...I'd like to draw your attention to this part:
Emphasis added.
Nuclear fusion in stars works by converting base elements into higher elements. When these elements run out, the star succumbs to its own gravity and various things happens depending on its mass, but this is when we would consider the star to be dying.
The hydrogen fusion is also what produced the energy we receive from the sun, as your link notes, which is why we can tell that WoT's sun is fusing hydrogen.
Evidently, if it is fusing hydrogen, it has a supply of hydrogen. If it had an infinite supply of hydrogen, that sun would be infinitely massive, which would render the earth quite inhabitable. So it has a finite supply of hydrogen which it is consuming, meaning it will eventually run out, meaning it will eventually die, unless it has a way of refuelling (nuclear fission, presumably).
Of course, like I told Sidious, I don't really expect there was much thought put into this. It's one of those things that just are.
The sun's lifetime
The sun can stay in this balanced state for a total of about 10 billion years. Given the sun's age as about 4.6 billion years, one can assume we have 5 billion years or so to go. Eventually most of the hydrogen in the center will get used up, and the sun will enter a dying phase.
The sun can stay in this balanced state for a total of about 10 billion years. Given the sun's age as about 4.6 billion years, one can assume we have 5 billion years or so to go. Eventually most of the hydrogen in the center will get used up, and the sun will enter a dying phase.
Emphasis added.
Nuclear fusion in stars works by converting base elements into higher elements. When these elements run out, the star succumbs to its own gravity and various things happens depending on its mass, but this is when we would consider the star to be dying.
The hydrogen fusion is also what produced the energy we receive from the sun, as your link notes, which is why we can tell that WoT's sun is fusing hydrogen.
Evidently, if it is fusing hydrogen, it has a supply of hydrogen. If it had an infinite supply of hydrogen, that sun would be infinitely massive, which would render the earth quite inhabitable. So it has a finite supply of hydrogen which it is consuming, meaning it will eventually run out, meaning it will eventually die, unless it has a way of refuelling (nuclear fission, presumably).
Of course, like I told Sidious, I don't really expect there was much thought put into this. It's one of those things that just are.
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Cuendillar: All force directed against simply "makes it stronger" What? Bull.
- 14/02/2012 07:56:14 PM
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Yeah, an absolute is an absolute. *NM*
- 14/02/2012 08:00:56 PM
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Well not absolute... large doses of "evil" over an extended period of time makes it crumble *NM*
- 14/02/2012 09:51:30 PM
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Re: Cuendillar: All force directed against simply "makes it stronger" What? Bull.
- 17/02/2012 04:32:51 PM
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Simple answer to this is the conservation of energy.
- 23/02/2012 07:09:19 PM
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Well, all that energy of the eternally burning sun has to go somewhere 
*NM*
- 16/03/2012 11:21:36 PM
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*NM*
- 16/03/2012 11:21:36 PM
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I wonder what causes the sun to refuel though? *NM*
- 17/03/2012 01:42:55 AM
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Theoretically the Sun will burn out
- 17/03/2012 04:38:35 PM
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Not in WoT it won't.
- 17/03/2012 05:18:24 PM
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All that means is time doesn't move forward in WOT meaning there is no change
- 17/03/2012 07:36:45 PM
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How so?
- 18/03/2012 04:08:20 AM
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The link I attached discussed how our sun burns and it's estimated life time
- 18/03/2012 02:07:06 PM
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Yes, speaking of that link...
- 18/03/2012 05:59:31 PM
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Keep reading
- 18/03/2012 11:13:16 PM
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I don't get what you're trying to say.
- 19/03/2012 01:48:46 AM
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Doesn't matter ... As you said earlier it's an irrelevant point anyway.
- 19/03/2012 03:26:04 AM
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