On 08/13/2012 03:56 PM, Bastiaan Bergman wrote:
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/90
specifically:
"The finding revealed that the solar corona was a few million degrees
kelvin, more than three hundred times hotter than the surface of the
sun below, and flew in the face of what was expected from simple
thermodynamics"
"It is now universally accepted that the reservoir of energy stored in
the sun’s atmospheric magnetic field is what heats the localized
plasma in the corona. In simplified terms, the field is generated in
the solar interior as a result of large-scale rotational and
convective motions of the charged plasma, which serve to produce a
strong (100,000 gauss) magnetic field some 200,000km below the solar
surface "
"What is not known, and remains under considerable debate even now, is
how the energy stored in the magnetic fields is converted into heating
the corona "
It's even worse than that. Recent studies indicate that the convective
plasma currents that supposedly generate the magnetic field
in the Sun's interior, are 100 times slower than what's needed for the
theory of magnetic fields formation to be valid:
http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2012/07/09/researchers-create-mri-of-the-suns-interior-motions.html
Here's an alternative explanation:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/07/09/alpha-and-omega/
The magnetic field is the result of electric currents, but those
currents are not confined to the Sun's interior. That also explains why
the corona is hotter. It's in the transitional zone, where accelerations
due to charge differences are happening.
<http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/07/09/alpha-and-omega/>
Regards,
Mauro
Lesson:
We have no freeking clue how fusion works
