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Columbus Ohio, April 14-17th, 2018
Robitaille P.-M.
A Thermodynamic History of the Solar Constitution - I:
The Journey to a Gaseous Sun, Progress in Physics, 2011, v. 3, 3-25.
ptep-online.com/2011/PP-26-01.PDF
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jeener
APS Abstracts by P.M.L. Robitaille National Meetings (March or April):
1. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the Age of the Universe, March 2001, Atlanta, GA (not attended). bit.ly/2uSrzUG
2. On Planck, March 2003, Austin, TX. bit.ly/2IwJHFx
3. The Reverse of the Planckian Experiment, March 2004, Montreal, CA. bit.ly/2Jnhr9J
4. Evidence for a Liquid Plasma Model of the Sun, April 2004, Denver, CO. bit.ly/2q7uEug
5. The Presence of the Chromosphere: Evidence for a Liquid Model of the Sun, April 2006, Dallas, TX. bit.ly/2HbiwRb
6. COBE and the Absolute Assignment of the CMB to the Earth. March 2007 (with D. Rabounski), Denver, CO. bit.ly/2GVk2JH
7. The Sun on Trial, March 2014, Denver, CO. bit.ly/2qbUXzB
8. The Sun is Condensed Matter and has a Real Surface, March 2014, Denver, CO. bit.ly/2GBpJx5
9. On the Nature of the Corona: The Electron Affinity of Metallic Hydrogen, not Extreme Temperatures, Generates Highly Ionized Gaseous Ions in the Outer Solar Atmosphere, April 2014, Savannah, GA. bit.ly/2H2aIDJ
10. Lattice Structure in Astrophysics: A reconsideration of White Dwarfs, Variables, and Wolf-Rayet Stars, April 2016, Salt Lake City, UT. bit.ly/2HenLQ7
11. Kirchhoff's Law: Blackbody and Cavity Radiation Reconsidered. April 2018, Columbus, OH. bit.ly/2JlSbR4
12. Does Gravitational Collapse Occur? Insight from the Laws of Thermodynamics, April 2018, Columbus, OH. bit.ly/2GCictv
Ohio Section (Fall or Spring):
1. Langley’s and Eddington’s Sun: Thermodynamics Misapplied, Spring 2001, Kent State, OH. bit.ly/2EorkjI
2. The Liquid Photosphere, Spring 2002, Youngstown, OH. bit.ly/2qaLOrf
3. On Kirchhoff, Fall Meeting 2004, Cleveland, OH. bit.ly/2GYLDJO
4. The Sun as a Hot Liquid Plasma: Additional Evidence, Spring 2004, Athens, OH. bit.ly/2GFvw4o
5. The Photosphere as Condensed Matter, Fall 2004, Rochester, MI. bit.ly/2JmPm25
6. WMAP: A Radiological Analysis, Spring 2006, Detroit, MI. bit.ly/2JkeqXE
7. WMAP: An Alternative Explanation for the Dipole, Fall 2006, Orrville, OH. bit.ly/2Hh7SbO
8. On the Importance of Physical Laws and the Scientific Method. Spring 2007, Ypsilanti, MI. bit.ly/2IwkMC2
9. The Earth Microwave Background and the Generation of Isotropy. Spring 2008, Youngstown, OH. bit.ly/2GC8oUG
10. Global Warming and the Microwave Background. Fall 2008, Dayton, OH. bit.ly/2Jl3Lfi
11. Liquid Metallic Hydrogen: Building Block of a Liquid Sun. Spring 2011, University Heights, OH. bit.ly/2GEjfJE
12. On the Nature of the Chromosphere: Condensation and Line Emission. Spring 2013, Athens, OH. bit.ly/2uSaxpC
13. Kirchhoff's Law and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Do Arbitrary Cavities Always Contain Black Radiation? Spring 2016, Dayton, OH. bit.ly/2HbTrFI
14. Chromospheric Emission Lines: Rules of Formation. Spring 2018, East Lansing, MI. bit.ly/2IvMzma
15. Black Hole Entropy: A violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Fall 2018, Toledo, OH. bit.ly/2CBolGV
16. Dynamics of the Solar Wind: Parker’s Treatment and the Laws of Thermodynamics, Fall 2018 (With Stephen Crothers), Toledo, OH. bit.ly/2GHcSJT
Mid-Atlantic States
1. On the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind, Fall, 2018, (With Joseph Luc Robitaille), College Park, MD. bit.ly/2ESmccg
2. The Unruh Effect: Insight from the Laws of Thermodynamics, Fall, 2018, (With Stephen Crothers), College Park, MD. bit.ly/2TfzJ0v
Northwest Section:
1. The MAP Satellite: A powerful lesson in Thermal Physics, May 2001, Seattle, WA. bit.ly/2GHiK1C
2. WMAP: A Radiological Analysis II, May 2006, Tacoma, WA. bit.ly/2GBRy8t
New England Section:
1. The Sun as a Hot Liquid Plasma: More Evidence. Fall 2004, East Hartford, CT. bit.ly/2H0x0FZ
2. Blackbody Radiation: Kirchhoff’s Error Propagates Beyond Einstein. Spring 2005, Cambridge, MA. bit.ly/2uUPa7i
3. Hawking Radiation: A Violation of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics. March 2018, Boston, MA. bit.ly/2Hcx4QH
Southwest:
1. On the Microwave Signal at the Second Lagrange Point. November 2007.(with L. Borissova and D. Rabounski), Denver, CO bit.ly/2HcWI7
APS Abstracts by S.J. Crothers
1. Gravitational Waves: Propagation Speed is Coordinate Dependent, April Meeting of the APS, 2018. bit.ly/2Jl6K7H
2. Special Theory of Relativity: Logical Inconsistencies, April Meeting of the APS, 2018. bit.ly/2Izf42r
Columbus Ohio, April 14-17th, 2018
Robitaille P.-M.
A Thermodynamic History of the Solar Constitution - I:
The Journey to a Gaseous Sun, Progress in Physics, 2011, v. 3, 3-25.
ptep-online.com/2011/PP-26-01.PDF
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jeener
APS Abstracts by P.M.L. Robitaille National Meetings (March or April):
1. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the Age of the Universe, March 2001, Atlanta, GA (not attended). bit.ly/2uSrzUG
2. On Planck, March 2003, Austin, TX. bit.ly/2IwJHFx
3. The Reverse of the Planckian Experiment, March 2004, Montreal, CA. bit.ly/2Jnhr9J
4. Evidence for a Liquid Plasma Model of the Sun, April 2004, Denver, CO. bit.ly/2q7uEug
5. The Presence of the Chromosphere: Evidence for a Liquid Model of the Sun, April 2006, Dallas, TX. bit.ly/2HbiwRb
6. COBE and the Absolute Assignment of the CMB to the Earth. March 2007 (with D. Rabounski), Denver, CO. bit.ly/2GVk2JH
7. The Sun on Trial, March 2014, Denver, CO. bit.ly/2qbUXzB
8. The Sun is Condensed Matter and has a Real Surface, March 2014, Denver, CO. bit.ly/2GBpJx5
9. On the Nature of the Corona: The Electron Affinity of Metallic Hydrogen, not Extreme Temperatures, Generates Highly Ionized Gaseous Ions in the Outer Solar Atmosphere, April 2014, Savannah, GA. bit.ly/2H2aIDJ
10. Lattice Structure in Astrophysics: A reconsideration of White Dwarfs, Variables, and Wolf-Rayet Stars, April 2016, Salt Lake City, UT. bit.ly/2HenLQ7
11. Kirchhoff's Law: Blackbody and Cavity Radiation Reconsidered. April 2018, Columbus, OH. bit.ly/2JlSbR4
12. Does Gravitational Collapse Occur? Insight from the Laws of Thermodynamics, April 2018, Columbus, OH. bit.ly/2GCictv
Ohio Section (Fall or Spring):
1. Langley’s and Eddington’s Sun: Thermodynamics Misapplied, Spring 2001, Kent State, OH. bit.ly/2EorkjI
2. The Liquid Photosphere, Spring 2002, Youngstown, OH. bit.ly/2qaLOrf
3. On Kirchhoff, Fall Meeting 2004, Cleveland, OH. bit.ly/2GYLDJO
4. The Sun as a Hot Liquid Plasma: Additional Evidence, Spring 2004, Athens, OH. bit.ly/2GFvw4o
5. The Photosphere as Condensed Matter, Fall 2004, Rochester, MI. bit.ly/2JmPm25
6. WMAP: A Radiological Analysis, Spring 2006, Detroit, MI. bit.ly/2JkeqXE
7. WMAP: An Alternative Explanation for the Dipole, Fall 2006, Orrville, OH. bit.ly/2Hh7SbO
8. On the Importance of Physical Laws and the Scientific Method. Spring 2007, Ypsilanti, MI. bit.ly/2IwkMC2
9. The Earth Microwave Background and the Generation of Isotropy. Spring 2008, Youngstown, OH. bit.ly/2GC8oUG
10. Global Warming and the Microwave Background. Fall 2008, Dayton, OH. bit.ly/2Jl3Lfi
11. Liquid Metallic Hydrogen: Building Block of a Liquid Sun. Spring 2011, University Heights, OH. bit.ly/2GEjfJE
12. On the Nature of the Chromosphere: Condensation and Line Emission. Spring 2013, Athens, OH. bit.ly/2uSaxpC
13. Kirchhoff's Law and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Do Arbitrary Cavities Always Contain Black Radiation? Spring 2016, Dayton, OH. bit.ly/2HbTrFI
14. Chromospheric Emission Lines: Rules of Formation. Spring 2018, East Lansing, MI. bit.ly/2IvMzma
15. Black Hole Entropy: A violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Fall 2018, Toledo, OH. bit.ly/2CBolGV
16. Dynamics of the Solar Wind: Parker’s Treatment and the Laws of Thermodynamics, Fall 2018 (With Stephen Crothers), Toledo, OH. bit.ly/2GHcSJT
Mid-Atlantic States
1. On the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind, Fall, 2018, (With Joseph Luc Robitaille), College Park, MD. bit.ly/2ESmccg
2. The Unruh Effect: Insight from the Laws of Thermodynamics, Fall, 2018, (With Stephen Crothers), College Park, MD. bit.ly/2TfzJ0v
Northwest Section:
1. The MAP Satellite: A powerful lesson in Thermal Physics, May 2001, Seattle, WA. bit.ly/2GHiK1C
2. WMAP: A Radiological Analysis II, May 2006, Tacoma, WA. bit.ly/2GBRy8t
New England Section:
1. The Sun as a Hot Liquid Plasma: More Evidence. Fall 2004, East Hartford, CT. bit.ly/2H0x0FZ
2. Blackbody Radiation: Kirchhoff’s Error Propagates Beyond Einstein. Spring 2005, Cambridge, MA. bit.ly/2uUPa7i
3. Hawking Radiation: A Violation of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics. March 2018, Boston, MA. bit.ly/2Hcx4QH
Southwest:
1. On the Microwave Signal at the Second Lagrange Point. November 2007.(with L. Borissova and D. Rabounski), Denver, CO bit.ly/2HcWI7
APS Abstracts by S.J. Crothers
1. Gravitational Waves: Propagation Speed is Coordinate Dependent, April Meeting of the APS, 2018. bit.ly/2Jl6K7H
2. Special Theory of Relativity: Logical Inconsistencies, April Meeting of the APS, 2018. bit.ly/2Izf42r



![The Hydrogen Phase Diagram & Evidence for the Liquid Metallic Hydrogen Solar Model!
Real Physics Talk, Munich, Germany, 2019: Pierre-Marie Robitaille
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9h6eXyMcQ
Diamond Anvil Cell, Subject Zero Science,
A Breakthrough in the hunt for Metallic Hydrogen? [Update 2020]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4M4PdiGpk
The Life Cycle of the Stars | Pierre-Marie Robitaille [OTF2017]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDn_0hwLsKM&list=FLxq7mZOdQ7LrQt3LDK2SG9Q&index=175
Dr. P.M. Robitaille | OTF2019 | Revelations Through MRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO5vIUcnKlI
P.M. Robitaille, Forty Lines of Evidence for Condensed Matter - The Sun on Trial: Liquid Metallic Hydrogen as a Solar Building Block, Progr. Phys. 2013, 90-142. http://www.ptep-online.com/2013/PP-35-16.PDF
P.M. Robitaille, Liquid Metallic Hydrogen: A Building Block for the Liquid Sun, Progr. Phys., 2011, 3, 60-74.
http://www.ptep-online.com/2011/PP-26-07.PDF
E.G. Brovman, Y.M. Kagan, and A. Kholas, Properties of metallic hydrogen under pressure. Sov. Phys. JETP, 1972, v.35(4), 783–787.
C.M. Tenney, K.L. Sharkey, and J.M. McMahon, Possibility of metastable atomic metallic hydrogen, Phys. Rev. B, 2020, 102, 224108.
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.224108
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.04900.pdf
N. Ashcroft, Optical response near a band overlap: Application to dense hydrogen, in “Molecular Systems Under High Pressure” (R. Pucci and G. Piccitto, Eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, North-Holland, 1991.
E. Gregoryanz, et al., Everything you always wanted to know about metallic hydrogen but were afraid to ask, Matter & Radiation at Extremes, 2020, 5, 038101. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0002104
A. Goncharov, Phase diagram of hydrogen at extreme pressures and temperatures; updated through 2019, Low Temperature Physics, 2020, 46(2), 97. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/10.0000526
B. Militzer, The High-Temperature Phase Diagram, UC Berkeley, 1/15/2003,
http://militzer.berkeley.edu/diss/node5.html
J.M. McMahon, et al., The properties of hydrogen and helium under extreme conditions, Rev. Mod. Phys., 2012, 84, 1607-1653.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/41e8/7dee3b67cf69135d46be45d88967d7ddca3a.pdf
P.M. Robitaille, A Thermodynamic History of the Solar Constitution — I: The Journey to a Gaseous Sun, Progr. Phys., 2011, 3, 3-25.
http://www.ptep-online.com/2011/PP-26-01.PDF
P.M. Robitaille, A Thermodynamic History of the Solar Constitution — II: The Theory of a Gaseous Sun and Jeans’ Failed Liquid Alternative, Progr. Phys., 2011, 3, 41-59.
http://www.ptep-online.com/2011/PP-26-06.PDF
S. Chandrasekhar, N.R. Lebovitz, On the ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium of homogeneous masses, Astrophisica Norvegica, 1964, 9, 323-332. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1964ApNr....9..323C
S. Chandrasekhar, Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1969.
Evidence for Condensed Matter Videos:
Core, Tachocline layer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1GNuCV5M0
Ringing, capillary waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUsN 65fqg
Solar granules, sunspots and directional spectral emissivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sazKR1Mi00
Solar spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fynuCLQp1TE
Evidence of a solar surface (many lines of evidence):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erql613GO_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faywryDTmTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBt8FIbngt8
This Stanford site places the density of the photosphere at 10^-9 g/cm^3!
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/vitalstats.html
Figures not to scale and used for visualization purposes only.
This channel is educational in nature.
Astronomy links of interest:
Space Weather: http://spaceweathernews.com/
NASA Image and Video Search: images.nasa.gov/
NASA Hubble Satellite: hubblesite.org/
NASA Helioviewer: helioviewer.org/
NASA ADS Scientific Article Search Page: adsabs.harvard.edu/bib_abs.html
National Solar Observatory: nso.edu/
SOHO Satellite: soho.nascom.nasa.gov/
SDO Satellite: sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
IRIS Satellite: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ir...
Hinode, JAXA/NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hi...
Daniel K. Inoue Solar Telescope: dkist.nso.edu/
National Solar Observatory GONG: gong.nso.edu/
1 meter Swedish Solar Telescope: www.isf.astro.su.se/
All observational images and videos are credited to NASA unless
otherwise specified. Images obtained by the SDO satellite are a courtesy
of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams. Images obtained by
the SOHO satellite are courtesy of SOHO (ESA & NASA).
Link to Professor Robitaille’s papers on Vixra:
http://vixra.org/author/pierre-marie_robitaille
Outro Music:
Foria: Break Away
https://soundcloud.com/foria
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