A sunspot is scientifically defined as an area on the photosphere (surface) of our Sun that is marked by a lower temperature than its surroundings and has intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection and hence forms areas of low surface temperature. Sunspots are relatively cool in temperature and dark in colour. They come in various shapes and sizes and often appear in groups. Each sunspot is much larger than Earth; some sunspots can be over 10 times Earth's diameter. According to modern astronomy, sunspots are caused when our Sun's magnetic field loops up out of the photosphere and cools it slightly, making that section less bright. These disturbances in our Sun's magnetic field make the sunspot about 1500°C cooler than the surrounding area. However... what if there is something else, something far subtler, which causes sunspots? I think that each of us affects the entire universe around us just as much as the entire universe around us affects each of us. If what I think is an accurate representation of Reality itself, then it would not be very difficult to suppose that our negative thoughts and negative actions, as a collective whole, are what ULTIMATELY cause sunspots. Our Sun is a living being, like every other star, moon and planet in this entire universe. I don't doubt that claim even for a second. There is a correlation between events involving intense human turmoil here on Earth (and perhaps on other planets in our solar system too) and cycles of sunspot formation on our Sun. Extreme collective jealousy, anger, hate, animosity and inhumanity on our planet is reflected on our Sun's surface as a sunspot. Intriguingly, dozens of sunspots have been observed on our Sun in 1945. As I'm sure most of us already know, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and another one on Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). On August 9, 1945, approximately 30 sunspots were observed on our Sun. It would appear that the worldwide turmoil associated with the two fearsome atomic explosions were reflected rather quickly upon the surface of our Sun in the few days that followed the Hiroshima atomic explosion. Interestingly enough, the number of sunspot sightings decreased dramatically shortly after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. This is almost definitely due to people realising that World War II was inevitably coming to an end very soon. And it did come to an end very soon (on that same year). Check out this line graph:
Notice that the estimated number of sunspots toward the end of the 18th century (the 1780s, to be precise) is relatively high. The Russo-Turkish War occurred during 1787 to 1792 whilst the French Revolution took place during 1789 to 1799. There was estimated to be over 100 sunspots during the 1610s. What events of great historical significance occurred during the 1610s? Well, for a start, there was the Time Of Troubles (a period of immense political and social upheavel in Russia) which lasted from 1598 to 1613. There was also the Thirty Years' War, fought primarily on the borders of today's Germany between 1618 and 1648, which devasted most of Europe. If you look carefully at that line graph, you'll notice that sunspot numbers reach their peak during the early 1960s. Why? On October 15, 1962, the Cold War reached a climactic period known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis is widely regarded as the period of time during the Cold War when the prospect of a full-scale nuclear war seemed most likely to occur. Almost the entire human population was extremely tense at the prospect of an impending nuclear war. Though my mother was but a toddler when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place, she still remembers how her parents prayed that no nuclear missiles would be launched. They feared that human civilisation as a whole could have been extinguished during that turbulent period of time, yet obviously (and not to mention fortunately), it didn't. However, there were almost 200 sunspots during that period of time! Is this not a poignant example of the interconnectedness of everything? Perhaps our thoughts and our emotions affect our universe more intimately than we currently realise.
As much as I would love to believe your theory to be true, the things that happen on Earth really don't have that much to do with our sun's growth, much less the expansion or growth of the universe.
You already talked about the science behind sunspots in your post, so I won't go over it again. But one thing you didn't mention is that the sun has no real "surface" to speak of. So what happens is called "differential rotation", where different latitudes of the sun rotate in the opposite direction of other layers. That's what causes the disturbance in the convection zone and what puts stress on the magnetic norm. (bear with me at this point; it's been a few years since my last astronomy class and I'm probably getting my facts wrong 8D) Sometimes the rotation is fine, hence a lower incidence of sunspots. Other times, the rotation causes a particularly heavy batch of darker patches in the sun's photosphere. But if you think of how long it takes for the sun to make one full rotation? It'd probably be... oh, about 11 earth years?
Which seems to fall on your graph pretty accurately.
Again, it's an interesting theory, but probably nothing to lose sleep over.
~Shadowed Spirit Sage
Could you at least format before posting? However I can only see this theory fly if the universe consisted of an all encompassing methaphysical energy field, but there isn't. I'm not sure if this topic is supposed to be taken seriously.
Could you at least format before posting? However I can only see this theory fly if the universe consisted of an all encompassing methaphysical energy field, but there isn't. I'm not sure if this topic is supposed to be taken seriously.
Formatting? Not trying to seem like a n00b here, but wtf is that? And how do you know that an all-encompassing metaphysical energy field does not exist in this inconceivably colossal universe? Anyway, I just thought of something - I should check out the dates on that line graph where there are troughs. Wherever there are troughs in the number of sunspots, there should probably be corresponding periods of greater collective peace on Earth. Not total peace (of course), but comparatively greater collective peace. I'm gonna look into this more extensively.
A nice conclusive study on the subject would help. You can make a random correlation out of hundreds of things.
As I've already mentioned, there seems to be periods of COMPARATIVELY greater collective peace during the trough periods of that line graph. For example, there is a rather sharp trough in that graph just before 1620. This could correspond to the end of the Time Of Troubles for Russia. There is also another very sharp trough at the start of the 1810s. This trough could correspond to two major events in particular - the founding of The University Of Berlin, the world's first research university and the liberation of most of the Latin American colonies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Mexican War Of Independence and the South American Wars Of Independence. Oh, and I'm well-aware that a correlation does not automatically imply the existence of a cause and effect relationship (just in case anyone was about to bring that up).
Have you just considered that sunspots cause human turmoil instead?
Have you just considered that sunspots cause human turmoil instead?
How so?
Why would the behavior of an entity 93 million miles away effect the sun on a macroscopic scale?
Sunspots cause undesirable weather conditions which puts folks in a bad mood. Obviously we must destroy the sun.
Sunspots cause undesirable weather conditions which puts folks in a bad mood. Obviously we must destroy the sun.
*Gets pitchforks and (super redundant) torches*
Or maybe it is the other way around... maybe Human Turmoil is caused by sun spots. I think it has been proven that the moons position can cause different moods in people.
horoscopes do not count as proof
Well, it may not be cause and effect, but there's a reason that mad men are called lunatics.... The moon has long been thought to have a big impact. Something about tidal cycles or something, I'm not sure. But I believe crime rates go up during full moon - although that could be just because it's easier to see when you're doing a spot of burglary 
DW
If that were the case, the Sun would have fizzled out years ago. A lot of bad things have happened here(not just in recent years)
GOD DAMN SUN I'LL KILL HIM DEAD
SUNSPOTS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING
LACK OF SUNSPOTS CAUSES GLOBAL COOLING
SUN CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE
We must call upon Al Gore, the Almighty Goracle.
