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Ep 175: Science News 1: Population III - The First Generation of Stars in the Universe Observed?

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The Accretion of Supermassive Populations of Proton Stars

In reading this I was sort of surprised at the numbers that they were throwing up me but anyway you know this is a good set of authors here these people aren't cranks as far as I know respected universities and all that kind of thing. They are using code to simulate stars evolving over time programmed with general relativistic corrections okay so in other words corrections to the way in which gravity works to collapse a particular star  and then cause the reaction rate of the nuclear reaction fusion rate to occur at a particular rate, he says.

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