Reading this article gave Chou Dean-yi an inspiration: "We can treat the seismic waves within the sun as ambient noise-equivalent to the scattered light in a room-which we can use to illuminate targets inside the sun (irregularities in the wave propagation medium, such as areas of magnetic field)."
周定一從中得到靈感，「我們把太陽內部的震波當成背景雜訊，也就是屋內的散射光，利用它來『照亮』太陽內部的目標物（不均勻介質，如磁場區）。」