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Does Loeb address whether there would have been oxygen and carbon 10-17 million years after the Big Bang? I thought that the heavier elements formed much later,
by civilian 10y ago
Does Loeb address whether there would have been oxygen and carbon 10-17 million years after the Big Bang? I thought that the heavier elements formed much later, and had to be forged in the center of stars. Our first generation of stars appeared 560million years after the Big bang. (Reference is the same wiki article you linked)
- jessriedel 10y agoHe talks about it in the paper. Basically, depending on your assumptions about nongaussianity of the primordial perturbations, there were at least a few stars simply by accident in the early universe.