Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast - Ep 613 - Solar System Part 1 (feat. Nate Marshall)

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

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Wow, Wow, Wes. Hey, what's up, everybody? We're here. This is a breaking episode. It's going to be a solo cast. Solo cast asterisk. I obviously have Nate here. But Shane's Away, Netflix is a joke festival, which is, that'll be fun.

So it'll be pretty much wrapping up by the time you guys see this. However, I don't know. Maybe Hulu will do one, too. I like when the streaming giants get silly in the comedy space. You know, Hulu? Huh? They start battling? I mean, yeah, they're all.

The streaming giants are bad. That's all they do is battle each other. I don't know we're battling for stand-up rights now. Well, I guess Hulu's doing those specials. Hulu does Hoolarius or Hulu's laughing now. Those are both terrible names. Hulu's laughing now. You don't like Hulu's laughing now?

I hate that. I hate Hul-Lu-Lu-Ler. I think the streaming giants are just on the next level with the branding. They might just be getting it. I'm a dumb ass. They know what they do. They hate Hulu's laughing now. Dude, I saw that and I literally cracked up.

And I say, these guys. no comedy like none other. Wow. Also, Amazon does not have comedy-specific branding. I would like to propose to Amazon. Ah, Amazon. Hey, come on. Come on.

Let me know you guys think in the comments, like subscribe. Yeah, so, yeah, this week I was sitting here, I was going, the hell should we talk about, man? You know, it's like political stuff, no. the war, pretty much political stuff. No, I don't want to talk about that. Bombers, big bombers. Yeah, you know what I was like?

You know what would be sick to actually get into? I haven't heard anyone talking about at all. It's the solar system. You know what I'm saying? Can't beat space. It's, dude, the planets. Here's the thing. We learned about the planets when we were little boys.

We last learned about the planets when we still had an extra planet. Let me get a camera. We still had an extra planet the last time we learned about planets. You're talking Pluto. I'm talking Pluto. Yeah. So I haven't got, I haven't got to Pluto yet. But I'm kind of, I was, I'm a little salty we've nixed Pluto.

It's like what, what was it? It's not hurting anybody. Was that, what was that like a coalition of fat science teachers who were like, we don't feel like covering. Like, why would they drop? I think it literally just didn't fit into the curriculum. They were like, we can't get this all the way through the year. We got to knock one off. I mean, what a dick.

That was definitely some astra, whatever they're called, Astro, not an astrophysicist, but like, just like, just like a space. Yeah, space scientist, whatever they're called. Definitely just being like, you know, technically it doesn't count.

It's just like, dude, what the fuck? It's, it's a big ball and it rotates around the sun. Let it be a planet. Yeah,

what's your fucking problem? It's technically just like a Nixon. It's like, dude, it's a fucking planet, man. My theory is Saturn's not a planet.

What's your problem with gas giants? It's a gas giant. You can't touch it. There's several gas giants. But is it, you know where Saturn's rings come from? I want to say you're aides

but that was just me being If you're going to bring that attitude with the fucking solar system discussion you're going to get ejected dude Dude filming you like this makes me want to call the cops on you So bad Excuse me You can't do that you can't sit there

Karen Cam Excuse me We'll see Might I call the cops on 8 by the end of the solar system We'll see all right Are we, is there a direction we're going or did you just, yeah, inside out? Nope, starting from the sun. Start from the sun.

I almost, I almost skipped the sun. That's the craziest part. I was, I was going to do this. I was talking to Sean about it. I was like, Sean, what do you think about this? And I was like, you know what, dude? I got to, I get to cover, I'll start from the sun and move on, but I'm like, I got to cover the sun. That'd be crazy to do the solar system and not cover the fucking thing it's named after.

I tell you all, a thing I don't talk about much. The sun freaks me out. Bro, I'm not going to lie. Yeah. I didn't know much about it. The more I learned about it, I, I'm not lying. I had a panic attack in your office. Researching about how the sun works.

And I got into like the nitty gritty of it. Yeah. I for real at one point had to like stop and just like sit down and take some breaths. Yeah. I mean, it gets, it cuts you down to the base, the bare fundamentals. Yeah. To where you're like, what even what the, okay. So this is where light comes from.

And it's like. I don't. I hope I'm not jumping the gun, but the fact that it could, like, blow up at any time. Well, we'll see. I know it's not like close. The sun has maintained equilibrium for four and a half billion years, and it's pretty much, it will continue to maintain equilibrium.

The problem is solar flares. Oh, yeah. Solar flare. Another scary thing. We'll get into solar flares as well. No, no, no, no, no, you're eager. Before you're disruptive, now you're eager. We've gone a full dangerous minds arc in 30 seconds.

This is amazing. But I will say this. It's like, here's why I wanted to do the solar system. Because like, we learned about it as boys. But that was so long ago and so much stuff has come out about the planets. It's like all the shit you learned about the planets. I'm not going to say is wrong, but a lot of new details have come out. Yeah.

So every the average adult is kicking around. I'm not coming for people, but a total fucking ignoramus in terms of the solar system. People to have, like no one knows shit about how all these planets were, including myself. So, you know, I, uh, while, you know, while we were out here just kind of messing around in high school, drinking college, people were. Yeah. A lot of girl scientists, too, by the way. We're working hard. That kind of seems like girl science, actually.

Yeah, it kind of, dude, it's dominated. There's a lot of guy scientists, obviously, but there's a ton. A lot of these discoveries are girl scientists. Astrology, then the solar system. It's like a clear pat pipeline. Yeah, the horoscope's like, you got to go all the way in. Yeah. You need to know what's up with the fucking cloud layer of Venus,

which actually there was a discovery by a girl scientist, big discovery by girl scientists. That's crazy because right now on YouTube, people are trying to take, there's a decent argument people are making to take roting rights away from women. People want to remove women's suffer. Really?

I watched a whole debate on it the other day. And the line of thinking is if women, and we'll get to the outer space in a second, but this is important, because I'm protecting girl scientists, girl space scientists, right to vote. But they're trying to say that's, women can't be drafted into the war,

then they have no right to be able to vote, which could essentially send men who have no choice to go fight in the war that they're exempt from. Essentially, it's not fair. You shouldn't be able to wield political power in a system that, like, ask more of men, men should have more political power, which I say obviously is a fair position,

but I think you would be stripping the women's vote via girl logic, which is it's not fair. Yeah, yeah. Only a girl cares about if something's fair. That's girl logic. As a guy, you can't be like, it's not fair.

It's like, well, now I'm taking your vote too, because you're being a girl. If you want to keep, that's the thing, it's just a vicious cycle. You can't be like, it's not fair. If you act like a girl, you'll also take your right to vote.

I mean, it has to be across the board. Why can't girls vote? Because they act like girls, but you're acting like a girl to take the vote. Also, it's, when I see the debate, it's like, okay, you can make as, clear, concise point about it.

No one's, it's like no one's ever going to do it. It's not going to happen. Yeah. He's just going to stand on that platform for real, for real. I mean, you can stand on it all even one. Never get pussy again. Like the, yeah, well, the one guy that I've watched has his wife pilled on the no vote for women. She's fully with it.

And it's like, dude, again, do your thing, live your life. I don't care. But let's be honest. It's never going to fucking happen. They're never going to do it. Is he a politician or is he like a, uh, he's like a debaterer? Okay. He's a good debater, too.

He's a very, very solid debater. Forget his name. But he, uh, yeah, I was watching the whole thing. And like, it's just one of those things where it's like, it sounds sick, obviously. You're on your channel. You're like, here are the reasons. You're watching. You're like, you're going to fucking do it.

We're going to take their phone away. Your wife is next. You're not in two. I mean, dude, it's, it's just never going to fucking happen. It's like, it's, it's just it won't, dude. No one, nobody, the country, no country can possibly withstand that amount of, The nagging would be crazy, dude. Like, let's be honest,

divorce rates would go through the roof. If you're a dude who goes, I agree with this, you're done, you're not getting pussy, your ladies, a lot of baby. Again,

this guy's got his babe. She's on board. That is a fucking rarity, dude. Yeah, yeah, he's got the, like the one percenter

of a babes. I know when babes, your babe might be like, yeah, I could see that. And then just like on a random Tuesday, be like, can't believe I can't fucking vote.

He's like, soon as her period. Dude, you said it was fine. We watched the YouTube debate. We both agreed that guy was right. They're never going to go along with it. It's just one of those things where it's like, dude, like you're kind of chasing your tail.

You can, you know, whatever. But that's, and then after doing all this outer space research, I'm going, dude, women are dominating. We need some babes. We need these babes to fucking tell us about outer space. Again, I don't know if it's all of them, but a lot of these discoveries are from babe scientists while we've been just absolutely fucking around the entire time. We will, if we take away to write the vote, they're going to stop focusing on side. is going to try to get their right to vote back. We can't do it.

I don't know. Could, though. If we did take the vote, we could get, there might be some humble babe action. I do like almost like reuniting right after a breakup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could be best behavior. We could have best behavior.

I do like the idea of women acting right. I would just vote. I'd be like, just tell me I'll vote hell over you want. I don't even care. We get double votes. Tell me. Babe, I'll vote for whatever you want. I don't fucking care.

And also, too, like, the nuts and bolts of blocking the vote, I mean, it's like, what the only option, you'd have to physically hold, you'd have to literally physically hold them back. They would flood the voting booths. We would also have so many trans women, like women. I just thought about that. Or we'd have to, we'd have to go down that rabbit hole in it. It'd be a whole different thing. Because they would, they would definitely spite trans.

I know. You'd have to have. No, you'd have to have. the FBI female body inspectors. That'd be the only way. But either way, I don't want to get Meyer down in politics. I want to talk outer space. Because it would be, dude, I'm saying it would be a sad sight

if, like, you know, you're there. They actually, you pass the law on this fucking handmaidens tale bullshit world. The only way you could stop women was by it. You'd have to have, like, a security force, like, scrappy do holding their heads while they fucking... And that would bum me out. I'm trying to cast my vote for the Republic.

I'm seeing women get scrappy dude, just nonsense. That would be, that would fucking piss me off. Some of them good girl scientists that are fucking enlightening us about space. This episode is brought to you by prize picks. The regular seasons done and the NBA playoffs are here. Time to get in on the action with the prize picks, a preferred partner of the NBA. NBA.

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Yeah. Like comment and subscribe below in the chat So okay Okay so we got you got everything out of the way Again the plan was start closest to the sun and work out and you go you know and work But then it was like dude Let me hit the fucking sun and actually this was Sean's idea In while we're doing the planets we're going to do kind of a mini deep dive into why they have that name

What the name says about the planet does that actually match up with the physical characteristics Because like all of them are named after basically basically Greco-Roman gods. Oh, we're talking about Earth. Except for Earth. Yeah, we're talking about a little bit. Except for Earth, weirdly enough. Yeah.

Why? Why did Earth, I mean, I guess probably because we're standing on it, you know, it doesn't get a cool God name. We might have already had it named, you know, we might have already been calling it Earth. It's just Earth. It's just Earth. All you could name Earth after a God, really, because it was like,

you know, the gods were supposed to be in the heavens and yeah, whatever, unless you believe in like, Gaya. So, okay, before we talk planets, let's talk Sun. Okay. basic facts. This is the stuff I already knew before I researched. Sun is 93 million miles away from Earth. I know that one. That was I learned that from a Wu-Tang song. It's from Triumph. It's literally in the song, which is kind of crazy. That's like some dude smoking Sherm, the projects would have literally been teaching a primass white boy like myself about the solar

system. That's what happened. That's how I started my love for outer space. And now I've joined the lineage of great teachers because I've actually smoked Sherm on accident before. So that's the only Sherm mix? How do you get? It's just PCP. Okay, okay. It's just wet. Yeah, it's just I accidentally smoke shirme myself.

So that's how I've just following a great lineage of teachers just smoking shirm once or twice. What that feel like? Weird. During it was sick. Yeah, yeah. Fluid. I literally flew up a staircase. It's awesome.

I could breathe flames out of my mouth. But then I got like deeply paranoid that these babes are trying to poison me. Yeah. Okay. And I could have kissed them. Oh. That was too shirmed out. Yeah.

That's the life of a fucking astronomer like myself. So, okay, so let's go size of the sun Right off the bat. How big is the sun in relative terms? 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun. That's crazy. It's fucking, dude, it's massive. If the sun, if the sun were a hollow ball,

you could fit every planet in the solar system inside of it and still have room. Like a lot of room, right? Yeah. It's fucked up how big this. The sun is like just to get a glimpse. You see it every day. Yeah.

You're just only even think about it. Oh, fucking. sun. 1.3 millioners could fit inside the sun. How hot is the sun exactly? Depends on where you measure. At the core, the sun is 15 million degrees Celsius.

It's fucking hot as shit. So we'll get into exactly what that means. You hear that. It's almost abstract. The surface of the sun is only, air quotes, about 5,500 degrees Celsius. John, can we get some conversion?

With the surface? The surface of the song. There's the core, there's the inner core, where like the, you know, we'll get into what's happening in there. And then there's like an actual body of the sun. Okay. That's only 5,500 degrees, which is like pretty low compared to the core.

Kind of weird. How many degrees? 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. What's the surface in Fahrenheit? If it's 15 million degrees Celsius, that's got to be, I don't know. Celsius throws me off because it's close to some points and super. It probably is. I think it's probably 30 million degrees.

30 million degrees, dude. Let's, well, we'll wait for the official numbers to come in. Here's the weird part. So the surface, core is 15 million degrees. Surface is 5,500 degrees Celsius. Okay, so it's 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. You know, whatever. We'll stick to Celsius.

That's what fucking scientists, they love, libs love Celsius, obviously. So the outer atmosphere, so there's a core of the sun, there's its surface. Then there's an outer atmosphere of the sun called the Corona, which paradoxically reaches over one. million degrees Celsius, which violates... It's hotter than the body of the sun, not hotter than the core.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. But according to, I believe, the law of thermodynamics, it's supposed to get colder the further you move away from a hot thing. The corona violates the law. Basic, basic physics. People still don't know why. Yeah.

That's pretty wild. And the corona, this is kind of a weird. It actually extends because it's like a, um, there's the core, there's the body. The corona is like the, what you see when there's an eclipse. there's that like light around the moon. That's the corona. It goes on for millions of miles. And it's a million degrees for millions of miles.

And then it actually peters out into the solar winds that basically go through the entire solar system. And then they stop after Pluto, planet formerly known as Pluto. So when we're getting heat, hitting our planet, it's corona that's gotten here. Is that kind of? We'll get to that.

Okay, okay, okay. We'll get to that. Luckily our atmosphere, but well, yeah, we'll get to that. It's not technically the corona, the light coming out of the sun, which, you know, is kind of a bug out in and of itself. But that's that's where interstellar space starts is when the sun's solar wind finally stops somewhere after Pluto. Yeah.

The solar wind stops and you're in interstellar space properly. Which again, it's kind of like weird to think about. So yeah, there's the thing called the Corona Paradox. We'll get into kind of theories into why that might be. But again, it's like, it's completely wrong. It's 50 million degrees and it's like 5,500 degrees. And then it goes to one million again, outside, away further from. And you're like, what the hell?

So now, I'm sure you've thought about this. Like, what would happen to you if you, like, just try to get towards the sun? Yeah. And in reality, you would just burn up so fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But here's the thing. We have, because we, like, you know, how do you think, how do they know the sun's core is 15 million degrees? We can't get close enough to measure it.

So they do a thing where they, there's a couple methods. I don't really understand them, but there's like ways you can look at light signatures and the certain colors coming off give you, like, you know, this is how hot this is, this is how hot this is. There's also, uh, they like the neutrinos that bounce out of the sun, hit the ground and they somehow like collect those and measure those. But still, I'm like, I don't know. I'm taking it with a grain of salt. There's no way you can actually measure without the direct probe.

NASA in 2018 launched a Parker solar probe. And, uh, they got within in 2024 about 6.1 million kilometers to the sun surface. It's close. So they're in the corona. So they were able to theorize how, hot it would be. And then they actually sent this probe into the corona that could verify like, okay, our models were correct. No, I'm assuming there was no camera or nothing, no pictures that got sent back. I don't think so. I think this thing was a, I mean, it was basically

a bullet. It traveled about 692,000 kilometers an hour. Fast as any human made object that's ever moved. So they just, it had a carbon heat shield about four and a half inches thick that kept everything inside at room temperature, even as it like hit temperatures at like 1,400 degrees Celsius. So now I'm going like, oh, that's why too. The corona is kind of thinned out. So like it is technically a million degrees, but the particles I think are so thinned out that like it doesn't feel as hot.

That's why they're able to get in there. So I don't know. That's a little confusion, a little confusing. But it's still like, the only thing my brain can even like compare that to is like when humidity makes things feel hotter than it is. It's,

you know, you really feel pretty fucking dumb. Yeah. Try to think about this shit. But it's like, you know, if you try to. to really comprehend how hot these temperatures are, there's nothing, you know, like molten metal

is thousands of times cooler than the sun's coolest part, which is the surface. Yeah. So it's like, it's almost abstract. So it's like in the way to think about this is like, as you go up the temperature ladder, you don't just get more hot as you get to like, you know, things like 15 million degrees. it literally alters what the matter fundamentally is. So he changes literally. Like when you go, when you get to the sun's core, it turns into plasma,

which is a whole different state of matter. It's like solid gas, liquid. Plasma is just like a soup of particles so everything just breaks down. Is that kind of a laser bean? I don't know. I'm going video games.

I'm going to video games because you've got plasma guns all the time. So, So again, like the whole idea of imagine yourself floating towards the sun, how close can you get before you're destroyed? I mean, in terms of, in terms of pure radiation and heat, you're dead. Unprotected human tissue would be destroyed long, long, long before getting anywhere near the service, obviously, if you could even preserve yourself. Parker Solar Probe, like we said, you got the closest. For context, Mercury, which we'll get to, the closest planet is still about 46 million kilometers from the sun at its next.

nearest point. So it's like halfway between Earth and Mercury is like the halfway point between here and the sun. So yeah, with the general scientific like consensus is that without shielding, you would not survive much closer than Mercury's orbit. And here's the scale for reference to term of temperatures. Zero degrees Celsius, water freezes, 100 degrees Celsius, water boils, thousand degrees Celsius, lava, lava, that's what lava is. 1500 degrees steel melts, 3,500 degrees. Tungsten melts. This is the highest melting point of any metal.

It's using light bulb filaments. 55 degrees, 5,500 degrees Celsius to the surface of the sun. And anything that exists as a solid or liquid is already just long gone. 1.1 to 3 million is the corona temperature. 15 million degrees is the core of the sun. Shee. Yeah, which is kind of nuts.

And then here's, so like we said, the surface of the sun is cooler than the area outside. The corona, which, you know, we already talked about that. But again, this is a big paradox. Scientists are like... They have no idea why. They don't really know. However, the leading theory on the Corona paradox

why the outside area of the sun is hotter than the body of the sun, again, just including the core, which is just literally nuclear. They think that the massive heat shift around the corona is due to electromagnetic fields snapping together in tiny, tiny increments in each of the realignments generates heat and like microflares. So it's similar to a big solar flare.

Yeah. That originates on the sun's surface. But in the corona, they're thinking like this is happening on a tiny level, but just like billions of them every single second. So it turns into a big ass thing kind of.

Yeah. So like it kind of collectively heats. It's more so like electromagnetic heat than technically heat from the sun. But it is coming from the sun because the sun's core does generate electro-met or does like dictate the movement of electromagnetic lines. It's dude.

Electromagnetic shit is so, so fucking weird. So it's like, think of like, you know, we talked about solar flares obviously. So solar flares, I think, originate because there's like, you know,

the core is doing all of its crazy shit. It gets so hot that the electromagnetic fields get all like whacked out. So then like they're getting all whacked out coming from, you know, the core of the sun. They hit the sun's body and as the sun's rotating,

the electromagnetic lines just twirl together. Yeah. And they get so tense, like twirling and rubber band together. And eventually they just, snap and just fire off like a massive thing of heat and energy and the biggest solar storm that hit earth that we know of was the Carrington event 1859 it was so strong that it set telegraph machines on fire yeah so those old Morse code lines we're all we're all connected by copper wires

so everyone was just working on them and out of nowhere they people got like shocked yeah and like some of them burst in flames i think it was all over the it just it just that energy got absorbed by those copper wiring connecting them all together so they just Some of them burst into flames. Other operators were just like, ow, just got shocked. Did it hit the whole planet or did it hit like a chunk of it? I think it hit the whole, I think it fucked up like the, I think it fucked up anywhere that had that stuff. Yeah.

Okay, okay. Yeah. Also, the weird thing was the energy from the solar flare after they had unplugged some of the machines like what the fuck's going on with these and they were still powered. No plug in. The energy from the solar flare actually powered the machines for a time being. afterwards. But they were just fucked. They were off.

They were off, but they were on. But they were on. You couldn't turn them off. They had too much juice. Yeah. So, and the cool thing, too, was the solar flare was so intense that the,

you know, like the Aurora Borealis, you can see from like the polls. Yeah. You can see that in like Cuba. It just lit up the electric, whatever that is, like hits the sky and it bounces,

colors bounce off of the atmosphere. And it just, there was like an Aurora Borealis visible, something like it visible all the way down. Silver lining to that chaos. Because Aurora Borealis is like, one of my bucket lists, see that in person things. It'll be sick.

Although the weirdest part was it was so bright that that, it happened in the middle of the night. So people woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was daytime. So they kind of popped up like, oh, man, birds, birds even got tricked. Birds started singing like it was nighttime. They came out being like, what the fuck? It's three in the morning. Why is it so bright. Yeah, it just looked completely fucked up.

The weirdest thing is if such a solar flare happened today, it would destroy the infrastructure of the entire internet. Yeah. Trillion. It would cause trillions of dollars and damage. The internet would go down as far as I know. That's terrified. Plus side search history. Destroyed. Destroyed. Everyone clean slate. That'd be so mad. We're talking if we get a big enough solar flare. It could destroy now. It would destroy the entire internet, dude. Clean break. But what about my bookmarked favorites? Bro, you got to let them go. You could find them again. You'd have to recreate them.

Yeah, that would be the real thing. Because they would be gone. They would exist in your heart And you would have to write them down Like one of those ancient Greeks Stories A little wall She's a lady would come on her face with a ball Who's a lady that's always getting

Like having sex in the shower With like wet makeup on her face? I don't know Michaels Giana Michaels Yeah You have to write about You have to sing her song

You make the lards I would definitely This is a story of Miss Michaels Giaenaingles General Michaels and Pinky would I'd sing to the heaven. Yeah, they'd have to live on through you. So, and this is why we're talking solar flares. That has to do with the leading theory on why the corona is so much hotter is like, you know,

that that's how massive flare works of like just the twisting and breaking of electric magnetic fields. When they reconnect, it like generates a ton of heat and energy that I think that's what powers a solar flare. But again, who knows? We don't know. electromagnetic fields are they're actually a very very spooky subject in it of themselves they're there I mean fields are non-physical entities like objects that somehow affect physical objects yeah very very spooky man very spooky this episode is brought to you by FedEx these days the power move isn't having a big metallic credit card to drop on the check at a corporate lunch the real power move is leveling up your

business with FedEx intelligence and accessing one of the biggest data networks powered by one of the biggest delivery networks. Level up your business with FedEx, the new power move. So also too, just how big. We talked a little bit about just how big the sun's corona is. So it's like, all right, the diameter of the sun's visible surface is about 864,000 kilometers, which if you were to take a radius of that half the circle,

Yeah. Guess how big it would be? 432,000 kilometers. Anyway, pretty sick. The corona, starting at the end of the sun's surface extends for, like we said, three to five million miles raging at roughly a million degrees, which again, asterisk that because apparently they were able to probe it and it was only 1400, well, you know, only 1400 degrees Celsius. So maybe that was like the outer outer reaches. I don't, oh yeah, you know what? It probably was because they weren't even. Yeah, they had got to like the outer reaches of that. Maybe they're in salt. Because, the corona of the sun that goes off the body extends for 3.5 million miles at a million degrees and then thins out to the solar wind that we talked extends all the way out to Pluto and beyond. So this, the technically speaking, the whole solar system is located inside of the sun. Yeah.

And I'm going to get pushed back because they're going to say, dude, that's the fuck you can't include fucking solar winds. But it's like, hey, man, I didn't write the rules. The girls did. This is girl rules. Girl rules. Sorry, I didn't make them. Actually, you still look like stones.

Now, if you really want to take away their vote, you can amend the solar winds. No, it does not extend to all the thing. All right. So we covered the surface and the corona, I think pretty well. What about the core? The churning powerhouse of the sun. The core is where, I mean, dude, like the surface is cool and all. The corona's pretty cool, you know, paradoxical or whatever.

The core. I don't think I've ever heard shit about the core. Bro, if you want to cover your ears, I don't blame you. It's freaky. You'll never look at the sun again in the same way. So the core makes up the innermost 25% of the sun's radius. So 25% of the sun size is the radius. Not obviously including solar winds and all that stuff.

But don't let that for you. 25% of the sun is still enormous. The core alone is roughly twice the diameter of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. So it's massive. So you have this massive ball. It's 15 million degrees Celsius. And again, we've already to establish the Kronas 1.3 million degrees.

The core is 5 to 15 times. hotter than that. And like we said, every step up the temperature ladder changes what matter fundamentally is. So once you get into the core, you're like, you're just complete, you're beyond what any physical matter on Earth is basically. You turn into plasma. And the pressure, this is fucked up if you think about it. The pressure of the core, it's 250 billion times Earth's atmospheric pressure.

And pressure is not gravity. It doesn't mean you weigh like 250 billion times more. Yeah. It's like if you were, you know, when you're underwater when like submarines go thousands of feet and they get crushed. Yeah. Dude, like, if you did like a couple hundred thousand times bigger, you're crushed. And it's 250 billion times atmospheric pressure. It would be like being like 10 billion feet underwater.

Like it's, it's unfathomable how much it grows. It's crushing. It's containing an explosion, which the core essentially is. Yeah. The core's explosion is equivalent to 90 trillion nuclear warheads going off every second. Already for four billion years, slated for another roughly 4.5 billion years more. Every second, every second you look at the sun is 90 trillion nuclear warheads just going, we're just looking at it like, damn, it's a pretty day out there.

Dude, it's so, it's insane. So, okay, 20, 250 billion times Earth's atmospheric pressure. And again, it's being crunched down by gravity. the sun contains 333,000 times the mass of Earth and all of that mass is gravitationally attracted to its own center. I don't really know that's how gravity works. So if you have a big ball like Earth of the Sun, it's like the weight.

So you have like you're standing on France, all of France from the surface down to like all the shit underneath it is pressing on the core. And you have China, that's also somehow pressing into the core as well. And every place is just crunching down on the core. So the core, the core, of the sun is just fucking massive amounts of gravity containing this never-ending explosion

that just kind of repowers itself over and over. So every layer of the sun is sitting top on the on top of the layer below it. I mean, it's the most extreme pile on ever, just all the way down before, like we say. And the temperature, so it's the temperature, by the way. So we're saying about like the, you know, 15,500, 15 million degrees changing what matter fundamentally is. It's from two things. It's from the temperature and it's from the pressure.

Yeah. So the temperature gets the particles moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion. Because you have like, say you have hydrogen, a hydrogen nucleus, seems another hydrogen nucleus. So it's just sitting there like this. They're repelled like magnets. Like think about two magnets. You can't get them to touch each other. You're sitting there like, yeah, I can't do it.

So the heat gets the particles moving so fast that the electrons, since it's plasma, the electrons fall away. Now we have the soup. The electrons are just floating here and there. There's no order to any of these things. And the neutrons are just going like this. And then they get hot enough. They get fast enough. And they get close enough to each other to overcome the repulsion.

That's love. So like, dude, if you threw a magnet so fast, it is love. It's true love. It's like if you threw the magnet so fast, which I actually seen one of my boys do this one time, you throw the magnet fast enough,

it would just go and it would actually connect. However, the connection is nuclear. It's like particle fusion. So it's what powers nuclear bombs. Yeah. And the pressure, so it's like the temperature gets them moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion, but then the pressure gets them close enough for the strong nuclear force to grab them together.

So, and this is the core is the only place in the solar system where both conditions are met at once, which is why fusion only happens in the center of stars and nowhere else. It really is when people do atomic bombs. That's harnessing the power of the stars. Yeah. That's crazy. It's the power of the stars. Yeah.

And here, yeah. So, and the cool part is the same gravity. That's kind of badass that people. We're just harnessing the power of stars on the planet. I didn't mean to cut you off. It's cool. It's certainly. It's terrifying.

It's terrifying. It's really scary. We didn't kind of do that, though. I know. I mean, shout out to us, obviously. But yeah, the same crushing gravity is what keeps the whole system stable. The fusion at the core, and we'll get into exactly what fusion is, this nuclear fusion, is constantly trying to blow the sun apart.

So, and again, like we said, 90 trillion nuclear bombs per second exploding, gravity is. just hugging around it, just, no, brother, just holding it all together. And these two forces, these two massive forces have been pretty much perfectly balanced for 4.6 billion years, like we said, turns out we get another 5 billion in the bank. So we're chilling on the sun for 5 billion more years. The sun's a controlled explosion that gravity won't let escape and fusion won't let collapse in on itself.

So the fusion also is pushing out against gravity wanting to just fucking crunch it all in. I wonder if it'll be like signs. I mean, obviously we won't be here for it. you know, 400 billion years from now with a son like feel or look different. You know what I mean? Because we've lived it.

We've experienced it for such a short period of time. We don't even. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. They claim that it's been relatively stable, but it's like, you know,

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We'll get into fusion because, again, we kind of touched on it, but how it happens is really cool. So, like, you know, what actually happens to these, you know, molecules or like hydrogen particles at 15 million degrees. So, again, at a few thousand degrees, molecules break apart into atoms at around 10,000 degrees Celsius. this atoms, this is when it becomes plasma. Adams themselves start to break down.

Like we said, electrons get stripped away because it's like, you remember the science thing? You have a nucleus, which is like a, I think a proton and a neutron. And then it's circled by electrons. Okay. And luckily hydrogen has no protons or something. So it's just a proton. That's why they have like the proton collider thing.

That's what they're trying to replicate. Did you ever hear of the Higgs-Boson particle collider? No. They have these things underground and they're trying to get particle fusion. and they try to shoot them at such speeds that they can overcome that natural resistance and actually collide. That sounds scary shit that is fucking around with.

These girls are out of control right now, man. His girls are out of control. Oh my God. Yeah, it's actually pretty freaky. But at 10,000 degrees Celsius, matter stops becoming matter in any recognizable sense that we know and becomes plasma, which we said is a soup of free electrons

and bare atomic nuclei. So it's like the nucleus not surrounded by their revolve, you know, the electrons that are spinning around it. Again, this is a fourth state of matter between solid liquid and gas. So that's at 10,000 degrees Celsius. The core is 15 million degrees. So you're so far past plasma that the nuclei, the proton and neutron, in the case of hydrogen,

just the proton, like we said, themselves are being slammed into each other, hard enough to fuse. And like we said, it's because the electrons are stripped away from the heat, leaving the protons. Again, not being possibly charged, but still to repel each other like magnets. the repulsion between these protons is called the Cologne barrier in case you're wondering. So that's the barrier that keeps protons from kind of slamming. But now, like we said, the heat has the protons going so fast. They overcome the repulsion.

And so then as they do this, they just fucking boom, slam into each other. These are two hydrogen nuclei colliding and merging, transforming in a flash and nuclear, you know, a miniature nuclear explosion. Yeah. forming to form helium in the process. So you have a hydrogen, a hydrogen, which by the way, two hydrogen, one hydrogen, I think is heavier than a helium. But when the two come together, which you would think, oh, the helium's going to be heavier, the helium's lighter than these two guys that just crashed together. So because the helium is fundamentally lighter. And the loss of weight,

right? So you have, say a hydrogen weighs one pound. They don't, but let's say for the second numbers, two hydrogen nucleus is weigh one pound each. They slam. Now, Now they weigh like collectively, I don't know, whatever the fuck it is. They've lost 0.7% of the mass. They get smaller though. Yeah, they're lighter than those. So you start off with two things weighing something. They collide.

You have the leftover. The helium's like the ash of a cigarette. It's like a leftover component of this reaction that had nuclear reaction. That tiny little bit of weight that's lost is then transferred into the energy that basically becomes light. So those particles colliding in the 15 million degrees. In the core. In the core is what generally. generates the sun's light, but it's happening over and over and over and over, just boom,

boom, every second, it's, and there's this light, blinding flashes of gamma rays, which you don't want to fucking, you know, I know you think you're tough, but you do not want a gamma ray at all. Put me on the gamma ray. You do not want to get it. It's, it's that, that little, the hydrogen nuclei, this is important, colliding and merging and merging, transforming to helium, which is like kind of the body of the sun. Yeah. Boom.

White flash. just like infinitesimal part of the mass that's lost becomes a force, becomes a gamma ray, which is like, really weird to think, like, if you took a tiny bit of weight of this thing, you know, I don't know what it weighs, probably fucking, not even like 0.1 pounds, that would become an intense burst of light energy. This is what, you know, it's trying to think of how to explain this.

So the fusion of two particles, again, which is because of heat and pressure, transmutes the hydrogen into helium. We already said that and it loses that little bit of weight that just becomes light, pure energy. And here's how I try to think of it. So it's like when the protons collide in nuclear fusion, they turn into helium, which we said is the byproduct of the reaction. And the reaction is a massive explosion of energy relative to the size of the tiny bit of weight that was lost. So like think of it this way. If you multiply something's mass, right?

This is how I kind of figured it out. If you multiply something's mass by the speed of light and then multiply that number by the speed of light again, you'll see how much energy has been converted in the process. So just think like, you know, E for energy, M for mass, and let's do C for the speed of light and square that you get. I think it's like E equals MC squared. Whoa. Oh, dude, that's crazy. That's science theory, actually.

But that's what I had no idea. That's what E equals MC squared is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just accounting for how much, how much mass converts, how much the tiny science. highest amount of mass converts to like light energy basically. Okay. It's Einstein's theory of special relativity. It's a crazy case of peril of thinking, honestly.

But I just saw it was like, oh, yeah, that's how that works. So going back to the sun, you know, dude's sitting there by itself and just figuring that all out for the first time. Yeah. He just being like, I'm him. He's definitely him. Yeah. I think, though, there was a guy who figured out, um, what is it magnetism and electricity are part of the same thing yeah and that came first which

was also like what the fuck yeah and i think that they say that's what kind of like helped Einstein be like oh okay and he kind of piggybacked off that he basically upped alley upped Einstein was that that's not tesler right no no no i forget the guy's name um me the guy who discovered electromagnetism another beast that was a big one dude that was crazy to somehow be like no they're the same thing because it's like electricity and magnetism you can't have one one without the other. The one produces electricity and the other one produces magnetism and it's a self-sustaining field. A thing that I've noticed, this is a little sidetrack, but like we're talking, you're talking this. I, because we're talking about how beast these guys are. I've kind of,

I don't know if it's Instagram or the internet has, I always pictures like smart dudes. I didn't even see you doing it. I was just smart dudes as dorks. And like now you're starting to see like sometimes like nerds are kind of just cool, you know, smart people. They used to be cool. Einstein was cool. Yeah. He used to like, I see. stuff that he seemed like he was kind of him back in the day. Like he wasn't like, well, you know what it was though? Those early, um, physicists and those type of guys, they would look at this outer space shit and be like, they took almost like a religious perspective.

They'd be like, God, God's mysteries are so tight. Now scientists are like cold and objective and they're like, they talk like robots. Yeah. They lost all their swag. I see. They lost their swag when they stopped being like, this is so beautiful, dude. How do I fit into this beautiful tapestry? Now they're like, well, the forces are in personal and cold and dark.

And they turn on the guy who tries to go back to that other shit. They go like, no, that's not what we do now. We can't write peer review papers on that. I know. How can you quantify that? It's like, dude, shut the fuck up, dude. That's why Einstein got pussy and you didn't do that. So.

May I want to know Michael Faraday? What the hell? Huh? Ernest Mock. I think it's Ernest Mock. Hendrick Lawrence. What? Lorenz is who Einstein built during the office.

Did he? Maybe it was. I don't know. But either way, we'll leave that. Like comment below. Figure that out. So going back to the sun, that is a good point. Why Anzine was the man. I do think they just lost their respect for, you know, they took it. They stopped taking a poetic view towards nature. They just started being like, yeah, yeah, it's fucking bunch of math. It's just math. Going back to the sun. So nuclear fusion is constantly happening at the core. Hydrogen nuclei, slamming, fusing, gamma burst. and this is what sunlight is and then left over helium, the body of the sun. So the sun, by the way,

through fusion is converting 4 million tons of mass into energy gamma rays every single second. And this isn't like burning a log. This is physically, you know, that's like you burn it and it's like it's light.

This is physically converting mass into like traveling light beams. You know, a fire is just kind of like, oh, it's like a candle, it just kind of hovers. That's more of a chemical reaction. Yeah.

This is fundamentally taking mass and going, like being flying out. So in gamma rays, too, by the way, here's a cool thing, too. The gamma rays don't just blast out of the reaction and hit us. Because if they did, we'd be fucked. Like, we would be gamma rays are, in terms of energy rays, like gamma x-rays, all that shit, they're the king daddy of energy rays. They have no mass, no charge. It's just pure energy moving at the speed of light.

So, and you think, okay, what's the fuck's the big deal about? that. So, okay, so let's just get into this thing first. The gamma ray, well, let's just say,

if it hit you, you're fucked. Like a gamma ray goes, UV ray hits your skin and it gets trapped. You get a little sunburn maybe, but your body's like, okay, let's kind of repair that.

A gamma ray would go right through you. Like that would be a hole in my body. Wouldn't be a hole, but it would pass through you, but it would sever anything it touched in terms of like your DNA cells. So it goes through you and just severs your DNA. So if you got hit with a full body dose of gamma, all your DNA strands would just be severed.

Like that. So anything. Huh? Do you vapor? That seems like you vapor? You don't vaporize. You're just, you would just be there.

Like nothing happened. But all of a sudden you'd be like, ugh, like all your body's natural intelligence just goes offline. And you become what's called a walking ghost and you just slowly die. Like you die in like two minutes. Damn. Because your body,

all your bodily processes are just like, what the fuck was that? They just stop working. Their lines of DNA just shred. It's that your DNA is what to do. Yeah. That just goes down and then you go, oh,

I don't feel so good. Two minutes later, you'd fucking toast. So that's what's happening in the sun's core. Now, here's the cool part. You have those kind of weapons. The gamma would fuck,

dude, that would suck getting hit with gamma. So the core, you would think like, oh, okay, so that light hits the core, the hydrogen,

you know, or hydrogen hits each other, turns into gamma, the hydrogen turns into helium. That's like the energy process, the energy exchange or whatever. that gamma, those gamma rays produced by the particle fusion, it gets trapped in the sun's core.

It just, it can't get out. It goes, bounces around. Guess how long it bounces around for? I guess. Billion years. 17,000. Okay. 17,000.

You should have went low for a record. Just go low. Next time. Next time. It makes better. No, but so if those escaped, we'd be toast. Yeah. Somehow, and the sun's already kind of nuts right now.

But the gas, the energy it produces, it holds it inside of itself and just kind of it bounces around on a weird 10 to 17,000 year journey inside of the core where it's slowly degraded into like lesser and lesser forms of energy basically. So it's like gamma all the way to where it's like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Now it comes out as UV light. As soon as it escapes the core and hits the, you know, basically surface of the sun. Yeah. It takes eight seconds to get to Earth.

So it bounces around for, let's say, 17,000 years. and then it gets to the sun's surface and it's eight seconds hits you right in your fucking face. Get a little 10. As you V, and you get a little tan. You know,

white boys like me, you get a little crispy. So yeah, it's pretty crazy, man. All right, it's like every time you stand in the sunlight, the light hitting you 17,000 years old. And has been stepped down.

It kind of is set up for black people originally, so white people might be from Yakub. But it's kind of just like, held in the sun and then shot out at like the perfect shit that we need for here for plants and people and you know all that other stuff that's fire pretty beautiful yeah pretty beautiful pure gamma dude she don't want no parts of that you don't want that dude you just you just don't want anything literally like we said just malfunctions everything gets you fucked up so but yeah dude and then like we said before the sun this is actually kind of cool too um

the sun somehow, sun basically self-regulates. So like we said before, the outward pressure of a fusion is kind of trying to explode the sun just out into the solar system. But the size of the sun itself is kind of crunching it down in on itself.

So here's the thing. When fusion speeds up, the sun expands. So the sun, it's like, okay, the thing is starting to explode, but the sun expanding expands the core too, which then naturally, cools the core down.

And so like we said, the heat is what gets the particles moving faster. Yeah. So when the core expands, the particles slow down ever so slightly. So fusion slows down. So then the sun contracts again because everything cools down.

So it's like breathing. It's literally self-regulating. Yeah. So it's just expanding. It's been doing this every for four billion years, keeping itself in perfect balance. Yeah. Making the light just perfect for us.

Pretty fucking wild. However, so it's doing this all the time. But then within that kind of like breathing, kind of thing. Every 11 years, it's on it's on a, it's been on a cycle like this forever. Every 11 years it has solar flares cycle. So we're in a period of high solar flare flares right now. So every 11, like we said, that's from just electromagnetic fields just twisting, twisting, twisting, and snap and they go and shoot out. So it's like you have there, it's always solar flaring, but every 11 years,

it's like high solar flares. And then every 11 year, next 11 years is like low solar flares. Okay. So we're in high times right now. We're in high, we're in high solar flaring. Is it supposed to, longer is that supposed to last? The high times. I don't know where we're at in it, but we're probably, just say we're at the middle, we got like five more years of solar flares. And apparently the flares do have,

I should have researched this, I did not, but they do have like a measurable effect on like people's like thinking and stuff like that. So they can like, they can get you. It might be why we're all a little crazy right now. We're in heavy solar flare. Hopefully, you know, we're all in time for, I've said it before.

I think 2030 onwards going to be chill. That's my prediction now. If I check solar flares right now and it lines up with that, I'm just going to run with that. So, yeah, that's another mystery. It's like, okay, the sun is a self-regulating. It's, it has like rhythms and stuff that it does. And also, like we said, obviously, it's held a perfect balance for 4.6 billion years.

With, like, really no room to mess up. Like, if it, if it got, like, just a few degrees cooler or hotter, I mean, life on earth is fucking toast. So it's like, it doesn't have a huge window of error. If the sun goes off just a little bit, We're fucked. We're cooked. So brings me to the next question. Is this unconscious?

I was, for real, I was sitting here holding. I was sitting here holding and then saying something about that because I was literally, I have that thought sometimes whether or not like planets and like shit in the solar system is a higher form of life that we just don't understand yet. I don't know.

I mean, if life exists on Earth and grows out of Earth, what the fuck is Earth? That's what I'm saying. What's the sun, dude? What's the sun? Dude, my thing is that.

So if you, if your brain produces consciousness, your brain is just a bunch of like electrical sparks flying around and like water and tissue. Why can't the sun, dude? You have electromagnetic fields. You have water. You have heat. I mean, the sun doesn't have water. But you know what I'm saying? There's like water on the planets.

You have heat. You have electromagnetic fields. I mean, dude, why not? Dude. I don't know. I don't know. So the people, there's people that say that consciousness, this is like the idealist or like panpsychics. They say that consciousness is like a field just.

like gravity or electromagnetism. It's just present. And then we just, you know, pick up on it. Just like gravity crushes us. There's like a field for consciousness. You have the right stuff. You tap into the field. I could be.

The sun could be conscious. I don't know. However, I think regardless of how you feel about it, something like religious reverence is due for the sun. After I learned about it, I was like, we need to go back to sun gods. Dude, or at least just look at it and get stoked. I, ever since I look at it, like, dude,

I got into just how like the sun. puts out these like whatever it is radiation and our eyes are designed to actually see radiation. Like if our eyes weren't designed, we couldn't pick up on light basically. We have like light sensors in our eyes and I just like, I was here typing and I was like, wait, so do we see light or does light let us see? And I was just like getting all wrapped up on if we even see light in the first place. And I took a knee by my computer. I was like, dude, just suck. Just chill.

Go outside. This is fucked up. There's a, it's a dumb. This is dumb and shit. but it's a car in the show Invincible. There's a whole scene where they go into this room and you can't see anything because of, because they,

exactly what you're talking about. They, it's like a certain, they have a certain kind of light on in the room that our eyes aren't made. Really? To be able to pick up on. And then they have,

they like, they like give him a needle that injects in the show. They give him a needle that inject something that makes his eyes be able to see this new type of light. It's kind of what you're saying. No, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Well, there's also a ton,

there's also a ton of, of, yeah, like infrared wavelengths that we can't see. Yeah. So there could be shit like going on. We just, we'll never be able to see it. And it was bugging me out to you. But here's the thing too. It's like, you know, people, people back in the day would look up at the sun.

This is, this is, you know, the rest of the solar system. Look at the sun and all the planets and just be like, dude, these are gods. They like really truly thought they're like, oh, shit. They'd be like just kicking around the morning and they just see like Venus and be like, oh, shit. There's the fucking horny god. Yeah. There's my beep.

There's my baby. 40 guys in the sky. So even the terms, so we're going to get into kind of the, try to get into the somewhat into the etymology of the planets. So the term sun, they, you know,

there's like stuff went back and forth being like, yeah, actually the sun in the English language has no connection to the gods. Like, you know, Mercury, Venus. All those are like easily traceable.

So they're claiming the sun has no connection in the English language to the gods. But then I, you know, started doing a little digging. And it actually, it does, actually. So it's like, so the term sun in English can be traced back through the proto-Indo-European language family to a relation with the Norse deity soul, which is actually Latin for the

son. They didn't have a son god in Rome. Actually became the official god of, like some of the late Roman empires. It was like the, it was called the undefeated son. Yeah. It was a minor god in the Roman pantheon. And during the fall of Rome, some people were like, we'd call sun god as our god. because actually Julius Caesar called Venus the horny god to be he claimed to be descended from the horny god

which is pretty sick and everyone had to be like yeah dude for sure you're the horniest guy so the the actual term sun in english it can be traced back to the norse deity soul also called suna soul back then was a goddess literally the sun itself which would race across the sky being chased by a hungry wolf you know the hungry wolf's name skull skull a race in that the hungry wolf trying to eat the sun, which is why they thought the sun went across. And at Ragnarok, the apocalypse, skull would catch and eat soul. And during eclipses, it was thought that skull got himself a little bite of her, but the chase continued. And actually Sunday, believe it or not, is actually named after this ancient sun babe.

Huh. So pretty sick. Pretty sick. So that, you know, my friends and haters is the deal with the sun. And it would be crazy. I almost skipped over the sun. Yeah. I almost skipped over the sun.

But, oh, man. Just think all the nuclear fusion going on in there, the perfect balance of light. being trapped, honed to perfection, released. It's, I just thought it was fucking sick. It hits us. It feels good when it hits us.

It feels fucking awesome. It powers your body, dude. If you don't get enough sun, you don't produce tests. That's why I fucking do, ride my blanket at tank top all the time. So from the sun now, we move on to Mercury.

And, you know, Mercury is the, actually, we'll slide to the page. Let's slide at the page. Yeah, let's slide the page. We're at an hour.

Oh, yeah. We're good. Guys, thank you for joining me for the, series into the planets, but we have to slide to the Patreon. We have to be a place as a baby. I probably promise you that wasn't planned.

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