Re: Age of Space

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 20:16:22 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 02:40 AM 7/12/02 EDT, Spud wrote:
>
> >http://www.cnn.com/virtual/editions/europe/2000/roof/change.pop/frameset.exc
> >lude.html
>
> >But iron in the quasar, known as APM 8279+5255, was three times more
> plentiful than in our solar system, which puzzled astronomers.
> >"The solar system formed just 5 [billion] years ago, so it should contain
> more iron than the quasar, which formed over 13.5 [billion] years ago," ESA
> said in a statement.
>
> Those damned ironclad time machines...

It is unfortunately ignoring that a quasar maintains fusion over such a
large volume of space that it will easily fuse all available matter all
the way up to iron with ease because of the energy surplus that such
reactions afford. What would be amazing were if the proportion of
uranium in a quasar was greater than that in our own sun....



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