Stars and Atoms
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The preface says that Stars and Atoms was the title of an Evening Discourse given at the meeting of the British Association in Oxford in August 1926. The preface says the restrictions of a time limit are removed, and accordingly the discourse appears in the book as three lectures. The text asks the reader to imagine a point deep down in a star, and says that, since neither one thing nor the other happens and the star remains practically unchanged for hundreds of years, we must infer that the two tendencies just balance.
The text says the support of the matter above a point in a star is given by a succession of minute blows delivered by the particles underneath. The text says the chromospheric calcium thus supports itself on what sunlight it can gather in with the one loose electron remaining.
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- Arthur Stanley Eddington
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- 89
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