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3 | We are waiting for answers to these questions<br />

Here are just some <strong>of</strong> the issues we have with the current<br />

thermonuclear model <strong>of</strong> the Sun:<br />

Why is it that the Sun’s ‘nuclear core’ temperature <strong>of</strong> around<br />

15,000,000˚C drops to around 6,000˚C at the surface then<br />

increases again to 2,000,000˚C (and beyond) in the Sun’s<br />

surrounding corona?<br />

Solar astronomers have been working for decades to answer<br />

this question and the absence <strong>of</strong> anything convincing speaks<br />

volumes about the basis on which they have looked at it. They<br />

have not even come close to convincing serious-minded folk<br />

with what they have come up with, and they remain puzzled. Amusingly, I have seen this temperature pr<strong>of</strong>ile<br />

problem described as ‘getting warmer the further you walk away from a fire!’<br />

Then we have the issue <strong>of</strong> Sunspots. These are described as being caused by magnetic fields leaving and<br />

entering the surface <strong>of</strong> the Sun. The fact that the centres <strong>of</strong> sunspots are found to be 1,500˚C cooler than the<br />

surrounding photosphere is typically ignored in explanations that include talk <strong>of</strong> 'tangled magnetic fields'.<br />

A Sunspot compared to the size <strong>of</strong> the Earth (adapted image)<br />

Original Image Credit: SST Royal Swedish Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences<br />

They say these tangled fields stop an amount <strong>of</strong> heat energy<br />

from inside the Sun getting to its surface. This is extreme<br />

conjecture and a testable theory that has never been proved<br />

workable. Astro-scientists get in a muddle and tie their own<br />

hands by avoiding discussion <strong>of</strong> the simple fact that electric<br />

currents are required in order to generate the magnetic<br />

fields they so <strong>of</strong>ten rely on in their explanations. How can<br />

we make progress when they are so selective in what they<br />

choose to consider from existing knowledge?<br />

The temperature pr<strong>of</strong>ile we are currently given <strong>of</strong> our Sun © author<br />

Next we have the Sunspot Cycle. This is where our Sun has been observed to go through similar patterns <strong>of</strong><br />

sunspot production in approximate 11-year cycles. Astro-scientists have repeatedly tried to explain this through<br />

complicated magnetic fields affecting one another. Here they have limited themselves by thinking only <strong>of</strong> things<br />

from inside the Sun; they have no framework whatsoever for considering forces that exist outside the Sun.

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