Comment by astrolx
10 days ago
I don't know any solar physicist who calls our sun "sol" (and I know many), neither have I come across scientific papers doing so. A sol is a martian day though!
10 days ago
I don't know any solar physicist who calls our sun "sol" (and I know many), neither have I come across scientific papers doing so. A sol is a martian day though!
I've never heard any solar physicist refer to "Sun". I have heard "the Sun" and "Our Sun".
"The Boss said please take the day off"
"Our Boss is nice"
"Jill is the boss"
"The Sun is bigger than any planet in our solar system"
"Our Sun is 8 light minutes away"
"Sol is the name of our sun"
I've not once heard a solar physicist use "sun" as a name
"Sun is bright" - bad grammar
Fair point, I'll change (only after outing myself as somebody who pays more attention to writers than physicists)!
I don't think you should feel any pressure to change it. The Solar System belongs to the writers just as much as it does to the physicists and unless your target audience is specifically physicists, then the average visitor of your site will be more likely a consumer of sci-fi than a practitioner of physics.
The argument is rather pedantic to me since the word Sun comes from the old English, Germanic, and European, whereas Sol comes from the Latin, Helios from the Greek, svár Sanskrit, etc. They are all valid names for our local star.