(Just to be clear: this is not an exact quote. There might be some modification for purposes of readability that will not be signaled with ”[...]”. OK?)

“Some proponents of the Big Bang Theory believe that the Big Bang occurred over thirteen and a half billion years ago. They also believe that the matter in the universe cooled to where the hot gases started creating stars and planets in less than a million years. That would still be over thirteen and a half billion years ago.

QUESTION: If the material in the Orion Nebula came from the big bang, why are stars still being created there?

There are those that think the delayed forming of solar systems is normal, or that the new stars be created now are a form of recycling from space debris.

Now, let’s take this further. If there was a Big Bang explosion that could overcome that unbelievable gravity, mass, and density to send the mass out with unimaginable acceleration what else could we expect? I would expect that the force of that explosion would be more likely to destroy the mass instead of simply separating it. I think that we need to go down a level below that. If all of the mass of the universe was compacted down to where all of the electrons, protons, and neutrons were compressed together in one solid mass, it seems to me that we would have a problem overcoming the nuclear bonding at the atomic level. Could we expect that the correct atomic patterns of atoms would be created when everything was expanded?”

(Here’s now a kinda different quote about the Orion Nebula:

“Instead of saying that the remaining clouds of space matter are still left over from the Big Bang, the theory is that the matter is debris from stars that exploded at the end of their lives. Then the assumption is that the debris reforms and creates new stars and solar systems. The end result is that we are observing a giant recycling process where everything remains and just reforms in a cycle of stages. The version of the theory that I heard leaves out that the stars go into the super nova state when they have consumed a huge portion of their matter so that there is not enough mass left to contain the fusion reaction. With that factor thrown in, recycling would only be partial, and that should have us asking if significant amounts of matter are mysteriously appearing to keep the balance in galaxies or to supply our expanding universe?”)

Topics: astronomy, sun, physics, birth, recycling, stars, gravity, universe