Destruction of Earth

[pipsqueak]

I'd like to continue diverging by saying it can have to do with volume as well. Remove a sizable portion of the sun (methodology up to you) fast enough, and you cause it to collapse in on itself, also causing an explosion capable of taking out a starsystem, and badly affecting its neighbors.

For that matter, if you just dialed up the energy in the star, you wouldn't need to add mass, as there'd be more pressure.

Its all mass aka gravity. The Fusion keeps the roof up on the solar skies. The heat aka radiation aka outflow of photons, pushes the sun out and the gravity pushes the sun in, the resulting equilibrium defines the volume of the star, where ever it may occur. Once enough heavy elements are formed the sky collapses a little and the resulting compression makes the star burn hotter and they balloon up (a final hurrah) and then a supernova occurs. Our sun will never go supernova... why? because it does not have the mass for it. It will become a red giant...so big that its shell will be close to where the earth is orbiting around it..all the volume in the world. But its collapse will result in a fizzled out Neutron star because it will never provide enough pressure to create much heavier elements to cause that cataclysmic super nova compression.

Lets get back to the topic. We can discuss this more in flood if you still want to continue...

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