Living inside a chemical reaction-Sun makes the sky blue, main reason for cancer?

[indyman87]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You almost got me to concede defeat until I realized that the sun is made up of chemicals too. Duh!!

The sun is also composed of about 26 percent helium and trace amounts of other elements — oxygen, carbon, neon, nitrogen, magnesium, iron and silicon. These elements are created in the sun's core, which makes up 25 percent of the sun.
http://www.ask.com/question/what-makes-up-the-sun

The sun is made of mostly hydrogen and some helium. If you look at pictures up close taken by scientist, it looks like a big ball of fire. You can find more information here:http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/sun_worldbook.html

just because it's 92,960,000 miles away doesn't negate the fact that it's a chemical. I mean if you put a cake in a fire burning wood oven the levitating ingredients in the cake batter will react to the heat in the oven and rise and not the actual flames itself.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/firecombustionchemistry/f/What-Is-Fire-Made-Of.htm

Question: What Is Fire Made Of?

You know that fire generates heat and light, but have you ever wondered what it is made of? Here is a look at the chemical composition of fire.

Answer: Fire is the result of a chemical reaction, called combustion. At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames are produced. Flames consist primarily of carbon dioxide, water vapor, oxygen and nitrogen. Fire emits heat and light. In order for combustion and fire to occur, three things must be present: fuel, oxygen and energy (usually in the form of heat).

 

[Rubato Garcia]

LMAO

 

[Rubato Garcia]

 

[achewon87]

Or...

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Or...

Yeah at this point I'm inclined to agree.

 

[indyman87]

Another example...
http://people.howstuffworks.com/love6.htm

The Chemistry of Love

There are a lot of chemicals racing around your brain and body when you're in love. Researchers are gradually learning more and more about the roles they play both when we are falling in love and when we're in long-term relationships. Of course, estrogen and testosterone play a role in the sex drive area (see How Sex Works). Without them, we might never venture into the "real love" arena.

That initial giddiness that comes when we're first falling in love includes a racing heart, flushed skin and sweaty palms. Researchers say this is due to the dopamine, norepinephrine and phenylethylamine we're releasing. Dopamine is thought to be the "pleasure chemical," producing a feeling of bliss. Norepinephrine is similar to adrenaline and produces the racing heart and excitement. According to Helen Fisher, anthropologist and well-known love researcher from Rutgers University, together these two chemicals produce elation, intense energy, sleeplessness, craving, loss of appetite and focused attention. She also says, "The human body releases the cocktail of love rapture only when certain conditions are met and ... men more readily produce it than women, because of their more visual nature."

Researchers are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to watch people's brains when they look at a photograph of their object of affection. According to Helen Fisher, a well-known love researcher and an anthropologist at Rutgers University, what they see in those scans during that "crazed, can't-think-of-anything-but stage of romance" -- the attraction stage -- is the biological drive to focus on one person. The scans showed increased blood flow in areas of the brain with high concentrations of receptors for dopamine -- associated with states of euphoria, craving and addiction. High levels of dopamine are also associated with norepinephrine, which heightens attention, short-term memory, hyperactivity, sleeplessness and goal-oriented behavior. In other words, couples in this stage of love focus intently on the relationship and often on little else.

Another possible explanation for the intense focus and idealizing view that occurs in the attraction stage comes from researchers at University College London. They discovered that people in love have lower levels of serotonin and also that neural circuits associated with the way we assess others are suppressed. These lower serotonin levels are the same as those found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorders, possibly explaining why those in love "obsess" about their partner.