Saturday, November 8, 2014

A Star Is Born - (No, not the movie! a real star!)



If the initial process consists of compression of a molecular accretion disc under its own gravity, creating sufficient pressure for heat and then light to result from the compression, then while all this is happening, why shouldn't it be possible for nodules of denser regions of these molecular gases to simultaneously condense into masses which congeal into planetary bodies, while the central core becomes even hotter and denser until it initiates nuclear fusion and becomes a true star? Are we not considering all the complexities of the process?

Just because a star is being formed, it shouldn't mean that other events aren't simultaneously in progress within that same accretion disc. This isn't a singularity after all, it's a multiplicity....the result being a conglomeration, not a solitary item. Maybe this is where quantum mechanics and its waveformulation enters the scene...(too bad I didn't stay in school longer!) ...if a sufficient mass can "bend space/time" around it, causing lesser masses to orbit around that central "depression" in the fabric of nearby space, then it seems logical that these lesser masses could also gain from accretion in that same cloud as they orbit its center. They don't become large enough or hot enough to become bright themselves only because of insufficient material, the bulk of which is being used by the core proto star. (That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it.)

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