By George William Kelly

aka "Einstein Kelly"

The Big Bear Solar Observatory recently published new high-resolution images of the sun's surface, including close-ups of solar sunspots.  I saw four of the images on the following sites:  (1) www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/09/03/telescope-captures-sunspot-bigger-earth/ (2) www.physorg.com/news161972205.html and (3) www.news.nationalgeographic.com/news .

Dr. Philip R. Goode, Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the director of the observatory, announced the images as the first to come from the observatory's new 1.6 meter clear aperture solar telescope.

To my mind one of the BBSO images appears to support previous posts by me in which I suggested an underlying mechanism of solar sunspot cycles and a dynamic morphology of sunspots, both of which were based on my theory of bivortex composite bodies.

In past posts I have theorized a rotating spheroidal composite body, which I labeled a bivortex body, or simply a bivortex.  The recirculating particles that compose the bivortex body exit at the equator.  They successively arch northward and southward along and away from the equatorial plane toward the opposite north and south poles.  They spiral into the poles and continue in the form of an axial tube to the central core of the bivortex body, where they collide and exit along the equatorial plane, beginning a new cycle.  I have called the particle pathways the gravito-electro-magnetic field lines of the bivortex body.  (The "gravito-" refers to the centripetal attraction of the particles back toward the axial center, i.e. gravity.)  The field lines make up a toroidal form.  At various distances from the center--and at various angles--the field lines may be visualized as rings, like the "rings" of Saturn.  Heat is concentrated at the core of the bivortex and dissipates as particles move outward at the equator and curve toward the poles.  This temperature gradient correlates to the polar and equatorial climates of the Earth, as well as to drops in temperature at altitudes farther away from the surface.

I have concluded that the Sun (like other stars and planets) is such a bivortex body.  In the case of a hot star like the Sun, an extremely hot central core forms.  This core, itself, takes the shape of a mini-bivortex.  It too has two poles, a bivortex central tube, and an outflow of particles at its equator.  It is my belief that the ejected particles from the solar core's equator take the shape of baby bivortexes rising to the surface of the Sun.  When reaching the surface, the axial tube will be more or less parallel to the surface.  Then the two oppositely charged poles of each baby bivortex will correspond to the oppositely charged poles that have long been known as sunspot pairs.  One pole-to-pole hemisphere of the baby bivortex will break the solar surface and create the "arches" seen between solar sunspots.  Portions of the arches may be ejected from the Sun altogether while the remaining portions fall back toward the surface, returning into the pair of sunspots.  The size of solar ejections might vary with the size of the erupting baby bivortexes.

I suggest that the Big Bear Solar Observatory's images be studied from this bivortex viewpoint to determine whether the above assumption bears merit.  In my view the "curved fibers" shown by one of the BBSO images are not being ejected from the sunspot as one of the articles states, but rather spiraling clockwise into the sunspot.  It would be useful to see the other sunspot in the pair also, to observe whether similar curved fibers are spiraling counter-clockwise into the spot.  A sequential series of images showing the development of the pair of sunspots from beginning to demise (perhaps with an intermission while the Sun revolves) would be useful.  I should also like to know if a hexagonal pattern appears around the circumference of sunspots, similar to hexagonal patterns observed at some planetary poles.  In addition, I should  like to search outside the sunspot itself for a perimeter defining the overall diameter of the entire baby bivortex.