Chris,

I have to admit, if little significance shows up at the time of the solar flares, I'd be very skeptical of delayed correlations. Considering many delays is just a way to introduce an enormous number of possible correlations, which should but doesn't usually correspond to requiring extremely high correlations to show that correlations are not an artefact.

I received my copy of Lowell's thesis, and must say that the writing is not clear, and the figures worse. I guess Lowell didn't realize that theses are copied with black and white figures, so all his captions about the colored lines make little sense. The maps with thousands of numbers typed in are difficult to make sense of; good contouring software would have been helpful, doesn't the U of Colorado have modern software? In fact, I'm surprised his advisors signed off on this document rather than requiring a more clear and decisive result.

I admire the approach of throwing everything in the hopper short of the kitchen sink, but what does it mean?

John