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To: Ff--150
The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old.

Given its current mass and the rate of decay/loss of matter, if it were this old the sun would have been much more massive, and burnt the earth to a crisp or its gravity would have sucked the earth into its maw.

10 posted on 11/06/2003 5:07:23 AM PST by 4CJ (Come along chihuahua, I want to hear you say yo quiero taco bell. - Nolu Chan, 28 Jul 2003)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
You know something physicists don't know?
12 posted on 11/06/2003 6:10:24 AM PST by js1138
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Given its current mass and the rate of decay/loss of matter, if it were this old the sun would have been much more massive, and burnt the earth to a crisp or its gravity would have sucked the earth into its maw.

Great point, thanx.

13 posted on 11/06/2003 7:20:42 AM PST by Ff--150 (Now unto Him Who is able to do)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Please show your caculations for this.
14 posted on 11/06/2003 7:39:08 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Maw-sucking decay-lossing earth-crisping sun, anyways.

I hate the sun.

15 posted on 11/06/2003 7:45:43 AM PST by Lazamataz (PROUDLY SCARING FELLOW FREEPERS SINCE 1999 !!!!)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
if it were this old

Been studying Chandrasekar's work?

19 posted on 11/06/2003 9:12:31 AM PST by RightWhale (Close your tag lines)
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