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Old 06-July-2005, 12:21 PM
Michael Mozina Michael Mozina is offline
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Default Re: ATM site claims Sun's surface is solid

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Originally Posted by Maksutov
*This treatment is from Kleppner & Kolenkow, An Introduction to Mechanics (p. 101) and deals with the force between a point of mass m at radius r on the x-axis from a spherical shell centered at the origin:
Um, care to explain to me now how this explains the umbra layer and lit part of the penubmral filaments? It's a nice math proof and all, but you've not demonstrated HOW it applies to sunspots. How does that explain the flared pattern in the penubmral filaments? How does that explain the lack of light coming from the umbra?