Back in 1801th, Herschel (better known as the discoverer of Uranus) attracted a lot of attention from the Royal Society in London with a theory linking sunspots and the price of wheat: in times of reduced sunspot activity, the wheat crop is poor, so wheat prices are high. Soon, this theory proved itself in real experience: between 1809th and 1812th, low sunspot activity was recorded, and wheat prices were high. Today it is a scientifically accepted fact. The earliest recorded information on sunspots dates back to the Chinese encyclopedia from 1322th, which listed 45 observations of sunspots from 301 to 1205th, and Galileo and his contemporaries began to scientifically study sunspots in 1610th.
Sunspots are dark spots that appear on the surface of the Sun and are slightly cooler than the rest of the surface. They are mobile and disappear: one spot lasts 3-4 weeks. The number of spots visible to astronomers varies over time in 11-year cycles. The cycle starts with only a few of them, then the maximum formation occurs within 5-6 years, and then they gradually die off. Although the average period of this cycle is 11.1 years, it is important to know that individual cycles can last from 8 to 16 years. The sunspot cycle is a complex phenomenon. Scientists and astronomers are still far from fully understanding this phenomenon. Sunspots always occur in pairs, and each of them is of opposite magnetic polarity. It is found that the 11-year period is actually a 22-year cycle that reverses polarity at the midpoint. However, since agriculture is not the most important for the economy in today's modern times, the influence of sunspots is reflected in the change in economic activity. British economist W.S. In 1875th, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Jevons explained the impact of sunspots on the economy. As the planets affect the Sun, and the Sun affects the crop and harvest, it is clear that the price of food and food raw materials depends on the planetary influence and thus has a chain effect on the money and capital market. It is not difficult to conclude that planetary inter-positions strongly determine the greatest commercial disasters.
The sunspot theory was then relegated to the shadows until the great economic crisis of the 1930s, when theorists of the Western world desperately began to search for explanations for the "disease" of the global economy. The Americans of course took the lead in the research and concluded that in the period from 1850 to 1930, the activity of the Sun affected the overall production. When the impact on agriculture is excluded, it is clear that sunspots also have a direct impact on economic activities, and therefore it is possible to predict changes in the economy. It was also observed that Jupiter affects sunspots depending on its distance from the Sun (as well as other planets), and its cycle around the Sun is 11.86 years. "The planets physically influence the photosphere, especially Jupiter and Venus. It seems that in certain parts of the ecliptic and in different relative positions of the planets, they act differently," Professor Norton from Yale University pointed out as early as 1867th.