Evidence that the sun has a solid surface

Why would you want to have the surface of the sun to be iron? Not so long ago, people believed that it was made of coal. It made some sort of sense in a religiously buttressed world view. The world was only five thousand years old and the coal of the sun would burn out shortly, and the last trump would sound on new years eve 2001. industrialists could sleep in their beds, without worrying about the plight of the poor.

Has this guy's web site not got itself all confused and caffufled over the difference between an ion and iron?

Just out of idle curiosity I worked out how thick a solid surface to the sun would be. Given that there's 80 iron atoms to 10 million hydrogen atoms, I get the surface at about 13 metres.

Oops[][] I was way off there, make that 13 thousand kms, Well, an easy mistake to make, it's about one fiftieth of the radius.

Wrong again[][][] That radius is if the iron as at the centre, drag it out to the surface and it's about 1.8kms. Though it might be best to pretend I never said any of this[][8D]

G'day What makes you think that the Iron is found atthe centre?

Smile and live another day

Iron is on the surface of the sun-I hope that is an established fact we can all agree on. It seems to me iron might be the cause of most of the explosive activity observed on the sun. All of the pictures of the gas planets and the sun indicate they are not gas but either liquid or solid. It seems to me anyone looking at any of the modern photos would conclude the sun is not gas anyway. Its good to see new down the Earth stuff on this site rather than worn theories.