In sci.physics.relativity, Robert J. Kolker

wrote
on Mon, 05 May 2008 07:47:48 -0400
:
Mark Earnest wrote:

The Sun is so heavy that it is made of many elements right off of the
periodic table, elements of spirit.

That is why couples enjoy the night time sky so much.

The stars have spirit.

The Sun is as massive as it is because it is made of lots nd lots of
hydrogen. As Carl Sagan might have said the sun consists of billyuns of
billyuns of billyuns of hydrogen atoms.

Sol's mass is on the order of 2 * 10^30 kg or 2 * 10^33 hydrogen atoms
(or, more likely, protons and electrons in a bit of a soup, though it
might depend on where one's probing the star). That translates into
2 million billion billion billion hydrogen atoms.

(Actually, more like 1.5 million billion billion billion; the Sun
is 25% helium by mass as of this moment.)


Bob Kolker





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