TITLE Somewhere on the sun, light does not shine out AUTHOR Warren D. Smith 5 Oct 2003 ABSTRACT Work during 1870-1970 had shown that spherically symmetric electromagnetic, gravitational, or neutrino energy flows were impossible. These impossibilities were thought by their discoverers to be isolated results dependent on the field equations obeyed by these kinds of energy. But we'll now show that they are consequences of extremely general and simple topological impossibilities, and have nothing, or almost nothing, to do with the field equations. Consequently we get more general impossibility results from shorter and simpler proofs. KEYWORDS Topology, equations of mathematical physics.