If this is true then I am amazed at the fact that it's happening right now in my lifetime. Until about decade ago the 11-year cycle was textbook stuff and then all of the sudden it seemed to stop.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedo...lutionary-phase-say-astronomers/#404312d5278e
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedo...lutionary-phase-say-astronomers/#404312d5278e
The Sun has likely already entered into a new unpredicted long-term phase of its evolution as a hydrogen-burning main sequence star — one characterized by magnetic sputtering indicative of a more quiescent middle-age. Or so say the authors of a new paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
“The Sun’s 11-year sunspot cycle is likely to disappear entirely, not just get less pronounced; [since] other stars with similar rotation rates show no sunspot cycles,” Travis Metcalfe, the paper’s lead author and an astronomer at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.