Goldilocks Conditions: The Creation Of Hydrogen
Hydrogen, interpreted from Greek as the water-creator (RSC site). Fundamentally it is by far the simplest element, yet it composes virtually all of the visible universe. Hydrogen is not merely omnipresent; in actuality, it is the oldest and arguably the most essential corporeality to the creation and sustainability of utterly all in existence. The aforementioned characteristic that hydrogen is immensely crucial to the survival of all lifeforms is supported by the fact that it is the building block of water —the H in H2O—, thus hydrogen is a part of the Goldilocks Conditions for life on Earth. As stated in the Big History Project course, Goldilocks Conditions are defined as the “Specific set of conditions necessary to enable greater complexity”
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Foremost, in regards to the development of stars as an outcome of the emergence of hydrogen, Crash Course: Stars & Galaxies states that “variations in density [resulting from quantum fluctuation] were inflated to such a scale that gravity was able to take hold and start clumping together clouds of hydrogen and helium gas. 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe was becoming an increasingly cold...if hydrogen and helium hadn’t clumped together, nothing would have ever happened ever again” (Green). The excerpt —in an astrophysicist perspective—begins to explicate part of how hydrogen and its light elemental counterpart, helium, created the Goldilocks conditions for new complexity in the universe thus supporting and expounding upon the thesis statement. Moreover maintaining the prior perspective, these perfect conditions led to the formation of the stars as the clouds or star nurseries of fused hydrogen and helium atoms become increasingly dense as observed in figure 2, which resulted in an immense amount of pressure built up by the fusion in the center of the clouds. The increase in pressure caused higher temperature, and ignited the dense mass into the first star. Through the creation of the stars almost twelve billion years ago, the energy and raw materials for even more complex forms of life emerged. This new threshold that was directly prompted by hydrogen as “the carbon inside dying stars of the chemical elements that allowed the creation of chemically complex elements” (Christian), ergo evidently furthering the thesis as the quote displays how yet again hydrogen evolved the complexity of the
Foremost, in regards to the development of stars as an outcome of the emergence of hydrogen, Crash Course: Stars & Galaxies states that “variations in density [resulting from quantum fluctuation] were inflated to such a scale that gravity was able to take hold and start clumping together clouds of hydrogen and helium gas. 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe was becoming an increasingly cold...if hydrogen and helium hadn’t clumped together, nothing would have ever happened ever again” (Green). The excerpt —in an astrophysicist perspective—begins to explicate part of how hydrogen and its light elemental counterpart, helium, created the Goldilocks conditions for new complexity in the universe thus supporting and expounding upon the thesis statement. Moreover maintaining the prior perspective, these perfect conditions led to the formation of the stars as the clouds or star nurseries of fused hydrogen and helium atoms become increasingly dense as observed in figure 2, which resulted in an immense amount of pressure built up by the fusion in the center of the clouds. The increase in pressure caused higher temperature, and ignited the dense mass into the first star. Through the creation of the stars almost twelve billion years ago, the energy and raw materials for even more complex forms of life emerged. This new threshold that was directly prompted by hydrogen as “the carbon inside dying stars of the chemical elements that allowed the creation of chemically complex elements” (Christian), ergo evidently furthering the thesis as the quote displays how yet again hydrogen evolved the complexity of the