At 02:23 pm 24/02/2006 +1100, you wrote: >In reply to Grimer's message of Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:34:51 +0000: >Hi Frank, >[snip] >>At 05:50 pm 23/02/2006 +1100, you wrote: >>>In reply to Grimer's message of Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:33:43 +0000: >>>Hi Frank, >>>[snip] >>>>Basically the exercise was based on seeing the inverse square law of >>>>gravity as the difference between two inverse linear laws, with the >>>>incoming gravitation pressure pushing stars together being slightly >>>>greater than the outgoing radiation pressure pushing stars apart. >> >>>[snip] >> >>>Haven't you missed the centrifugal force? I would think this would >>>be vastly greater (by very many orders of magnitude) than outgoing >>>radiation pressure. >[snip] >>I don't follow you. > >I assumed that by "radiation pressure" you were referring to the >radiation pressure caused by the light emitted by stars. Was I >wrong to make this assumption?
Yep. You were wrong. I was referring to Gravitational radiation pressures which travel very much faster than EM radiation pressure in accordance with with Tom Flandern's insight on this. Sound << c Light c Gravity >> c All highly speculative - but that is what Vortex is for, n'est pas. 8-) Frank
