Re: seismology and solar flare prediction

"rick++" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The monster sunspots will reappear the end of November. There are no
> satellites regularly observing the far side of the Sun. So seismic
> vibrations on the earth-facing side of the Sun are tomographically
> inverted to image the velocity anomalies far side of the Sun which
> represent cooler sunspot regions.
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> Seismic vibrations are measured at tens of thousands of locations on the
> Sun's surface via Doppler shifts by the Soho satellite.

At the moment our understanding of the sun is only that which we see.
There is as yet no other known sensory equiptment that can be used on
the sun. And if there was the radio signal from it or them would not be
decipherable due to solar radiation.

What is presumed to be happening on the sun is entirely that:
presumption.

As  far as I can make out the sun-spots seem to be linked to each other
in a similar manner to the phenomena on earth known as the weather
system (or systems) of High and Low pressure areas.

It will probably turn out that these spots, flares and promenances are
indeed caused by or related to seismiciity. To state catagorically that
they are, is to presume too heavily on the veracity of a very dubious
theory; to whit: Doppler theory or effect.




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