Hydrogen on the Sun and the Earth

   When I first heard that the Sun is composed mainly of hydrogen, I wondered how that could be given hydrogen diffusion as a gas on the Earth. One constant is that each nucleus has exactly one proton. 2-D graph or 3-D graph
   I did some back of the envelope calculations that compares the distance between hydrogen on the Sun and on the Earth.
   It turns out that hydrogen molecules on the Earth are separated by 33 Angstroms, while on the Sun the nuclei are separated by 1 Angstrom. On the Earth, hydrogen molecules are composed of 2 hydrogen nuclei separated by 0.64 Angstrom.
   Although the average nuclei are much closer on the Sun, they are not closer than the inter-molecular distance on the Earth.
   Blackhole calculations
   Blackhole 3-D graph

 

   Note: These are working notes.

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