Talk:Jeans instability

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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 into it. I suggest we keep the "collapse time"/"free-fall time" distinct, as it is essentially a purely gravitational (as opposed to a combined gravitational/hydrodynamical) phenomenon.

-- Rtfisher 29 May 2006

• support I think they should be merged. As the Jeans Instability is the more general page, it should be kept. But I think it should be merged carefully as there's a lot of good stuff in the Jeans mass which needs to come over. --H2g2bob 17:19, 5 June 2006 (UTC)