The periodic table presented here -- along with the interpretation of the cosmic structural sources that fusion-synthesized the heavier elements from primordial Hydrogen and Helium is the best explanation I've yet seen of the heavier known elements and the physical and astronomical sources of that "star stuff" of which we're all made.
But, FReeper, trublu, asked a fundamental and essential question -- to which I add a second one:
- trublu: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
- TXnMA: Instead of having been spread uniformly and thinly throughout expanding space/time -- why is that "something" clumped together to form the galaxies, stars, nebulae, planets -- and "Us" -- that we observe and study today?
It's like watching a fireworks show that begins with an attention-grabbing, huge flash and loud BANG! "aerial salute" that then expands ISOTROPICALLY --and dissipates away into "nothing"...
...versus what follows: Beautifully ANISOTROPIC, multicolored, STRUCTURED displays of stars, nested circles, "firefalls", etc.
The difference in fireworks is readily explained: the fireworks designers had the bottom fireworks carefully built of hundreds of identical balls of combustible, chemical mixtures -- often in layers -- each of which burns in a specific color. Then. (in the illustration) those pellets are carefully arranged around a central "expanding charge" that propels them outward in concentric spheres of red, white, and blue fire...
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Our original questions can be simplified:
- trublu: "Why is there something?
- TXnMA: Why is that "something" ISOTROPIC (structured or patterned)?
Science can now answer, roughly, "HOW?" and "WHEN?" the above occured.
For questions of "WHY" and WHO" -- the answers lie elsewhere...
TXnMA
P.S. More to follow -- If my old fingers hold out...