[count-your-change]

There are theories and there are theories and not all are of equal value. I could theorize that the moon is made of green cheese but so what? and the article has a theory/theories that is just as unlikely as the cheese.
This from the article I did read:

“In addition, there is now growing evidence from the field of heliosiesmology that the sun possesses a significant stratification layer at a very shallow depth from the top of the photosphere. This new data suggest that the stratified iron surface is covered by a relatively thin veneer of plasma layers.
It is also noteworthy that an electrically active, rigid surface model of the sun has always been a valid alternative to the current gas model theory.”

Does any of that new and contradictory research posit a solid surface for the sun as a valid alternative to anything?

[valkyry1]

Well I think it is something to explore rather than continuing to accept the gas model hypothesized by Galileo.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5023748/