Solar for the soul or for the senses
By
Kelvin Kemm
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July 20th, 2026
The Sun has mystified mankind for centuries. In days long gone, primitive people worshiped the Sun or a Sun God. But much more recently, in the later 1800s, people were still mystified because by then science had advanced a great deal and physicists had acquired a significant understanding of thermodynamics and energy. They knew that thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and it can only be converted to another form. They also knew how to calculate the heat emitted from burning coal, wood, or anything else.
Astronomers and physicists had also come to the realization that the Sun was billions of years old and appeared to be going strong for a few billion more.
The physics calculations of the time showed that the Sun should be impossible.
The calculations showed that the Sun could not possibly have burned for millions of years, let alone billions, and that it was destined to burn out soon.
But mysteriously, it was doing just fine. The year 1900 arrived, and five years later, some young upstart physicist started to say crazy impossible-sounding things. He made wild claims. His name was Albert Einstein.
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