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*The Sun's Surface*

The sun has been an enigma to the scientific community for thousands of
years.  There are many unexplainable phenomenon related to the sun that
still baffle scientists to this day. 

Galileo was the founding father of the gas model theory of the sun.  He
observed the sun through a common telescope and noticed that the
sunspots on the “surface” which he saw with his naked eyes, did not
rotate uniformly across the surface.  He also observed that this
“surface” rotated at different speeds near the equator than it did near
the poles. 

From this study of sunspots and their uneven movement, Galileo surmised
that he must be looking at a gas.  He was right about that, although we
know today that the photosphere is a form of plasma.  Unfortunately
Galileo simply assumed that no other solid layers existed, or could
exist beneath the layer of the photosphere that he could see with his
eyes.  That was a CRITICAL mistake.  It was a bit like looking at a
world covered in water and not having the ability to see beneath the
water and just assuming the whole world is made of water.

Galileo did not have multimillion dollar “eyes” and Doppler imaging
systems to look beneath the chaotic surface of the photosphere.   Only
in the past 10 years, a virtual blink of an eye in scientific terms,
have we had the technology to put Galileo's assumption to the test.  
The SOHO, TRACE and YOHKOH satellite programs give us new sets of eyes,
new ways to view the sun, new ways to peer beneath the layers of the sun
that Galileo observed.  The Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes
give us eyes to peer into other solar systems and other galaxies and
enable us to look back at the original structures of our universe and
see our universe in all new spectrums of energy.  What they reveal to us
about the structure of our universe is truly breathtaking.

For forty-five years, I too believed that the sun was a giant ball of
gas.  I was taught all about Galileo's observations and the gas model
theory of the sun that NASA still promotes
<http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/sun101.html> to this very day. 
That is the model I was taught in school, and that is the framework I've
always tried to work with.  During all that time I simply could not
explain or comprehend the phenomenon I was seeing as I studied satellite
images and videos provided through the various satellite programs that
study the sun.

While viewing images from SOHO’s EIT program
<http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/>, I finally stumbled across the raw
(unprocessed EIT images) marked “DIT” images that are stored in SOHO’s
daily archives <http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/daily_mpg/?C=N;O=A>. 
After downloading a number of these larger “DIT” (grey) files, including
several "running difference" images, it became quite apparent that many
of the finer details revealed in the raw EIT images are simply lost
during the computer enhancement process that is used to create the more
familiar EIT (green) images that are displayed on SOHO’s website.  That
evening in April of 2005, all my beliefs about the sun changed.  By
changing a single thought, I was able to grasp the things I was seeing,
and finally began to comprehend what I was looking at.  I started to
understand things about the sun and about our universe in a period of a
few short weeks, things that had eluded me for a lifetime.  That simple
revelation was the understanding that the sun is NOT simply a ball of
gas; it has a hard and rigid ferrite surface <images/T171_000828.avi>
below the photosphere that can be seen in all three of the photos on
this page!

That revelation prompted me to do a lot more research into these
unprocessed EIT images.  Over the past few months I have downloaded and
watched many gigabytes of these raw unprocessed data files.  In fact I
have viewed ALL of the nearly 14 gigabytes of currently available
archive files dating all the way back to January of 2001.

I’ve watched these videos over and over again, using a variety of
programs to display these files.  After countless hours of carefully
examining this footage, I’ve come to the conclusion that the sun indeed
has an electrically conductive and highly defined surface which rotates
(uniformly) every 27.3 days.
<http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/images/The%20Surface%20Of%20The%20Sun_0001.wmv> 
In my opinion, this discovery of a solid surface is a very important
breakthrough and represents a huge leap forward in our understanding of
how the universe works. 

Sound interesting so far?  Have some objections perhaps?  Please read
on.  I will present a lot of evidence from the SOHO program in the form
of raw DIT images and videos to support these ideas.  I'll also provide
videos and photos from the Trace satellite as well.  This isn’t just
another unsupported, completely theoretical concept.   A solid surface
model of the sun is a LOT more logical and a LOT better scientifically
supported than current models of the sun.  More importantly, current
models of the sun simply do NOT explain the video images we see through
SOHO.   This website is dedicated in humble appreciation of the
incredible work done by the people at SOHO
<http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/> and Trace
<http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/> and Yohkoh
<http://www.lmsal.com/SXT/homepage.html>.

You can click here to download a manuscript <TheSurfaceOfTheSun.pdf>
that has been offered for web peer review with The Astrophysical Journal
<http://mss.uchicago.edu/ApJ/>.

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