Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:424027 sci.physics:524312 sci.physics.relativity:366056 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astonomy Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: green stars Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 22:18:18 GMT References: <560E3D7D.3AA6@ix.netcom.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Lines: 50 In article , Yousuf Khan wrote: >On 02/10/2015 4:17 AM, The Starmaker wrote: >> Now, I know this is differcult >> for yous to understand... >> >> you should be able to take a picture >> of the universe and see a half second >> of after the big bang... > >The closest that we can conceivably see towards the Big Bang is 380,000 >years afterwards. That's the time of the Cosmic Microwave Background >radiation. Before that time, the entire universe could be thought of as >one huge star by itself. All of the photons of the universe were >confined to getting captured and recaptured by all of the matter in the >universe, which was mainly in the form of just loose hydrogen and helium >nuclei, and electrons. It was only at the 380,000 year mark that the >matter had dropped enough in temperature and density that photons were >able to escape into free space unimpeded. There was no way that there >were any organized structures like stars and galaxies that could've >formed so soon after the BB. > >> you would be able to see stars >> and galaxies 'moving' in all directions >> from 'the center' of the big bang. >> >> A color photo would be shown as >> red stars moving and galaxies, and green stars stable... > >There would be no stars at all at this point in time, not even 380,000 >years later when the cosmic fog lifted. It's still too early. > >> i'm not sure what are the green stars, ..it's a mystery to me. > >Yes, and it will remain a mystery to you because there won't be any such >things yet. No red stars, and no green stars. > >> (science hasn't caught up with me yet so I'm confronted >> with the mysteries first.) > >Okay then, good luck with that. As a matter of fact, I believe green stars aren't possible. In this universe anyway. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.