What Would Happen to the Elements in the Human Body If Teleported to the Sun?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion centers on the hypothetical scenario of a human body being teleported to the surface of the sun, focusing on the fate of the elements that compose the body. Participants explore the implications for these elements in terms of their existence, potential ionization, and involvement in the sun's processes over time.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants note that the human body is primarily composed of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus, with trace amounts of other elements.
  • One participant suggests that all elements would still exist upon teleportation, although they may become ionized.
  • Another participant argues that the human body would be vaporized and become part of the plasma, with all structure lost and atoms becoming untraceable.
  • It is proposed that over the sun's lifespan, some elements might undergo transmutation, potentially adding or losing protons.
  • One participant claims that the photosphere may not have sufficient energy for significant transmutation of these elements.
  • References to the presence of elements in the sun and their cyclic transmutations are made, citing evidence from Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express differing views on whether the elements would cease to exist or remain traceable after teleportation, as well as the extent to which transmutation could occur. No consensus is reached on these points.

Contextual Notes

Participants reference various sources for further reading on ionization and elemental analysis, indicating a reliance on specific equations and astrophysical principles that may not be fully resolved in the discussion.

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The human body is made up of mostly oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus. Less than 1% is sulfur, potassium, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium.

If a human body was teleported to the surface of the sun, what would happen to these elements? Which ones would cease to exist without any trace (or would there be a trace?) and which ones would become part of the sun?
 
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Short Term:
Since your list is of Elements, they would all still exist. They may become ionized (lose 1 or more electrons) though.

Long Term:
Over the life of the Sun some would likely be permuted (add or lose Protons) into other elements.

I'll leave the important details to the astrophysics experts here.
 
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ds442 said:
Which ones would cease to exist without any trace (or would there be a trace?) and which ones would become part of the sun?
The human body would be vaporised, and then become part of the plasma. All structure would be lost, all atoms untraceable.

All the listed elements are present in the Sun as part of cyclic element transmutations.
That is evidenced by the presence of Fraunhofer lines in the spectrum.
See this page for details of elemental analysis of the Sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines
 
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ds442 said:
The human body is made up of mostly oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus. Less than 1% is sulfur, potassium, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium.

If a human body was teleported to the surface of the sun, what would happen to these elements? Which ones would cease to exist without any trace (or would there be a trace?) and which ones would become part of the sun?
The elements would still exist.
The photosphere should not have enough energy available for transmutation to any appreciable degree.

In case you are wondering,
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys301/lectures/comp/comp.html
about ionization, and what equations to study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saha_ionization_equation
https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~kd/Ast4001-2015/NOTES/n052-saha-bradt.pdf
and you can carry on from there.
 
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