Talk:Jeans length

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I like this article, and think that it can be strengthened if we merge the Jeans length and Jeans mass articles with the Jeans instability article. In addition, I have relinked the "collapse time" to the existing "free-fall time" article, and I suggest we keep "collapse time"/"free-fall time" distinct, as it is essentially a purely gravitational (as opposed to a combined gravitational/hydrodynamical) phenomenon.

Rtfisher 18:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Holy Smoke! The article was pitched to a very learned audience, which is probably not the typical Wiki readership. I thought an introduction was needed to reach the ordinary Wiki reader but I've retained the previous stuff for the sake of more learned readers.

I don't agree that this page should be swallowed up by the Instability page since I am sure that page is for high-brows. Give us Neanderthal types a fair go! Lucretius

Did somebody miss the "r" for radius of the cloud in the first formula?

No the formula is OK. The density rho has units kg/m^3. This m^3 cancels out with the m^3 in G, leaving m^2 in the attic (which comes from Boltzmann's constant). Lucretius 07:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)