“Is anybody doing a study and relating how we humans are behaving, our attitudes, and feelings of well-being to what’s happening on the sun?” I asked at the conclusion of my recent article about the sun’s pending rotation of its magnetic poles (here).
A while later I was meandering through the brilliantly named The Science Page on Google+ (here) put together by Yes Knowledge. I stopped on an excellent article about the sun’s magnetic flip, which I noticed ended with a stock invitation to email them with any question about anything scientific, which they would try to answer as quickly as possible.
So, I emailed, “Is there any study that demonstrates a correlation between human behaviour and activity or lack of activity on the sun?” Ok, I was being a bit lazy, and should really have done some of my own digging, true.
Well, imagine my surprise when within a few earth hours I got a comprehensive reply published. It’s here.
So, the conclusion of the study is that “[the Russian Scientist] discovered that the solar minimum is the period when repression is tolerated by the masses, as if they lacked the vital energy to make the needed changes. He found that during the sunspot maximum, the movement of humans is also at its peak.
This, though, was the relation of solar activity to mass behaviour, while there is no evidence of it affecting individual human behaviour.“
So, what we do, what we think, our sociological reaction as a species, as a race, as a country, as a people seems to pulse up and down in accord with the influences of the sun. More about this another time.
For now, I’d like to push the excellent Science Page on Google+ and encourage you to not only visit it, but also to ask them to write about specific scientific subjects that might otherwise be unanswered in your mind. Please have a look.
The Science Page is here.
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