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People generally try to imagine the experiences of e. g. elves that live for thousands of years by scaling the passage of time to their lifetimes. This is often invoked when imagining how a long-lived species would interact with humans For example, this is a major trope in the manga and anime Frieren, where the titular elf treats decades as weeks and is initially uninterested in interacting with humans due to their short lifespans. In The Hobbit, Thranduil declares that a hundred years is a mere blink in the life of an elf, and is depicted as dismissive of other races. More generally, people irl often say things like "humans would be like intelligent dogs to dwarves," when talking about this

White dwarfs are supported against further gravitational collapse by electron degeneracy pressure. Above a certain mass (the Chandrasekhar limit), white dwarfs do not normally form because atoms become sufficiently compressed for electron capture by nuclei to occur, relieving the degeneracy and allowing further collapse into a neutron star or black hole. White dwarfs can nonetheless approach this mass by accreting material from a binary companion star, but at about 99% the Chandrasekhar limit, the core becomes hot enough for carbon fusion to occur, triggering a run-away nuclear reaction and causing the white dwarf to explode (a type Ia supernova).

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White dwarfs are supported against further gravitational collapse by electron degeneracy pressure. Above a certain mass (the Chandrasekhar limit), white dwarfs do not normally form because atoms become sufficiently compressed for electron capture by nuclei to occur, relieving the degeneracy and allowing further collapse into a neutron star or black hole. White dwarfs can nonetheless approach this mass by accreting material from a binary companion star, but at about 99% the Chandrasekhar limit, the core becomes hot enough for carbon fusion to occur, triggering a run-away nuclear reaction and causing the white dwarf to explode (a type Ia supernova).

Is it a coincidence that mass at which a w

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u/pelizred: Hello everyone, I am a grad student conducting research as part of my doctoral thesis on consumption habits in consumer goods. I would like to interview politically-minded individuals regarding br

I know this has been discussed before but I can't seem to find any posts on it. What does the most recent new class (e.g., if I went lvl 1 sorc -> lvl 1 wizard -> lvl 2 sorc, wizard would be most recent new class) affect? Does it determine the attribute used for casting?

Type Ia Supernovae are thought to be caused by runaway nuclear fusion as an accreting white dwarf approaches the 1.4 solar masses (the Chandrasekhar limit). Originally, it was thought that white dwarfs collapsed when they reached this limit, and the explosion was from the infalling material rebounding outwards. However, that is what happens in core collapse supernovae like type Ib and type II: the cores reach the Chandrasekhar limit and collapse inward, until they rebound due to neutron degeneracy pressure. My question is, why don't the cores of massive stars undergo thermonuclear detonation like white dwarfs do when they approach the Chandrasekhar limit?

With Taurox getting a unique stance that is not tied to his faction, confederated Alith Anar should retain his unique underway stance.