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How so? The 0°-100° era was between 10 and 17 million years after the Big Bang. There were no stars or planets during this period. There were no primordial elem
by ahazred8ta 3y ago
How so? The 0°-100° era was between 10 and 17 million years after the Big Bang. There were no stars or planets during this period. There were no primordial elements heavier than lithium. Heavier elements were not created until several hundred million years later, after the first supernovas. "At some point around 200 to 500 million years, the earliest generations of stars and galaxies form" -- Before that, there were no oxygen atoms. The guy who wrote that arxiv paper did not know that there were no heavy elements. Please explain what process you think created oxygen atoms before 10My.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#The_Dark_Ages_and_large-scale_structure_emergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#The...
- dekhn 3y ago"The guy" is a well known astrophysicist (astrophysicists frequently refer to anything othe than Hydrogen and Helium as "metals"). his article starts out saying early supernovas (very, very early) would be required and the stars would need to be enormous. He cites various estimates of the early universe to support this.