Ground is no longer at ground potential

Reminds me of the April issues of Radio Electronics back in the day...

Thanks!

John :-#)#

Do you still have a spouse, or any friends?

E. E. "Doc" Smith turned the whole Solar system into a gigantic weapon focusing the Sun's entire output into a single beam in _Second Stage Lensman_- he called it the Sunbeam.

Happy AFD.

Mark L. Fergerson

What sort of stuff did they have? I may have to look andf see if they are archived. I know all the popular electronics can be viewed or downloaded online.

I hope we can all agree, all days of the year, that the sun is incandescent! With a daylight colour temperature...

I expect someone has worked out the wattage. It will be an astronomical number.

Mike.

astronomical ;)

a quick google: the sun emits about 3.86 x 10^26 watt, about 1.74 x 10^17 watts strikes the earth

Did I ever tell you that you're a wonderful explainer?

I wish I had a reason to learn photonics so I could justify spending some neurons to read your book..

Thanks.

Huh, So we're at the same potential as the sun? Is the sun neutral? It might boil off more electrons, and be a bit positive?

George H.

It could have a slight positive charge.. till the "boil off" rate of both charges was the same.

Lots of muons, but I think those are made in the upper atmosphere. It all starts out as betas (electrons) and alpha's (He4 ion).

George H.

My first hit for charge of sun...

I had a friend who was in a grocery store with is wife. While she was shopping he was wandering around. Thinking that he had to do something special for April-1, he went over to the desk and bough a lottery ticket, for his wife, with the previous day's winning numbers. When he found her, he fished the ticket out of his pocket and told her to check it when she checked out and continued to wander around. A few minutes later he heard her scream from across the store. Not sure if they're still married, though.

"Write-only memory"

I have a feeling that if anyone touched the sun, they would be electrocuted.....

I hope you guys enjoy this ancient specification writen by someone at my old employer, a computer manufacturer once upon a time...

While you're there, this is a circuit I designed back in the early 1960s for a rather strange purpose. I'd be interested to know if anyone has seen it before.

Mike.

Looks like a load of old balls to me.

That's around 1 kV on 80 mF, which given the high temperature of the corona is maybe reasonable except for being shorted out by the local plasma envir onment. However there's enough complicated magnetic stuff happening in that region that I could imagine charge separation effects going on. Elementary considerations make it seem unlikely that that field remains uncompensated out to infinity, though.

John's original question was whether the solar wind was electrically neutra l, which it has to be, very very accurately.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Screen print function, monitor mounted on top of a copy machine. Mikek

na is maybe reasonable except for being shorted out by the local plasma env ironment. However there's enough complicated magnetic stuff happening in th at region that I could imagine charge separation effects going on.

Right, 1 kV is not all that much. Lost in the (magnetic) noise as you say.

George H.

considerations make it seem unlikely that that field remains uncompensated out to infinity, though.

ral, which it has to be, very very accurately.