If I think something appears quite feasible and makes a lot of sense, I will look more seriously at it.
I'm far from correct in anything I say or even believe, yet If someone schooled in official science tells me that the Sun is a big Nuclear fusion reactor and someone wearing an old overcoat who is shabbily dressed and unkempt tells me that it's most probably some kind of electrical charged mass that isn't 93 million miles away, I would go with which was more logical, so the unkempt man gets my attention.
It's pretty natural to gravitate to the simpler ideas. And since I'm an electrical engineer I sorta find the idea of an "electric sun" kind of attractive.
But, if it helps, I do think the sun as a fusion reactor idea can be expressed in simple terms:
-Hydrogen is the simplest element, so we think there was a bunch of it floating around at the beginning of the universe.
-I drop my pen and it falls, so we think mass attracts mass. (There are other reasons we think this, but that's the most directly observable.)
-Mass attracts mass, so hydrogen in the early universe starts to pull together.
-After a *really* long time, a
bunch of hydrogen has pulled together. (And we don't really have any reason to think that it didn't have a really long time to do this, not much else would have been going on)
-More mass equals more gravity, so even more hydrogen gets pulled in.
-Eventually gravity gets big enough that hydrogen atoms start getting squashed together.
Viola! Big ol' ball of fusion reactor.
Of course, it's still up to you to decide what you believe about the world, but some of this stuff may not be as complicated as you think.