
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.
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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.
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calculations
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Note: These are working notes.