Jones wrote on 9-3-08: Jack,
Thanks for the update and particularly the strange message of "Bill Arnold" . Do you have a url for his paper? I cannot find it in a quick goggling. Common name. It is bizarre enough to be insightful, if not accurate. Is he saying that sunspots create corresponding "earthspots" which are responsible for such things as the extremely rainy weather in the midwest USA. He needs to lighten up a bit on the caps, but is there a grain of truth there? --------------------- Hi Jones, There may be a grain of truth here; but I'm biased because I'm into plasma cosmology which steers one toward electrical explanations. Anyway, Bill does have interesting ideas. Some references are shown below. Jack ----------- Bill Arnold Author of Arnold's Law Mathematics of Bode's/Arnold's Law, spacing of planets around the sun. Read Bode's Law Explained: http://cyclesresearchinstitute.org/astronomy/arnoldbode.pdf Special Theory of Order: mechanism of our Solar Planetary System: http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/astronomy/arnold_theory_order.pdf