Tuesday, June 24, 2008

MY BROTHER ME AND SUNSPOTS: A DIALOGUE




AFTER READING The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead”—What Does it Mean for Earth?

[http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html] 


MY BROTHER:
Could the lack of sunspots derive from the pollution on Earth?
The End approaches us quickly...

ME:
This puny, polluted planet is not an influence upon the sun, but the sun is upon the Earth.
A quickening "ice age" might offset global warming.

MY BROTHER:
The earth does influence the Sun.
General relativity says it is so.

ME:
Humm...give me the precise relationship.
The sun is so massive that the effects that Earth might have on this star shining on our polluted faces would seem to be negligible (except while wearing a negligee) compared to what effects its heavenly rays have.
We can say that everything has an effect of some sort on everything, but just WHAT and to WHAT EXTENT does our little, watery marble influence Mr. Sun?
I will lose sleep pondering this.
Hold it...
I see Sun Spots before my eyes!

MY BROTHER:
Our puny earth warps space/time and helps the sun roll around the wrap (gravity) in space/time, for one.
The space/time warp also bends light received from the sun.
Maybe the sunspot light rays have been bent, missing the telescopic eyes.
The sun also intercepts and gobbles up all the polluted eruptions leaving the earth's atmosphere.
It causes the sunspots to get so many spots that they become invisible.


ME:
Ask.com gave me 2,761,000 web sites in response to my question: Does the earth influence the sun?
After reading 2,000,000 sites, I gave up.
Only SUN to EARTH effects and affect were given.
The space/time narration is impressive, but enigmatic.
The notion that Earth helps the sun roll around sounds pretty convincing.
Like a cosmic egg roll wrap?
Or billiards?
That the sunspot light rays have been bent, and somehow been missed by the "telescopic eyes", is hard to see as possible.
Not saying it hasn't occurred---just gotta' give time to these top-notch physicists to tell us what's going on.
BUT that...the sun takes the time and space to "intercept and gobble up all the polluted eruptions (ALL OF THEM?) leaving the earth's atmosphere"?!!!
Oh, but I finally knew that you were waxing poetic with tongue-in-cheek when I read, "It causes the sunspots to get so many spots that they become invisible."
I can see that happening.
Well, maybe not.

MY BROTHER:
Every mass curves space/time (and is the explanation of gravity by general relativity.)
The earth has mass.
The earth curves/warps space/time.
The warp creates gravity that has the sun and earth rotating within it.
That is, gravity is not a force but a warping in the fabric of space/time.
Missing the earth, the sun loses part of its gravity.


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