>>11677062Interesting.
So you're saying:
>Nuclear fusion has very little to do with generating heat (and by extension, the laws of thermodynamics and convection are not important in this situation)>The corona has very low barometric pressure, so that can't be the location of fusion (presumably because you believe fusion cannot occur without high barometric pressure/gravity)Well unfortunately, the location of the heat truly is important, and the model does need to follow the laws of thermodynamics.
So I guess we'll just have to look for another method of creating nuclear reactions, in low-pressure environments ...
Maybe if we zoom WAAAY out, and look at a much bigger picture, we might be able to see something we haven't accounted for in the past.
Pic related - oh wow, look at all those plasma filaments where stars are being born ... that's not how gas behaves under gravitational attraction ... doesn't follow the laws of aerodynamics ... huh ... maybe something bigger than stars is going on here, which might account for stars being powered from the outside-in rather than from the inside-out?
Nah! Who am I kidding?
Fuck that. Who needs the laws of thermodynamics or aerodynamics anyway?
Let's just call it an "unsolved problem" and stop thinking too hard about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_corona#Coronal_heating_problem 
