According to present understanding, which of the following statements about the solar wind is not true?
A) It swept vast amounts of gas from the solar nebula into interstellar space.
B) It consists of charged particles blown off the surface of the Sun.
C) It is even stronger today than it was when the Sun was young.
D) It helped in the transfer of angular momentum from the young Sun to particles that blew into interstellar space, which explains why the Sun rotates so slowly today.
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