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The calculation for her reigniting Hala’s star is based on her heating core(?). This seems to go against what we know about how stars work, particularly the star in the scene.
Red Dwarves become what they are because they no longer have enough hydrogen at the core to sustain fusion. Some still conduct fusion, on a much smaller scale. They are low mass, thus, they have low pressure, heat, and fusion. We know the red dwarf in the scene was still conducting fusion based on what was stated in the movie. So, the star was conducting fusion from the little hydrogen that was left and convection. Essentially, pulling hydrogen from the surface to the core.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf
Note: Stars do not use all of their hydrogen in their lifetime, most of it is left at the surface. And stars cannot sustain fusion without hydrogen.
So my question is, how is heating the core the basis of the calculation and not her redistributing hydrogen through the star as well as to the core? Heating up the star doesn’t really solve anything if the root of the problem is lack of hydrogen. I’m not sure heating the core is the correct direction.
Also, should this have been in an existing thread? I couldn’t find anything that related.
Please be nice, this isn’t my field of expertise.
Red Dwarves become what they are because they no longer have enough hydrogen at the core to sustain fusion. Some still conduct fusion, on a much smaller scale. They are low mass, thus, they have low pressure, heat, and fusion. We know the red dwarf in the scene was still conducting fusion based on what was stated in the movie. So, the star was conducting fusion from the little hydrogen that was left and convection. Essentially, pulling hydrogen from the surface to the core.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf
Note: Stars do not use all of their hydrogen in their lifetime, most of it is left at the surface. And stars cannot sustain fusion without hydrogen.
So my question is, how is heating the core the basis of the calculation and not her redistributing hydrogen through the star as well as to the core? Heating up the star doesn’t really solve anything if the root of the problem is lack of hydrogen. I’m not sure heating the core is the correct direction.
Also, should this have been in an existing thread? I couldn’t find anything that related.
Please be nice, this isn’t my field of expertise.
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