by Ann » Mon Sep 11, 2017 4:40 am
Square watermelons. Photo: The Asahi Shimbun, via Getty Images.
The storing problem probably explains these cube-shaped watermelons, grown in Japan.
If the Earth was a flat square square and the Sun was similarly square, the packing of small Earth-squares onto the surface of the large Sun-square would be much easier. If both the Earth and the Sun were cube-shaped, the entire volume of the Sun could be filled to capacity of Earth-shaped cubes. Of course, a cube-shaped Sun would certainly require altogether new physics.
Check out
this page to learn what conditions on the Earth would be like if the Earth had miraculously been cube-shaped. At least that would be a lesser miracle than turning the Sun into a cube.
Storing Earths, cube-shaped or not, inside the volume of the Sun until the Sun was "filled up", would certainly change the Sun very much. Since the Sun's volume is (
very[ approximately)/i] a million times the volume of the Earth, but the mass of the Sun is only (very approximately) 300,000 times the mass of the Earth, packing the volume of the Sun with objects the size and mass of the Earth would make the Sun ~ 3 times more massive. All other things being equal, this would turn the Sun into a 3 solar mass star midway between Vega and Regulus.
Of course, a star made up of a million Earths would be anything but normal. The Sun is made up of, in total mass, 71.0% hydrogen, 27.1% helium, 0.97% oxygen, 0.40% carbon and 0.099% silicon. The Earth, by contrast, is made of the following elements in bulk mass: iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulfur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminium (1.4%). I guess all the iron in a million Earths would sink to the center of the volume of the Sun, creating a dead iron core and making the Sun explode as a supernova! Or am I wrong, what do you think?
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The storing problem probably explains these cube-shaped watermelons, grown in Japan.
If the Earth was a flat square square and the Sun was similarly square, the packing of small Earth-squares onto the surface of the large Sun-square would be much easier. If both the Earth and the Sun were cube-shaped, the entire volume of the Sun could be filled to capacity of Earth-shaped cubes. Of course, a cube-shaped Sun would certainly require altogether new physics.
Check out [url=https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/what-would-happen-if-the-earth-was-a-cube/]this page[/url] to learn what conditions on the Earth would be like if the Earth had miraculously been cube-shaped. At least that would be a lesser miracle than turning the Sun into a cube.
Storing Earths, cube-shaped or not, inside the volume of the Sun until the Sun was "filled up", would certainly change the Sun very much. Since the Sun's volume is ([i]very[ approximately)/i] a million times the volume of the Earth, but the mass of the Sun is only ([i]very[/i] approximately) 300,000 times the mass of the Earth, packing the volume of the Sun with objects the size and mass of the Earth would make the Sun ~ 3 times more massive. All other things being equal, this would turn the Sun into a 3 solar mass star midway between Vega and Regulus.
Of course, a star made up of a million Earths would be anything but normal. [url=https://www.space.com/17170-what-is-the-sun-made-of.html]The Sun is made up of[/url], in total mass, 71.0% hydrogen, 27.1% helium, 0.97% oxygen, 0.40% carbon and 0.099% silicon. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements#Abundance_of_elements_in_the_Earth]The Earth, by contrast, is made of[/url] the following elements in bulk mass: iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulfur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminium (1.4%). I guess all the iron in a million Earths would sink to the center of the volume of the Sun, creating a dead iron core and making the Sun explode as a supernova! Or am I wrong, what do you think?
Ann