(January 20, 2015 at 4:46 am)Stimbo Wrote: How is this radiation produced?
Ions give up some of their energy as light as the body moves toward thermodynamic equilibrium.
I know where you are going, but the point I am trying to make is there is a lot of stuff happening the system we call a star. It is simply inaccurate to call a star a thermonuclear reaction when there is a whole lot of other stuff going on too. Chas is conflating one process that happens within a star with the star itself. Don't make the same error he is making.