Now comes onto the stage the idea that there is some sort of very
'heavy' dark matter which resides in the cores of galaxies (and other
places). Do you suppose that this heavy dark matter was formed by the
collision and fusion of lighter elements? Perhaps you never considered
the origin of this 'heavy, dark matter'?

We have experimental data that demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt
that heavy elements can decay into lighter daughter products. Did it
ever occur to you that almost all elements are decay products of heavier
elements? Or that heavy elements are not fusion products but fission
products? If so, then, what could you say about the age of a star or of
the Earth that was accurate?

You don't say!!! You are clearly a man(?) of knowledge in this field
of cosmic processes and elemental make up of stars & galaxies.
Cosmology and Stellar Evolution are *not* areas of any specialism to
me, so I regret not being able to engage in this conversation further.
Not necessarily due to lack of knowledge or fascination, but because
of time!

I am sure there are other well versed people in this group, so you may
want to take this further with some of them in a separate post on this
news group. My original reply was merely stating that: the Solar
flares of recent weeks is NOT a hugely abnormal phenomena in the grand
scheme of how stars generally behave and that we should not overly
concern ourselves with that. Obviously there are millions of
additional bits of facts one could analyse, but the bottom line
conclusion will be what I just said.

cheers
AA