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Author Topic:   "In the end there must have been a creator"
Darwin Storm
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Message 19 of 69 (7037)
03-16-2002 4:26 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Philip
03-13-2002 3:11 AM


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Originally posted by Philip:
The energy of the sun, despite what Asimov and others speculate, appears (in my meager perspective) so much more explosively random and deteriorating upon the earth ... Should not that such immense random solar energy require a complex 'tuning', 'dampening' and/or relativistic mechanism to both harness and decrease geo-entropy, at least in the initial phases of geo-materialization?
The complexity of the earth vs. the explosive simplicity of the sun. Entropy vs. Energy/Gravity/other mechanisms?

Actually, the sun is very complex. It is also very much in a state of flux, and the effects of such a flux are readily apparent hear on earth. For example, the magnetic poles of the sun fluctuate every 22 years. Sun spots create magnetic storms that can and have knocked out whole power grids (in 1988? in Canada, a large portion of their electrical grid was knocked out due to an electromagnetic storm caused by a solar flare.) The sunspot cycle peaks usually every 11 years. However, between 1645 and 1705 , sunspot activity abruptly decreased, (called the Maunder minimum) and the earth experienced a mini-ice age, with extremely cold winters.
As for the mechanics of the sun, and its supposed equilibrium, current theory hold that the sun did fluctuate greatly for the first billion years or so after its birth before gravity, pressure, ect came into equilibrium.
Not quite sure what you are trying to get at in your arguement though. Are you trying to state that because the suns "seems" simple and that the earth "seems" complex that there needs to be some outside intelligence at work? Astronomy has provided wonderful pictures of stars in various stages of their life cycle. All seem to form quite nicely by themselves under the influences of known universal forces, such as gravity, weak and strong nuclear forces, as well as electromagnetic forces.

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