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Old 25-July-2007, 04:13 AM
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Originally Posted by tusenfem View Post
Well, that's taking liberty with reality, or at least context. That whole discussion was started up because you don't believe that a plasma can create a BB spectrum and try to do anything to prove you are right, including misinterpreting papers.
Nobody ever said a word in their arguments here on BAUT about H- being the cause of the solar blackbody spectrum. At least not in their arguments with me.

I dont believe that distance creates a blackbody spectrum in a thin plasma.
And you cant prove that it does in a lab on earth.

I know that a dense plasma will create a blackbody spectrum. Remember the bubble spectrum that was halfway between line and blackbody emission?
There is a difference between density and distance in a plasma, and how it affects a plasma.

I did not misinterpret papers. That paper says that H- are responsible for the BB spectrum of the sun, and that density is normally responsible for a blackbody spectrum, except in the case of the sun.
I brought that paper up as evidence that density is the cause of blackbody spectrum, and that a thin plasma is not capable of generating a blackbody spectrum.

The 255K BB spectrum of the Earth is certainly not from it's surrounding atmosphere.
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