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Published online 10 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030908-4
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Chemist suggests that Sun is stringy
Sun's magnetic fields may behave like polymer chains.
Tangled magnetic fields inside the Sun might behave a lot like knotty molecular chains in polymers, a materials scientist suggests.
"If strings of magnetic field get tangled around each other, the Sun becomes like a spinning lump of molten mozzarella," explains Tom McLeish of the University of Leeds, UK.
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