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- From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: LARSONIAN Physics, NO fusion in Stars
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.053330.15193@prometheus.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 05:33:30 GMT
- References: <1992Oct27.131223.1995@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <7600011@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Reply-To: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc)
- Organization: Prometheus II, Ltd.
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- In article <7600011@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rauchfuss@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Brian Rauchfuss) writes:
- >In sci.physics.fusion, pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc) writes:
-
- >If a star is hot enough to allow fusion, would it not just start fusing without
- >ignition? If it is not hot enough, wouldn't it be impossible to ignite, no
- >matter how much ball lightning was around?
- >BDR
-
- The candidate gas planet would not be initially hot enough to fusion burn
- or ignite a fusion burn, although with time it is conceivable such a
- planet or star candidate could accrete enough mass to compression heat
- its central region to the ignition point. I was only pointing out that
- it is possible that some other plasma generating mechanism could generate
- a highly local ignition before such a global compression heated ignition
- was reached. This localized fusion burn would then spread to the rest
- of the planet by intense fusion driven radiation heating of the immediate
- neighborhood which would then expand progressively outward to include
- the whole planet. Consequently such a mechanism could explain the
- ignition and burning of the binary companions of stronger (older)
- stars; existence of such couplets are well known to astronomers.
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