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- Subject: Re: Standard model of QSOs
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- From: harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:25:21 GMT
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- In article <Bs1878.5Hw@well.sf.ca.us> metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:
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- > To me, cool for supermassive stars means < 10 K or so. [I assumed you
- >meant T = 1 K in the above.]
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- Do we have here a definitive argument for using "degrees K" instead of just
- "K" to mean Kelvin temperature? There seems to be some confusion with K=1000
- or K=1024 above! (I assume those stars are really < 10 kK in SI units)
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- John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand
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