[sig226]

Now you are making me reconsider. Fusion energy can't disrupt the gravity of the sun, so any reaction concerning bananas shouldn't be able to break up the banana sun, either. The energy at the core is essentially stuck there. It should be so hot that the elements can't react with each other - no product would be stable in that environment.

Bananas are mostly starch (C₆H₁₀O₅) and sucrose (C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁). The fats contain glycerol (C₃H₅OH₃), and the other components contain potassium nitrogen, iron, zinc, chlorine, and trace quantities of a few other elements.

The core tempreature is sufficent to generate nucleosynthesis. This leads to the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen chain, which increases fusion of helium and raises the temperature. If it gets hot enough, the model has to account for carbon fusion. I suspect that Dr Hawking, et al., have never contemplated this eventuality.

[MHGinTN]

Did the planets originate in their orbits as captured objects or did they arrange as they are due to the concentrations of the elements and molecules heavier than hydrogen?

If one considers the solar system as a unit, do the planets represent accretion points of materials blown out from previous stars, which occurred far enough from the mass center that they avoided being included in the lighting of the central furnace? Did the heavier elements originate from hydrogen/helium furnaces finally blowing out of their fuel supply ... losing enough mass such that the gravitational compression no longer kept the fuels in proximity?

Why did the universe as a unit 'explode' into a limited volume which allowed for accretions? ... All of these simple questions, when arranged alonside the reality that the very small (atomic scale and quark scale) behaves very differently from the large, molecule size. In fact, few realize that the atomic scale behaves very differently from the quark scale.