Timeline for Do the newly-created deuterons in our Sun release any photons? In addition to a positron and an electron neutrino?
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Jan 27, 2022 at 18:10 | comment | added | WarpPrime | The protons end up colliding, forming helium-2, which almost instantly decays into deuterium. It's not random smashing of protons making one of them turn into a neutron. It is very hard for loose protons to come together and stick, they tend to just dissociate instead of stick and decay into deuterium | |
Jan 23, 2022 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/1485356692128899085 | ||
Jan 23, 2022 at 13:35 | comment | added | fraxinus | Two protons becoming two neutrons is pretty much endothermic. One can safely assume it doesn't happen in our Sun at all - it is not hot enough. | |
Jan 23, 2022 at 4:23 | answer | added | PM 2Ring | timeline score: 3 | |
Jan 23, 2022 at 1:10 | history | became hot network question | |||
Jan 22, 2022 at 20:31 | answer | added | David Hammen | timeline score: 5 | |
Jan 22, 2022 at 17:06 | history | asked | Kurt Hikes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |