2006-10-12 22:24:54 · 6 answers · asked by deb b 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
After the big bang, within what is calle dthe planck time(on order of 10^-34 seconds,...very small), we have no idea what happened.
After that you have basic elemental particles (e.g., quarks)
Then a time after, electrons, protons, neutrons.
If they were all evenly dispersed in eth Universe you would have no stars,planets, or larger structures.
recent studies have show that they were not dispersed evenly, thus some parts of the Universe had more clumps of electrons, protons, and neutrons, than others.
This resulted in gravitataional attraction between the clumps, and a gradual buildup of large balls (remember a ball shape is the minimum energy configuration of a shape) of electrons, protons, and netrons, which combined to form hydrogen.
As these hydrogen balls (and in the early Universe there were no other elements, thus no iron, no carbon etc...) accumulated there came a point where the nucleus repulsion (+ to +, between two hydrogen atoms) coould be overcome by gravity, and the hydrogen combine in a fusion reaction forming helium.
After all of the hydrogen was consumed in these clumps (remember there was still hydrogen floating around between clumps)
The size of the clump collapsed until the pressure caused by gravity was such that now two heliums could combine to form a berlium, then berlium and helium to form carbon etcc... all the way to Iron, before there is no more fuel to counteract gravitataional compression and an explosion results spewing all elements up to iron into the universe.
Gradually more clumps are formed sweeping some oof teh previously unused hydrogen to reform some of the stars we see today, while building planets formed from teh iron of previous explodng stars.
Note that all elements above iron are created by neutron bombardment of iron and subsequently formed elements. No element above iron is created by fusion.
Hope this helps.
2006-10-13 03:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Dr JPK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way you take a few Tinkertoy shapes and build thousands of different things. Quarks and Leptons and stuff are just the Tinkertoys that everything in the universe is built out of.
2006-10-13 09:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All astronimical objects are repetitions of the same design priciple ,, only slightly different ,, science thinks due to "initial sensitivity" (chaos mathematics).
2006-10-13 05:43:37 · answer #3 · answered by wai l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, The residual radiation shows lumpiness, hence this leads to the "rapid expansion theory".
All a very big accident... maybe????
2006-10-13 05:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by andyoptic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check your periodic table
huge variety of atoms
why wouldn't they form different structures?
2006-10-13 05:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who come we dont have more?
2006-10-13 05:37:42 · answer #6 · answered by tommy w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋