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PREVIEW SUNSPOTS: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reminds that little is known and much less is understood of the 11 year trough to peak observed cycle of sunspots. More.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW SUNSPOTS: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reminds that little is known and much less is understood of the 11 year trough to peak observed cycle of sunspots. More.
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1:00.4

This is John Batchel, speaking with colleague Bob Zimmerman about sunspots, tracking sunsparks, predicting

1:07.5

sunspots, maximums, minimums, 11-year cycle or not.

1:12.8

Bob here very quickly explicates that we know very little about why it does what it does, even afterwards.

1:20.4

There's no predicting what the future will look like.

1:24.0

In other words, it's important to note that, in addition to everything else we don't know

1:29.0

about the cosmos and where we came from, we're not exactly sure how the sun works.

1:34.6

It's kind of vital for the continuation of civilization.

1:39.5

Here's Bob Zimmerman to explain what we don't know.

1:43.4

More of this tonight and nothing yeah yeah last

1:46.1

in month no updates its uh its graph showing the activity of sunset spots on the sun to

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