Part 9.: Cases of Dialectic Series. THE DIALECTIC of STELLAR EVOLUTION.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DIALECTIC

 

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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 à

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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https://independent.academia.edu/KarlSeldon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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