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Old 19-10-2009, 10:16 PM
Nesti (Mark)
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Originally Posted by Coen View Post

The Sun, being big (relative to us), burns through about 600,000,000 tonnes of hydrogen converting it into about 596,000,000 tonnes of helium every second via a nuclear fusion process. That short fall of about 4 million tonnes is what has been converted to energy via E=mc^2 or in joules about 3.595x10^(23)
I wonder what the ratio is between energy in the form of particle radiation and energy in the form of gravity wave radiation, ie the ratio between physical matter against gravity waves...

Where's my slide rule?...
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