Re: Will Somebody PleaseTell bz What an Inertial Frame is.



>I have a dumb question. In light of the notions expressed heretofore,
>how long would it take for two stars of, say, 5 times Sun mass
>and distance between mass-centers twice the star radius (which means
>that were they rigid spheres they'd be rolling/touching one another)
>before they fuse to become a single star?

They would have fused long before they would have ottten that close. I
am not sure off hand at what distance that would occur.
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