The Atomic Evolution of Celestial Bodies and Live Beings

We are SO fortunate! Mankind's knowledge has now progressed to the point that there are finally plausible answers to fundamental questions like: where did the Universe come from, where are we and it going, and what does it all mean anyway?

The following is an overview which explains these GRAND SECRETS.  For simplicity, the differences between star types is not discussed, nor is a distinction made between Novas and Super-Novas.  If you search for a more comprehensive explanation of the Universe, seek out the excellent video offered by the great scientist, Carl Sagan, titled: Cosmos, or Steven Hawking's book titled: A Brief History of Time. Both can be found in your local library and both will serve as superb launching pads for your quest to understand the true nature of the Universe!

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THE REALITY OF REALITY:

The evidence gathered thus far from the highly advanced fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology and mathematics, indicate that the Universe was born approximately 15 billion years ago with an event we call The Big Bang. The power of this explosion, or act of creation, was on a scale so intense that it's far, far beyond our comprehension. It produced a super-heated, rapidly expanding mass of sub-atomic particles, which may have looked like this:

After approximately a million years of expansion and cooling, the particles within the mass began to organize into simple atomic elements of matter that we know as hydrogen and helium. One of the properties of matter is gravity and it makes matter attract itself much the same way that a magnet attracts certain metals. 

This means that due to their own gravity, the atomic elements of hydrogen and helium began to coalesce into huge spheres which grew until their internal pressure became so great that the atoms within actually began to fuse together. During this miraculous process of atomic fusion, heat and photons of light are radiated. Let there be light! We now have the first generation of stars shining in the Universe! Here's what they looked like:

 

Another aspect of the atomic fusion that occurs within stars is that when two atomic elements are fused together, they create a new third atomic element different from the two original elements. The third atomic element can then fuse with the first and second elements and thus create a new fourth and fifth atomic element. The fourth and fifth atomic elements can now fuse with each other, plus the other three elements, to create multiple new elements, and so on. This process of star fusion has created the numerous elements that the stars, planets and live beings in the Universe are comprised of.  

   

Here's how: Stars are born or coalesce, fuse matter, create new atomic elements and shine for several billion years.  They then die in a violent explosion called a Nova and during this death explosion, the star blows the new atomic elements it created back into the space of the Universe. An exploding star:

 

 

After eventually combining with the matter of other exploded stars, the new matter again begins coalescing, due to gravity, and starts the process of forming a brand new star! Here is a new star system coalescing out of the elements of old exploded stars.

   

As this whirlpool of raw material condenses, most of the material gets sucked into the center of the vortex due to gravity, while small areas of matter condense and orbit outside of the center due to the opposing forces of gravity and centrifugal force. The center ultimately gains the critical amount of mass (and contracts enough because of gravity) to start the fusion process and become the star, while the smaller orbiting clusters of matter, which don't have the mass or gravity to ignite the fusion process, form the planet-like objects circling the new star. This is how the atomic elements that were once inside of stars are released (exploded) back into space where they can then form star systems like ours:

 

In our solar system we have discovered 103 atomic elements. It would take at least two generations of stars fusing the original simple atomic elements of hydrogen and helium together, then exploding more complex and varied elements back into space, then recombining those newly manufactured elements back into stars and planets once again, to create those 103 atomic elements.   

You, this planet and the entire Cosmos are made entirely out of this star manufactured stuff!   

 

Just as the force of gravity causes matter to coalesce into stars and planets, it also causes stars to collect together into neighborhoods of stars called galaxies. Here is a galaxy:

 

What appears to be those milky-white clouds is actually the combined luminescence of 100 billion distant stars, which are too far away to be seen individually. This is a spiral Galaxy just like the Galaxy we are in which we call the Milky-Way. Our star, the Sun, is a common star type situated on the outer edge of our Galaxy. 

 

  ASTONISHINGLY, when we look through telescopes out of our galaxy and into the Universe, we see fantastic galaxies, EVERYWHERE. Here is a view out into the Universe:  

 

Each one of those swatches of light and color are distant galaxies.

The Universe is literally overflowing with galaxies, each one containing about 100 billion stars!

    

  A portion of the visible Universe, full of Galaxies.   

 A close-up view of one Galaxy like ours, containing about 100 Billion stars. 

    Let's go back to our neighborhood:  

One star out of Trillions

Think of the spinning vortex of matter that our solar system coalesced out of. The newly forming planet Earth was red hot and the gases that were emitted from its molten rock were captured by the new planet's gravity. This is how the Earth acquired an atmosphere and over eons of time, it evolved to the point that clouds of moisture began to form. Eventually, terrific rains fell creating the rivers, lakes and oceans we know today. 

Now the Earth had an environment of sun-light, air, water, minerals and electricity in the form of lightening strikes and these ingredients are all that is necessary for the formation of life. How this planet's biological life evolved from simple molecules of atomic elements in the soup of the primordial oceans, to the vast, complex, conscious life forms that exist today is well documented elsewhere and does not need to be repeated here. 

What is important is that the same forces, events and raw materials that allowed life to form on this planet, are active and available everywhere throughout the Universe. With this in mind, when one considers that there are billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, the most probable conclusion is that the Universe is literally teaming with life!

It's a somewhat distressing fact that our planet Earth will one day be blown to smithereens when the Sun goes nova, as it surely will in another billion years:  

But then that star dust, which Earth will be a part of, will combine with the matter of other exploded stars and give birth to a brand new star,

with new planets and life, just as it has before, and just as it will again, over and over. (Hopefully mankind will develop the technology that will allow him to live outside our solar system before the Sun goes nova, that way, human-kind can continue even though our solar system will not.)

From The Big Bang, to the birth and death of stars and planets, to the birth and death of live beings on the planets around the stars, it is all an ongoing process of Creation. 

This REALITY implies that the Creator became the Creation when The Big Bang occurred. 

Live beings are the consciousness that allows the Creation to perceive itself. 

The purpose of this Creation is to experience physical reality. 

The fact that the matter of the Universe can rise to consciousness, indicates that the Universe itself is a live being. We are, and always will be a part of it.

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