Terrella Experiment Vs Proba2 SWAP2

This is an Image of the sun highlighting the suns magnetic field from the Proba2 satellite and superimposed over an image from Kristian Birkelands Terrella experiment.

Proba2 SWAP imposed over the Terrella experiment, showing similar magnetic field lines.

From 1900 Birkeland performed all his experiments using an electromagnetic terrella to create an artificial Aurora around the poles of the terrella, replicating the effects of the solar wind on the magnetic Earth. He also attempted to simulate further cosmic phenomena, such as the Sun’s corona, sunspots, and the rings of Saturn, using other small metal spheres.

The superimposed image above shows the similar behavior between the magnetic activity of the Sun and the Birkelands Terrella experiment.

Left, Proba2 SWAP Image. Right, Live globe from Birkelands experiment

Kristian Birkeland and his terrella experiment.

Asymmetrical Solar Cycles and gravitational perturbations

During this solar cycle the observed magnetic field on the suns Northern hemisphere is progressing ahead of the magnetic field on the Southern hemisphere, this has led to the northern hemisphere to “peak asymmetrically” before the Southern hemisphere, the term “double peak” fits this observation perfectly well.

The observations being made during this weak solar cycle of the asymmetrical magnetic activity is encouraging for understanding the planetary attraction of the suns Large Magnetic Field.

Gravitational perturbation of Uranus by the orbit of Neptune in relation to the timing of the sunspot record.

One very important observation made is the recent gravitation perturbation of Neptune on the orbit of Uranus which began to occur around the time of their alignment with the Sun in 1993, If you understand the how and when Neptune was discovered, you’ll understand that at the time and recently before Hershel’s announcement of Neptune’s discovery there was a similar alignment and gravitation perturbation of Uranus around 1800 – 1825 this has also coincided with the observation of the Solar Cycles 5, 6 and 7 being weaker, another similar alignment and gravitation perturbation occurred around 1750, it also took place at the time of what is known in the sunspot record as the Maunder minimum.

It’s not hard to conclude from this; a link between asymmetrical magnetic activity observed on the surface of the sun and all of these separate alignments and gravitational perturbations of Uranus and Neptune. This asymmetrical magnetic activity may last for 2 maybe 3 cycles resulting in weaker solar activity.

Gravitational perturbation of Uranus by the orbit of Neptune.

The basic principle of what is happening is; the Suns Large Magnetic Field is attracted to the planets, the two main players are Uranus and Jupiter, the Large Magnetic Field attracted to Uranus holds back the suns polar regions and appears to slow down the polar rotation period in relation to the equator, the Large Magnetic Field is also attracted to Jupiter, its orbit will travel with the Large Magnetic Field attracted to it and along with the rotation of the Sun itself will begin the interaction between the magnetic polarities, when the field becomes wound around the entire surface of the sun the field “short circuits” to form the dark areas or sunspots, as the overlapping magnetic polarities (the large magnetic directional flow of the field) gradually move into close proximity of each other blocking the flow of radiant surface energy in these areas of the photosphere, limiting the amount of radiant surface energy flowing outward, as a result the temperature within the sunspots are at a lower temperature than that of the surrounding layer of the photosphere.

During solar cycles of asymmetrical magnetic activity, the suns Large Magnetic Field being Attracted to Uranus is disturbed by the gravitation perturbation of Neptune on the orbit of Uranus, which in turn has the effect where the timing separation or misalignment of the Large Magnetic Field causes less frequent interaction of magnetic polarities (the large magnetic directional flow of the field) forming less sunspots during the progression of a solar cycle, producing an overall weaker solar cycle.

Dates of alignments of Neptune and Uranus with the sun.

This isn’t a gravitational process acting directly upon the sun as when the planets travel around a star; their elliptical planetary orbits produce gravitational (tidal) forces that give our sun a barycentric motion. It is a large magnetic field produced by the sun that is attracted to planetary bodies; the planetary bodies are gravitationally perturbed by each-other at intervals over the course of their orbits which in turn affects the large magnetic field and the behavior of activity observed on the surface of the sun.

Dates of Uranus and Jupiter aligned with the sun.

Heliocentric Planetary Alignment 1305 -1307 Historical Mystery

A rare heliocentric planetary alignment of Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn the sun and Earth occurred around the year 1306, it is the only alignment of this configuration to occur between 4713BC – 2013AD where all the gas giants are in alignment with the Earth on the opposite side of the sun.

Heliocentric Planetary Alignment 1305 – 1307

Historic events around this time:

1305 – Kaharoa eruption, New Zealand

1305 – Philip IV of France accuses the Knights Templar of heresy.

1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1306 – Robert the Bruce was crowned at Scone.

1306 – Vardøhus Fortress in Norway was built.

1306- King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France.

1307 – The Knights Hospitaller begin their conquest of Rhodes.

1307 – October 13 – Friday the 13th: All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into “confessing” heresy.

1307 – According to legend – William Tell shoots an apple off his son’s head.

There is more to this story, something particularly interesting about William Tell directly linking him to this Planetary Alignment; while researching the historical context of the astronomy for this astronomical alignment I happened to notice a photograph of the William Tell mosaic at the Swiss National Museum built in 1898, the mosaic appears to cleverly depict the alignment, it even shows three gas giants portrayed as old gassy men and what looks like a question mark suggesting a fourth. Although William Herschel announced the discovery of Uranus on March 13, 1781, the Planet in fact is visible by the naked eye and it is well know to have been observed on many occasions before its official recognition. Neptune was discovered in 1846, it was the first planet predicted mathematically before it was visually confirmed by observation, could this suggested fourth planet be Neptune?

Mosaic depicting William Tell and the heliocentric planetary alignment of 1305-1307

The mosaic also portrays William Tell as the Sun and his son as the planet earth, the three rocky planets Venus, Mercury and mars as well as a pole where the asteroid belt is. Venus is represented by a character that appears peaceful suggesting the God of love while Mars is holding a long pike portraying a warlike posture to represent the God of war, Mercury is portrayed by a character with a reaching hand and a double jointed thumb from an old “wives-tale” representing the god of thieves.

At this point I’ve come to a dead end with this historical mystery, it may even turn out to be a modern one; either way, It’s an intelligent work of art linking William Tell to the astronomy of his time with the astronomy of the 1700 – 1800s. It would be interesting to learn where the influence for this mosaic came from, if it was copied unknowingly from an earlier work during the 1800s or even if this link is known to the Swiss National Museum.

Could the Solar Cycle be this Simplistic?

Could the solar cycle be based on a simple principle acting between the suns enormous magnetic field and it being attracted to planetary bodies?

The simplest answer! It is the case, the clincher for me is the fact that the sunspot cycle has a variable timing, incredibly accurate to the orbits of Uranus and Jupiter, and of-course the other major facts are that the sun has an enormously strong magnetic field and also that the Poles of the Sun move slower than the equator, when a normal sphere rotates the poles move relative to its equator,  it’s almost like there was a force holding the rotation of the poles back, instead of accepting a dismissal of the Planetary mathematical Harmonics (of which I have personally spent countless long nights puzzling over) as a “spooky action at a distance” the only other possible explanation is; that it has to be the suns strong magnetic field.

This is a simple example, that shows the “spooky action at a distance” it may simply be, large magnetic field attraction.

Uranus and Jupiter attracting the suns magnetic field

The mathematical planetary harmonics that show up in the solar-system appear to be the mathematical behavior of the large magnetic field interacting with the planets attraction now (as in presently) and during the evolution of the solar system.

This simplistic principle should also explain the retrograde orbit of Uranus, if Uranus was subjected to a strong magnetic field which was continuously “Flipping” over billions of years, the likely result of this action would be; that it would cause this retrograde motion. Lets face facts, where are these hypothetical planets that hypothetically knocked Uranus and Venus into a retrograde orbit? (anyone?)

It’s not to difficult to imagine the suns strong magnetic field being attracted by Uranus and Jupiter and behaving in this way. In fact the behavior of our stars large magnetic field and its interaction with the planets could go a long way at explaining a lot more.

Uranus and Jupiter attracting the suns magnetic field

Here is a very simple math problem to work on!

Uranus and Jupiter 
Jupiter orbits the sun            11.87 years.
Uranus orbits the sun           84.07 years.
A conjunction occurs every              13.8   years.

The Sun
Rotation period at poles       34.4  days or 0.09 years
Rotation period at equator  25.05 days or 0.07 years

The Question

Sunspot cycle length    = ?
Sunspot cycle Amplitude = ?

A Quick Orbit timing Reference Table

Jupiters orbit of the sun divided, One orbit 11.87 years or 4.335.52 Days

divided by 2 = 5.935 years   divided by 2 = 2.167.76 Days
divided by 3 = 3.956 years   divided by 3 = 1.444.93 Days
divided by 4 = 2.967 years   divided by 4 = 1.083.70 Days

Uranus orbit of the sun divided, One orbit 84.07 years or 30.706.57 Days

divided by 2 = 42.035 years   divided by 2 = 15.353.28 Days
divided by 3 = 28.023 years   divided by 3 = 10.235.40 Days
divided by 4 = 21.017 years   divided by 4 = 7.676.46  Days
divided by 5 = 16.814 years   divided by 5 = 6.141.31  Days
divided by 6 = 14.011 years   divided by 6 = 5.117.52  Days
divided by 7 = 12.01  years    divided by 7 = 4.386.65  Days
divided by 8 = 10.508 years   divided by 8 = 3.83.05   Days

Uranus and Jupiters Conjunction divided. 13.8 years or 5.040.45 Days

divided by 2 = 6.9  years   divided by 2 =  2.520.22 Days
divided by 3 = 4.6  years   divided by 3 =  1.680.15 Days
divided by 4 = 3.45 years   divided by 4 =  1.260.11 Days
divided by 5 = 2.76 years   divided by 5 =  1.008.09 Days
divided by 6 = 2.3  years   divided by 6 =  840.07   Days

Rotation period at poles Multiplied. A rotation is 0.09 years or 34.4 days

Multiplied by 2  = 0.18 years   Multiplied by 2  = 68.8 Days
Multiplied by 3  = 0.27 years   Multiplied by 3  = 103.2 Days
Multiplied by 4  = 0.36 years   Multiplied by 4  = 137.6 Days
Multiplied by 5  = 0.45 years   Multiplied by 5  = 172   Days
Multiplied by 6  = 0.54 years   Multiplied by 6  = 206.4 Days
Multiplied by 7  = 0.63 years   Multiplied by 7  = 240.8 Days
Multiplied by 8  = 0.72 years   Multiplied by 8  = 275.2 Days
Multiplied by 9  = 0.81 years   Multiplied by 9  = 309.6 Days
Multiplied by 10 = 0.9  years   Multiplied by 10 = 344   Days

Rotation period at equator Multiplied. A rotation is 0.07 years or 25.05 days

Multiplied by 2  = 0.14 years   Multiplied by 2  = 50.1   Days
Multiplied by 3  = 0.21 years   Multiplied by 3  = 75.15  Days
Multiplied by 4  = 0.28 years   Multiplied by 4  = 100.2  Days
Multiplied by 5  = 0.35 years   Multiplied by 5  = 125.25 Days
Multiplied by 6  = 0.42 years   Multiplied by 6  = 150.3  Days
Multiplied by 7  = 0.49 years   Multiplied by 7  = 175.35 Days
Multiplied by 8  = 0.56 years   Multiplied by 8  = 200.4  Days
Multiplied by 9  = 0.63 years   Multiplied by 9  = 225.45 Days
Multiplied by 10 = 0.7  years   Multiplied by 10 = 250.5  Days

Climate Science is weird

Climate Science is weird (Not that I don’t enjoy reading about it). It seems that every new climate scenario making the media over the past 20 years always describe a warm future on a multidecadal scale ignoring a cool future as if variability didn’t exist, but isn’t scientific climatology primarily concerned with longer millenia time scales of a thousand years or more?

I expect if I ask any climate scientist this question every day for the next thousand years (if possible) ‘Will the climate change from what it is today and be different in any way tomorrow’ the answer will be NO with 100% percent certainty every day for the next thousand years.

If a scientist and in particular climate scientists don’t understand the wide swings that do occur in data over short multidecadal time scales then how can they be trusted with understanding the large climatic swings on longer millenia time scales or vise-versa.

I like to think of the climate as a metronome; where the pivot at the bottom of the pendulum is the short multidecadal time scales scientists measure and at the top the weight attached to the pendulum is the longer millenia time scale, as the pendulum is swinging back and forward, climate scientists take measurements from the pivot and try to predict what direction the pendulum is swinging, as the faster moving pivot is a short multidecadal time scale, this is considered the natural variability of weather.

How can any climate scientist in all honesty measure the natural variability of weather and expect to accurately pinpoint where the pendulum will be at a precise time on a longer millenia time scale.

One way of understanding the climatology is by measuring where the pendulum was in the past, and understanding the large pendulum swings of the past climate to get an understanding of future swings in the climate. although, understanding the climate and making predictions are two different things completely.

As where Marcott et al (for example) went wrong as climate scientists, when they used paleoclimate data of long millenia time scales in natural variability, with the short decadal time scale (weather) in natural variability and claim to predict the future of where the pendulum of climatology will be in the future, did they really predict the future?, when actually they are showing that they are some how confused with the issue, what they are representing as evidence of the future climate is in fact their total misunderstanding of climatology and the complex chaotic circumstances that influence the real world.

I also think climate science and related sciences rely too much on statistics, the systematical averaging out of one set of data to blend it with another set of data is a good example of why it seems like it’s not scientists doing science but statistical tinkerers tinkering statistics.

So, where will the pendulum be and when will it be there?

Sometimes (more times than not) Climate issues can evolve into a bare knuckle fight, if you’d like to discuss this post, try to behave

Jupiter and Uranus Heliocentric 13.8 year step from 1/9/2010 – 14/3/1183 AD

Jupiter and Uranus Heliocentric 13.8 year step from 1/9/2010 – 14/3/1183 AD

This is a Heliocentric view of the solar system showing the Jupiter and Uranus conjunction (or harmonic kiss) every 13.8 years going back in time from 2010 to 1183 AD, as you can see the conjunction is very well synchronized at first, as the step continues, over a longer period of time the distance between Jupiter and Uranus increases and then gradually decreases.

Jupiter and Uranus Heliocentric 13.8 year step from 1/9/2010 – 14/3/1183 AD

 

The Sun: Double Peak Underway

As expected, another peak in sunspot activity is occurring displaying one of the largest spots seen this cycle, will this spike of activity at solar maximum be short lived and gradually wind down to solar minimum or will we have large spots and plenty of sunspot activity for sometime?

Solar scientists and astronomers are discussing the possibility of the sun entering into a prolonged sunspot minimum like the Maunder Minimum a period between 1645-1715 when sunspots became rare, looking at the sunspot data around 1610 there is a large spike of activity and a gradual reduction in spots over the next 50 years.

This large spot and uptick in activity is good news for Aurora Hunters out photographing the aurora borealis. Conditions may also be right for thunder and lightening as we emerge from an exceptionally cold spring across the Northern Hemisphere.

The HMI Intensitygram 31st March 2013