In WWW.SPACENOODLES.COM free outer space greeting cards by noted SCIFI author Hank Curci, who holds a masters degree in Mathematics from Stanford University, Hank explains how the Sun will shine brightly for EIGHT BILLION YEARS.
This is an amazing number especially when you realize the sun burns 600 million tons of hydrogen per second for EIGHT BILLION YEARS..also an AMAZING NUMBER.
How can this be, why doesn’t the sun burn it self out?
By sheer mass, weight, size the sun should have burned it self out billions of years ago but it happen and is still going strong with four more BILLION YEARS left to go.
We turn to Albert Einstein for the answer using his famous energy equation of E=MC2 (C squared) which says energy and mass are the same thing and are interchangeable at the speed of light.
To make mass, the universe, via super nova explosions, squeezes down energy ( hydrogen atoms ) so tightly that it becomes rigid and makes mass.
Mass is energy squeezed down, like squeezing down snow flakes to make a snow ball, (186,000) X (186,000) = 34 billion to one…hence, if you could extract all of the energy from a sugar cube, you could run the city if New York for a two or three days.
The sun is a nuclear furnace converting the atom hydrogen into the atom helium via E=MC2.
Each time this reaction occurs, a nuclear particle is lost and the difference is made up in the form of energy or heat.
This nuclear reaction is so efficient that it takes eight billion years for all of the hydrogen in the sun to be converted to helium.
Unfortunately, a similar nuclear reaction was used to make the atomic bomb killing and maiming thousands of innocent people at one time.
The amount of fissionable nuclear material that was in the atomic bomb dropped on Japan was not much bigger than a garden pea, the tip of your little finger, yet it was able to wipe out an entire city.
The nuclear furnace inside the sun, that gives us life, is operating on the same level of efficiency.
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