Quote from: BADecker on Today at 05:19:42 AM

I bet you got a lot of that from your university training. You know, the university training you constantly condemn as crazy or worse, right? But I'm almost sure you got some of it from other university trained Ph.D.'s, right? You know, the universities that you always complain about as being WRONG.

So, how do you know which training is right and which is wrong? Be like that joker who built the rocket and took off to see if the earth was flat or not. But head for the sun so that you can check it our for yourself. And bring back proof so that we all know.

Cool

Universities are insane places that promote violence, but it does absolutely no good to completely misdiagnose the problems. Universities are problematic because they pander to the students who scream in the middle of class and threaten the professor with violence. Universities are not the places that get basic facts about astronomy and cosmology wrong. But in any case, we all need to think critically about the information that we receive from university research just like we need to think critically about all sources of information. If you need help with critical thinking skills, I am willing to give you a non-free consultation for $90/hr; it makes no sense to criticize established facts in science while simultaneously blindly accepting whatever you see at newscruncher.com (I made this site up).

But sending a probe to the sun tells us what is happening at and above the surface of the sun, but nuclear fusion happens at the core. To try figure out what happens at the core, we need to make stellar models that are consistent with the data from the sun and other stars (just don't overfit to the data because that is not cool). In particular, we need a source of energy that can power the sun for billions of years. But we have plenty of fusion experiments including nuclear weapons tests and small amounts of fusion that we get when we propel atoms at very high speeds and subject them to very high temperatures.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

P.S. I got my degree in Mathematics, so nuclear fusion is only marginally related to what I have studied.