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effective temperature quadrupled, equals the rate of radiation quadrupled times the body's luminosity divided
by its diameter squared. In solving for the Sun, one comes up with an average of 5900 absolute degrees. The
mathematics involved is agreeable, but astronomers base their calculations on these two assumptions:
First, they assume the Sun is a perfect radiating body; second, and most important, they assume that the Sun is
radiating heat! This is because they believe that heat on Earth, as well as heat on other planetary bodies,
comes directly from the Sun. People feel the heat when they stand in sunlight, so they say the Sun must be a
burning mass radiating that heat. That is like saying a radio transmitter radiates sound waves because when we
turn on our radios, we hear sound. But we know that such a transmitter radiates radio waves, and that these
waves are turned into sound inside the radio!
In 1543, a great comet came closer to the Sun than any previous comet had and this was repeated by another
comet in 1882. They actually entered the Sun's corona which supposedly has a temperature of one-million
degrees absolute. These comets traveled over one-million kilometers through this blazing corona and emerged
unscathed and with no change in velocity or direction. If the Sun is radiating heat, why weren't these comets
instantly disintegrated upon entering a tremendous heat of one-million absolute degrees? Surely nothing could
survive such a treatment!
Astronomers have told us that the planet Mercury is devoid of life because it is only thirty-six million miles
from the Sun. They have told us that if Mercury was any closer, it would have turned into "nothingness" long
ago. How then did the two comets survive without at least showing some effects of their journey through the
Sun's corona? We must conclude that the answer is that the Sun does not radiate heat, as such! Therefore, it
cannot be any kind of a super-hot body.
The prominences supply us with some more proof of the above conclusion. These prominences are said to be
hydrogen gas explosions and first appear in the Sun's photosphere. There are many theories, but as yet
astronomers have been puzzled over their origin. The behavior of these so-called "hydrogen clouds of gas"
contradicts one of the oldest, and supposedly, most stable law of physics . . . the law of gravity of Newton.
Some prominences travel at the unbelievable speed of 450 m.p.s. and reach an altitude of one-million miles;
that's one-hundred ninety-one thousand miles more than the Sun's diameter. To add to the oddity of this
phenomenon, is the fact that these prominences rise to fantastic heights, and then just "hang" in mid-air,
unsupported, in complete defiance of Newton's law of gravity! Others appear to "materialize" from nowhere,
and hang motionless. Surely the Sun with all its tremendous mass and "pulling" power could bring these
prominences down again if they were composed of hydrogen gas. Astronomers say they are composed of such
gas because the spectroscope has labeled them such. But the spectroscope is very inaccurate because between
the Sun's atmosphere and this instrument, the atmosphere of the Earth intervenes, and the upper atmosphere of
our planet contains almost pure hydrogen. This could be the hydrogen that astronomers say is on the Sun.
Sunspots and prominences have puzzled scientists for years, yet they are part of the same phenomenon.
Sunspots and prominences are manifestations of the Sun's auroral activity as viewed from different angles.
They have never photographed the solar prominences except at the edge of the Sun. Prominences take the
form, or appear as sunspots when seen on the face of the Sun. The shape and particulars of the prominences
cannot be observed unless the light of the Sun is blotted out. These prominences are not super-heated
hydrogen gas because their very behavior proves otherwise! They behave as forces, not as elements (gas, etc.).
The prominence force of the Sun is similar to the auroral force emanating from the polar vents of the Earth.
This auroral force is known as the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere, and the aurora australis in the
Southern Hemisphere. The names, "northern" and "southern" lights, are also given to this phenomenon. This
Earth force which is continually being sent into the atmosphere, has the exact characteristics of the
prominence force of the Sun. Although it is continually emanating from the Earth, it is only seen at certain
times when atmospheric conditions are right.