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My comment is exclusively on the statement, "To help with this is an instrument called SEE (or the Solar EUV Experiment) built at the University of Colo., which looks at the sun's x-rays and extreme ultraviolet rays to see how they impact our atmosphere". Most significantly, the Sun light that we receive everyday is mainly due to solar gamma, X-ray, and beta emissions. My sub-atomic research done for nearly 21 years with radioisotopes and XRF sources has disclosed that gamma, characteristic X-ray, and beta emissions cause UV (dominant), visible light (VIS), and near infrared (NIR) radiations from within one and same excite atom of a radioisotope or XRF source by a previously unknown atomic phenomenon described in the following paper published in a peer reviewed journal. The dominant UV exceeds 84% of the gross optical intensity from radioisotopes (Table 1), while the rest 16% is shared by VIS and NIR radiations. There is a similarity in the gamma-, X-ray, beta, UV, VIS, and NIR radiation emissions from radioisotopes, XRF sources, and solar flares. The experimental findings hinted that radioisotopes present in Sun could be the source for gamma, characteristic X-ray, beta emissions, which inturn cause EUV, UV, VIS, NIR, and IR radiations at room temperature by the new atomic phenomenon. Also shown a strong possibility for Uranium fission in Sun causing radioisotopes (fission fragments). The uranium fission reaction (nuclear explosion) appears as solar flare. Earth seems to play a crucial role in attracting more of EUV and UV radiations towards its poles and VIS, NIR,and IR radiations towards Equator.
M.A. Padmanabha Rao,
UV dominant optical emission newly detected from radioisotopes and XRF sources,
Brazilian Journal of Physics, Vol.40, no.1, March 2010.
http://www.sbfisica.org.br/bjp/files/v40_38.pdf.
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