Hello All!

I find a simple understanding to be missing. What will happen to the Sun? I have read the article and it leaves no speculation as to what will "happen" to it. I mean, as the Sun ages what happens?

I proposed that we can figure it out by studying stars in later stages of evolution. If I were to make a guess, it is a large dissipative event and is not actively "powered" by anything. This is atrocious to humans because they are familiar with hot things being powered by something. This leaves them in a conundrum. What if the Sun isn't powered by anything, and it's many million year existence plus incredible size gives the appearance of being "powered". Simply, the Sun as it stands is simply too large and too old to comprehend, that is unless we look at stars that have already gone through the same stages and are more evolved, such as Jupiter, Neptune or Earth (really old), or even dead ones such as Mercury.

We can know what will happen to an apple seed by looking at the trees they grow into. There doesn't need to be mathematical speculation and ad hoc theories. Imagine if someone were to take an apple seed and say, "see, this mathematical formula states that the seed will explode and start sucking up all the other seeds!". Absurdity. That is what they do with stars! They explode and become black holes!

I am asking this question because it is the root of all understanding of the Sun.

I am also asking this because it has been proposed that we can literally look at other objects in our solar system and work backwards. If by chance all stars cool and recombine their plasma into gas, and the gas solidifies into crystalline and liquid structure, then it reasonably stands that the Earth and all "planets" are what the Sun will eventually resemble.

This means we can know how the energy will dissipate and which direction its elements will go, and why there are so many different combinations of molecules. It can even explain how life came to be.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Wolynski