Pow! Zap! (Big) Bang?! (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, September 27, 2010, 10:40 (5171 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

In the ontological thread, someone posted that I thought all stars went nova/supernova at 10by old. That is not what I said at all. I said:-The universe is 13.7 billion years old. The lifecycle of a star, before it goes nova even once, call it avg 10by. 13.7by-10by=3.7by. That would mean that the Age of any planetary body other than stars, since they are comprised of heavier elements, could not be more than 3.7b years old. Even if they were formed directly from the output of a single Supernova. The earth is estimated 4.6b years old.-Some will take much much longer, others not as long. The point was that enough stars had not gone nova to produce the heavier elements in the universe through nucleosynthesis. The equation I posted up above, even though I took a low average, actually works in the the favor of nucleosynthesis, and still shows it to be impossible. -
I posted up a link to a paper on nucleosythesis which explains it in mathematical detail. (If I didn't post the paper directly, it can be found on the list of papers from the cosmological conference which I am sure I posted.)