They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)

Directed by David Cowles & Liesje Kraai. From TMBGs new DVD/CD set Here Comes Science. Available at iTunes and Amazon now! http://bit.ly/AmazonScience

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[Tmilicus]

So... what you're telling me... is that the Sun isn't actually a mass of incandescent gas? The fourth grade me is heartbroken.

[geeko55]

This song has such an awesome groove to it, Here Comes Science is so fantastic.

[5thDoubleM]

Exactly! They even say it in the song, plasma is an entirely different state of matter.

[5thDoubleM]

Exactly. They even say it in the song, an entirely different state of matter.

[TheFionstein]

I love the three clones

[Dhruv Deviah]

i wish school had catchy songs so we would remember!

[Danaroth]

All in all, I'd say this is about semantics. While you are completely right in what you say, it's not entirely wrong to say that plasma is ionized gas.

[Danaroth]

Not gas? But plasma is ionized gas.

[vampireapple666]

Boy, Talk about a split personality......

[Masta420]

Fair enough, I'm not a professional physicist either but just an amateur cosmologist and empiricist, it just bothers me when people call plasma a gas.

Most people would probably be surprised to discover that the largest professional association in the world in the form of the IEEE supports plasma cosmology over conventional cosmology(the Big Bang). The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society has been proving their plasma theories for decades in laboratories. Amazing stuff.

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

Hello masta420. I will say that I'm not good in physics or chemistry at all and know little. I just copied the first line of the Wikipedia page for plasma. I thought it was funny how it and the song play together. But by know means do i think i know all there is to know about plasma and gasses.

[Masta420]

You forgot the word "conventional" before physics and chemistry. If you ask a Plasma Physicist - an actual expert on plasma - they would either laugh at you or feel pity for you for saying it's a gas.

Relying on conventional scientists who have only recently begun studying plasma in depth rather than relying on the experts who have been working with and researching plasma for over 100 years is just silly.

I need an electrician but a drywaller will do instead...