THE SOLAR WORLD

The solar wisdom pertains not only to the spherical body of the sun, but also to the spherical body of the solar system as a whole. This may be understood as the solar world within which dwells the sun god.

In modern astrophysics, the solar world is called the heliosphere, which corresponds roughly to a spherical region of space filled with the material emanations of the sun. These emanations characterize the solar wind, which consists of high-energy, charged particles emitted by the sun. The solar wind is used by modern theorists to define the heliosphere—a roughly spherical region of space that extends beyond the orbit of Pluto and is filled with the solar wind.

The surface of the heliosphere defines the boundary of our solar system. More specifically, it is used to define the boundary between the vacuum of interplanetary space and that of interstellar space: the heliopause, which is so named because it represents the surface of the heliosphere on which the solar wind stops or pauses. This marks the point where interplanetary space—filled with the solar wind—comes to an end and where interstellar space—more or less devoid of the solar winds—has its beginning.

In this sense, the surface of the heliosphere marks an important transition between two different types of cosmological vacuum states, each of which differs with respect to its particle density.