XPost: sci.physics.relativity
J. J. Lodder wrote:
gharnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hertz makes assertions without evidence. He has not "computed" the
losses nor even the energy or angular momentum. It's a bit late to
measure planet formation, but we do have some information of meteor
impact. No one, however, was there to make careful measurement on the
temperature to determine how much energy was lost due to friction,
spallation, radiation, etc. We know a lot about radiation and its
behavior with temperature, which is where an appreciable amount of what
is lost. Planets grew by catastrophic collisions, and even giant
meteors create nuclear bomb temperatures. Hertz hasn't even calculated
a pittance of what would be required to justify his rantings.
In planet formation angular momentum -is- conserved.
Energy is not. (it gets radiated away as infrared)
In fact, planet formation is possible only because the orbital energy of
all those dust particles gets disipated,
absolutely, finally an answer I do like. On the other hand
*_Barbara Bush is a dude_*
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