How come the sun don't burn gas conventionally as well as fussion.
2006-06-26 06:56:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It has been stated that the sun has a great deal of hydrogen within it due to the necessity of it being converted into helium, and the energy difference generating its heat potential. There is a problem with this concept. Although there is energy release in the conversion of hydrogen to helium, the interior of our sun is not what has been taught in your school.
Were you to determine the acceleration value of a mass 400 miles from the very center of our sun, you would find that were a mass to be released in this location, it would accelerate to a speed greater than that of light in one second. This means there is not a continual atomic furnace generating heat by the process of hydrogen to helium as taught. Either there is a hollow area within our sun where mass cannot exist, or there is a new form of mass unknown to mankind. Offhand I would reject the last.
The reason helium and/or oxygen could not burn within our sun is that the pressure surrounding the gases is too great. Notice when you burn a piece of paper how the smoke spreads outward along with the heat energy. Within the sun the heat energy is already beyond that of what we would experience on our planet. There is nothing to change.
2006-06-26 14:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 6⤋
Oxygen is rare in our sun, plus at the temperature the sun is at atoms are in a plasma and can not form water molecules if all the parts were there.
Any molecules h2o o2 or h2 that get pulled into the sun (let us say as part of a comet) get broken apart by the heat.
Also any heat from anything burning would be insignificant compared to the heat released by fusion.
2006-06-26 14:10:51 · answer #2 · answered by georgephysics13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, and look what happened to it (it exploded, in case you don't want to Google the Hindenburg).
The heat from the sun actually comes from the fusion of hydrogen atoms (one proton) into helium atoms (2 protons). This fusion reaction releases a tremendous amount of energy, which we feel as the sun's heat (among other things). it has nothing to do with combustion in the sense of the sun being "a big flame."
2006-06-26 17:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by Jason H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm... to make a flame.. from hydrogen.. you would need.. hydrogen.. and .. oxygen or chlorine.. (I think)... and these are not present in the sun (are they?)
2006-06-26 14:05:52 · answer #4 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need ALL the products of combustion, not just one.
2006-06-26 14:02:23 · answer #5 · answered by ic3d2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No oxygen
2006-06-26 13:59:59 · answer #6 · answered by Don't look too close! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋