[VadeRetro]

With VSL in play, with c increased by 10, we have a star 100 times less dense without volume change (because space is less granular, higher resolution, and mass and density decrease inverse to c^2). But it also is putting out 10 times the photons moving 10 times as fast. These factors overcome the factor of 100 times fewer photons, so the photon output is the same as the original comparison star. Apparently the opacity (increased photon extinction) means 10 times as many photons are being converted into internal kinetic energy. This energy then appears free to manifest as temperature, volume, pressure, and density compensation.

I thought for a bit that the bolded part of this was an answer to my opacity objection, but I realize now that it is not. You're just stating something I, for one, already knew:

As you boost c, nucleon (and other particle) mass goes way, way down, but the strength of the gravitational force goes up correspondingly, the electron orbital radius of an atom is the same, and large-scale physical objects like someone named Adam in a garden named Eden do not shrink. Furthermore, the loss of density tends to be invisible--or that's supposed to be the idea, anyway--since everything gets less massive and less dense at the same time. Wood still floats on water and lead still sinks.

I'm really not trying to glide blithely past any important points by overlooking them. The red portion I take as your acknowledgement that, just as understood in current stellar physics, increasing the opacity of the solar medium will cause the Sun to expand in volume.

This was just a CYA post and may be ignored unless I'm wrong. Now I mean it, gotta go.

[Messianic Jews Net]

The red portion I take as your acknowledgement that, just as understood in current stellar physics, increasing the opacity of the solar medium will cause the Sun to expand in volume. Of course, it can expand a little, but the 10^7 increase in energy is not all directed to volume expansion, it appears primarily directed into radiation pressure and heat convection to the outer stellar atmosphere.