'This suggests that other subsurface forces, like solar magnetism or turbulence, may be a more powerful influence than expected. '

The Sun's magnetic field is observable, and it has Active Regions which come and go. The turbulence is also evident (in torroidal and pollodial currents) and it also varies.
Darned if there isn't a cause, which is not hidden, that makes the solar orb constant. It don't even correlate. If the finding are correct.
So, I have to ask: Is the Sun a real star (as in not artificial), or is it being somehow controlled/manipulated?
Dadgummit, man, it just don't compute.

...just surf over to James Horak at emvsinfo.blogspot.com.

Talk about a celestial body that's being manipulated!

Your foray into the weird will begin with the term Blackbody Radiator that they say once in a physics class, give a lameass definition for, expect you to vomit the insanity back for the test, then you go back into Borg Sleep Mode for the rest of your stay in the University of Monkeyville.

One of my awesome listmembers sent me:
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that was the most refreshing take on the otherwise insanely described broken clockwork of the solar system. When I saw the drawings IT JUST FELT RIGHT. All of my time in academia was profitable. It taught me that even at the highest level the professors don't know crap, they just repeat what they are mandated to repeat and there are higher puppeteers who make the 'research and development' happen via the hands of willing grad students who would sell their grannies for a pizza and a beer.

Wow! OK. I feel better now ---

So just what the hell is a Blackbody Radiator? Well, it seems that when the surface of the sun develops those blemishes that damn near got Galileo killed that it is black underneath. Now, cold can be so hot that it burns (dry ice) and given that I am not an astronomer, a mathematician (thank my lucky numbers!) and didn't learn a damned thing in school, I like the idea that although the sun is supposed to be billions of degrees Fahrenheit in the core that most likely it is supercooled liquid hydrogen/helium ball of goo that just happens to radiate the heat off the top. Like I said: I don't know Jack. I just know what I like. After all, kids, the photosphere is a mere 10,000 F and you can make that in an atomic oven here on the planet. I also like the Electric Universe Theory Sun as a Cathode proposition. And there are those who think that it is nothing but an ancient Illuminati High School science-fair-project-gone-bad of a singularity that went Oooops! and locked us into a Temporal Loop on this stinkhole we call Ea-rth with a host of psychopathic parasites.

All that being said, it still doesn't address the Ancient Egyptian worship of the Sun Disc.

Notice: They didn't worship the Sun Oblate Spheroid that most stars as gaseous bodies and most planets as solid bodies assume (you know what happens when you assume) in Free Fall in space.

Wait a minute! If they were in free fall in space then they should be round as a ball bearing dropped as molten metal from a distance inside a chamber under gravity! There must be something that makes them M&M shaped (oblate spheroid) and I'm not buying that two-dimension Einstein Space Time Gravity as a bedsheet shite.

So, lettuce assume (oh, boy, here he goes ---) that the Sun/Helios/Atum/Aten/Ray really is an oblate spheroid following the nature of gravity, but under the influence of the Phi form Spiral of Bhat where the sun is careening through the outer spiral arm of the galaxy with its planets in tow like kids riding innertubes around a toilet. This would explain two things perfectly:

That we are looking at the Ass End of the Sun as it is screaming away from us meaning that the typical bulge in the equatorial plane is actually 90 degrees off axis from our view and that what is perceived as rotational current is the effect of its forward motion through and electric universe pumping billions of amps of charge through it so that the flow on the surface APPEARS to go from West to East while it is really going from North to South, if you were able to follow my convoluted explanation.

So, and Therefore, the sun would be a perfect disc because we are looking at it from underneath with the equatorial bulge as its circumference. I'll bet those ancient Egyptian Priest knew but they just made their students vomit the pictograms that kept them stupid and unenquiring for the next 5000 years. Given that the raw radiant energy of the sun that reaches the earth every 15 minutes could power everything we have going currently for an entire year, I think we need to pull our heads out of our blackholes and figure out just what is going on because freedom from tyranny of Energy frees you of nearly all of their strangleholds. Why else would they worship it?