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    Local Pristine Primordial Material

    You would still have to extrapolate for the star's turning hydrogen into helium. Plus, you'd be completely missing any evidence of primordial deuterium, he3 and lithium.
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    Local Pristine Primordial Material

    SpaceTiger, yes stars of any mass could form from that material (though very massive ones are the ones most commonly discussed). The point is that for medium and low-mass brown dwarves that material will remain undisturbed thus preserving important information about the state of the...
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    Local Pristine Primordial Material

    I don't have any in my pocket or anything. :-p Stars wouldn't count in this as their material has been altered by the star's internal fusion. (Are the really old red dwarves found in some of the globular cluster not from that generation?) Anyway, what I was thinking was that if the same...
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    Local Pristine Primordial Material

    How interested would astrophysicists be in being able to readily find concentrated sources of pristine material from just after the Big Bang in our galaxy?
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    Why does temperature rise with pressure?

    There is no necessity for an increase in pressure of a gas to cause an increase in temperature if it is paired with a proportionate decrease in volume. The math pretty clearly states that. The ideal case is to examine a container containing just one molecule bouncing around in its merry way...
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    What Will Be Humanity's Key Milestones Over the Next 100 Billion Years?

    2025 -- Humans achieve workable intelligence enhancement and exponentially increase their intelligence, ending any comprehensible history.
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    Falling Objects Puzzle: Find Ratio of Heights

    Now, can you figure out the answer with the corrections necessary to include the general relativity component induced by the differing heights of the buildings? <is evil>
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