An example of anthropomorphic metaphor in public science discourse:
"A star like our sun will never grow in mass, because it lives by itself in space. But most stars in the universe don't live by themselves, they live in what are called binary systems where you have two stars orbiting each other, rather than just the single star that we have as the sun. They are probably born with different masses, and so they evolve at different speeds and one will become a white dwarf. Now the physics is a bit complicated, but what can happen, is that that white dwarf can steal material from its companion star."Prof. Mark Sullivan
Prof. Mark Sullivan
Prof. Mark Sullivan (University of Southampton) was talking on an episode ('The death of stars') of the BBC's In Our Time. (Read 'The complicated social lives of stars')
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