15/ You've got this 25 solar mass red giant, and it's burned through hydrogen, helium, lithium, ...turning each into the next higher element, or even heavier yet ... and the star's getting bigger and bigger
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26/ but back to the analogy: I think that the crash of the Cathedral is going to fuse into existence crazy new elements. Exciting times. If I'm right (and I make no claims) then the steady acceleration of the rhetorical fuel depletion means we'll all see this in our lifetimes
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27/ http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_4/notes15.html … For instance, consider the stages in the life of a 25 Msun star: Hydrogen fusion lasts 7 million years Helium fusion lasts 500,000 years Carbon fusion lasts 600 years Neon fusion lasts 1 year Oxygen fusion lasts 6 months Silicon fusion lasts 1 day
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(Eastern Roman Empire eye twitch--they kept at it for another six centuries or so. Wasn't last western Roman senate's recorded act to commission statues or plaques for the current, short-lived pseudo emperor? Too poetic to check!)
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