OT 'why is the sun hot?

I don't know for sure, but don't say anything- the gubbmint will want to put a tax on it......
 
Speaking of the sun,
Old Indian say, "white man strange, vhiteman cuts hole in vall of cabin to let sun in. Hangs curtain over hole to keep sun oat.

In answer to yo question, in the original Hebrew language it says Elohim created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1
 
It is a fusion reaction, hydrogen atoms smashing together turning into helium and releasing the energy.
 
In my youth I read a lot of science fiction books. One short story was about a society maybe a bit along the lines of the book '1984'. Maybe it was even in that one.

Anyhow, folks were using solar power all over, common thing, but the solar power was taxed. So if you failed to pay your sun tax, the govt would fly helicopters with a big tarp between them, and cut off your sun until you paid up.

That was always one of those 'ah ha' moments to a young kid, of how the govt can operate and how its goals can justify its means..... It made an impression on me.

Paul
 
Einstein explained it over a century ago: E=MC2

Matter and energy are the same thing. Fusion inside a star is just converting it from one form (matter) into the other (energy).
Star formation
 
Just read that the density of the sun's core is 150 times that of water. So a gallon of it would weigh 1,200 lbs. That seems heavy!
 

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