Atheists please?

Question

ok I know I shouldn't direct this at atheists but you're the only ones intelligent enough to answer this: How exactly did the first stars and galaxies form?

Answer 1

Big boom! (ok, that doesn't matter until someone could invent the time machine)

Answer 2

OK, short version. Big bang, eventually cooled enough for matter to accrete, massive clouds of gas in a small, hot, early universe gravitationally collapsed to form the first (really really big by today's standards) stars, which didn't live for more than a few million years, dying in huge hypernova explosions which spread the elements formed in the stars though nuclear fusion throughout the universe to seed the next couple generations of stars, many of which were smaller and not as hot and lasted much longer (like our sun). Galaxies happened somewhere in there from gravity. You can find a lot more on wikipedia - look up something like 'cosmochemical evolution'.

Answer 3

Interesting one. It offers some prospects of confirming, or refining the big bang model.

If that first rapid expansion was completely uniform, then stars and galaxies would not have formed. For gravity to create these, some difference in material distribution is necessary. That "roughness" in texture, it is now realised, should show up in very slight differences in the cosmic background radiation, which is now being sought out and compared with the patterns of galaxies.

NB, according to Hoyle (Fred!), the first stars formed from hydrogen and helium only. All the heavier elements formed in them and later generations of stars, and was redistributed when they went nova.
We ARE stardust.
Or waste from failed nuclear reactors.
It's largely a matter of perspective.

Answer 4

Some would likely argue that I'm "intelligent" however according to Buddhist philosophy, if there WERE "first" stars and galaxies, then whatever matter that created them was what came before, and whatever matter and forces came before that that created the matter that created the "first" stars and galaxies and so on and so forth...

we don't believe in linear time as is generally thought. NO finite beginning and no finite end.

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Answer 5

Stars come from nebulae. Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust which are floating in the atmosphere. the clouds are mostly hydrogen, with some helium and trace amounts of other elements. this is what newly formed stars are principally composed of. These clouds are the birth place of stars and the material in them is the raw material from which stars are made.

Answer 6

A small little particle took the Mother of All Farts and the ensuing gas condensed under its own gravity. The chunky fart gas got so hot that it began to give off light and heat. Thus were the stars created.

The little crappy chunks that didn't catch fire revolved around the bright ones. Those were the planets.

Massive whirlpools of even more fart gas engulfed the stars and the planets. Those are the galaxies.

Answer 7

There was nothing. Then in three to five seconds or so, in a big fizzle, not a big bang, all energy appeared in the nothingness and looked exactly like how old movie film in theaters long ago used to burn in enlarging odd circles and bright light shone through. Quickly, some of the energy came together into tiny bundles called "photons" and zoomed off (at the speed of light) in waves in straight paths in all directions. Wherever the farthest energy bundles have zoomed out to so far is the "edge" of the Universe, which, now we know for sure, is expanding forever. Photons can come together, two or three of them at a time, and form little shimmerings, or, particles, that stop zooming. We also call those tiny particles "matter". We named those particles electrons, protons and neutrons. Particles can come together and form families that we call atoms. Atoms that have the same proportion of particles, we named "elements". (Periodic Table of Elements). Elements can come together and form compounds. Compounds can come together and form organic compounds. And, organic compounds can come together into lifeforms capable of consciousness, possessing senses and the imagination to ask questions, such as yours. In the Universe, matter, or particles, came together here and there into clouds of loosely packed matter, called gas. (atoms can be loosely packed = gas, moderately packed = liquid, and densely packed = solid, all depending on temperature and pressure pushing stuff in together on itself. Right away, after the big fizzle in the beginning, galaxies formed here and there, not quite galaxies like we know, but bunches of matter, or, tangled up photons, hanging around discretely from other bunches. The matter was still very hot in each "galaxy". In each bunch, or, galaxy, gas clouds called nebulas formed, hot gas clouds. As they swirled around in attraction unto themselves ( because of all the forces that hold atoms together), and, as the clouds cooled down, clumps formed, very hot gassy clumps. The clumps continued to swirl around unto themselves until they formed spheres of hot gas. Those are stars. Sometimes, blobs of gas and liquid or molten hot matter would splash off the spinning stars and formed spinning spheres called planets. Planets, caught in the attraction, or, gravity tentacles of their mother star, orbited around and cooled down into solid matter themselves. Planets cool down and form solid matter sooner than their mother stars because the stars are so much bigger and have much more stuff to cool down. Here's a real image that we have taken recently of the actual beginning of the Universe when all that brilliant energy first appeared:
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0217

And, here is the real radio static sounds of the big fizzle:
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461543080_1741502444_-1_1/The_Sound_of_the_Big_Bang.html

And, all that having been said, all that we know about the Universe, all that matter stuff I just wrote about, that's only about 1-2% of what's in the Universe. The rest of it is called Dark Matter and Dark Energy. We don't know about that yet.

Answer 8

Pick up a copy of "A brief history of time" By Stephen Hawking.
He surmises that the universe is in a constant state of change, no beginning and no end, just a constant expansion and contraction.

Answer 9

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1

God Bless you

Answer 10

Honestly...I have no idea. They were here when I was born and they will be here when I die. That's the only thing I know. But great question...you get a star. :)

Answer 11

From cosmic dust particles.