To: Junior
Scientists originally thought the Sun burned its hydrogen. It was based upon this assumption that it was determined the Sun was only a few million years oldI thought Kelvin based his age of the sun on energy released due to gravitational collapse.
42 posted on
02/01/2004 9:15:53 PM PST by
js1138
To: js1138
Kelvin's was based on gravitational collapse. Earlier estimates were on burning a solar mass worth of coal.
43 posted on
02/01/2004 9:19:29 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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