Conny Aerts

Why not?

Because a coronal mass ejection or sunspots that rotate around, you know,

They do not give the same signal in the periodicity of the quakes.

I'm quaking my microphone right now.

So, you know, a coronal mass ejection is an abrupt event.

It's more like an earthquake, you could say.

It happens and it disappears, right?

But it doesn't disturb us finding the five-minute oscillations of the sun, which are always there, yeah?

They get disturbed.

abruptly but then they continue and they continue and they continue all the time so for us you know we can we can unravel the signal of star spots of mass ejections even for stars other than the sun from the always smooth periodic oscillation so how about the dangers that they might pose if you do have a coronal mass ejection that happens to head towards us

Yeah, so the Earth is protected by a magnetic field that protects us from all these high energetic particles falling in on our planet and other stars are too far away.

So, I mean, it's only a matter of the solar quakes.

They are not dangerous for us.

The coronal mass ejections, they disturb our electronics every once in a while, right?

But, you know, that's not a periodic oscillation that I would call solar quakes.

A starquake would not rip apart a star because it's really a smooth, nice periodic variability.

You know, the biggest starquakes in terms of expansion and contraction, let's say, can make the star become bigger and smaller by about 10% in its radius, let's say, but not make it explode.

That's another phenomenon.

Well, star quakes happen all the time.

I keep repeating that.