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Magnetic chaos
Blowing in my face
Hitting all of us
Solar winds
Blowing me down
Greed rescinds
Walking on the sun
While the world comes undone
Walking on the sun
Blinding light
Can’t take flight
No respite in sight
Gravity crush
(Shh, just hush)
Tread lightly on plasma
Walking on the sun
(While the world comes undone)
Walking on the sun
(The shape of things to come)
It’s plain to see…
Immediate danger of raw heat and energy
(No, no stranger to human induced tragedy)
A slow motion fate
(At a fast approaching rate)
Question our state?
(Just look out the window to know)
Walking on the sun
(While the world comes undone)
Walking on the sun
(The shape of things to come)
Walking on the sun
(The shape of things to come)
If you could somehow walk on the Sun, the experience would be so extreme that it defies normal physical intuition—but let’s break it down as a thought experiment, grounded in physics:
First, the Impossible Assumptions:
To walk on the Sun, you’d have to:
Survive extreme temperatures: ~5,500°C (9,932°F) at the surface (photosphere).
Resist crushing gravity: 28× Earth’s gravity.
Withstand intense radiation: including X-rays, gamma rays, and UV.
Have something solid to walk on: The Sun has no solid surface—it’s a plasma ball.
So we’re assuming you’re in an indestructible, gravity-defying suit and there’s something walkable. Now, here’s what it would be like under those imaginary conditions:
The Physical Environment:
1. Walking on Plasma
The Sun’s “surface” (photosphere) isn’t solid. It’s a sea of hot hydrogen and helium plasma—a roiling, turbulent fluid-like state of matter.
You’d appear to walk on boiling, bubbling gases with convection cells the size of Texas (called granules) rising and falling beneath you.
2. Blinding Light
It would be brighter than anything on Earth—~400,000 times more intense than full daylight.
Even with filters, visibility would be pure white or blinding gold.
3. Gravity Crush
At 28× Earth’s gravity, you’d weigh thousands of pounds unless shielded.
Your steps would be heavy, and every movement would feel like lifting a car.
4. Radiation Storm
The electromagnetic radiation would be lethal: ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, and particle radiation would cook anything unprotected.
Your suit would need to be perfectly reflective and heavily shielded—like a bunker around your body.
Bonus Weirdness:
– Solar “Wind”
Streams of high-energy particles constantly blast outward.
You’d feel no wind (no air), but particles would erode your suit like sandblasting.
– Magnetic Chaos
Magnetic fields twist and snap like rubber bands on enormous scales, releasing solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
Standing near one would be like sitting next to a thermonuclear bomb—on repeat.
Summary:
Walking on the Sun would be like standing on an unimaginably hot, blindingly bright, stormy ocean of plasma under crushing gravity and deadly radiation—utterly alien and chaotic.
Comparing walking on the Sun to the effects of climate change on Earth is like comparing instant vaporization to a slow-boil death—but there’s a meaningful metaphor in it.
Walking on the Sun = Instant Death by Heat, Radiation, and Chaos
Temperature: 5,500°C — far beyond the point where matter remains solid.
Radiation: Overwhelming levels that destroy cells, DNA, electronics.
Gravity and Magnetic Turbulence: Extreme physical forces.
You’d die instantly if not protected by theoretical technology. It’s the ultimate example of a hostile environment due to extreme energy concentration.
Climate Change = Earth Gradually Becoming More Sun-like (in Relative Terms)
Of course, Earth isn’t becoming the Sun—but the same forces that make the Sun deadly are increasing on Earth in diluted but still devastating ways:
1. Rising Temperatures
Earth is heating rapidly. Even +2–3°C of average warming means much higher spikes locally (e.g., 50°C+ heatwaves).
Some regions may face wet-bulb temperatures (heat + humidity) that humans cannot survive even in the shade.
2. Radiation & Feedback
Melting ice reduces Earth’s albedo, increasing solar absorption (like turning Earth more sun-like).
Increased water vapor traps heat (greenhouse effect), similar to how the Sun traps and radiates energy.
3. Energy-Driven Chaos
As the Sun’s plasma churns, so too do Earth’s weather systems:
Flash floods and mega-droughts
Fires that create their own weather
The more heat in the system, the more chaos—just like in the Sun’s turbulent layers.
The Metaphor:
Walking on the Sun represents the extreme, immediate danger of raw heat and energy. Climate change is bringing Earth closer to a slow-motion version of that fate: not by fire in an instant, but by cascading heat, unlivable zones, ecosystem collapse, and eventually the breakdown of life-supporting systems.
From the album “To Too Hot“
Also found on the album “Reggae Spray“
The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
