Wolff and Patrone: A New Way that Planets Can Affect the Sun

The days of Leif’ Svalgaards ‘The sun is in perfect freefall and thus feels no forces’ idealisation are numbered. In freefall it may be, but it is subject to significant differential forces, not only from tides, but from the varying angular momenta of cells within it which do not cancel out. Solar Phys (2010) 266: … Continue reading Wolff and Patrone: A New Way that Planets Can Affect the Sun