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SWBTATTReg

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7. Being built up in cycles, eh? Makes sense too...
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 01:02 PM
Feb 2018

cycle 1, initial burst of star building occurs, then slows to a halt, as radiating off excess heat from 1st wave of compression, and then resumes after 1st wave is radiated away as heat ... then the process starts anew, w/
cycle 2, another wave of star building resumes, excess heat pushed away, cycle 3, cycle 4, etc. until finally, the pressure of the solar winds are so powerful that they finally are able/strong enough to push the incoming weight of all of the gases flowing inwards back. Seems very doable/likely.

I assume that the astrophysicists are theorizing that massive stars were created initially after the 'big bang' because only then was large amounts of gas available then?

Just curious, since life cycles of big stars are so short, then obviously there is a mechanism still in play here that allows big stars to still be created, even billions of years after the 'big bang'?

Take care and thanks!

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