p 1 of 10 Correlation of Solar Sunspot Cycle with Nearby Stars, Procyon and 61-Cygni Stephen F. Agnew Principal Scientist Columbia Energy and Environmental Services, Inc. 1806 Terminal Dr., Richland, WA 99354 sfagnew[atSign]gmail.com July 18, 2014 Abstract One possible cause of solar sunspot cycles is a small concerted variation of charge force, gravity force, and baryonic matter. This concerted variation, the matter time conjecture, results in a quantum coupling of the matter decay of stars with each other and that coupling forms resonances with periods on the order of the time distances of those stars from the sun. With some very basic assumptions about how this coupling might work, the matter decay of our sun couples with the matter decays of nearby binary stars; Procyon and 61-Cygni, which are both 11.4 light years (lyrs) away, resulting in a periodic change in solar convection that is the sunspot cycle. The proximity of these two binary stars along with the periods of these two binary stars correlate well with the period and variation of sunspot activity, both the variation of period and the variation of amplitude. Notably, the Maunder minimum correlates well with the separation of the 61-Cygni binary star. The Maunder minimum was a notably lack of sunspots that lasted from about 1660 to 1700 and coincided with a period of lower temperatures on earth, the so-called little ice age. Introduction Matter time is a very simple yet unique conjecture for unifying charge and gravity force. In matter time, the universe is a matter pulse in time whose finite Fourier transform is a spectrum of matter amplitudes. What this means is that most of the universe is in the form of very small bosonic matter particles, with mass m ∞ , that the universe is shrinking not expanding, and that shrinkage is the source of all force and action. Since the bosonic matter of the universe decays, the matter decay of stars couples to the universe decay and therefore to each other as well. In matter time, there are just three fundamental constants that determine all others and certain properties, like the speed of light, fine structure constant, and Planck’s constant, slowly change in concerted ways over cosmic time. Since these properties evolve together, the Hubble red shift due to distant galaxies seems to show an expanding universe by when in fact the universe is actually shrinking and therefore galaxies are getting closer, not further apart.