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Hydrogen in the Vacuum of Space

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G=EMC^2 Glazier - 30 Aug 2006 14:57 GMT
This needs a much better theory how gravity was able to compress it to
make the very first stars.      Think about it     Bert
Hagar - 30 Aug 2006 22:36 GMT
> This needs a much better theory how gravity was able to compress it to
> make the very first stars.      Think about it     Bert

Well, Beeert, not really. Right after the Big Bangeroony, the primordeal
sub-atomic soup coalesced into a blend of 75% hydrogen, 24% helium and a
smattering of lithium. The newly formed gas expanded at the speed of light
(some even suggest that the SOL was exceeded, since there was not yet any
gravity to speak of to establish that cosmic speed limit), but the expansion
was not perfectly homogenous.  There were patchy areas of shightly higher
densities, which also had an ever so slightly higher temperature than other
areas, which, as a result, expanded faster than the less dense, but slightly
cooler areas.  The gas (read atoms) caught in the friction zone between the
two, succumbed to the evil coreolis effect and began to go into a slow spin.
At its center, atoms began to clump together, resulting in the creation of
the first whisps of gravity.  The more they clumped, the stronger their
gravitational influence on the surrounding gas became.  At one point the
gravitational force of the now moon sized clump of matter became stronger
than the force which propelled the gas outward and the ball of accumulating
matter ingested, with an ever more voracious appetite, its immediate
neighborhood. Since it consisted mostly of the lightest element hydrogen, it
had to grow very large, about 8 to 12 times the mass of the Sun, in order to
accumulate enough mass to generate the pressures needed to initiate nuclear
fusion.  The first Star of the Galaxy was born.  Since it was a "first
generation" star and contained no impurities (read: heavy elements), it
furiously burned for a relative short time of only around 50 to150 million
years before exhausting its supply of hydrogen.  Since it did not contain
any heavier elements, there was not enough mass (read: pressure) to initiate
helium fusion and the star went Supernova, creating the first batch of the
elements of the periodic table, as we know it today.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
G=EMC^2 Glazier - 31 Aug 2006 01:11 GMT
Hagar(the horrible)  Heard that story all my life. It leaves out a
lot,and has much fudging. I will give it however more credit than "once
upon a time" stories start with. No gravity to speak of means no
universe. What's this patchy all about?. What makes stuff patchy.?
Well I'm sure a little more fudging is all that is needed    Bert
Hagar - 31 Aug 2006 02:25 GMT
> Hagar(the horrible)  Heard that story all my life. It leaves out a
> lot,and has much fudging. I will give it however more credit than "once
> upon a time" stories start with. No gravity to speak of means no
> universe. What's this patchy all about?. What makes stuff patchy.?
> Well I'm sure a little more fudging is all that is needed    Bert

What causes "patchy" ... good question, Beeeert.  So lets try to unravel the
mystery. In any explosion you see "billowing" of smoke and dust. That
billowing effect is caused by minute differences in the packaging of
whatever explodes, the slight variances in the thickness of the packaging
surrounding the explosive material and finally the variances in the density
of the media surrounding the explosion.

1.  I don't know how the stuff of the Big Bang was packaged, or what it was.
2.  I have no clue as to the thickness variations of the surrounding mantle,
but there was some sort of a containment.
3.  When it blew, it created a huge number of sub-atomic particles, all
careening away from the center, probably nice and straight and evenly. About
half were composed of matter and half of anti-matter.  When they collided
(still on their way out), they annihilated each other, and the resulting
detonations caused localized disturbances, some slowing down the particles
behind, but accelerating particles in front.  When the orgy was over, matter
had won, but was greatly decimated, but still careening away from the eye of
the original event.  The remaining particles formed the first three
elements, hydrogen, helium and lithium.  Since they have different atomic
weights, the lithium was the fastest, having the greatest kinetic energy,
closely followed by helium and lastly the hydrogen.  Turn on the TV,
Beeeert, and watch the weather channel.  When dense high pressure air meets
warm (less dense) low pressure air, what do you get ??  Well surprise, surpr
ise, you get patchy swirls, which sometimes turn into dust devils, or
tornados, or hurricanes even, Beeert.

Guess I gave you too much credit for being able to see the bigger picture.
G=EMC^2 Glazier - 31 Aug 2006 12:29 GMT
Hagar (the horrible)  Its patchy ,Nature did not know how to package it
right.Did not know the density of the area surrounding the explosion.
The explosion has a mantle?(say you)   I like the orgy part,and the rest
is fudge all the way down.   Fogy overall picture based on no physics
Bert
Hagar - 31 Aug 2006 17:23 GMT
> Hagar (the horrible)  Its patchy ,Nature did not know how to package it
> right.Did not know the density of the area surrounding the explosion.
> The explosion has a mantle?(say you)   I like the orgy part,and the rest
> is fudge all the way down.   Fogy overall picture based on no physics
> Bert

Yes, Beeert, there had to be a mantle.  Gravity or any magnetic containment
field can be considered as such.  As far as the Foggy Overall Picture, I'm
afraid it will remain foggy for all eternity and only theory can explain the
event, since it has already happened and cannot be undone.  It's like
looking at a pool of molten steel in a foundry and trying to guess what
model car was melted down to get it.
G=EMC^2 Glazier - 31 Aug 2006 18:05 GMT
Hagar (the horrible) my theory on the creation of the first universe has
no fudging. Reality is there were more universes before are universe
came out of a critical  mass density of a black hole than snow flakes in
an endless blizzard.         Bert
Mark Earnest - 31 Aug 2006 05:22 GMT
> This needs a much better theory how gravity was able to compress it to
> make the very first stars.      Think about it     Bert

So many things happen in the natural, as with the Big Bang,
but you still need someone to create the primordial atom,
and you still need someone to set off the explosion...

...and you still need the hand of God to explain how the
hydrogen coalesced to form stars...

Even Einstein ran right smack dab into the face of God trying to figure out
these
puzzling things about the universal reality.
G=EMC^2 Glazier - 31 Aug 2006 12:33 GMT
Mark   Throwing the bible in for answers to the very beginning of the
universe only makes for hocus pocus.   Bert
 
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