The sun has great storms called sunspots. These storms throw hot material far into space in fiery tongues called flares. A stream of hot gases pours from the sun causes this as shown in photo above. These flares can disrupt all types of communications. From radios, TVs, satellites etc... The flares may last for hours, days, or even weeks. New technology has allowed the disruptions, in communications, not to be as bad as it has been in the past.
The solar radius of the Sun is 441,000 miles. The Sun's radius changes by 200 miles per year. In other words, our Sun is shrinking. Now since this information has been used to support a young Solar System. Most scientific websites are quick to point out that this has not been going on for very long. Though science cannot provide any data that has been taken over a long period of time. I visited one scientific website that claimed the shrinking had been going on for "only" 50 years, most were claiming it only started a few hundred years ago. And that there had not been much change over a 100 million year period. Really? Still no data to confirm this. I read over what several sites were saying about this and came to the conclusion that they were all guessing. Though they could sound very smart and use BIG scientific words and use BIG mathematical terms. But I kept getting the impression that all this information was all a guess. Still no data to back it up. Only the "word" of those writing about this. The sun uses hydrogen gas for fuel. It turns this hydrogen gas into helium and consumes the hydrogen in the process. It is estimated that the sun consumes 600 million tons of hydrogen gas per second. In 70,000 years, the sun would consume enough hydrogen gas to equal the mass of our earth. So if there has been little difference in the last 100 million years, was the sun conserving fuel? Is it in dire need of a tune up for the reason it consumes so much more fuel now? Or maybe there was this incredible invention that increased the suns efficiency to last 4 billion + years that recently stop working?
The reason I ask those silly questions are: The sun continues to consume it's fuel(hydrogen). And like the gas tank in your car, this fuel gradually is used up and the contents shrink just like the sun shrinks while it's fuel is being used up. To say that the sun only started to shrink a few years ago is silly and unscientific.
Anyway, lets do some math. The sun loses 200 miles in radius a year. So lets go back in time and times 4 billion years times 200 miles(representing the sun expanding as we go back in time). That comes to 800 billion miles of expansion. But lets be forgiving in this math. Let's say only one mile per year that the sun shrinks. Still 4 billion miles of expansion! Lets say a 1/2 of a mile. That's 2 billion miles. 1 foot is 757576 miles(rounded off). And 1 inch per year is 63,131 miles. An estimated expansion of less then10% would fry the earth. 63,331 miles is 14.31%. But remember, when the sun surface expands, there is more surface area to give off heat. So if you calculate this in with the distance difference, 4 billion years = a fried earth. And that's with only using a 1 inch per year expansion!
Since dealing with several scientists on forums, it has come to my understanding that they will only take information from a scientific source. So I post here what NASA put as an answer to the 200 mile shrinkage per year.
"Is the sun shrinking 200 miles/year?
Hmmm..lets do some math!
The solar radius is 441,000 miles and it is at a distance of 93 million miles. It subtends an angle of 30 arc minutes at this distance, so 200 miles is an angular change per year of 30minutes x 60 seconds/minute x 200/441,000 = 0.8 arc-seconds/year. If this has been going on for the last 50 years, this would have changed the angular diameter of the sun by 40 arc-seconds or a little under 3 percent of its apparent size. A change that is 100 times smaller than this (0.4 arc-seconds) in that amount of time would have gotten the attention of astronomers a LONG time ago.
There is no evidence that the size of the sun has changed appreciably over the last 100 million years, because the amount of heat the sun produces at the earth depends on the second power of the solar diameter, all other factors being equal, so a little change on the sun would throw the earth into a global heat wave or ice age. " NASA End of quote.
Notice that NASA does not even give an estimate on any size change of the sun. The only answer given (a guess): There is no evidence that the size of the sun has changed appreciably over the last 100 million years. In other words, no evidence that it had not either. Only that some astronomers, LONG time ago, would have noticed. Really? The sun size has been measured for how long? But has not changed in a 100 million years?
My questions are:
If this shrinking only started happening recently, is the Sun accelerating in this shrinking?
How does science explain the Sun's sudden urge to shrink at this rate in the past few hundred years that they claim?
At this rate how long before the Sun's surface becomes far enough away from Earth to start effecting Earth's climate?
Is the Sun becoming hotter, or colder while it shrinks?
Does not the sun consume it's fuel? Or does it not and stay the same size? I realize it converts fuel as it consumes. But what the fuel is converted to is less in mass, right? So it is still shrinking.
If science can't answer these questions, then this tells me that all this is starting to look more and more like a guess. Why would science guess at something like this? Science does not want to put out information that would even remotely support a young universe. But there are somethings that can not be ignored. I believe this is one of those things.
One last question: If science claims this started only a few hundred years ago, they should be able to give a date and who discovered it back then. But, nothing. Even the scientists themselves argue over the so called facts on this. Which again tells me they do not know for sure.
All photos of the Sun were provided by NASA.
My opinion on this sun shrinkage thing: If you notice, scientists are using the same argument they used to discredit the moon dust argument. But there's one big twist. The sun consumes it's fuel. And because of this has had a size change. Especially over a 4 billion year period of consuming it's fuel. For a 4 billion year old universe it poses several problems. That even an inch per year shrinkage won't solve. This is the reason that scientists will guess at about anything else in their old earth theory, but this guess can never be gotten right. Argue this as they might, I have yet to see any observable evidence to prove other that what is printed on this page. Besides, with the above statement by NASA, are they saying the sun has stayed the same? They certainly hint at it in their statement.
