by Anthony Barreiro » Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:59 pm
jsanchezjr wrote:
Thinking about that. We all know that when all the fuel is gone a star begin to die and at the final stage end like a white dwarf, neutron star, black hole etc. But if a star have a endless fuel to preserve a continous fusion on its core? Easy, the star never die. My point is that the most abundant element in the universe is precisely hydrogen, the fuel of the stars. So, if some how, some way, our star is continuously receiving hydrogen, well, it never die, we can call it everlasting. And in consequent our precios planet can have a everlasting live too. For me is not a crazy idea, is a logic one. We only need some one that can do that or teach us how to do it...
That's an interesting idea, Jose. Of course you would have to find massive quantities of hydrogen and transport them to the Sun. Since hydrogen fusion happens in the core of a star, under tremendous pressure and temperature, you would have to figure out how to get fresh hydrogen into the Sun's core, overcoming the great outward pressure generated by the energy released by the fusion that's already happening.
To my way of thinking, it is a fundamental truth that nothing lasts forever. Just ask any of the species diappearing during Earth's
sixth mass extinction. I find a certain tragic beauty in the fact that the biggest, brightest stars lead the shortest lives, and die most spectacularly.
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Thinking about that. We all know that when all the fuel is gone a star begin to die and at the final stage end like a white dwarf, neutron star, black hole etc. But if a star have a endless fuel to preserve a continous fusion on its core? Easy, the star never die. My point is that the most abundant element in the universe is precisely hydrogen, the fuel of the stars. So, if some how, some way, our star is continuously receiving hydrogen, well, it never die, we can call it everlasting. And in consequent our precios planet can have a everlasting live too. For me is not a crazy idea, is a logic one. We only need some one that can do that or teach us how to do it...[/quote]
That's an interesting idea, Jose. Of course you would have to find massive quantities of hydrogen and transport them to the Sun. Since hydrogen fusion happens in the core of a star, under tremendous pressure and temperature, you would have to figure out how to get fresh hydrogen into the Sun's core, overcoming the great outward pressure generated by the energy released by the fusion that's already happening.
To my way of thinking, it is a fundamental truth that nothing lasts forever. Just ask any of the species diappearing during Earth's [url=http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/]sixth mass extinction.[/url] I find a certain tragic beauty in the fact that the biggest, brightest stars lead the shortest lives, and die most spectacularly.