Follow up on the recent post *”how can the sun just continuously burn and burn?*”
Can someone explain how the sun actually started its nuclear fission?
Oppenheimer did not go a dropped a nuke on it 😉
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Fusion requires heat and pressure to start. Fortunately, gravity can create both of these factors. The sun formed as more and more spinning gasses collapsed into it. This added more and more energy to the center while the gravity grew and grew. Eventually there was enough heat and pressure to start a hydrogen fusion reaction, which released even more energy.
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