Threshold 2: Stars Light Up발음듣기
Threshold 2: Stars Light Up
(light music) Right off to the big bang our young universe was what scientist called a plasma.발음듣기
This was basically an incredibly hot mush of charged particles with that much structural or complexity.발음듣기
By then, temperatures had fallen low enough for protons, which are positive charges, to link up with electrons, which are negative charges, and together they formed electrically neutral atoms.발음듣기
Pretty simple ones like hydrogen, some helium, and a few slightly heavier atoms thrown in for good measure.발음듣기
The universe now contained fast clouds of these atoms and gravity and now you have the ingredients for our second threshold.발음듣기
Tiny variations in the density of matter became the first Goldilocks condition for this second threshold.발음듣기
Gravity packed slightly against the regions and a little closer together squashing them so tightly that they began to heat up.발음듣기
Eventually, the clouds got so hot the protons and electrons split apart once more recreating a plasma.발음듣기
When temperatures in these hot spots got to about 10 million degrees Celsius, protons began to fuse together.발음듣기
This huge release of heat, from the center of each cloud of matter, stopped the cloud from collapsing any further.발음듣기
Each star would continue to release energy into space for millions or even billion of years until it had no more protons to fuse.발음듣기