Solving a strange cold case: Why is the Sun's upper atmosphere hotter than its surface? (PQ Colombo*: His Travels Through Our Galaxy -- ePaper I (* grand ... late-but-great Detective Columbo) Book 1)

Anomalies involving the wavelength of sunlight and the refraction of this light on Earth are everywhere -- like dead bodies on the stage in "Hamlet". Unlike "Hamlet" though the suspect is still at large after nearly 340 years of theories to explain the anomalies and experiments supporting, then invalidating the theories. In this paper, making the first in a series of guest appearances, Dr. PQ Columbo, grand nephew of the late Detective Columbo (NOT the actor but the TV character), tries to clear up the mysteries, beginning with the first anomaly, for a puzzled Blue Logician. The first mystery:  By the time wavefronts of photons radiating from the surface of the Sun reach its corona, the plasma temperature cooking them there has risen mysteriously from 5,880 Kelvins to 3 million Kelvins. Why is that? Shouldn't the temperature be dropping by then? Illustrations. Equations.