and just so happened to find out the radioactive decay of these elements was not random! perhaps there are other ways in which matter is affected we have yet to discover.

it might seem like a stretch to some, but here i see evidence that the energetic structure of physical matter is directly tied to solar and maybe even extra-solar energies. after all, drill down into matter far enough and you find underneath it all is nothing but energy; vibration of light.

so let's say 4th density energy is streaming into our solar system from the center of our galaxy. this creates a pull at the 3rd density geometric structure. that pull is toward 4th density geometric structure. this affects the entire solar system, including the sun. let's continue to postulate that as the sun finally snaps into 4th density a huge conflagration of solar flares erupts, sending a giant burst of energy throughout the solar system.

could this be the event that tips the scales? just a thought. i'm no scientist.

i like what you just said! very interesting. although it is hypothetical, i love what it makes you imagine! while i was reading your post, it made me think about... how our galaxy is actually a speck to a larger cosmos, and that larger cosmos being part of an even larger thing, going forever.

imagine if there was an even larger wave, like the one coming from our galactic core, only this one coming from the greater cosmos, and touching our galaxy, as our galaxy's wave touches our solar system.

[Tim Bravo]

thanks, neganova! you're making my head spin now.

this is unrelated, but i just noticed that with my 33rd post i'm no longer a junior member. now i'm a full-fledged member. is there some significance to dc forums assigning membership after the 33rd post? *cough*freemasons*cough*

supwitdat, bbb?

[InBetweenPlace]

tim, that was so funny!

thank you! i needed to laugh.

jc

[LightEye]

dear friends,

shades of things to come?...

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

be well, be love.

david

global eruption rocks the sun

dec. 13, 2010: on august 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. astronomers knew they had witnessed something big.

it was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.

"the august 1st event really opened our eyes," says karel schrijver of lockheed martin's solar and astrophysics lab in palo alto, ca. "we see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before."
global eruption (movie_strip, 550px)
click to play an extreme ultraviolet movie of the august 1st global eruption. different colors represent different plasma temperatures in the range 1.0 to 2.2 million k. credit: solar dynamics observatory.

for the past three months, schrijver has been working with fellow lockheed-martin solar physicist alan title to understand what happened during the "great eruption." they had plenty of data: the event was recorded in unprecedented detail by nasa's solar dynamics observatory and twin stereo spacecraft. with several colleagues present to offer commentary, they outlined their findings at a press conference today at the american geophysical union meeting in san francisco.

explosions on the sun are not localized or isolated events, they announced. instead, solar activity is interconnected by magnetism over breathtaking distances. solar flares, tsunamis, coronal mass ejections--they can go off all at once, hundreds of thousands of miles apart, in a dizzyingly-complex concert of mayhem.

[NegaNova]

hahaha, i think that that is actually awesome about the sun activity.
on a side note, for the past two days i have noticed a hugee increase in synchronicity, hearing many songs and radio channels talking about imagining a world where there is only peace and harmony and free expression, no sin or hate, etc.

i think perhaps, this solar activity is having a more harmonious interaction with our consciousness...

but who knows!
we'll see.

[SpiralCycle]

the sun according to some well known researchers has recently been suspected of changing what was once before known as constants. in this case it is the decay rate of elements shown by example in the article.

i have always had a fascination with the sun and how it could be effect the earth from a young age which was before i knew much about science or 2012. but it seems like the sun is definitely going through many changes at a continual rate.

the new evidence could point to more information to confirm something spectacular could happen to earth and the changes our solar system is going through.

excerpts from the article;


-it's a mystery that presented itself unexpectedly: the radioactive decay of some elements sitting quietly in laboratories on earth seemed to be influenced by activities inside the sun, 93 million miles away.

is this possible?

researchers from stanford and purdue university believe it is. but their explanation of how it happens opens the door to yet another mystery.

on dec 13, 2006, the sun itself provided a crucial clue, when a solar flare sent a stream of particles and radiation toward earth. purdue nuclear engineer jere jenkins, while measuring the decay rate of manganese-54, a short-lived isotope used in medical diagnostics, noticed that the rate dropped slightly during the flare, a decrease that started about a day and a half before the flare.

"if the mystery particle is not a neutrino, "it would have to be something we don't know about, an unknown particle that is also emitted by the sun and has this effect, and that would be even more remarkable," sturrock said."-

link to the full article:http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html

[weboy78]

http://www.suite101.com/content/vast-solar-eruption-shocks-nasa-and-raises-doubts-on-sun-theory-a327330
we are forever being told that the sun is a vast gas ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of our solar system. but new evidence may help prove this isn’t the case after all, according to solar experts who say the sun has an iron core.

a stunned nasa admits, “astronomers knew they had witnessed something big. it was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.”

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

just listen to this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st-a59bverg


link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st-a59bverg


love

[GrumpyBear]

re: solar storms in 2012

since reading about the current solar storm, and it's known and speculated effects on our earth, i noticed that not one of the articles mentioned possible effects on people. is there any data or research on this? i would think that if it had an impact on our environment, surely it has to impact us in some way as well, maybe even at the cellular or genetic level.

would love to hear thoughts on this, considering this storm is only the beginning of what looks to be a very busy year for our sun :)

enjoy the northern lights this year!
*hugz*

[Scrappy409]

This last CME we just had certainly affected me and I confirmed this with many others. Without getting into specifics, I would just say that we as humans (and every other living thing on this planet) are all electro-bio-chemical machines. It would only makes sense that it would affect us. However it is my personal conjecture that as our sun is coming to a close of, not one, but MANY cycles, I think maybe there could even be a slight (or huge) difference on the energy, radiation, waves, etc that the sun is emitting.

To support this, scientists are finding that during the yearly cycle, the sun gives off varying types of radiation during the year. And these different types of radiation most notably affect the DNA of a newly conceived child. This is what gives people varying traits in personality. Now I'm not saying that I put any stock in my horoscope from the grocery story, but I do believe there is a science behind it.

So, if there is an overall shift in solar energy hitting us, I would think it "should" affect us.

[GrumpyBear]

Thank you Scrappy :)

Your response has given me a direction to head in while researching this phenomena. I have had some physical 'symptoms' lately, and since I can't seem to find a cause or reason for it, I'm trying to 'think outside the box' for possibilities.

If I come across any solid research on the effects of the sun, CME's and solar storms on the human body, I will share it :)

[islandgirl]

Well my own research shows that the sun is definately giving us 'something' and it's on a regular basis, cme's or not.

For the past couple of years every time I go out into the sun to sit and meditate with closed eyes I get all kinds of symbols shown to me. They come and go with new ones replacing the old ones after 30 seconds or so and they look like parts of our dna strands, sort of like tinker toys only smaller round connectors than tinker toys.

Sometimes they are curved and sometimes straight but usually with several sections with the small dark round 'balls or connectors' adjoining the different angles together. Sometimes they look geometric, sometimes quite artistic in form, sometimes pretty simple in design.

I think I'm downloading something and I love seeing these usually dark blue or irridenscent green lines/curves. A message of some kind and I am looking forward to the day when I know what it all means.

It feels real good to get these signs/symbols/messages and I always say a silent thank you to our magnificent sun.

I've asked before, but I'll ask again..........does anyone else have this happen ?

[GrumpyBear]

Ok, not sure if this is quite the right thread to post this on, so I hope the mods can direct this post if needed.

I had an odd experience Sunday morning, 6am, sitting on my couch in an apartment where all my windows face north. While I sat and enjoyed the sunrise, it suddenly occurred to me that the sun wasn't rising in the east...it was more north-east. I thought maybe I was seeing some sort of reflection of the sun in and around the clouds at first, until a few minutes later the sun was in full view. I know I was not dreaming, or 'seeing things' :)

I mentioned this to a friend later in the day, who told me it was impossible. What's goin on?!?

Love & Light