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Set the controls for the heart of the Sun (dailymail.co.uk)
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:45 am
by vernes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive ... t-Sun.html
The downside? It'll take billions of pounds, and more than three decades, to find out.
comments anyone?
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:27 am
by TallDave
The sun isn't a toroid.
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:54 am
by Art Carlson
TallDave wrote:The sun isn't a toroid.
William Blake wrote:"What," it will be Question'd, "When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?" Oh no, no, I see a toroid.
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:38 pm
by TallDave
Heh.
Myself, I see an innumerable company of PhDs crying “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Tokamak.”
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:13 pm
by alexjrgreen
TallDave wrote:Myself, I see an innumerable company of PhDs crying “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Tokamak.”
"... the Spherical Tokamak", perhaps?
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:34 pm
by chrismb
There is a [man-made] spherical toakamak design, of course, and who's to say that the Sun isn't one inside.
I've proposed that ball lightning is a self-confining toroidal discharge that is also rotating very quickly on two major axes. That'd
look like a ball but would still satisfy the 'hairy ball' condition. Maybe you'll find rotating toroids in the sun.....
To anyone that says 'no it isn't', I say 'go to the Sun and drill down 500,000 miles to the fusion core to prove the idea false!!!....
