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Solar Wind

In Our Time: Science

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The Complexity of Measurement

Eugene Parker worked out, basically, that the sun was streaming off. We're able to see the rainbow colours of the sun but on top of that we can also see some very specific spectral lines - like a bar chart in a supermarket. And it tells you very precisely what the sun is made of, how it's moving. It gives you a lot of information about it, as it would for many other astrophysical objects. But his ideas weren't taken on or were they resisted? No, they were resisted. Why? People are sometimes, since science, I'm afraid they're very, they're very slow to change If they have a particular thing in mind, they are

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