Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:

In article ,
"Painius" wrote:

On another subject, you mentioned the high temperature of the solar
corona. This question was asked several times but not answered AFAIK:
Could the temperature buildup be simply due to the material's
inability to re-radiate the IR it absorbs? It'd be analogous to
holding a wad of steel wool, which has very low thermal mass, over a
gas flame and watching how it quickly heats to incandescence. I dunno.
Just askin'.
oc

That's as good an explanation as any, but i
haven't read anything in the lit. about it. My
first thought is how stable or unstable the
IR absorption rate might be. The coronal
temp varies IIRC between about one and
two million degrees, so whatever the source
is, it's instability may give it away.


BWAHAHHAHAHA

Good thing they don't have positions that require knowledge of stellar
physics.

--
Supreme Leader of the Brainwashed Followers of Art Deco

"Causation of gravity is missing frame field always attempting
renormalization back to base memory of equalized uniform momentum."
-- nightbat the saucerhead-in-chief

"Of doing Venus in person would obviously incorporate a composite
rigid airship, along with it's internal cache of frozen pizza and
ice cold beer."
-- Brad Guth, bigoted racist