THE
DIALECTIC
of
STELLAR
EVOLUTION.
Part 9.:
Cases of Dialectic Series.
Dear Reader,
A
star’s evolution is driven by the ‘self-reflexive self-force’ of the “self-gravitation”
of that star. That “self-gravitation” is
a force that tends to implode the star.
However, the resulting self-densification of the star’s core – resulting
from it self-gravitational self-compression – ignites an explosive process there,
of the fusion of the atomic nuclei of which the star is composed, “nuclear fusion”,
which also produces higher atomic species.
Thus,
the dialectical ‘intra-duality’ of the star is the opposition of its tendential
self-gravitational implosion versus its nuclear fusion
powered tendential explosion.
That
‘intra-duality’ triggers another ‘intra-duality’, the opposition of atoms of
successive species as fuels for
the star’s self-expansive nuclear fusion processes, versus
as ashes of those fusion
processes, which, when they fully replace, in the stellar core, the fuels that
produced them, trigger renewed stellar self-contractive
processes.
An
atomic, nuclear species becomes fuel for a star only once the gravitic self-contraction
of that star compresses and heats that atomic species sufficiently for the attractive,
“nuclear force” to overcome its opposing, electrodynamic force of repulsion,
thus enabling nuclei to fuse into larger nuclei, thus producing a higher atomic
species.
Each
fusible atomic species, as ‘star fuel’, or as ‘star negentropy’, fuses into its
next higher, successor atomic species, until that fuel is exhausted, and its resulting
higher atoms act as ‘star ash’, or as ‘star entropy’ in relation to the further
fusion that would be needed to counter stellar self-implosion. So the star begins to implode again. But in its self-contraction, it further
self-compresses, until the “ash” turns into its opposite, into “fuel”, when the
self-shrinking, self-densification and consequent self-heating of the star’s
core reaches the nuclear fusion “kindling point” for the, now former,
ash, now become the new fusion fuel, able to check the self-implosion of the
star, until it too, is used up, and its product becomes a new “ash”, until further
stellar self-contraction ignites that ash, making it the new “fuel”, and so on,
until the core of the star is a population of Iron nuclei, “Fe”.
At
that point, stellar death, with the combination of the simultaneous contraction of
the star’s core, and expulsion of the evolved atomic material of the star’s
outer layer(s), ensues. This cumulatively
enriches the galactic interstellar medium with more higher atomic species, from
which new stars, and, once that medium is enriched enough, new planets form.
For
stars of sufficient original mass – from a minimum of 8, to 11 Solar masses –
the following fusion-sequence of fuel/ash alternations or reversals is
completed. For stars of lesser initial
mass, this sequence stops short, along its way, at a stopping point that depends
on that initial stellar mass. The full
sequence is –
Hydrogen fusion à Helium fusion
à Carbon fusion Ã
Neon fusion à Oxygen fusion à Silicon fusion
à Iron.
In
this whole stellar life-process, there ensues an intimate interplay between
extremes, between the extremely ‘micrological’ scale of atomic
nuclei and “sub-atomic particles”, and the extremely ‘macrological’
scale of the star as a whole, its central core, and that core’s surrounding
layers. The ‘micrological’ fusion processes
keep the ‘macrological’ star as a whole from imploding completely. The ‘macrological’ self-contraction of the
star, when each kind of fusion fuel in the star’s core is exhausted, reinstates
the expansive ‘micrological’ fusion processes that counter the self-gravitational
self-implosion of the star, until the star’s production of an ‘unfusible’ iron
core halts this “helical” process, and initiates the existential self-termination
of the star, in a simultaneous core hyper-contraction and ‘exo-core’ layers
ejection.
Each
fusion fuel ‘‘‘epoch’’’ ends with a ‘meta-finite singularity’, in which the
stellar core concentration of the current nuclear fuel approaches zero,
resulting in renewed self-gravitational implosion of the star, arrested only
once the next higher ash/potential fuel meets conditions in which it can
conduct nuclear fusions as well. Thus,
this succession of ‘‘‘singularities’’’, that drives the movement of the star in
the Hertzprung-Russell ‘‘‘state-space’’’, is best described as a ‘meta-evolution’,
rather than as just an “evolution”. It
is then each fuel phase that constitutes a distinct “evolution” in that ‘meta-evolution’.
This
sequence also exhibits a remarkable phenomenon of ‘temporal acceleration’,
in that the early phases of fusion in the sequence can last for millions of
years, but the final phases last for mere days or, finally, mere minutes, with
the phases in between shrinking in their duration in gradations reflecting
their ordinality in that sequence.
The color-coded, nested-layers diagram in the above-posted chronological ‘dialectogram’ image, depicting the ‘fuels-to-ashes-to fuels...’ sequence of ‘stellar meta- evolution’, also depicts – but of course not to scale – the atomic-species-plasma, e.g., the main atomic nuclei composition of the physical layers of a sufficiently initially-massive star, that makes it all of the way to an iron core, before ‘self-dis-existentiating’.
In terms of our highest scale ‘dialectical-ontological-categoryological meta-model’ of presently-known Nature, the entire extended process of ‘stellar meta-evolution’, depicted and described above, falls within the ‘hybrid cosmo-ontological categories’ qar and qmar. The former includes the earliest stars, made up almost exclusively of atoms [or of plasma atomic nuclei] and sub-atomic “particles”, i.e., of a Hydrogen ion [proton] plasma core, with a Helium atoms/ions/nuclei surrounding layer. The latter reflects the “molecular clouds” inside which new star systems – often later including planetary sub-systems – take form, once the interstellar medium, out of which these “molecular clouds” congeal, becomes sufficiently enriched, by dying stars, with higher atomic species.
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¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];
Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;
Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;
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