Skwinty
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Really. Like destroying mainstream solar physics would be cool...
Imagine the headlines.
Ice block sets solar physics on fire.
Really. Like destroying mainstream solar physics would be cool...
Anyway, according to Paravolt there are about 10^8 Coulombs of charge accumulating on the sun every second. Anyone want to estimate how many seconds would have to pass before the sun exploded under its own electrostatic repulsion?
Less than 8 seconds. My calculation showed that for 8x108 C, the sun would explode.
So how come Birkeland's sphere didn't "explode"?
So how come Birkeland's sphere didn't "explode"? FYI, I love how the Lambda-CDM thread and this thread are coming together, don't you?![]()
Two obvious ones come to mind. The first is scaling (oh, but that requires doing calculations to really understand).
The charge on his sphere simply wasn't big enough.
The second reason is something I've mentioned to you before, but which you never seemed to understand the significance of: the work function. Birkeland's sphere had one. The sun doesn't.
When were you going to add civil and spam to that list GM? You don't have a clue what those words mean either.
Now that I finally understand how to go about destroying mainstream theory, I'll start working on it. I think *THAT* little project might even motivate me to do a little math.
Because Birkeland's little brass ball didn't have any more in common with the Sun than the fact that it was round? Duh.
Maybe Birkeland got it horribly wrong like he did with that moronic idea about Saturn's rings? Or maybe Birkeland was too much of an idiot to understand scale?![]()
Well, the sphere size will also scale, won't it?
Sure, just like brass scales to iron!
Birkeland did not calculate the mass of space based on brass GM. Why not? What did he use to calculate that number?
And you think that was a "civil" sort of way to respond? I've read Birkeland's work. I'm sure he understood how to scale things properly. Did you see some calculation he made to suggest otherwise or is this another example of something you just pulled out of your back pocket?
Um, because it was part of an electrical circuit?So how come Birkeland's sphere didn't "explode"? FYI, I love how the Lambda-CDM thread and this thread are coming together, don't you?![]()
So if he thought the sun was made of brass, why did he use iron in his calculations of the mass of the universe GM?

Fixed that for you.Did you see some calculation he made to suggest he was scaling that little brass ball to bean iron crusted 6000K surfaceMozplasma on the Sun? How about you point out that particular calculation for us, Michael?![]()
Fixed that for you.How did you come to that conclusion? What's all thatsolar windMozwind about?
So if he thought the Sun was made from iron why did he make his little ball out of brass?![]()
I belive if the sun is shining due to electrical processes - it shurely must be a part of a larger electrical circuit with electrons flowing in Bircelands currents (twisted plasma-ropes carrying charge).
My best guess is that there should be an electrical "input" in the polar regions and a "output" on the rest of the sphere - but the where the solar wind organizes itself close to one plane resembling the spiraling arms of a "galaxy".
I'm not that into the different EU solar models - but shurely there would need to be a electrical circuit one way or another - so not to accumulate charge.