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Originally Posted by Baloo
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I'll have to look at your links to respond to this. I will. What MATERIAL are you suggesting emits this light? Even if it can be explained one way, what makes you KNOW it's the right way? How do you know there isn't a better and more elegant way to explain the same phenomenon? How does your black body explanation explain the flare patterns and the flow patterns we see on this layer?
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You're kidding, aren't you? I could adress you exactly the same questions! This kind of argumentation is leading nowhere; I provided you my explanation and you're asking me "how do I know" whitout yet reading it and whitout trying to evaluate my arguments?
I don't know what material is, but my evaluation doesn't depend on the material but only on it's temperature. |
No, he's not kidding. If you look back in the thread at least six or seven of us have answered the sunspot question, with references, and he keeps coming back with the same questions. As to what materials are involved, I provided a table back here:
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...=495513#495513
That is, very hot hydrogen/helium with a bit of other elements. Michael seems to insist that sunspots are literally dark, and that only neon emits light, so he rejects anything that would indicate otherwise. *In my opinion* he doesn't understand the concept of "blackbody temperature." A number of references have been provided on sunspot physics and the effect of the sun's magnetic field, but he rejects that as well. For what it is worth, yours is one of the more detailed answers. Nicely done.