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Seems unlikely for fusion. Think of it from the point of view of star formation - the gas that coalesces into a ball is already super cold from floating around
by sudhirj 8y ago
Seems unlikely for fusion. Think of it from the point of view of star formation - the gas that coalesces into a ball is already super cold from floating around in space. The heat for fusion comes from gravity compressing the matter, not from the starting heat energy present in the matter itself.
So yeah, you can't really add cold stuff to starts to extinguish them - stars are made from absolute ice to being with.
- cobbzilla 8y agowow. i had never thought of it like that. thank you.
- dc443 8y agoya, the steady-state temp of a star is a byproduct of its fusion process, which is directly controlled by the pressure of gravity. More mass, more gravity... the kinetic energy of the temperature of that mass pales in comparison to the E=mc^2 energy contained in that mass.