Solar variability refers to changes in solar activity, such as:
- Solar variation, the change in the amount of radiation emitted by the Sun (see Solar radiation)
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- see also solar cycle, specifically for the 11-year cyclic variation in solar activity
- Changes in the solar wind, i.e., charged particles (moving much slower than the speed of light)
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“The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.”
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