![[0380] Sol](/comics/2012-05-28-0380-sol.png "[0380] Sol")
- Woo: Sandra, what’s the sun?
- Sandra: The sun is a plasma ball, inside of which energy is generated by nuclear fusion of helium nuclei into hydrogen.
- Woo: Really??
- Sandra: Haha, no, that was just pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. The Sun is a giant burning paper ball.
- Woo: Yeah, I figured you made that up when you mixed up helium and hydrogen.
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Isn’t it hydrogen fused to helium?
With some people I know I’m glad she got it at least some of it right.( seriously I know people stupider than a bumble bee)
And its not Mumbo jumbo (at least not to me, definitely to the 3 iq people)
this is where i come to learn.
Hydrogen fuses into helium, not the other way around.
Neospector wrote:
In plasma mechanics even range such particles travel matter
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas — a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees!
The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. The sun’s not simply made out of gas. The sun is a quagma. It’s not made of fire. Forget what you’ve been told in the past.
Woo, how do you know as much as They Might Be Giants?
HA!
Okay, hands up whoever didn’t catch that until Woo corrected her?
Even if you knew the answer, you had to be paying attention! ^_^
Oh man, Reading it i’m all like “No that’d be fission”.. XD. Go Woo!
she lost me at “plasma ball”…….i never payed attention in science class ^.^
Wolf in Bears Clothing (its the last thing they’d expect)
Yay, product placement!
The name for this comic is very appropriate because (sorry if someone has already mentioned this) a character in the book series Warriors is named Sol and actually knew more about the sun than any other characters.
Actually, according to get Electric Universe paradigm, the Sun is electrically powered and behaves more like ball lightning. Any nuclear fusion occurs at the surface. That’s why the corona’s hotter than the photosphere.
It’s causing waves in the scientific community the likes of which haven’t been seen since Copernicus. Check here for more info:
http://www.holoscience.com/wp/
http://www.electricuniverse.info/Introduction
@ Marked One:
That’s what Woo means about mixed it up? 😉
Sandra’s reading a Gaia book! XD
It’s all very well saying that fusion isn’t dependant on temperature, but it is dependant on density, and density is directly proportional to temperature (Ideal gas law, which is highly accurate for hydrogen).
@ Raen:
Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue like the original, does it? I’ll stick with incandescent gas, thank you very much.
Why the title of the strip is in Spanish (Sol=Sun)?