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Originally Posted by renormalised
Just because Jupiter has most of the Solar System's angular momentum doesn't, by definition, make it a star or anything else other than a planet.
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Yep .. seems like he's trying to use Angular Momentum (AM), as the primary basis for distinguishing a star from a planet (?) ..

That's weird …
Sort of sounds like he's saying that a system, like the 'Solar System', distinguishes the intrinsic nature of its components .. which means the system came first, and then caused the formation of the components ..

… Just downright weird !
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Originally Posted by renormalised
This is precisely a case of where people with an incomplete and inaccurate knowledge of what they're talking about can get things quite wrong and end up misinforming and confusing other people, who don't know.
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I notice he's an advocate of Steady State Cosmology, refutes the Big Bang and maintains that entropy remains constant, life is without a beginning, is anti-Evolution, etc ..
Obviously missing a few of the fundamentals, eh ?
I don't think I'd call him exactly 'controversial' ..
Hey Suzy;
I'd recommend giving his ideas on Cosmology and Astrophysics a very wide berth !
Cheers