Liquid Metallic Hydrogen and the White Hot Sun

Our Sun was once thought to be a ball of hydrogen gas with no surface. But direct observation has proven this to be wrong. Our star has a surface. However, the idea that the entirety of our Sun is made up mainly of hydrogen has persisted, and some have therefore suggested that our Sun is made up of an exotic substance called liquid metallic hydrogen. But no-one has ever produced a stable sample of such a substance in a laboratory. We’re simply told that something impossible to produce on Earth exists in great quantities in space.

Things that don’t exist in my book

One of the premises I used for myself when I developed my theory of physics was to avoid all forms of exotic matter and energy. There are no hypothetical elements in my physics. It doesn’t require anything that we cannot create in a laboratory.

My theory postulates the existence of an aether. But the aether itself is a mix of photons and neutrinos. I had no need for new and exotic elements. The only thing new and unusual about my theory is the way I put elements together in order to explain physical phenomena.

The list of things I see no need for include:

• The Big Bang
• Black holes
• Neutron stars
• Dark energy
• Super-dense matter
• Liquid metallic hydrogen

None of this has been proven to exist in nature, so the fact that such things are mentioned in scientific journals is not a sign of insight. Rather, it’s an admission that current theory cannot explain things without the introduction of some exotic substance or force.

Comet tails and the Sun’s corona

The impulse to suggest that our Sun is made of hydrogen comes from the Sun’s light spectrum which indicate an abundance of hydrogen in its corona. However, an abundance of a material in the Sun’s atmosphere doesn’t necessarily mean that the the Sun itself is made up of that material.

There’s a lot of water in the tails of comets, yet comets are known to be rocky bodies. The water in their tails are not due to an abundance of water inside of them. It’s due to electrochemical reactions that take place on their surfaces as they speed through the proton rich environment of the solar system.

Similar processes are almost certainly taking place on our Sun, with the additional possibility that hydrogen can be produced through nuclear fission. The intense electrical environment of our Sun knocks single protons (hydrogen) off of its mineral rich surface, and we get in this way an abundance of hydrogen in the Sun’s corona.

There’s no need to introduce a hypothetical and highly exotic material in order to explain what we see. We don’t need something as unstable as liquid metallic hydrogen to somehow become highly stable on the surface our Sun where temperatures are measured in thousands of degrees. Especially when there’s a far more mundane explanation available.