Glory to Jesus Christ, y'all, on this Byzantine Calendar Feast of the Martyr-Confessor Chariton!
Yours truly is a little kid at heart, so loves simplicity. Today, we'll look at a more plausible explanation of how stars, and our Sun, work…more plausible than the gravity-gathered-gas/interior-nuclear-fusion paradigm that we've all been taught.
Remember from last time that the electrical and magnetic fields in the heavens above act like cat-herds and gather parallel currents of unruly plasma atoms/molecules into nice, big neat balls?
These balls are small compared to the currents that formed them, and so behave in a similar way to lightning rods: current readily goes in and out bc the tight curvature concentrates the electric field and thus channels the charged particles together near the ball in the heavens or at the tip of the rod.
Those of you that have sailed on ships in the 1800s (few, I realize) have seen St. Elmo’s fire glowing blue and hissing on the tips of masts, etc. Some of us more modern folk have seen it on the pointy sections of airplane wings. (Blue, too. The green is a regular plane light.)
Happens during stormy conditions when there's an electrical field in the air that encourages a strong, concentrated electrical current to flow. That concentration strips off electrons from air molecules, and when said electrons reunite w their parent molecules, light is emitted. It's glow mode plasma.
The top picture does not feature my robot uncle XQ#-DT6&$ (T'ain't no such beast as robotic uncle anyway.) It's someone using an arc welder. The rod he's holding emits an electrical current — a plasma in arc mode, so nasty — which melts two pieces of metal underneath its tip together. Sometimes, tufts of St. Elmo-like fire appearing the process, away from the welding area.
Those tufts, my friends, explain our Sun and the stars. More next time.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, guide us to all Truth!!