Geophysics

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[2] viXra:2411.0168 [pdf] submitted on 2024-11-26 10:47:25

Optimization of Geodetic Networks

Authors: Erik Grafarend, Abdelmajid Ben Hadj Salem
Comments: 47 Pages. In French, we have added in English an obituary of Prof. Grafrend and a list of his publications.

The international geodetic community lost, in December 2020, one of its eminent contemporary geodesists Professor E.W. Grafarend of the University of Stuttgart, Germany. To pay homage to him, I present to readers this article, it is a translation of one of his publications which appeared in The Canadian Surveyor, Vol. 28, No.5, December 1974, entitled "Optimization of Geodetic Networks".
Category: Geophysics

[1] viXra:2411.0103 [pdf] submitted on 2024-11-16 03:59:51

Early Sunspot Discovery: A Dismissed Insight Challenges Prevailing Theories

Authors: Ulrich Schreier
Comments: 2 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: This article is not written in a scholarly manner - Please conform!)

The seasonal pattern in daily sunspot numbers, first documented with a 12-year graph in theearly 1900s, suggests that Earth’s orbital position significantly influences sunspot formation,revealing deeper connections between solar and terrestrial phenomena. Given that sunspotsare thought to appear on a celestial body 149 million kilometers away and 1.3 million timeslarger than Earth, this seasonality casts further doubt on current Sun-centered sunspottheories. This easily reproducible pattern with modern tools, challenges prevailing theoriesand could necessitate substantial revisions in mainstream cosmology, especially regardingcosmic influences on Earth and life. Alongside this groundbreaking discovery, Mémery alsopublished correlations between sunspots and atmospheric pressure, rainfall, temperature,earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions—findings that took decades to be re-discovered.
Category: Geophysics