| Description | In his Philosophical Magazine paper of November 1922, Milne referred to L.V. [Louis Vincent] King's work, but the real originators of stellar atmosphere theory were [Arthur] Schuster and [Karl] Schwarzschild as they realised the significance of the constancy of net flux. He discusses this with a diagram of Schuster's problem, and referring to Milne's own Bakerian Lecture, in which for brevity he omitted to state the boundary condition at infinity. He notes the rigorous treatment in a 'brilliant' piece of work by [Ludwig] Hopf just anticipated in a poorer paper by Bronsted. Milne has written up the whole theory of radiative equilibrium for the 'Handbuch der Astrophysik' and he will sent Larmor a reprint when published. He thinks the whole theory of stress and temperatures gradients is 'fascinating', discussing this, and aspects of the 'Handbuch' article and the Bakerian paper. He concludes by saying he will work on a sunspot theory when he gets time. |