← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Mack
Thread ID: 11112 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-11-16
2003-11-16 22:04 | User Profile
If the planet Jupiter has a core of iron and silicates would'nt the Sun also have a core of such material? While a hot plasma, it could serve as a kind of "thermocline" or boundary underneath the hydrogen fusion region. If gathered in one place the hydrogen fusion for a star like our Sun takes place in a volume measuring just three feet across, so that one would expect a core of iron and silicates to be shrouded by a film of hydrogen fusion reactions. To go on, A conservative estimate for the Sun's iron/silicate core is ten times the mass of the earth,with a volume 16,000 miles across. Spread out, the fusion reactions for the Sun would have to occupy a depth too thin for a hydrogen layer even one atom deep. What does all that mean? That the hydrogen fusion reactions must take place on only isolated small regions of the surface of the Sun's core. The flare activity of the last few weeks may be caused by two isolated regions of fusion reactions migrating into and overlapping each other, like continental drift on Earth.