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In http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8329865.stm BBC news: in
the journal Nature, two teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst from a star that died 13.1 billion light-years away. The massive star died about 630 million years after the Big Bang. UK astronomer Nial Tanvir described the observation as "a step back in cosmic time". I suggest that the giant star must be older than the "Big Bang" and that it does not violate existing models of such objects burning out as they age... as the BBC writer describes..... "Models assume GRBs arise when giant stars burn out and collapse During collapse, super-fast jets of matter burst out from the stars Collisions occur with gas already shed by the dying behemoths The interaction generates the energetic signals detected by Swift Remnants of the huge stars end their days as black holes." What is significant is that either the existing model concerning such events must be discarded as wrong, or it must be accepted, and if so either the Big Bang pushed back and redefined or acceptance given that stars and other matter do pre-exist the Big Bang that gave rise to the largest portion of what we see in our portion of the universe. There is too much evidence against pushing back the Big Bang to accommodate such anomalous events so we are left with the theory that some things that we see in the distant universe did in fact pre-exist the Big Bang. [Mod. note: the existing model of the evolution of massive stars is not inconsistent with the idea that such a star died 630 million years after the BB, having formed some time after it. The most massive stars have very short lifetimes -- mjh] |
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On Oct 29, 1:52*pm, Morpheal wrote:
Inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8329865.stmBBC news: in the journal Nature, two teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst from a star that died 13.1 billion light-years away. The massive star died about 630 million years after the Big Bang. UK astronomer Nial Tanvir described the observation as "a step back in cosmic time". I suggest that the giant star must be older than the "Big Bang" and that it does not violate existing models of such objects burning out as they age... as the BBC writer describes..... "Models assume GRBs arise when giant stars burn out and collapse During collapse, super-fast jets of matter burst out from the stars Collisions occur with gas already shed by the dying behemoths The interaction generates the energetic signals detected by Swift Remnants of the huge stars end their days as black holes." What is significant is that either the existing model concerning such events must be discarded as wrong, or it must be accepted, and if so either the Big Bang pushed back and redefined or acceptance given that stars and other matter do pre-exist the Big Bang that gave rise to the largest portion of what we see in our portion of the universe. There is too much evidence against pushing back the Big Bang to accommodate such anomalous events so we are left with the theory that some things that we see in the distant universe did in fact pre-exist the Big Bang. [Mod. note: the existing model of the evolution of massive stars is not inconsistent with the idea that such a star died 630 million years after the BB, having formed some time after it. The most massive stars have very short lifetimes -- mjh] Sorry dude, but the larger a star is, the shorter its lifespan. This can be expressed by the following equation: E = mc^2. Pretend our hypothetical sun only burns hydrogen (which is a reasonable assumption, since this is one of the first stars). Thus, the mass defect for H - He fusion is E = m_H * c^2 = 0.0286 * (1.66 x 10^-27) * (3.0 x 10^8)^2 = 4.3 x 10^-12 Joules. Assuming our star is the largest star ever created gives it a theoretical upper bound of 200 times the mass of our sun, thus the total energy produced is E = (Helium mass defect) * c^2 * (total available mass for fusion (which I assume is 10% of the mass of the star)) = 0.0071 * (9.0x 10^16) * (200 * 0.1 * 10^30) = 2.5 x 10^46 J. The Luminosity is given by the following: log(L/L_{sun}) = n * log(M/M_{sun}), which, for a star 200 x the mass of the sun yields L = 8 x 10^6. . Remember, n = 3, L = luminosity, and M is the mass. Thus, the total luminosity of the star is 8x 10^6 * sun's luminosity = 8 x 10^6 * 3.90 * 10^26 J s^-1 = 3.12 x 10^33 J s^-1, and hence, it's lifespan is E/L = 2.5 x 10^46 J / 3.1 x 10^33 J s^-1 = 260,000 years. That is quite a bit less then the 630 million years since the big bang, more then enough time for the star to form, burn, and die. |
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