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Lambda-CDM - Pure Confirmation Bias Run Amuck

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There's what amounts to "scattering/absorption" taking place along the limb. So what?
That you cannot understand what fantasies are or for that matter English: Transition region
The solar transition region is a region of the Sun's atmosphere, between the chromosphere and corona.[1][2]
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The transition region is visible in far-ultraviolet (FUV) images from the TRACE spacecraft, as a faint nimbus above the dark (in FUV) surface of the Sun and the corona. The nimbus also surrounds FUV-dark features such as solar prominences, which consist of condensed material that is suspended at coronal altitudes by the magnetic field.
 
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Birkeland's been dead a lot longer, and yet he still knew more about solar atmospheric physics that you do, and more than most folks today.
Derailing the thread into your delusions abut Birkeland is not wise, Michael - see my signature.

Like what?
You seem incapable of reading a quote listing the evidence for the Big Bang mostly discovered after the death of Hubble, Michael. Or maybe it is abysmal ignorant of cosmology, so I will fix that. The 2 lines of evidence from the Big Bang that Hubble know are highlighted.
Frequently Asked Questions in Cosmology: What is the evidence for the Big Bang?
The evidence for the Big Bang comes from many pieces of observational data that are consistent with the Big Bang. None of these prove the Big Bang, since scientific theories are not proven. Many of these facts are consistent with the Big Bang and some other cosmological models, but taken together these observations show that the Big Bang is the best current model for the Universe. These observations include:
The observations listed above are consistent with the Big Bang or with the Steady State model, but many observations support the Big Bang over the Steady State:
  • Radio source and quasar counts vs. flux. These show that the Universe has evolved.
  • Existence of the blackbody CMB. This shows that the Universe has evolved from a dense, isothermal state.
  • Variation of TCMB with redshift. This is a direct observation of the evolution of the Universe.
  • Deuterium, 3He, 4He, and 7Li abundances. These light isotopes are all well fit by predicted reactions occurring in the First Three Minutes.
Finally, the angular power spectrum of the CMB anisotropy that does exist at the several parts per million level is consistent with a dark matter dominated Big Bang model that went through the inflationary scenario.
 
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Those so called "standard candles" that weren't really standard after all?
That question just after a mention of Hubble leads to an tongue on in check question for Michael:
If standard candles not being as standard as though means dark energy des not exist then does the Milky Way contain > 100 billion galaxies :D!

Hubble was the scientist who established that galaxies are outside of the Milky Way. He did that by finding Cepheid variables (which are standard candles) in "nebulae" and so calculating their distance as larger than the size of the Milky Way. But like the discovery that there are two classes of Type 1A supernovae, it was discovered that there were two classes of Cepheid variables.
Using your logic the evidence that galaxies are outside of the Milky Way is wrong and they all exist inside the Milky Way.
 
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That you cannot understand what fantasies are or for that matter English: Transition region
I'm quite familiar with the term RC. The so called "transition region" in a Birkeland solar model would be best described as the area above the cathode that is lit up by the high temperature discharges that are occurring around the surface of the sphere. The various layers of the sun are mass separated to a great degree, and various images along limb can only reveal a tiny fraction of that whole discharge region above the rigid cathode surface compared to a face on image at 131A or 171A. The amount and volume of plasma, as well as the type/species of plasma will determine the optical distance in a Birkeland model. It's not as simple as the standard model in terms of optical depths at various angles in the atmosphere.
 
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I'm quite familiar with the term RC.
Not so because repeating a delusion about the real world solar transition region is a delusion, not a fantasy, Michael.

Adding more ignorance is not wise. The Planeterrella is a polar light simulation as in the title page of your video and
In this video Dr Gabrielle Provan of the University of Leicester Physics & Astronomy department demonstrates how Aurora Borealis (or the Northern Lights) are created. Using a Planeterrella designed by CNRS scientist Jean Lilensten she recreates Kristian Birkeland's 100+ year old experiment. Showing how charged particles within solar winds coming from our Sun collide with atoms in the Earth's atmosphere to create a natural light display.
The second globe is a source of plasma acting as a "solar wind".

Scientists Recreate Earth’s Northern Lights
 
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Not so because repeating a delusion

It is your *delusion* that actual electrical discharges are impossible in plasma, or that the term "actual" has any scientific value to anyone. The term "actual" only has some weird emotional value to you personally apparently since no published author ever uttered the phrase "actual electrical discharges are impossible in plasma" and attached any scientific meaning to the term "actual". It's "actually" an irrelevant term to anyone but you personally. :)

about the real world solar transition region is a delusion, not a fantasy, Michael.

The real world images from SDO are much more complicated than the now *falsified* standard model suggested. What's with you and the emotional need to bold my name all the time anyway? It's another of your stranger personality quirks.

Adding more ignorance is not wise.

So do you really think it's wise to debate topics related to plasma physics without ever reading a book on the topic RC?
 
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It is your *delusion* that actual electrical discharges are impossible in plasma,...
Actual electrical discharges such as lightning are impossible in plasma because plasma is not a dielectric medium like air.
Hints at a new delusion so I had better check:
16 June 2016 Michael: Do you think that plasma is an medium like air and so can have lightning (an actual electrical discharge) going through it?
Yes or No is an acceptable answer. I will take ignoring the question as conformation of a new delusion about the properties of plasma.
 
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...it didn't require any "magnetic reconnection",...
Hey look at the rather ignorant derail of mentioning magnetic reconnection for a simulator that is not demonstrating MR.
Putting magnetic reconnection in scare quotes when we acknowledge that magnetic reconnection in plasma exists is silly, Michael.
 
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Hey look at the rather ignorant derail of mentioning magnetic reconnection for a simulator that is not demonstrating MR.

The whole experiment demonstrates that "magnetic reconnection" is irrelevant to solar physics and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the Earth's aurora. They're caused by electrical fields and current flow.

Putting magnetic reconnection in scare quotes when we acknowledge that magnetic reconnection in plasma exists is silly, Michael.

What's silly is your delusional and ignorant fantasy that plasma is optional or that the transfer of field energy is optional.
 
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Both the source of the coronal heating and the source of the aurora energy ...
Nothing to do with the post: 16 June 2016 Michael: The Planeterrella is a polar light simulation with one or more sources of plasma

The fantasy about Birkeland having a heat source for the coronal heating pops up in this thread. His book mentions the solar corona and you have the fantasy that means he explained how it heats up!
7 June 2016 Michael: Please quote Birkeland explaining the heat source of the corona as you claim he did
 
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Nothing to do with the post: 16 June 2016 Michael: The Planeterrella is a polar light simulation with one or more sources of plasma

The fantasy about Birkeland having a heat source for the coronal heating pops up in this thread. His book mentions the solar corona and you have the fantasy that means he explained how it heats up!
7 June 2016 Michael: Please quote Birkeland explaining the heat source of the corona as you claim he did

Stop hijacking my thread RC.
 
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Stop hijacking my thread RC.
Stop hijacking this thread with delusions abut the Sun, Birkeland, magnetic reconnection, etc. and I will not have to respond to them, Michael.
And do not pretend that you own this thread :eek:!

You claimed that you were not a science denier on 1 June 2016.
I pointed out that you do deny science. Related to this thread is
7 June 2016 Michael: Delusions about papers unrelated to dark matter and a lie about dark matter :eek:!

And maybe:
15 June 2016 Michael: Cite the scientific literature that shows that Kauffmann et al. 2003 is wrong.
15 June 2016 Michael: Can you understand the difference between inside a galaxy and outside a galaxy?

15 June 2016 Michael: Repeats an argument from authority (Edwin Hubble) as if thousands of cosmologists did not exist :eek:!

You brought up actual electrical discharges in plasma (impossible because plasma conducts) with your denial English (the definition differs!) and science on 7 June 2016.
So I responded: Actual electrical discharges are impossible in plasma, etc. This is simply that electrical discharges that result from the breakdown of a insulating medium are impossible in plasma because plasma conducts!

You brought up magnetic reconnection and your denial of textbook English and science on 7 June 2016.
So I responded. This is simply that there is no plasma as anyone can read (see my signature) in that example.
 
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Stop hijacking this thread with delusions abut the Sun, Birkeland, magnetic reconnection, etc. and I will not have to respond to them, Michael.
And do not pretend that you own this thread :eek:!

All threads have a specific topic. You're intentionally stalking me around the internet interjecting your unrelated nonsense into otherwise unrelated topics. Stop breaking the rules of the forum and stop hijacking my threads.
 
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If you kept to the topic

I did. You showed up in EU/PC stalker mode however, and suddenly four of my threads get hijacked!

Ya, ya, ya, here's the content of all of your post in a nutshell:

ignorance, delusion, lie, crazy, crackpot, crank, fantasy, personal insults, yada, yada, yada.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

You're lying every day about what I said. How can you even look yourself in the mirror every day RC? You have no ethics or moral values whatsoever.
 
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That you did not keep to the topic is documented in this thread, Michael.
You claimed that you were not a science denier on 1 June 2016.
I responded with the science you deny.

You brought up actual electrical discharges in plasma on 7 June 2016.
I responded with the science you deny.
You brought up magnetic reconnection on 7 June 2016.
I responded with the English and science you deny.


If I am wrong then show that I am.
16 June 2016 Michael: List the posts before yours by other posters on the topics of your science denial, electrical discharges and magnetic reconnection in vacuum by other posters.
 
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That you did not keep to the topic is documented in this thread, Michael.

Your various hijacks are all well documented and recorded RC for anyone to read for themselves. Who do you think you're kidding?
 
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