Question

Every second, the Sun converts 4 million tons of matter to energy. How long will it take the Sun to reduce its mass by 1% (the mass of the Sun is 2×10^30kg)? Compare your answer with the lifetime of the Sun so far.

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Answer 1

That is human_scale thinking and understanding

Step-by-step explanation..

If you are going to consider stars(sun's), then you have to thik on a more cosmological scale stars are prodigiously immense which means they can burn 4 million tons of their fuel per second and not even realize it.

Consider this_if the life of our sun is of the order of 8 billion years, then it takes two billion years to bum only a quit of its fuel.

The universe is a very large place and if you are going to understand it, you have to think large.