The Cosmic Steam Engine: Sun, Gravity, and Solar Wind

Published: May 14, 2024 / Updated: May 14, 2024 Ronald Messick Ancient Astronomy

The Boiler of the Cosmos

The Sun, that celestial furnace in the sky, has long been a source of fascination and mystery. At a fundamental level, one might liken the Sun to an electric generator, where mechanical input power—gravity—is converted into electrical output power—radiation. But there’s more to this cosmic engine.

  1. The Colossal Boiler:
    • Imagine the Sun’s core as a colossal boiler—an inferno where matter is compressed and heated to unimaginable temperatures.
    • Gravity, the cosmic engineer, orchestrates this process. It squeezes hydrogen atoms together, creating a pressure cooker of nuclear reactions.
  2. Steam Generation, Stellar Style:
    • In a steam engine, water boils, becomes steam, and drives pistons. In the Sun, hydrogen nuclei collide, fuse, and transform into helium.
    • This nuclear fusion releases an astonishing amount of energy—the Sun’s lifeblood.
  3. Dematerialization and Radiative Rebirth:
    • As matter in the Sun’s core reaches critical density and temperature, something magical happens: it dematerializes.
    • Electrons merge with protons, forming photons—particles of light. These newborn photons surge outward, escaping the core’s gravitational grip.

The Solar Wind: Cosmic Energy Distribution

  1. Solar Wind as Energy Carriers:
    • Beyond the photosphere lies the Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona. Here, the solar wind is born.
    • The solar wind consists of charged particles (mostly electrons and protons) streaming outward from the Sun at supersonic speeds.
    • These particles carry the Sun’s energy, like a cosmic railroad distributing radiative power across the solar system.
  2. Solar Wind’s Journey:
    • The solar wind sweeps through interplanetary space, reaching planets, moons, and even distant comets.
    • It interacts with magnetic fields, shaping auroras, and sculpting comet tails.
    • Earth’s magnetic field deflects and channels the solar wind, protecting our planet while also creating mesmerizing auroras near the poles.
  3. Harmony of Forces:
    • Just as radiation pushes outward, the solar wind extends the Sun’s influence.
    • It maintains a delicate balance: gravity pulling inward, radiation pressure pushing outward, and the solar wind bridging the gap.

Hydrostatic Harmony

At the Sun’s surface, the photosphere, a cosmic tightrope maintains hydrostatic equilibrium:

  • Radiation Pressure: Photons stream outward, carrying the Sun’s energy. They nudge against the weight of the Sun’s own mass, like a gentle breeze pushing back a mountain.
  • Gravitational Tug: Gravity, the cosmic sculptor, pulls inward. It yearns to crush the Sun, to ignite even more fusion. But radiation and the solar wind resist, creating a delicate standoff.

And so, the Sun persists—a cosmic steam engine, its core ablaze, its surface shimmering. It fuels our days, paints our skies, and whispers secrets across the vastness of space.

Next time you feel the Sun’s warmth on your skin, remember: you’re touching stardust, riding the cosmic currents of a magnificent steam engine—the heart of our solar system.

 

With the solar wind as our cosmic energy courier, the Sun’s power reaches every corner of our celestial neighborhood.

A Mysterious 3rd Force Lies Between the Two Foci of Every Orbit…

Published: May 19, 2024 / Updated: May 19, 2024 Ronald Messick Ancient Astronomy, Electric Sun, Science & Astronomy, Solar Cycle, Solar System Dynamics, Unexplained Mysteries

Every celestial body, whether a star or a planet, has a magnetic field that extends beyond its surface and into the surrounding space.

This field exerts a force on any charged particle that moves within it, creating a region of influence called the magnetosphere (or sphere of influence). The magnetosphere protects the body from harmful solar wind and cosmic rays and shapes the dynamics of its atmosphere and ionosphere. 

We can liken the earth’s geomagnetic field to the circular ripples created by casting a stone into a pond. The circular ripples move outward from the center point where the stone was dropped (FOCI); expanding in size, but diminishing in force as they move.

Unbeknownst to the individual tossing the stone, they are, in essence, enhancing the force of gravity. However, their perception is limited to the surface ripples created by the impact. What is not realized is that these ripples form a series of expanding spherical rings along the equator, which counteract the intensification of gravity by dispersing it at an equivalent rate as the stone’s descent. The same principle applies to all actions.

If one simultaneously casts two stones into the pond several feet apart, two sets of expanding circular waves are created, moving outward from each center of Focus. Where the wavefronts meet, an interference pattern is formed and extends between the two Foci. 

 

The interference pattern assumes the shape of an extended ellipse, with its smaller ends at the points where the stones were cast (FOCI). Although both wavefronts have diminished in force as they traveled outward from the central points, the interference pattern has combined a portion of both forces to a third force (standing wave), which remains constant between the two Foci so long as they stay active.

This “third force” that manifests between two Foci, is ubiquitous throughout all space.

Standing waves, also known as stationary waves, are a type of wave pattern that forms when two waves of the same frequency and amplitude traveling in opposite directions interfere with each other. Unlike traveling waves, which propagate through a medium and carry energy from one point to another, standing waves appear stationary in space because the individual particles of the medium oscillate in place rather than moving with the wave.

In the following illustration, the “red wave” represents the motion of a standing (or stationary wave). In contrast, the blue and green waves represent traveling (or transverse) waves moving in opposite directions.

Formation of standing waves requires a medium with fixed boundaries–the role played by magnetic fields. When two waves with the same frequency and amplitude travel in opposite directions along such a medium they interfere constructively and destructively, creating the regions of maximum and minimum displacement referred to as a standing wave pattern.

The sets of transverse waves that form standing wave patterns are locked in a closed loop–eventually returning to where they started.

In a standing wave, there are points along the medium called nodes where the displacement of the particles is always zero. These points remain stationary throughout the oscillation. In addition to nodes, there are points called antinodes where the displacement is at its maximum. Antinodes are located midway between adjacent nodes.

Standing waves exhibit several important characteristics:

1. **Node and Antinode Locations:** The positions of nodes and antinodes are determined by the standing wave’s wavelength and the medium’s properties (plasma).

2. **Resonance:** Standing waves can be produced when the frequency of the waves matches the natural frequency of the medium or the resonant frequency of the system.

3. **Harmonics:** Standing waves can have multiple harmonic frequencies–integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. Each harmonic corresponds to a different pattern of nodes and antinodes.

The same relationship exists between the expanding spheres of magnetic influence that move into space from the sun and each planet or satellite. As these magnetic wavefronts expand from another source, they form a magnetic interference pattern that again assumes an extended ellipse’s general shape. Although the geomagnetic field of each planet or sun diminishes in strength as it moves spaceward, the elliptical magnetic fields thus created between celestial bodies by magnetic interference maintain a constant-strength magnetic field between the bodies.

A planet’s magnetic field is similar to “direct current” which grows weaker as it travels from its source; however, the elliptical magnetic field shared by two planets may be likened to “alternating current,” which can be transmitted over long distances. These “magnetic rivers” that form between planets constantly alternate or change their flow direction, creating a two-way magnetic pulse between planets.

By Ronald G. Messick