The Sun.
Unless, of course, you talk to everyone so disrespectfully...
Bingo.
Unfortunately Michael, you will find few here that wish to converse on certain topics, and as pertaining the topic you desire conversation about, the sampling with both "desire to converse" and the qualifications to speak intelligently about the same hovers around slightly under 1 percent of the boards regulars.
Now that the matter has been shifted to off-topic you can receive a proper response.
The sun is still mostly a mystery. Hans Bethe's fusion furnace theory was the best guess and it has lasted us almost 60 years now. But the science was limited to what was known 60 years ago. A new paradigm needs to be embraced when it comes to solar function.
I don't see stars as individual units. I see stars as byproducts.
Looking at a star as a single unit is like looking at our moon without taking in the Earth it orbits. Stars are the byproduct of galaxial motion. One look at galaxy arms illustrates that stars appear in galaxies as a fundamental result of some energy motion expressed by the galaxy.
The spontaneous condensation of loose hydrogen out in space doesn't cut it. The stars are not spontaneous actions. Like everything else in nature they follow a cycle of formation, existence and destruction. And more importantly they FEED on other energy.
Yes, the longheld notion that the sun generates its own energy is false. It is a conduit of galaxial energy as this energy is condensed in the formation of stars all along the galaxial arms.
Seen thus, one realizes the sun is part of a network and reacts to the motions of the galaxy, just as our planet follows the sun. Each unit is part of a collective whole much larger than itself. If our galaxy lost its coherency and started to dissipate, the stars in it would have drastically shorter lifespans as the energy they channel begins to ebb.
The suns take and condense this energy, form hydrogen and helium and other simple atoms and in the process other energy is constantly released with mathematical symmetry. Plasma is electromagnetic energy and the byproduct of emf fields that are in a state of both constantly receiving energy and also dispersing incoming energy. The fusion reaction in the sun is FAR more complex than Bethe's proton-proton reaction. The sun is not only actively creating hydrogen, but it is condensing it further to create more complex atoms such as helium.
Each atom is balanced to the amount of energy it has received in its formation. One can look at ever increasing protons and electrons as units of energy imparted into atoms at formation.
You're barking up the right tree. The sun is not simply a fusion furnace spontaneously formed in free space by collating hydrogen and gravity - such a view is archaic. The sun is an electromagnetic ball of energy which is constantly discharging the "static" generated by galaxial motion and the interaction of fields of energy in the form of atomic structures and nuclear reactions. It's far too complex to get into in a single post, but this post should serve as a very general overview of my own take on star formation and function.
Thank you for posting the links and your views. The sun will continue to reveal its workings and as we broaden our perspectives, our understanding of the sun and other stars will dramatically increase.
Best regards,
SDAI-Tech1
