Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 17:59:03 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
 

A gas cannot emit the spectrum we see from the sun, liquid metallic
hydrogen can.

 
The spectrum of the Sun is primarily the continuous emissive one of a
“black body” at a surface temperature of 6500K or thereabouts.
 
Superimposed on that are absorption lines corresponding to a range of
elements, representing cooler substances in the surrounding “photosphere”,
I think it’s called.
 
Which of these lines do you think is characteristic of this mythical
“liquid metallic hydrogen” of yours?
 
Fun fact: originally it was thought that those lines in the spectra of the
Sun and other stars were characteristic of the entire makeup of the bodies
concerned. In other words, they were full of elements much like those that
make up the Earth and other planetary bodies.
 
A young doctorate student named Cecilia Payne, after some careful study,
came to the remarkable conclusion that stars were mostly hydrogen and
helium, and these spectral lines were due, in effect, to relatively small
amounts of contaminants in among that bulk of hydrogen and helium.
 

Gases do not show the pond ripples from impacts that we see from the sun
surface.

 
What “impacts on the sun surface”?

Watch the first few minutes of the first video in the playlist to see a
solar eruption and some of that mass crashing back down on the sun surface,
causing pond ripples. The idea of a plasma gas sun dies right there.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnU8XK0C8oTC-slk-xRn91pm05DT4XrVj&si=E7ZdtvUX4FHPkI70