Doesn't this create quite the problem? To ignite fission, you need fissionable materia. To get fissionable material, you need stars to die. For stars to die, they first need to be born and ignited etc. Or am i wrong?
Your concern is valid, but there is a way out if the first generation of stars were massive enough to ignite by accretion heat alone. Check out Wikipedia on Population III stars.
These stars would have produced all the elements up to iron through fusion, and then all the heavier elements, including actinids, during a helluva of a supernova/hypernova.
Wouldn't the dark stars still have mass? Therefore provide a lens effect on passing light from other stars. The dark stars should be plainly visible due to refraction, particularly in deep field realms.
I'm perfectly willing to believe that spontaneous fission reaction in large gaseous bodies is possible. And maybe it can even provide the spark for long term nuclear fusion. But for this to be possible, these heavier elements had to be present from the get go. Fusion in stars can only produce elements up to, what , iron ?. How did the first stars ignite in the early proto universe that contained only the very lightest elements ? It had to ignite somehow, and would there for be possible
Doesn't this create quite the problem? To ignite fission, you need fissionable materia. To get fissionable material, you need stars to die. For stars to die, they first need to be born and ignited etc. Or am i wrong?
MetalChef 1 year ago
@MetalChef
and retepvosnul
Your concern is valid, but there is a way out if the first generation of stars were massive enough to ignite by accretion heat alone. Check out Wikipedia on Population III stars.
These stars would have produced all the elements up to iron through fusion, and then all the heavier elements, including actinids, during a helluva of a supernova/hypernova.
- Mike Hammer, Norway
AranFornost 1 year ago
Wouldn't the dark stars still have mass? Therefore provide a lens effect on passing light from other stars. The dark stars should be plainly visible due to refraction, particularly in deep field realms.
Terryzarzoff 1 year ago
I'm perfectly willing to believe that spontaneous fission reaction in large gaseous bodies is possible. And maybe it can even provide the spark for long term nuclear fusion. But for this to be possible, these heavier elements had to be present from the get go. Fusion in stars can only produce elements up to, what , iron ?. How did the first stars ignite in the early proto universe that contained only the very lightest elements ? It had to ignite somehow, and would there for be possible
retepvosnul 3 years ago 2
interesting
FIGHTFANNERD3 2 years ago