I suspect the answer here is yes, and there’ll be a lot more hydrogen and oxygen in the star afterwards… but really I’m posting to see what a proper scientist will say.
Am keen to know if this would pretty much include anything. For example, if I gathered a great enough density of chocolate eclairs in one place, would that become a star?
I believe anything lower from iron will make a star, when enough material added. Of course, one material from iron will give a much smaller lifespan for a star rather than hydrogen only.
I think that an iron ball wouldn’t start a fusion. Might just jump right to a black hole if you added even more iron 🤔
There is a way to find that out. We can use Schwarzschild radius to find the point at which an objects radius crosses the event horizon and thus becomes a black hole; Rs=2GM/c2, Rs being the Schwarzschild radius, G being the gravitational constant (6.67xe-11), M being the things mass, and c being the speed of light.
I suspect the answer here is yes, and there’ll be a lot more hydrogen and oxygen in the star afterwards… but really I’m posting to see what a proper scientist will say.
Am keen to know if this would pretty much include anything. For example, if I gathered a great enough density of chocolate eclairs in one place, would that become a star?
I believe anything lower from iron will make a star, when enough material added. Of course, one material from iron will give a much smaller lifespan for a star rather than hydrogen only.
I think that an iron ball wouldn’t start a fusion. Might just jump right to a black hole if you added even more iron 🤔
Damn now my curiosity is piqued.
So let’s theoretically gather together an almighty ball of iron.
As you add more, would it’s own gravity cause the density to increase to a point where it would collapse into a black hole?
Would chocolate eclairs achieve fission? I need to submit these to Randall Munroe.
I believe so!
I assume chocolate is made of lighter elements than iron so yeah, a big chocolate ball enough would become a star!
Yum 🤤
I don’t know how long it stays edible 😅
And eventually you’d be crushed by the growing gravitational pull of this chocolate ball!
There is a way to find that out. We can use Schwarzschild radius to find the point at which an objects radius crosses the event horizon and thus becomes a black hole; Rs=2GM/c2, Rs being the Schwarzschild radius, G being the gravitational constant (6.67xe-11), M being the things mass, and c being the speed of light.