Showing posts with label Solar Systerm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solar Systerm. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

If you were to be able to touch the sun, would it be hard or soft or would you go through it?

 I think it would be best described with touching a fire. In fact a fire is a plasma, just like the sun.

This analogy covers many aspects of “touching the sun”:

  • A fire has no clear boundaries. You might put your arm in it quickly, and the upper arm is more burned than your fingers are. In any case: you never “touch” anything, there is nothing solid or liquid.
  • A fire is very hot. Okay, the surface of the sun is much hotter than any ordinary fire. But you get the drift.
  • A fire is always in motion. That is again much more extreme for the sun than for a big camp fire. The sun is throwing out jets so big that the planet Jupiter could easily drown in it, if it would get close to the surface. Here’s a picture of such a yet with Earth drawn next to it: