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        <title><![CDATA[Seems unlikely to me]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They surely would have factored those forces into their calculations; and they act uniformly in all directions. What this suggests is that there some force which is not uniform acting in opposition to the horizontal expansion centrifugal force tends to produce.My bet is on magnetism. Sunspots evidence a high level of magnetism - and they occur near the solar equator, not at the poles. It's theorized that this magnetism hinders the upwelling of hot gas from the core, making the sunspots cooler than the surrounding surface (which is why they appear darker). I would guess this also shrinks the solar equatorial region, counteracting centrifugal force.It sounds good, anyway. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greenknight_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:09:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The truth]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They used better lenses than before.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elrandy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:51:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Simple Answer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As I understand it, the sun has so much mass that the force of gravity was enough to cause fusion to start, which pushes back and balances it out, keeping the sun from collapsing further.Wouldn't the forces of this interplay alone be enough to overwhelm the distorting effects of the sun's rotation?  Couldn't it be that simple?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[omb00900@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:14:25 -0700</pubDate>
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