Re: seismology and solar flare prediction

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 "Michael Mcneil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "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.
> <More judicial editing> 
> > 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.

I suppose you're right. But what about the evidence for fusion and the 
Bethe process? 

> 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.

That's pretty remarkable. I didn't know that highs and lows camr in 
pairs ... and I didn't know that sunspots, though they do come in pairs, 
are 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.

That'ys pretty interesting. I've never heard of these objections. Could 
you explain the Doppler theory and why you doubt it so much?

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