Wow, bizarre. A neutron star at the core of the Sun? So how long do we have left? Not four billion years, I take it.
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To: LibWhacker
This would explain a lot of questions that were previously left unanswered. I like to do a lot of astrophyics research, and surprisingly I had never heard of the neutron core theory.
2 posted on
11/19/2003 9:20:02 AM PST by
Crazieman
To: LibWhacker
I do not know about this iron business.
Iron cannot in a normal state, be in gaseous form or any other form but a solid.
Fe is more of a planetary building block than a star maker. I am not saying that it does not play a role, but I can't see the element doing what this writer says.
3 posted on
11/19/2003 9:21:30 AM PST by
Cold Heat
("It is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other." [Samuel Clemens, on lawyers])
To: LibWhacker
nah...it's Bush's fault...
To: LibWhacker
IIRC the total mass of a neutron star is far greater than the mass of the sun. If that is correct then we would already know because we know, at least comparitively, what the solar mass is.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, my education in this area comes almost exclusively from Discovery networks.
5 posted on
11/19/2003 9:25:07 AM PST by
Ispy4u
To: LibWhacker
the solar system came from a single star, and the sun formed on a collapsed supernova core This iron-core proponent is a crackpot. He may be right, but he needs to follow proper channels of accepted method for creation of science. That means publishing in refereed journals. Going around forcing his eccentric ideas on his peers is the quickest way to become known as a tin-foil specialist. He ought to go on Art Bell, has he already?
6 posted on
11/19/2003 9:29:13 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: LibWhacker
I seemed to remember from Astronomy 101 that our sun is a Generation II star and we are all formed from the remnants of old star dust.
7 posted on
11/19/2003 9:32:13 AM PST by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: LibWhacker
It looks like the author's confused. Does the sun have a neutron star at the core or an iron core? It can't be both.
To: LibWhacker
We all know that nothing good comes from violence, so the supernova cosmos birth theory is necessarily wrong.
(sarcasm)
24 posted on
11/19/2003 9:59:11 AM PST by
JmyBryan
To: Piltdown_Woman; RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
For your information...
To: LibWhacker
The real cause of the flares.
35 posted on
11/19/2003 10:36:00 AM PST by
aomagrat
(IYAOYAS)
To: LibWhacker
All I know is the iron is my favorite Monopoly token.
46 posted on
11/19/2003 10:55:34 AM PST by
frodolives
(Moose bites kan be pretti nasti)
To: LibWhacker
Should be fairly easy to test. Fly a big horseshoe magnet by and see if the sun moves.
51 posted on
11/19/2003 11:18:33 AM PST by
gitmo
(Stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. -GWB)
To: LibWhacker
Manuel claims that hydrogen fusion creates some of the suns heat, as hydrogen -- the lightest of all elements -- moves to the suns surface. But most of the heat comes from the core of an exploded supernova that continues to generate energy within the iron-rich interior of the sun, Manuel says. So he's saying that most of the energy of the sun comes from gravitational collapse? I don't think that will give you the right neutrino spectrum.
To: LibWhacker
to add to the discussion, if as he asserts the suns core is a neutron star, why haven't the outer layers of lighter matter collapsed into the core, though its no black hole, a neutron star is still pretty darn dense.
67 posted on
11/19/2003 1:19:04 PM PST by
battousai
(Coming Soon to an election near you: Pasty White Hillary and the Nine Dwarves!)
To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; RadioAstronomer; Piltdown_Woman
Ping.
79 posted on
11/19/2003 2:25:14 PM PST by
Junior
("Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons!")
To: LibWhacker
Has no one considered the host in the sun?
To: LibWhacker
It's because of the SUVs! Oh, and it's George Bush's fault...
Mark
97 posted on
11/19/2003 7:12:11 PM PST by
MarkL
(Chiefs 9-1... #$&!@(*#$$%^&@@#!!!!!!)
To: LibWhacker
Wow, bizarre. A neutron star at the core of the Sun? So how long do we have left? Not four billion years, I take it.Personally, I think I'll be lucky to hit a hundred.
To: LibWhacker
Marvin Herndon mentioned on this newer thread linked below:
Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test
SF Chronicle | Monday, November 29, 2004 | Keay Davidson
Posted on 12/05/2004 11:17:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1294934/posts
128 posted on
03/13/2005 7:18:27 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Sunday, March 13, 2005.)
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