Repost of the shorten Grant Response to Krill last night

"Since the temperature of outer space is near absolute zero gravity would only allow little contraction before the process is stopped far short of the presses needed to create fusion and ignite a stellar object."

Again, why? Just because you say so doesn't make it the case.

The only way you could easily determine what would happen (just thinking off the top of my head) would be to perform a large numerical simulation, using all the physical models that we've been talking about (gravity, gas pressure etc) and see what happens.

Luckily, it's already been done. In fact, it's been done many, many times by different people, and the result replicated. Here's a quote from one:

"The simulation followed the collapse of an interstellar gas cloud more than 1 light-year in diameter and containing a mass of gas and dust equal to 50 Suns. The end result, after 266,000 years, was the formation of a cluster of stars typical to our galaxy."


of course, this is just a report on a popular science website. If you want details and actual papers, just do a google search. You'll find more than you have time to read.

Regards
Krill

Grant’s Response: Numerical Simulation of Krill’s above example
[link to www.grantchronicles.com]