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Originally Posted by orionjim
I’m not sure if you gave the three proposals (tidal, COM and Jupiter’s moons) to be a statement of mainstream thinking.
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No. I gave them as background to the idea that the planets have effects on the sun. There is ample evidence from studying the frequencies found in sunspot numbers that they relate to planetary periods. However no mechanism has been generally accepted as explaining everything.
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From what I have read from the current experts on sunspots none of the three proposals you mentioned are ever talked about. I think today’s main expert on Sunspots is NASA’s Dr. David Hathaway and I have never read or heard him speak about planet alignment relative to sunspots. He sees the sun as a dynamo that among other things produces sunspots.
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We need to distinguish between mainstream and logical. Seriously.
Any person who depends on getting their income from their scientific work is never going to look seriously at planetary alignments and sunspots. Why? Because it sounds like astrology. Most people will run a mile before they get associated with that. The main reason that serious papers were published in the 1960s was that NASA needed to be sure that they were not sending astronauts to the moon to get fried by solar flares. So some serious effort went in and as I understand it the only thing that they found that was useful was planetary alignments.
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As tusenfem alluded too much has changed since the 1990’s to today; we have observed many things that go onto the list of questions that any theory of the sun or sunspots will need to deal with.
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This is not meant to be an alternative to existing theories. It should be complimentary. I would hope that standard treatment can explain a natural resonance in the sun's magnetic field with a period of 10.5 years (well maybe 21 years really).
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I am anxious to see the physics behind the planets effect on sun’s core. I am hoping that you have more than charts and data that show a correlation. While I am personally convinced there is a correlation of planet position to what we see of sunspots, you are going to have a tough sell convincing me that a planets gravity or magnetism can reach 500,000km into the suns core and affect anything.
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Yes, I will put up some tables and data.
Well, gravity quite simply does reach into the Sun's core from the planets. That is standard physics. What I need to show is that the amount of this effect is sufficient to have detectable changes in the Sun result. I believe that I can do that.