{"id":96062,"date":"2019-09-10T23:43:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/experiments-at-temperature-of-sun-offer-solutions-to-solar-model-problems"},"modified":"2019-09-10T23:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:43:02","slug":"experiments-at-temperature-of-sun-offer-solutions-to-solar-model-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/experiments-at-temperature-of-sun-offer-solutions-to-solar-model-problems","title":{"rendered":"Experiments at temperature of sun offer solutions to solar model problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experiments-at-temperature-of-sun-offer-solutions-to-solar-model-problems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experimenting at 4.1 million degrees Fahrenheit, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories\u2019 Z machine have found that an astronomical model\u2014used for 40 years to predict the sun\u2019s behavior as well as the life and death of stars\u2014underestimates the energy blockage caused by free-floating iron atoms, a major player in those processes.<\/p>\n<p>The blockage effect, called opacity, is an element\u2019s natural resistance to energy passing through it, similar to an opaque window\u2019s resistance to the passage of light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy observing real-world discrepancies between theory and our experiments at Z, we were able to identify weaknesses in opacity figures inserted into solar models,\u201d said Taisuke Nagayama, lead author on the Sandia groups\u2019 latest publication in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experimenting at 4.1 million degrees Fahrenheit, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories\u2019 Z machine have found that an astronomical model\u2014used for 40 years to predict the sun\u2019s behavior as well as the life and death of stars\u2014underestimates the energy blockage caused by free-floating iron atoms, a major player in those processes. The blockage effect, called opacity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}