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IN NATURE of Jan. 3, Prof. Milne writes that my theory of stellar structure accounts for the existence of giant, dwarf, and white dwarf stars, “only at the cost of ad hoc hypotheses quite outside physics. It assumes stars to contain atoms of atomic weight higher than that observed on earth, and it assumes them to be relentlessly disappearing in the form, of radiation; it appeals to discontinuous changes of state consequent on successive ionisations, for which there is little warrant.”
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JEANS, J. Stellar Structure. Nature 127, 89 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127089a0
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