Hello everyone,
This is my first post on this forum. Great to be here, after the pleasure of receiving the excellent "Universe Today" newsletter during the last few months.
In 1854 the eminent astronomer Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, suggested that the Sun may be no hotter than Earth's tropical regions! He believed the Sun to be much cooler than we think, not an intensely hot, flaming gas ball.
Since we know the planets are magnetic in nature, it is only right to assume that the governing body ruling those planets is also magnetic in nature. The Sun is like the magnetic "brain" or ganglion of our entire Solar System. It's forces are the directing intelligence of all the functions of our System. It is from this great central, nuclear body that the planets draw their magnetic energy so that they , too, may generate forces. When photographed in hydrogen light, the Sun displays its magnetic structure very well. Such a photograph shows a grainy effect very similar to that produced when iron filings are sprinkled in a magnetic field.
Scientists state that the Sun is a gigantic atomic furnace radiating a tremendous amount of heat to the satellite planets each second. The temperature at its surface is said to be thousands of degrees and the internal temperature is supposedly in the millions of degrees. However, it is unexplainable how super-heated gases can act magnetically. For, it is an elementary fact of physics that a substance loses its magnetism when heated! Since astronomers have definitely recorded magnetic effects upon the Sun, we have a direct conflict between the Sun's true nature and the suggested temperature. This conflict only indicates that the Sun is NOT the super-heated mass of gases that scientists think it is, but rather, a relatively cool body as the great astronomer Herschel said it was.
It is assumed that the Sun is radiating heat. People feel this heat when they stand in sunlight, so they say the Sun must be a burning mass radiating that heat. That is like saying a radio transmitter radiates sound waves because when we turn on our radios, we hear sound. But we know that such a transmitter radiates radio waves, and that these waves are turned into sound inside the radio! The same basic principle applies to energies received from the solar orb. Heat and light are effects of the positive rays of the Sun. Heat is felt on Earth because the Sun's positive rays intersect with its negative atmosphere and crust causing a friction or change in the quality of motion of the particles given off as heat radiation in consequence of this friction. The effect of the Sun's rays on the Earth's atmosphere is also responsible for the phenomenon of visible light which results from a different kind of motion of the particles. The Sun does not send us heat and light; rather, it sends only positive lines of force which interact with the negative crust and atmosphere of Earth to produce the phenomena of the electro-magnetic spectrum which includes heat and light.
If the Sun gives off intense heat, why is it much, much colder in the Earth's upper atmosphere (for example, 90 miles up) than it is close to the surface? Why does it get colder and colder the higher we fly above the Earth's crust? Shouldn't the exact reverse be true if the Sun is radiating great heat? Why is it dark as "pitch" 90 miles above the Earth if the Sun is radiating light?
The first astronauts were amazed to discover that the Sun appears a LOT LESS BRIGHTER in outer space than it does on Earth. Shouldn't it be brighter and hotter the closer we approach it? Why is outer space absolutely freezing and dark if great heat and light come from the Sun? Astronauts noted that outer space was darker than they expected, and stars and planets are not as bright as they appear to us on Earth! Therefore, it follows that energy rays come from the solar orb, NOT light itself.
Best wishes to you all, Russell