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I AM glad to have drawn so interesting a letter from Prof. Eddington as appears in NATURE of March 21. I cannot, however, agree with him that the present position is one of βan almost hopeless deadlock,β and neither do I agree with his criticisms of my scheme (NATURE, Feb. 28), by which a star consists of a mixture of different types of destructible matter which spontaneously dissolve into radiation at different rates, the rate in each case being unaffected by physical conditions of temperature and pressure. The process imagined by me was in fact analogous to radioactive decay except that the end product is radiation instead of other forms of matter.
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JEANS, J. The Source of Stellar Energy. Nature 115, 494 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115494a0
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