Thread creating and starting

Can anyone please explain how this works new Thread(this).
[72 byte] By [chaos_reacta] at [2007-10-3 4:10:50]
# 1
It's creating a thread if the class which has the line implements Runnable (but it does not start the thread)Kaj
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