XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   > jojo wrote:   
   >> The Starmaker wrote:   
   >>> I can give you an eyewitness account of a   
   >>> spooky action at a distance...   
   >>>   
   >>> Before the Big Bang   
   >>> there existed trillions of stars.   
   >   
   > We do not know that.   
   >   
   >>> But going back to that very first star   
   >>> of the trillion of stars BEFORE the big bang..   
   >>>   
   >>> just right before the very first star..   
   >>>   
   >>> it was all BLACK.   
   >   
   > The stars that we can see today could not form before 380'000 years into the   
   > Big Bang.   
   >   
   >>> Then, after trillions and trillions years   
   >>> during all this blackness..   
   >>>   
   >>> a light popped in.   
   >   
   > Gazillions of "lights": stars.  One would think that someone who calls   
   > themselves "The Starmaker" should know what a star is and how it forms.   
   > Unless, of course, as we all know and can see, they are just a   
   crackpot/troll.   
   >   
   >>> i haven't figured out yet where that light came from.   
   >   
   > The pressure in a gas cloud that cools enough by emitting EM radiation   
   > decreases so that parts of it collapses under its own gravitation due to   
   > their mass density.  When a gas is compressed, it heats up which means that   
   > the energy of its electrons increases.  When they return to their   
   > lower-energy state afterwards, the extra energy is released in the form of   
   > photons: light is being emitted, and a collapsing ball of gas begins to glow   
   > (protostar or brown dwarf).  Also, eventually nuclear fusion sets in,   
   > releasing more and brighter light: a star has formed, usually many stars   
   > from the same molecular cloud at the same time.   
   >   
   >>> but it was spooky...   
   >   
   > No.   
   >   
   >>> at a distant.   
   >   
   > _distance_, and no.   
   >   
   >> problem is, there was no distance then, probably, for there to be   
   >> action. there might have been something else?   
   >   
   > Utter nonsense.   
   >   
      
   thomas, you are not the same thomas as the other thomas, right?   
   in school there were a pair of shared names and i feel... they   
   felt, it somehow was not good.   
      
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