If stars are powered by hydrogen, then why, with the hundreds of billions of stars (as scientists claim, although how they counted them is anyone's guess ::MI ), then why is the atmosphere in space cold , not hot? One would think that with hundreds of billions of stars giving off enough hydrogen and fire to be seen by the inhabitants of the earth, that space would be an inferno, not extremely cold. So why isn't it? :confused:
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Carico, you´ve got NO IDEA of science and what hydrogen is and what are its characteristics. You have no idea what combustions means, and how energy works. GIVE UP. You don´t understand science, so don´t argue against it.
Space has no atmosphere. (Ambience, yes -- but not atmosphere! ;^D ) The scattered loose atoms and molecules of gas and dust scarcely qualify.
1. Space is huge. You're running into what we call the Threshold of Perceived Infinity. That's the point where a number is so large that you stop counting and assume it to be infinite. This is the delusion that causes people to believe that nothing can withstand a nuclear explosion because it's so powerful, that nothing is bigger than a star because it's so huge, or that space must be crowded because it's got stars in it and they're so big. What you have to understand is that when two huge values are at odds with each other (the size of stars vs. the volume of space, for example), their actual values become relevant again. We have designs for spacecraft that are launched by atomic bombs, and they'd work if we built them.
1. Space is almost a perfect vaccuum.very quickly. Most stars have many lightyears between them. The heat sorta spreads out too much to be measureable.
4. Space is not cold. To be cold requires matter. There's too little matter in space for any sort of measurements to take place.
Well, for starters, there IS NO ATMOSPHERE IN SPACE.
"Space... ...is big. REALLY big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. " That's why. That means there is quite a bit of space between individual stars, and there isn't anything to conduct heat between them. Try to keep up, okay?
The elements in the atmosphere of stars can be detected by examining gaps (dark lines) in the spectrum of the light. Like fingerprints, no two elements have the same pattern. In fact, the technique is so accurate that helium was discovered on the sun about 25 years before it was found on the earth. So yeah, the sun is mostly hydrogen.
There are trillions of stars out there, we are assuming this mind you because the Universe is so unbelievable huge, and the space between the stars is vast. Heat dosn't travel well through space since it's a complete vaccum, and most of the sun's heat is lost long before it even reaches the Earth. Carico really needs to stop talking about science, no matter what field it is she is never right. Ever.
She's an attention whore. She started up three seperate threads about the same thing, and jumped off of each one once she started them. She wants the attention of people trying to explain these things to her. She seems to be willfully ignorant so she gets more attention.
Pffft. Who cares. Explaining things to her has absolutely no effect so we need not bother.
Dear Caico,
I don't think Carico's a troll, just someone who half paid attention in one of her high school science classes.Image Shack or Photobucket to link pictures.
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1. Space has no atmosphere. It is almost a vacuum with roughly (I may be wrong, if so, someone please correct me) there is roughly a hydrogen atom every few cubic meters or so.
2. Space is not actually cold, per se. Since it lacks an atmosphere, it has no temperature.
3. As for counting the stars, this is just an educated guess, mind, but I would imagine that computers handle most of that. And are you trying to say that there aren't that many stars? I don't think you understand how stars work. It's not fire. It's fusion.
If stars are powered by hydrogen, then why, with the hundreds of billions of stars (as scientists claim, although how they counted them is anyone's guess ::MI ), then why is the atmosphere in space
Space is a vacuum.
One would think that with hundreds of billions of stars giving off enough hydrogen and fire to be seen by the inhabitants of the earth, that space would be an inferno, not extremely cold. So why isn't it? :confused:
Because space is very, very, very, very, unfathomably, incredibly big. Stars are farther apart than you could possibly imagine. And those stars are very, very small compared to space itself.
Space is almost completely empty.
Step outside on a winter's night in, say, Minnesota. We have out own pet hot little star, right here, but when the earth turns and you aren't feeling it full blast, it's pretty darn chilly, isn't it?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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