A while back, I wrote a post on Sunspots and Eclipses that caught the attention of an astronomy blogger named Tallbloke. He has an interesting perspective about the solar system that is worth passing on.
Long before Zharakova made the news by making prediction of a cold spell centered in the 2030s by doing Fourier analysis on the sunspot cycle and creating a simple equation that fit historical data over both long and short timescales, Tallbloke and co. had made a similar prediction by using completely different methods.
Whereas
- Zharakova calculated the patterns of solar activity by modeling the interior dynamics of the sun,
- Tallbloke calculated the patterns of solar activity by modeling the exterior dynamics of the planets.
How nice that they agreed!
What is puzzling is why the astronomy community doesn’t agree with them and why top physics journals retracted Professor Zharakova’s paper and refused to publish anything by Tallbloke – a guy who isn’t affiliated with any institutes. He only publishes in a journal dedicated to pattern recognition.
It is so strange how academia compartmentalizes such people who are capable of viewing the sun and earth from within and without. I’ve been surprised to learn that not only are there people who have no inner dialogue or voice, there are people who have no ability to visualize, and there are people who have no ability to assume two perspectives at the same time, as required if you want to understand the sun or Earth from within and without.
Wouldn’t it be neat if the air pressure and the heat generated by the Earth’s core were perfectly causally linked in a fundamental way — because it is certainly easier to measure air pressure than to measure volcanic output on the ocean floor.
It is a pity that this sort of balanced perspective about nature seems to be outlawed by the science police.
That didn’t prevent the IPCC leaning on Copernicus and getting the journal shut down 20 days after we published the special issue. But they weren’t able to force retraction of the papers and they’re all still available at Copernicus via my website here. https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/prp-special-issue/ Six years validation by the data since publication (green curve), and we await the next 5 years to the peak of solar cycle 25 with great interest.
Tallbloke’s commment on Sunspots and Eclipses
What is nice about both Zharakova and Tallbloke’s methods is that they make testable predictions and that is really the only way to do science. The only difficulty is that one must live for a rather long time to find out if the predictions were accurate.
Will these sorts of figures survive for the next hundred years so that our kids can check the science? I have my doubts.
I wonder if thes doubts are motivated by my beliefs about how the economy and the climate are tied together.
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For a deeper look at my apostatic perspectives on physics, I recommend my first nonfiction book:
Kirsten Hacker 
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