when a star explodes, it leaves a gigantic nebula(dust cloud in space). nebulas are created from all the settled debree that the star did contained. gravity is always present on anything that has weight. when the dust settles, the debree is a lot more dense within the center of the nebula. as gravity pulls the elements in the center of the nebula towards each other, there is a great deal of friction. with friction comes lightning. lightning plays a tremendous roll of the creation of new elements from the very basic(hydrogen and helium). when lightning strikes within the nebula it shatters all the elements that it hits, dispersing them into single electrons protons and neutrons. these loose protons nuetrons, and electrons soon bond with other hydrogen atoms. a hydrogen atom contains one proton and one electron, a positively charged hydrogen ION in just one proton, and a negitively charged hydrogen ion has one proton and two electrons. the actual hydrogen atom(one proton and one electron) will bond with a loose neutron creating a hydrogen isotope. isotope is defined as any atom with a different number of neutrons than it would have if it were the actual atom.(hydrogen atom=1 proton and one electron. +charge hydrogen ion= one proton. -charged hydrogen ion=one proton and two electrons. hydrogen isotope=1 proton, one nuetron and one electron). two hydrogen isotopes will bond together to form helium(2 protons, 2 neutrons, and 2 electron) stars burn by nuclear fusion. a star is made of mostly hydrogen and helium, the two lightest elements, located in the first two positions on the periodic table of elements.
a star burns by nuclear fusion. nuclear fusion occurs when two atoms collide with each other. when they collide with each other, it acts in the same way as when lightning strikes an atom. the two atoms become positively charged when they collide creating energy. think of two cars colliding, there will be debree that flies off in different directions and the total mass of both cars put together after crashing is actually less than what the mass would be if the two cars' total mass was calculated before they crashed. the lost debree from the atoms will soon bond with other atoms to create isotopes and isotopes will bond with each other to creat other atoms.
trillions of years ago, there was a tremendously large star that was created by the big bang. that particular star had used nuclear fusion so much that within the core of that star, the gaseous isotopes combined so much that they created a mantle that no longer was gas. while the actual core of the sun remained gaseous to continue nuclear fusion. the weight of the iron mantle grew so large that the gaseous core of that star could no longer support it. resulting in a small scale explosion compared to the big bang. the nebula was so large that it created millions of smaller stars and they created the milkey way.
stars continued to pull more and more of the gas out of the nebula, leaving the solid mater, which is less affected by gravity in space. gas can be pulled from farther away, to a heavier source than a solid object would be. the solid matter then began to collide and make the planets around the stars, and were held in place by the star's gravity that they orbitted. as these small bodies of solid matter collided, they too would cause a lot of friction. as they collided they bonded each other in a type of planetary nuclear fusion. the core of the objects, which are much hotter than the outter layers were spilled to the top as they collided. the molting lava would soon break down the metal atoms and release the gas elements by breaking away many isotopes from the metalic atoms. as these gasses were release they soon bonded to create the gasses that we now know. many of such gasses would soon start floating freely in the above space outside of the cosmic body to bond with any other proton electron or nuetron that they were pulled to. soon these gaseous elements were causing friction within our atmosphere, creating lightning to start the process all over again. the lightning would disipate many of the atoms completely but some survived being half destroyed and over millions of years of degeneration and reproduction, the first forms of oxygen were created in a form of ozone. the ozone atoms and isotopes were then broken down to bond with hydrogen, creating clean fresh water that rained down on earth to cool it. millions of years later water would prove to successfully create single celled life forms around the vents of lava spewing out of the core into the seas that the rain caused. soon after oxygen was created carbon di-oxygen was formed, from the waters sprang many carbon dioxygen consuming plants and reefs, which were able to create oxygen thousands of times faster than nuclear degeneration.
meanwhile on the high lands, where lava spewed above the seas. gasses from the lava vents spewed into the sky. life was also being created there by heat. millions of oxygen and heat consuming single celled microbial life,not suitable for water were being formed. while the atmosphere began to fill with rain, friction started to brew. lightning once again would be as necessary to life as water. lightning can break down nitrogen, phosperous, potassium, carbon and any other element necessary to life. lightning breaks these elements down and turns them into peptides and amino acids that the single celled microbial life could bond with and creat double celled life that continuously multiplied and reproduced to creat larger life forms and within the smallest cells dna would soon follow. Soon, these amino acids and peptides would find there way to the seas, and the single celled life forms in the water would also become multicelled organism.
knowing that stars explode every year, and have for millions of years, knowing what processes go on here, we should also consider that millions of lightyears away the same thing is happening. why wouldn't there be life on other planets?
). In the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, the "useless" third of the Human Golgafrinchan society (the telephone sanitizers, hairdressers etc) are the ones who populate Earth, replacing the caveman (by this, I assume Neandertals) which is a funny twist on extra-terrestrial beginnings.
