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To: bentway who wrote (434089)	11/10/2008 11:12:20 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1574059

Is it possible that the Sun could just burn out? What manages to keep the Sun so hot all of the time? The Answer The Sun is basically a thermonuclear bomb with a built-in thermostat. Just as in a hydrogen bomb, hydrogen atoms are fusing together to make helium atoms and this nuclear reaction produces heat (along with the light that we see). If the reactions go on too fast, the Sun expands slightly (just like a balloon expands when you heat up the air in it). This slows down the reactions and then the Sun cools and contracts. If it contracts too much, the nuclear reactions speed up, and then the Sun heats up and expands again. So the Sun stays at the same temperature, burning its nuclear fuel at a steady rate. At the rate it is going, we have about 4 billion years left until the Sun burns out. Amazing. I am in awe. And to think people want to believe in creationism when we have something like the sun which is extraordinary beyond words. If the sun was created by a superior being, then by comparison we must seem like amoeba to that being. Thanks.

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