A report by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, published September 8, 2011 in Astronomy Magazine, discussed the observance of four phases in the lifetime of average solar flares. The article concerned the observations of NASA's Dr. Phillip Chamberlin and Dr. Tom Woods of the University of Colorado.

My theoretical analysis of NASA’s description of these phases leads me to conclude that the phases correspond to erupting bipolar bivortex spheres that are thrown out continuously from the equator of the Sun’s spinning-and-tumbling central-core.  The bivortex spheres rise, like bubbles, and burst through the Sun’s surface.  I have discussed the theory of bivortex bodies and solar sunspots in previous entries to this blog.  (I see the Sun itself as a spinning bivortex with a spinning and tumbling bivortex core at its center, creating with the core's ejections what we know as sunspot cycles.)

It is my speculation that these spinning bivortexes rise toward the solar surface, having each central bivortex axis parallel to the solar surface. 

Kelly Phase 1:  With the bivortex axis parallel to the solar surface, the leading equatorial perimeter portion of a bivortex hemisphere breaks through the solar surface first. As this hemisphere continues to emerge, it is visualized from the earth as successive arches spreading at their bases toward two solar “sunspots,” i.e. toward the two bivortex axial poles known to us as sunspots.  With further eruption the arches break apart at the top and rain particles back down to the surface.  This I equate to NASA’s first phase:

Kelly Phase 2:  After the outer hemisphere arches of the bivortex material break and rain back down, the bivortex core itself, which stretches between the two polar vortexes (sunspots), begins to emerge from the surface and rise above it.  This I equate to NASA’S second phase:

NASA Phase 2:  “Over the course of minutes to hours, the solar material, called plasma, is heated and explodes back up, tracing its way along giant magnetic loops, filling the loops with plasma.  This process sends off so much light and radiation that it can be compared to millions of hydrogen bombs.”  

Kelly Phase 3:  A major portion of the dense, tornado-like core of the bivortex breaks loose and is ejected beyond the corona in what is known as a coronal mass ejection.  This I equate to NASA's third phase: 

NASA Phase 3:  “The third phase is characterized by the sun’s atmosphere—the corona—losing brightness, and so is known as the coronal dimming phase.  This is often associated with what’s known as a coronal mass ejection, in which a great cloud of plasma erupts off the surface of the Sun.”  

Kelly Phase 4:  The remaining, submerged bivortex hemisphere erupts weakly after having lost the energy of the spinning axial core.  Its particles continue rising, but only to roil the surface and not to expand in great arches. This I equate to NASA's fourth phase:

NASA Phase 4:  “Anywhere from 1 to 5 hours later for several of the flares, scientists saw a second peak of warm coronal material that didn’t correspond to another X-ray burst. . . . These emissions happen substantially later.  And it happens after the main flare exhibits that initial peak.”  

I am not a scientist, but I am always intrigued when real scientists make observations that seem to support my amateur theorizing. 

Link to NASA article:

http://www.astronomy.com/News-Observing/News/2011/09/NASA spacecraft spots a late phase in solar flares.aspx

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