Where did the original hydrogen, helium, trace elements, primordial gases or soup, come from...?

Question

...the original elements? The first ones, not the cooling of the hydrogen that produces stars, etc.......the first ones?

What elements or processes allowed for the "BIG BANG" out of absolutely nothing - void - even space, free of gravity is something (like a grid-according to scientists). If space is nothing, than how do we move spaceships through it?
Answer "Big Bang' qusestion first, please.

Answer 1

The theory is that the Big Bang created the original elements - mostly hydrogen. The heavier elements have been created by the repeated burning in stars and exploding.

Answer 2

Seven hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, the universe was cool enough (under several thousand Kelvin) that elementary particles such as electrons, protons and neutrons could "condense" as hydrogen, helium and lithium. These went on to produce the first stars which made the heavier elements.

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/hotbb.html

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To answer your follow-up questions: no really knows what created the Big Bang. Virtual particles can come into existance and vanish. You can view the Big Bang as a giant virtual singularity. Some also think the Big Bang came about from the collision of two parallel universes -- two "membranes" colliding.

Now space travel -- that is the easy part. Planets and stars travel through space, so a spacecraft can also travel through space. There is no air friction so moving is no problem. Now how you move is the question. There are many types of propulsion systems -- all involves the conservation of momemtum. In a rocket, gases have to move very fast in the opposite direction in order for the rocket ship to move forward. You could also have spaceships that uses the solar "winds" -- these are not really wind but very fast moving solar particles. Another way is to use the gravitational field of planets to slingshot a spacecraft.

Answer 3

initially, soon after the Big Bang, you had mostly Hydrogen.

Then in so-called 1st generation stars, Hydrogen was fusioned created Helium. If they were massive enough, you then had the fusion of Helium, producing Beryllium, then Carbon. Then you can have the Carbon fusion, which produces Oxygen, Neon, Magnesium.

You can also have later stages, such as the Neon stage (which produces Magnesium), the Oxygen stage (which produces Sulfur and/or Phosphorus and/or Silicium/con and/or Magnesium), and finally the Silion fusion stage, which produces Argon, Calcium, Titanium, Chromium, Iron, Nickel.

So the stars are the labs where the elements were / are created.

After the stars of that 1st generation had run out of fuel and either exploded or contracted, the cycle repeated itself, only with some heavier materials now present in the stars, which allowed for the creation of still more elements. And so on.

This is why, in our solar system (as in, most probably, hundreds of billions of billions of other stellar systems in the universe), we have enough heavy elements to have a few small, rocky planets.


You write "the first ones" - but it seems that you are mistaken. There were no "first elements" (heavy elements) before nuclear fusion had started to happen in stars.

Hope this helps

Answer 4

To me it is these questions which 'prove' there is something higher than us (God, goddesses, deities, etc etc). How did something come from nothing, how can space have no end and if it does what is beyond it, how did chunks of carbon align to form a cell. Why does there have to be an answer, the fact that there is no answer is all the proof I need. Its the point when science and human intellectuality run out when we have to accept that 'something' out there with vast greater abilities had a hand in it. We can still search for answers, and maybe find a few along the way. Just maybe it will get us closer to the creator.

As for space travel, Newton is still the man. For most part we can rely on momentum (no friction to slow things down) but if we do need to change direction every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If we shoot a little stream of oxygen right we will go left.

Answer 5

Hi. One part of theory states this. An explosion takes place, the temperature is impossible to imagine, and the sphere of this universe expands at some rate. When it cools just enough the energy of the explosion condenses into particles, perhaps quarks, perhaps something else. After further expansion and cooling the quarks, if they exist, condense into two kinds of matter in nearly equal amounts. One is electrically charged in one way, the other in an opposite way. The two mingle and change into energy again and again form matter. When the dust settles most of the remaining matter is normal (from our point of view) and some is negative (Anti-matter from our point of view.) The two groups separate and no longer intermingle. The 'normal' matter mostly protons and electrons, combine into a very few 'elemental' groups. Hydrogen, some helium, and a trace of lithium. Little more. So your answer is the original energy of the explosion came first. If the theory is correct, of course.

Answer 6

Hydrogen came first by condensation of matter. All the rest were made in the stars. The stars were formed by gravity as the Hydrogen coalescence into aggregate matter.

Answer 7

at the risk of being drummed off the site....

"Let there be Light!"

The Big Bang Theory in a nutshell....

If you get a chance, read the short story "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov.It is said that he considered this story his greatest work.

Answer 8

One theory states that the negative density of "nothingness" blew matter into being.

Answer 9

My answer is Wal-mart. And they are opened on Sundays.