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Next you are going to say that a phone is dead unless it's being charged.
by postalrat 5y ago
Next you are going to say that a phone is dead unless it's being charged.
- denton-scratch 5y agoPlease explain how a "charger" for a white dwarf might work! I mean, you could just chuck a huge ball of hydrogen at it; that might work, but it'd be easier to just bundle together two balls of hydrogen and make a new star. I think I'd expect a charger to restore a phone to something like its as-new functionality. I've never heard of any mechanism that could change a white dwarf into not a white dwarf, other than extreme age, or being merged with another object.
- postalrat 5y agoThe star gets charged up then gets to live a much longer life as a white dwarf. You haven't been as-new since the day you were born and we both agree you are still in your life.