Set the controls for the heart of the Sun (dailymail.co.uk)

vernes · Post by **vernes** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:45 am

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?

TallDave · Post by **TallDave** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:27 am

The sun isn't a toroid.

Art Carlson · Post by **Art Carlson** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:54 am

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.

TallDave · Post by **TallDave** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:38 pm

Heh.

Myself, I see an innumerable company of PhDs crying “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Tokamak.”

alexjrgreen · Post by **alexjrgreen** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:13 pm

TallDave wrote:Myself, I see an innumerable company of PhDs crying “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Tokamak.”

"... the Spherical Tokamak", perhaps?

chrismb · Post by **chrismb** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:34 pm

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!!!....