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Friday, August 6, 2010

Would a Strawberry Sun be Hot like our sun?



Why is the sun hot?  Why does it stay hot?  What if...the sun was made of strawberries?  Would it be hot?
The answer is well...yes and no.  The sun is hot because of its weight...billion billion billion tons creating vast gravity which pulls its core under colossal pressure.  This pressure leads to enormous temperature.  So if you took a billion billion billion tons of strawberries and stuck them in space it would create equal pressure and a just as high a temperature.  That is the yes part....

Strawberry Sun

Now for the NO part:  Even though the heat would be similar to the sun because strawberries are not made of hydrogen the fusion reaction that keeps the sun going wouldn't get under way and our strawberry sun would cool from its initial heat rather than burning for billions of years!

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