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Bragi
September 11th, 2004, 04:59 PM
White sons of the sun unite.

http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/eit/images/Sun_and_earth.jpg

http://www.physics.fsu.edu/courses/fall98/ast1002/sun/media/s08_01.gif

http://www.solarviews.com/ss.jpg

A million Earths could fit inside the sun. It comprises over 99% of the mass contained in the solar system.

Any thoughts on the solar system?

FranzJoseph
September 11th, 2004, 09:40 PM
The Electric Sun hypothesis is no longer so new that there's nothing online about it. Below is a page that explains it fairly well.

Electric or thermonuclear, the sun is a big one all right.

The Electric Sun Hypothesis

The Basics

Juergens, Milton, Thornhill, and others propose an electrical mechanism for the energy release of the Sun. The major properties of this Electric Sun model are as follows:

Most of the space within our galaxy is occupied by plasma (rarefied ionized gas) containing electrons (negative charges) and ionized atoms (positive charges). Every charged particle in the plasma has an electric potential energy (voltage) just as every pebble on a mountain has a mechanical potential energy with respect to sea level.

The Sun is at a more positive electrical potential (voltage) than is the space plasma surrounding it - probably in the order of 10 billion volts.

The Sun is powered, not from within itself, but from outside, by the electric (Birkeland) currents that flow in our arm of our galaxy as they do in all galaxies. In the Plasma Universe model, these currents create the galaxies and the stars within those galaxies by the electromagnetic z-pinch effect. It is only a small extrapolation to propose that these currents also power those stars. Galactic currents are of low current density, but, because the size of the stars are large, the total current (Amperage) is high. The Sun's radiated power at any instant is due to the energy imparted by a combination of incoming cosmic electrons and outgoing +ions. As the Sun moves around the galactic center it may come into regions of higher or lower total current and so its output may vary both periodically and randomly.

Positive ions leave the Sun and cosmic electrons enter the Sun. Both of these flows add to form a net positive current leaving the Sun. This constitutes a plasma discharge analogous in every way (except size) to those that have been observed in electrical laboratories for decades.

Because of the Sun's positive charge (voltage), it acts as the anode in a plasma discharge. As such, it exhibits many of the phenomena observed in earthbound plasma laboratories, such as anode tufting. The granules observed on the surface of the photosphere are anode tufts (plasma in the arc mode)....

Whole article + pics: http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm