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A SCIENCE NOTE

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:

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Streams of high-energy particles constantly blast outward.

You’d feel no wind (no air), but particles would erode your suit like sandblasting.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

As the Sun’s plasma churns, so too do Earth’s weather systems:

Stronger hurricanes

Unstable jet streams

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.

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.