So I was in the shower today...

[Zack]

I'm not a professional physicist, so I guess I'm a weekend warrior. :lol: Anyway, I think those are very good points. The currently accepted theory does make more sense. At least it does to me. Here's what I mean. Take a coin, lay it on something solid and strike it as hard as you can with a heavy sledge hammer. Pick it up with your bare fingers immediatley after you do this. Obviously, it isn't gravity that causes the reaction, but kinetic friction. Think about a constant force, amplified exponentially by the mass of a planetary body... all the atoms of that planet, driving for the center of it all and grinding against each other... constantly.

Man, imagine what the core of the largest body in the universe would be like. :o

Neutron stars are the most dense, AFAIK, and their cores are made up of a weird pool of neutrons. At those pressures, they exhibit superfluidity.