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Maybe he didn't word his post perfectly but he's still pointing out an important distinction. If you could conjure a star of 0.001 solar masses, or one of 1000
by papreclip 7y ago
Maybe he didn't word his post perfectly but he's still pointing out an important distinction. If you could conjure a star of 0.001 solar masses, or one of 1000 solar masses, the first would be a gaseous planet incapable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction and the second would produce enough energy to overcome the force of gravity at its periphery, blowing away its outer mass and shrinking. Those masses are impossible for stars
A 1000M black hole would be stable, there's just no likely way to end up with one in the first place.
- eloff 7y agoAh but even the extremely unlikely is likely to happen many times in a universe with such a mind bogglingly large number of glasses and stars. Such as primitive life evolving into conscious intelligence capable of measuring the minute disturbances from distant black hole mergers. I would have been on the nature finds a way side of the wager.