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Originally Posted by War_Hero View Post
Solar activity(fusion) and magnetic activity are not the same thing.

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Lol excuse me, but this is getting ridiculous. Independently of what you want to call it, a sun emanating an increased magnetic field over a period of time is - inevitably - a sun with a higher activity. Its a sun with increased radiation.
If you still haven't checked it out, the sun's radiation increases when sunspots are seen on its surface.
Have a bit more reading please: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation
Last edited by GenkiSudo; Jan 22, 2010 at 11:34 PM.
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Correlation is not causation.
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Originally Posted by War_Hero View Post
Correlation is not causation.

Dictionary definitions:

Correlation:
- A causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship, especially a structural, functional, or qualitative correspondence between two comparable entities.
- An act of correlating or the condition of being correlated.

Correlated:
- To put or bring into causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relation.
- To establish or demonstrate as having a correlation


With this said... Even the definition of correlation itself implies a reciprocal relationship linked to a causal event.
Plus I never said the sunspots were the cause. I actually said they were byproducts [here] of a sun entering a higher activity state - its pretty logical, isn't it?. So lets just stop with this, because its getting silly and filled with inutile and somewhat irrational preciosity.

Sunspots are a good way of checking the sun's activity, much like a doctor who checks the patient's tongue and tonsils for signs of illness. (this is, again, just a tiny example, a simple analogy)

http://www.answers.com/topic/correlation
Last edited by GenkiSudo; Jan 24, 2010 at 06:04 PM.
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