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Interesting: even though immediate aging of a star is extremely unlikely, it is theoretically possible to increase the speed of a normal star's aging. Usually, most matter within a star is a hydrogen/helium mixture, and most of the star's life cycle it fuses hydrogen into helium. However, a tiny part of the star's mass consists of carbon-nitrogen-oxygen, which transform into each other through the CNO cycle, catalyzing (i.e. accelerating) the burning of hydrogen. So, dump enough carbon or nitrogennote into an average starnote and it probably will age faster AND burn hotter.note The effect won't be immediate, though. The mixing of star matter is slow, and distribution of additions will take many years, maybe even ages.
It is also theorized that there are additives that will catalyze proton decay or otherwise work faster in same way.note And, if you talk about a civilization able to manipulate black holes, then by launching a small one into a star it can create an unusual object: a black hole in a dense cocoon of plasma, that will glow incredibly hot.
Is there a better place on the article to put it? I thought of commenting out the entire block of text so that the opening description reads better, but that seems a bit excessive.
The position and language of the following block of text in the opening description feels off:
Is there a better place on the article to put it? I thought of commenting out the entire block of text so that the opening description reads better, but that seems a bit excessive.
Edited by Androgeos