On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:58:46 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:33:46 -0700, daver wrote: >> >>http://chalfant.wordpress.com/ > >He lost me with the first sentence. "When a star is born, the mass of >the star determines how long it will live, ranging from millions of years >to trillions of years." > >Considering that the universe is only about 15 billion years old, he has >put us on notice that he really likes to exaggerate. > Can you say "extrapolate"?
A Google search for "stellar lifetime" finds articles estimating the upper bound for the lifetime of a low-mass star up to 100 trillion years. I deem Chalfant's science good; his showmanship Saganesque. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
