In a thermonuclear reaction shouldn't the core be the hottest part with the coolest part being the surface? The observation are contradicting this so what is the actually happening here?
Why does the sun get hotter as you move away from the core?
The sun has multiple cores
No one knows btw. That's an actual scientific mystery. But I'm eager to hear the brainlets of Veeky Forums trying to figure it out.
The density rapidly falls off after the point of hydrostatic equilibrium (where gravity = gas pressure), but you've got nearly the same energy flux passing through.
Same energy + much, much fewer particles (~1000 times less dense, IIRC), means much, much higher temperatures.
It doesn't. The core is 15,000,000degrees. Then it gets cooler till you reach the surface then hotter again.
Coronal heating problem
The temperature of the photosphere is approximately 6,000 K, whereas the temperature of the corona reaches 1,000,000–2,000,000 K. The high temperature of the corona shows that it is heated by something other than direct heat conduction from the photosphere.
sacred cows & hot potatoes
.. nuclear fusion reactions are probably occurring at or above the sun's photosphere; a process called solar surface fusion. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics)
Why couldn't it be magnetic induction
Helioseismology results confirm the temperature of the Sun's interior matches the temperature profile predicted by the standard solar model in the interior.
>In a thermonuclear reaction shouldn't the core be the hottest part with the coolest part being the surface?
Only if there is no energy release outside the core, which is not true. We know magnetic reconnection occurs in the corona, this allows energy to be transported directly from the solar interior into the atmosphere.
>Why does the sun get hotter as you move away from the core?
It doesn't. You'll notice that even in your diagram. Helioseismology results also show this is wrong.
>nuclear fusion reactions are probably occurring at or above the sun's photosphere; a process called solar surface fusion.
Nope, ruled out by observation. The corona is optically thin to nuclear gamma rays, this is proven by RHESSI observations of solar flares. That means if there were nuclear reactions in the solar atmosphere it would be detectable, and yet it isn't detected. In gamma rays the quiet Sun is darker than the background sky.
Are you all fucking retarded? You're taught in like year 1 science that heat rises
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