Would appreciate some thoughts on the plausibility of this.
There’s a growing internet movement of people pushing this and they sound geekier than your usual conspiracy theorist.
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-sun-similar-stars.html
If this is accurate, then it raises the question of whether the Sun is inherently and always less active or whether it just happens to be quiet while human civilization has arisen.
Is there some way we could tell a distinction between a local event and a long range event with a method (for example: an alignment of particles or minerals in rocks in a particular direction)?