Re: Relativity question

oriel36 wrote:

To Martin

Here you go Martin,take a good look at the differential rotation bands
which generate a deviation from a perfect sphere.

http://www.astronomynotes.com/starsun/sun-rotation.gif

You clearly do not have a clue. The sun rotates rather slowly and is a very close approximation to a perfect sphere in shape. But it does not rotate as a solid body (hardly surprising as it is a hot optically dense plasma).

Solar oblateness was measured accurately by SOHO as ~8ppm
http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/dec97/node2.html

By comparison Jupiter and Saturn which rotates much faster than the Earth are visibly oblate even to casual inspection.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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