The Sun And The Dark Power

By Stefano Zottele

Doing research is like going for mushrooms.If you go where everyone goes, it is unlikely that you will still find something, but the places that are not frequented are of no interest to anyone, and therefore you are likely to be alone with your own research. Just like the sun?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Release date: Jul 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9788831679046

Book preview

Since the beginning of cycle 24 I have followed the sun. An article in a newspaper reported the protraction of the solar minimum between the cycle 23 and 24. This involved me immediately. This object to study in detail intrigued me. Especially since it represented, and represents, a challenge. Unlike traditional astronomy and physics, where much has been discovered and defined down to the smallest detail, here I am faced with uncertain scientists, a lot of different hypotheses and often in conflict with each other.

The sun forecast is always short-lived. The facts often happen unexpectedly. Of course, rules were found. But they themselves refer to even more inexplicable variations. In short, the functioning of the sun seems governed by chance.This however refers to ancient wisdom: we cannot aspire to understand these variations more similar to a character than to an inanimate object. And such a powerful and bizarre, and terrible character could have made appear in many primitive civilizations the figure of the sun as a God .

Now we know something, especially in the general aspects derived from the observation of the stars, but we lack an understanding of the detail of its functioning, of the forces that determine and regulate the solar cycles and those that cause, within the latter, all the sudden, and often violent, variations that occur very quickly, often on a daily basis or even within a few minutes.

An original way to guided my observations. I will try to illustrate it in these pages. At the end of the book a few web pages are mentioned. They are kept updated daily to confirm what seems to be happening.  

Impressions

I started by downloading the graphs of all the previous solar cycles formed by the line that united all the monthly averages of each cycle and that of the annual average of the same. The line of the F10.7 was also reported.

For a long time I preferred the latter as less arbitrary as passively measured. The counting of the spots had initially seemed often uncertain to me: some rely on more powerful telescopes and even count smaller spots. Then, over time, however, I began to appreciate both. As the first is also subject to a huge series of checks that eventually eliminate all the possible known deviations or at least reduce them to truly minimal factors.

Both the discoveries of the cycle and of the evolution of the position of the spots