re: SM

Tom Brosz — 4/30/2004 4:14:32 PM (archived)

Don't be too smug, people. Some of the greatest science discoveries in the world started out with seemingly stupid and obvious questions.

Any person unfamiliar with the field who was informed that the sun was made from hydrogen and helium might ask the same question. Kind of like if the universe if full of stars, why isn't the sky a solid mass of brilliant starlight?

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Huge Magnetic Filaments Seen Rising From Sun's Eastern Limb - Success_Machine - 4/29/2004 2:16:45 PM
- Don't be silly - R.L. - 4/29/2004 4:29:09 PM
  - re: Compare with Jupiter - Success_Machine - 4/30/2004 8:04:05 AM
    - re: But the edges of the planet's disk are rather sharply defined - Success_Machine - 4/30/2004 8:07:15 AM
      - At the sun's surface and below, the H is a plasma - alcaray - 4/30/2004 3:21:36 PM
        
        Dense, hot plasmas are always opaque. Free electrons help ensure that.... (n/t) - et - 4/30/2004 6:52:09 PM
  - re: SM - Nick Hoffman - 4/29/2004 8:18:58 PM
    - re: SM - Tom Brosz - 4/30/2004 4:14:32 PM
      - Obers' Paradox... - Nick Hoffman - 4/30/2004 6:17:39 PM
        
        Sturgeon's Law - Tom Brosz - 4/30/2004 8:41:32 PM
    - savy idiot 2 - Phil Simon - 4/30/2004 2:36:54 AM
      - Solar Tomography - Nick Hoffman - 4/30/2004 9:32:02 AM
        
        Helioseismology...for Philip, yet ANOTHER HZ poster with two first names... - et - 4/30/2004 6:48:25 PM

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