who do you expect has the knowledge to answer this?
2006-11-30 02:02:46
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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There was no light at all in the Universe before the first star began to shine.
These objects all formed due to the fact that they all possess MASS. It is mass that causes gravity...as a result, a cloud of gases can essentially collapse upon itself and literally cause its properties to "fall together". If it has enough mass, the gravitaional forces will be so great that they will cause the interior of the object to begin nuclear reactions...fusion. At that point, it will glow and you have a star. If it's a smaller amount of mass and not enough for fusion to occur, it will become a planet. Meteors and asteroids were both once larger objects that broke apart into peices...that's why they're more like rocks, while all the planets are round.
2006-11-30 11:00:01
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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Nowdays, stars, planets, asteroids, etc. form in "protostellar nebula" that condense from interstellar molecular clouds in the Milky Way. Since the Milky Way is full of stars, it's not totally dark, and in fact the interstellar clouds come from material ejected by stars. Our Sun and the planets of the Solar System formed this way.
After the Big Bang, everything did go dark about 400,000 years later, and remained dark until the first stars formed many millions of years later. Those first stars formed in the intergalactic material, under conditions that are very different from star formation today. That type of early star formation is a topic of active research in astronomy, and new telescopes and methods are being derived to study those first generation of stars. We can, of course, still see these first stars if we look far enough away, because of the finite speed of light.
2006-11-30 11:18:27
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answer #3
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answered by cosmo 7
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After the initial cooling from the Big Bang, energy cooled down to the point where it could form solid matter. Initially elementary particles, eventually becomming atoms of Hydrogen. Gravitation caused Gas clouds to become increasingly large until the gravitational forces were so great the pressures in the interior started to fuse and the first stars were born. These were supermassive stars that burned through their fuel quickly creating heavier and heavier elements all the way up to Iron. The energy leap to fuse Iron is too great so those stars exploded in Supernova explosions creating all the elements heavier than Iron in those massive blasts. That's where all that "stuff" comes from, including you and me. We are all, at least in part, composed of atoms that once burned at incredible temperatures in a star that died before our Solar system was formed.
This is a greatly simplified version, but essentially correct as I understand it.
2006-11-30 10:09:24
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answer #4
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answered by SteveA8 6
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That was a long time ago. I think that's why there are so many different "right" answers -- since we don't know and really, at this point we can't know for absolutely certain, it is why so many philosophers, theologians, etc. have been trying to answer that very question.
Do you like Philosophy? You might try reading some Aristotle, about Metaphysics and the Prime Mover. It might help begin to put things into perspective for you. Are you religious? Then, have faith that there was a beginning, and that you are well taken care of. Are you interested in Science? You might try reading up on astrophysics, astronomy, and biology. Those scientists are trying to find out those exact answers.
Maybe sometimes we have to find out the "right" answer for ourselves. All the suggestions I gave take work. And reading.
2006-11-30 10:13:47
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answered by MDG 2
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Unaserable Question dude. Unless we have Einstein the 2nd on here with a time travelling machine, you wont be able to get that answer. The furthest back i know is when everyhting was just rock and they collided for the Big Bang then everything cool came like Earth, Pacman and Steven Spielberg.
Im now editing this answer after i saw the answer the guy below me gave. There was things before the big bang dude! If there wasnt what collided to make the bang that was very big?
2006-11-30 10:04:25
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answer #6
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answered by YouDontKnowMe 2
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the universe was only a small dot earlier. as time passed, it started expanding. one day a big bang took place. it was the explosion of all the matter in the universe. the explosion was so big that within the hundredth of a second the universe was as big as the sun. during that time it was expanding very quickly but now its expanding at a much slower rate. all the suns, galaxies , planets, etc are formed out of these matter that exploded in the big bang. before there was nothing it was dark because there wasre no starsor galaxies to emmit light. but now since they are there, it not as dark as it was earlier.
2006-11-30 12:37:30
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answer #7
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answered by vidhi j 2
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The Big Bang Theory.
2006-12-01 01:33:04
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answer #8
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answered by Element 115 2
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Current theory says that these things were formed after the big bang. You can do a search on it to find out more. You might also check out author and scientist Stephen Hawkings.
2006-11-30 10:08:17
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answer #9
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answered by michaell 6
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The planets, meteors, etc came from energy. Before they existed, it was not dark. There was nothing to be dark. There was not space, and there was no one to see it.
2006-11-30 21:42:01
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answer #10
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answered by killerk1.geo 3
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There are several theories (which means, they still are not proven conclusively) involved with the creation of the Universe. As mentioned above, "The Big Bang Theory" is the most accepted.
2006-11-30 10:10:20
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answered by ? 7
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