How can the sun, burn.

[Sunspace]

@dropzone

We should thank God that he has Jesus bank the Sun’s fire between sundown and sunrise or we’d be in big trouble.

So that’s why Jesus hasn’t come back! He works nights and has been too tired during the day to get out of the house!

[Darth_Panda]

@Sunspace

So that’s why Jesus hasn’t come back! He works nights and has been too tired during the day to get out of the house!

Night shift can be a damn long shift when cracker ass coyote done stole the sun.

[DrFidelius]

Here’s the math, in the original monograph by Lord Kelvin himself:
http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_age_of_the_suns_heat.html

You can disagree with me, but you can’t argue with Science!

[si_blakely]

@Derc

Thank you for the confusion analysis, I suspect the answer to life, the universe and everything, is as quoted in Montypythonian nomenclature; … 42.

And here we go with the ignorance fighting …

Monty Python wrote The Meaning Of Life …

Douglas Adams wrote The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, in which we find that the answer to the ultimate question, the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is 42.
Oh, and he did write a little book called The Meaning of Liff

[cjepson]

@dropzone

There! I’ve run rings around you logically.

Burma!!

[standingwave]

@XT

It doesn’t burn. It’s essentially a big ball of gas that is undergoing nuclear fusion…so, it’s not burning the hydrogen, it’s fusing hydrogen into (IIRC) helium, and in the process releasing immense energy in the form of heat and light (and some other stuff).

Don’t know if the OP was serious, answering a homework question or just pulling our leg on April 1 but the overall reaction is:

4 [sup]1[/sup]H + 2 e => [sup]4[/sup]He + 2 neutrinos + 6 photons

with many intermediate steps which can read here via the University of Oregon.

Combustion of hydrogen: 2H[sub]2[/sub] + O[sub]2[/sub] => 2H[sub]2[/sub]O + heat

[Gyrate]

@DrFidelius

You can disagree with me, but you can’t argue with Science!

Oh yeah? Imma punch Science inna FACE!

With lemons!

[Jimbabweosu]

Dropzone, as I read your responses I recall the scene in Monty Python’s The Holy Grail where, after Arthur has just explained that weighing the accused against a duck will determine her witch status… the local Lord, Sir Bedemir, says to Arthur: “Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?”

lol!

[Dervorin]

@Pooter

Cause it is hot! lol

Oh yeah? Then explain how it burns at night, wise guy!

[LawMonkey]

@Derc

Thank you for the confusion analysis, I suspect the answer to life, the universe and everything, is as quoted in Montypythonian nomenclature; … 42.

many thanks CK

Holy crap. I just realized that Jackie Robinson is (well, was) the answer to life, the universe, and everything. :eek:

[Polycarp]

[quote=“XT, post:8, topic:654537”]

Well, yeah…but that begs the question. WHY is it hot?
Because it hangs out at summer beaches and never wears clothes at all!

[Duckster]

@LawMonkey

Holy crap. I just realized that Jackie Robinson is (well, was) the answer to life, the universe, and everything. :eek:

In a theater near you beginning April 12th.

[Michael63129]

@Stranger_On_A_Train

The Sun is a yellow dwarf star (spectral class G2V). It is composed of about 75% hydrogen, 23% helium, and the rest small quantities of heavier elements including a small amount of oxygen generated by the CNO fusion cycle (which accounts for less than 1% of the energy output). The primary energy output of the sun is due to proton-proton fusion, which combines free protons (ionized hydrogen) into helium, and then into a series of other products along the p-p chian.

Stranger

Also, oxygen produced by the CNO cycle won’t react with hydrogen because it is too hot; heating water to the relatively mild temperature of 3000C (cooler than even the surface of the Sun) causes half the molecules to break apart.

[ShibbOleth]

@cjepson

Burma!!

Why’d you say “Burma!!”?

[kenobi_65]

@ShibbOleth

Why’d you say “Burma!!”?

I panicked.

[OldGuy]

@Michael63129

Also, oxygen produced by the CNO cycle won’t react with hydrogen because it is too hot; heating water to the relatively mild temperature of 3000C (cooler than even the surface of the Sun) causes half the molecules to break apart.

Not to mention the hydrogen-oxygen reaction is a chemical one – that is involving their electrons – and the sun is a plasma with the electrons and nuclei disassociated. Or maybe that’s just another way of saying the same thing.

[njtt]

@Stranger_On_A_Train

The primary energy output of the sun is due to proton-proton fusion, which combines free protons (ionized hydrogen) into helium, and then into a series of other products along the p-p chian.

Stranger

Ha, ha! Stranger said “p-p”!

[KarlGauss]

@DrFidelius

Here’s the math, in the original monograph by Lord Kelvin himself:
Lord Kelvin | On the Age of the Sun’s Heat

You can disagree with me, but you can’t argue with Science!

He gave himself a rather prescient way out:

@Lord Kelvin

[the] inhabitants of the earth can not continue to enjoy the light and heat essential to their life for many million years longer unless sources now unknown to us are prepared in the great storehouse of creation.

(emphasis added)

[Incubus]

Assuming I was immune to the heat and radiation, could I walk on the sun? Would the photosphere (surface?) Have a texture? Like glowy oatmeal? How much would I weigh on the sun?

[md2000]

@Incubus

Assuming I was immune to the heat and radiation, could I walk on the sun? Would the photosphere (surface?) Have a texture? Like glowy oatmeal? How much would I weigh on the sun?

Was it Callaghan who did the impression of the first astronaut on the Sun?

{Dances around, hopping from foot to foot} OW! OW! OWWW!!

The Newfoundland Space Agency was also planning on landing an astronaut on the sun, but they were at least smart enough to plan to land at night.