LOL. I guess I made a serious error is language usage. I did not mean to suggest that the mass or radius of the sun were in question Jed. I was just attempting to suggest that it would not take much change in radius to place the sun within the currently accepted super nova explosion mass range. The minimum super nova mass has been modified many times over the years as the theories become more accurate. I would not be surprised to see the simulated explosive mass range continue downward to eventually include the sun. It is just too close for comfort!
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 5:59 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:New Data "Worrying" 2000 climatologists about Global Warming .... David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: Ask yourself how accurate the prediction might be? It would only take a minor change in the radius of the sun to make it have a mass 2 times (current super nova limit?) Oh come now! You know better than that. Issac Newton computed the mass of the sun based on his laws and the distance from earth to the sun. (The solar parallax.) The radius has nothing to do with it. His calculation was off by roughly factor of two, but our knowledge of the sun's distance has improved immeasurably since then, and we also know the mass of the earth more accurately. There is no way solar mass can be off by a factor of 2! I don't know about the sun, but we know the distance to the moon to within a few centimeters these days thanks to the reflectors left by the Apollo missions. It is astounding. - Jed
