Sunday, May 14, 2017

Liquid Hydrogen Sun?

From observations of our Sun there can be little doubt that it has a liquid surface. The idea that it is a gaseous plasma can therefore be laid to rest. But does this mean that it has a surface of liquid hydrogen? The surface of our Sun is many thousand degrees. Is the pressure really sufficient to keep it from evaporating?

Why not suppose that the surface of our sun is liquid rock? That would fit better with observed temperatures. The objection to this is that hydrogen is predominant in the specter of light coming from our Sun. But is the predominance of hydrogen in the light specter of the corona necessarily indicative of a liquid hydrogen surface? The corona can reach millions of degrees in temperature. Hydrogen could easily be produced by fission of heavier elements at such temperatures.

Maybe the Sun is liquid rock, and the only reason we see so much hydrogen in its light specter is that hydrogen is produced in its hyper-hot corona.

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Sun's surface

By Hinode JAXA/NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/solar-b/solar_017.html, Public Domain, Link

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