A common misconception. It's a little-known fact that the sun is actually composed almost entirely of Pepper Jack cheese, which explains both the yellow color and the fact that it is hot...
Uh huh. So where do all the solar neutrinos come from?
The molten core is so vast no crust could ever exist...sorta of a nuclear volcano---flaming liberals!
The Sun is hot,
the Sun is not
a place where we could live.
But here on Earth
there'd be no life
without the light it gives.
We need its light.
We need its heat.
The sunlight that we see,
the sunlight comes from our own Sun's atomic energy. The Sun is hot...
The Sun is so hot that everything on it is a gas--
aluminum, copper, iron, and many others.
The Sun is large...
If the Sun were hollow, a million Earths would fit inside.
And yet, it is only a middle-size star.
The Sun is far away--
about 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.
For even when it's out of sight,
the Sun shines night and day.
Scientists have found that the Sun is a huge atom-smashing machine.
The heat and light of the Sun are caused by nuclear reactions between
hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and helium.
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.
Mike
His hypothesis isn't so outrageous. However, a classic symptom of kookdom is a continuing attempt to convince others. Real science doesn't work that way. Scientists adopt theories, not because someone convinces them but because the theories are useful.
Darned if I know.
But if you stare at it long enough, a whole host of ideas will come to mind.
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Sun Is Mostly Iron, Not Hydrogen, Professor Says[Dr. Oliver] Manuel, a professor of nuclear chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla, claims that hydrogen fusion creates some of the sun's heat, as hydrogen -- the lightest of all elements -- moves to the sun's surface. But most of the heat comes from the core of an exploded supernova that continues to generate energy within the iron-rich interior of the sun, Manuel says... Manuel says the solar system was born catastrophically out of a supernova -- a theory that goes against the widely-held belief among astrophysicists that the sun and planets were formed 4.5 billion years ago in a relatively ambiguous cloud of interstellar dust. Iron and the heavy element known as xenon are at the center of Manuel's efforts to change the way people think about the solar system's origins... Analyses of meteorites reveal that all primordial helium is accompanied by "strange xenon," he says, adding that both helium and strange xenon came from the outer layer of the supernova that created the solar system. Helium and strange xenon are also seen together in Jupiter... Data from NASA's Galileo probe of Jupiter's helium-rich atmosphere in 1996 reveals traces of strange xenon gases -- solid evidence against the conventional model of the solar system's creation, Manuel says... The strange xenon is enriched in isotopes that are made when a supernova explodes, the researchers reported, and could not be produced within meteorites... Based on these findings, they concluded that the solar system formed directly from the debris of a single supernova, and the sun formed on the supernova's collapsed core... This is why the outer planets consist mostly of hydrogen, helium and other light elements, and the inner planets are made of heavier elements like iron, sulfur and silicon, Manuel says.
Science News
January 9, 2002
University Of Missouri-Rolla