SUNSPOTS

Insight upon sunspots and their associated solar flares came along as a gift when it came time to find out about hot fusion. Eventual comprehension came about for how such fusion is regulated without the obvious feedback presented by cold fusion. It hardly is expected to occur in the solar core where I expect a core of protons and other nuclei, but must restrict itself to sufficient depths to afford us such regularity. Restraint from destabilizing positive feedback comes from the heavy lifting of overbearing solar matter when an excess of fusion results from over-temperature within a strata. As a consequence, much of the additional energy is applied to the lifting effort accomplished by expansion produced by the heat component of the fusion delta. Global equilibrium is accomplished by the added height to surface imposed by the lifted matter as it bears upon any succeeding thermal rise.

Hence, any expansion due to warming builds up solar dimensions and compression due to cooling is met with compensating heat supplementation as solar matter descends. Isolated incidents of temperature variation might well thus remain under control even under chaotic storms of such thermal disturbance.

A consideration arose for conditions of adjacent bipolar variation whereby plasma compression produced nearby plasma expansion might permit unbridled overall fusion. The sole example of such perturbation seems the occasion of a vortex that would present a sustained pressure gradient. Bingo, that would produce a sunspot replete with solar flares surrounding a cooling central vortex. That would produce a galloping incident of excess fusion but not an unbridled one, because some gradual cooling rate and eventual cessation of contraction at the center would limit surrounding over temperatures and place eventual termination of rampant fusion.

A little browsing brought up an interesting study of a large sunspot. I was big enough of a dimple to nest the earth, and it was thought to have a vortex caused by the catch-all of magnetism. Clearly, very large rotating masses would necessarily contain such a vortex, and the sun's electric charge would supply electrons to climb consequential flairs to produce the magnetics involved. (So many causes do get muddled as effects and vice versa.)

It might be that this knowledge could increase our ability to predict specific sunspot activity.