Re: Iron-rich solar core?

[Gary Karshner <karshner@STMARYTX.EDU>]

Chris,
        I agree. I am not sure where the sun gets it energy if its core is
all Iron. In addition the solar lithium abundance is consistent with a
middle aged star. If it was made of leftovers from a supernova I doubt if
any of its lithium would have survived.
        The standard model of the sun has only one flaw that I know of and
that is the low neutrino flux which seems to be resolving itself with the
evidence of neutrino's decaying. Not a model problem but particle physics.

Gary

> I would reject this hypothesis as unworthy of serious consideration unless a
> whole plethora of observations supported it and contradicted the standard
> model, simply on the grounds that it makes of our sun an exceptional star.
> While this is not impossible, all the evidence from observations of other
> stars points in the direction of ours being unexceptional in all respects
> except one:  *we* are in orbit around it.
>
> Chris
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