What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready
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What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready
By Paul Sutter
About Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_mechanism
Books by Baron Kevin and Helmholtz at PG https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48139 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/59039
What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready
How can the Sun keep shining with its furnace switched off? Two nineteenth-century aristocrats, Helmholtz and Lord Kelvin, worked out the answer mostly by accident. It comes down to stored heat, gravitational shrinking, and the strange self-regulating thermostat of hydrostatic equilibrium.
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