Thursday, September 27, 2012

Scumbag Stars


Stars require cold gas (hot gas resists gravity) but when cold gas does form a star, it makes all the gas around it warmer, decreasing the probability of another star to form in its vicinity.
“The stars themselves disrupt the conditions required for their formation.” (109)
Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos, 1997, Oxford

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