[TML] "Dies the Fire"

[Timothy Little]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:58:42PM -0800, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> Since the motion is "free fall" under the influence of the disk's
> gravity, there shouldn't *be* any effects on the sun from the
> motion.

There will be tidal effects, but I don't know enough about the
internal workings of stars to estimate whether they'd be disruptive.
Nor do I know enough to calculate the magnitude of the interaction of
a possibly conductive disk interacting with the solar magnetic field.


> I think this would cause tighter, smaller cyclonic storms but I'm
> not positive. But if what matters is the *difference* in velocity as
> the air masses move sunward/antisunward, then the differences may
> well be a lot lower than on earth givoing larger, looser cyclones.

Yes, it's the gradient that matters.  However I don't think it will
matter.  Due to the need for concentric barriers to prevent air
movement I outlined in a previous post, there won't be any measureable
coriolis effects.

There may not even be much in the way of winds.  Atmospheric motion is
driven by differential heating, and it seems likely that most areas
within the same contained ring will have very similar heating.


- Tim