Very nice, JC. Thanks. Pressure makes diamonds and thus fusion at high enough pressures. Therefore back to the drawing board for this one! The only science fictional takeaway would be if the water worlds had photosynthetic life at the surface and down below were incredible, dense life who need little or no light. I ain't holding for deep diving breath on that one.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Dec 26, 2022 8:57 am Subject: Re: Physics? Ok Astronomers view 2 distant Water Worlds so following the physics I ask.. On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 1:52 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-discovers-pair-of-super-earths-with-1000-mile-deep-oceans/ Would the mass of 1000 miles (1333 kilometers) with the mass of liquid water induce nuclear fusion at the bottom of those oceans 1000 miles is not nearly deep enough for fusion, it would have to be about half a million miles deep for that and then it would not be a planet it would be a star. Water, mass, gravity, crushing force? Like perhaps not deuterium or deuterium-tritium fusion, but proton-proton fusion?? The smallest true star, that is a star that undergoes proton-proton fusion in its core, has about 80 times the mass of Jupiter, although pseudo-stars just 20 times the mass of Jupiter can undergo deuterium-deuterium or deuterium-tritium fusion for a short time until their fuel is used up. Jupiter's mass is 319 times the mass of the Earth and the Sun has about 1050 times the mass of Jupiter. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis moj -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1P-ZgWiAEuS_8r29_F%2BoB5iDKM3Z%2BrYNe%3Dmns%3D%2B2FRiA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1599283570.1782321.1672083166992%40mail.yahoo.com.
