He Made the Stars Also

If the universe began with an explosion, how did all of that exploded stuff come back together again to form even one star? If a star should explode, how would the mess it made clean itself up to become another star?

Not even gravity can put those explosions back together again.

There’s more truth in the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty than there is in the mythology of modern cosmology with its big bangs and stars forming from cosmic dust clouds.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again.

One of the blessings of our universe is that things don’t naturally compress through gravity to the point that a thermonuclear reaction starts. If they did, the waters over the earth (along with all of the land) would have collapsed to the center of what once was the earth long ago.

The reason stuff like that doesn’t happen is because of hydrostatic equilibrium. Gravity draws things together. Sure, but an opposing outward pressure keeps stuff from collapsing beyond an equilibrium point. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t be here.

Some claim that if there were a multiverse, an infinite number of universes all starting with explosions, then at least one of them would have to look like ours. Wrong. Blow things up an infinite number of times (or more) and none of those explosions, because of hydrostatic equilibrium, would turn into a universe with planets and stars.

Every one of those exploded verses in that multiverse would remain a mess forever.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

14 thoughts on “He Made the Stars Also”

  1. The force of your logic is like the force of gravity, Frank. Keep telling it like it is. It amazes me how people are ready to believe fairy tales and call it “science.”

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    1. Good point. There is no good reason for an explosion to have occurred in the first place (except to come up with a mythology – or, a cosmology – that does not allow for a Creator).

      However, it is easier to believe in a Creator than it is to believe that a big bang somehow occurred and then the mess that it left somehow overcame hydrostatic equilibrium for planets and stars to form.

      Blessings and thank you, Mimi!

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  6. IF the universe started from a single point, how did all the mass from the universe get INTO a single point? Wouldn’t it have started explosions way before the stuff got to its destination? We’re talking billions of galaxies-worth of mass, and yet we see explosions of stars much less massive than a galaxy with a billion stars in it explode. I think it works more like popcorn. Each kernel blew up at its appointed time until all the kernels were done blowing up. And the material from each of those kernels may have started chain reactions, spreading materials and energy to other kernels.

    If you watch popcorn pop, you have no idea which direction it’s going to go. Same with these galaxies. A single explosion would send all the galaxies equidistant at equal speeds from the center or focus of the explosion, but we have galaxies careening in all different directions, spinning, sucking up other galaxies, and the material unevenly dispersed.

    The densest concentration of gas is 100 hydrogen atoms per cm. In space it might be as much as 1 atom per centimeter. Isn’t that too small a mass to attract other hydrogen atoms to it? And Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in all the universe! Yet, somehow, it coalesces into stars that are millions of times bigger than our sun. How? Yeah you can think Big Bang all you want but there are way too many unanswered questions there.

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    1. Much of cosmology is story telling with the goal of explaining why we are here at all without a Creator.

      Besides, the information we get from looking at the stars underdetermines the theory: that is, many theories could explain what we see, the Bible still being one of them.

      Good point that if the universe were compressed into a point it would have started explosions long before it got to that point. Hydrostatic equilibrium just describes the balance that prevents things from getting compressed too much before an explosion would have to occur. Gravity can’t do the compressing by itself.

      Also good point with the hydrogen atoms that any part of a gas would not have enough mass to attract other parts of the gas to it. So, once you have an explosion the gas will stay exploded.

      Blessings, Rebecca!

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